“How can you not be romantic about soccer, man?” “

Thirty-seven seconds. That’s all Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers needed to clinch a 30-28 road win over the San Francisco 49ers.

After the San Francisco 49ers took a point lead in the last minute, the reigning NFL MVP needed only 37 seconds, with no downtime, to put the Packers at 42 yards and within range for Mason Crosby’s 51-yard game. winning field goal.

Rodgers found star wide receiver Davante Adams, who had been briefly knocked out of the game earlier with a crushing stroke, for two big wins in the middle. With no downtime, the Packers organized a clinic to rush to the line for spikes to stop the clock.

Rodgers said after the game that the first game of the series, a 25-yard game against Adams, was a game the team worked on in practice Friday “kind of scribble in the dirt.” After Adams opened up in the middle again, this set up Crosby.

The kicker pierced the match winner in the middle.

“How can you not be romantic about soccer, man?” Rodgers said after the win, borrowing a line from Brad Pitt in Moneyball.

Rodgers reaction to victory should silence any lingering stupid thoughts about the quarterback who isn’t invested in this team. The turmoil of the offseason is over. Rodgers is dedicated to making it to a Super Bowl with this team. The future will worry about the future.

“I feel good on our team,” Rodgers said, via The Associated Press. “The first week was an anomaly. I said that and I believe it. We bounced back in the second week. We played a great team tonight all the way. This plane flight is going to be amazing.”

After a Week 1 stench, Rodgers is back in his MVP form, throwing darts all over the pitch with perfect placement. His 12-yard TD against Marquez Valdes-Scantling early in the fourth quarter was perfect, dropping him just above the defenseman without sailing him too high. There are a handful of people on the planet who can do this throw. So much.

After the Packers, who have only kicked three times out of 10 discs, scored a basket to climb six points just before the 2-minute warning, the 49ers responded with an 8-play, 75-yard TD to take. their first advance. of the night. It didn’t last long.

When asked after the game how long he thought it would take to design the winning record without any downtime, Rodgers joked, “37 (seconds).” Coach Matt LaFleur took the question more literally, suggesting: “Thirty-five seconds… maybe 34.”

Rodgers has once again shown that leaving any time on the clock for a Hall of Fame QB is madness.

“There’s always too much time on the clock if there is one, especially with Aaron Rodgers,” Niners tight end George Kittle said. “I think we have a very good defense. I don’t really have a problem when our defense is on the pitch. But it’s Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams there. They did what they needed to do to to win.”