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SEATTLE – Another game in Seattle, another potentially devastating defeat.
There will be no catchy name for this one such as the collapse of Fail Mary in 2012 or the championship game in 2014.
But if the Green Bay Packers had won, the game would probably have been dubbed "The Robert Tonyan Game" or "The Kyler Fackrell Show".
And they would have been very unlikely heroes in the recent history of the Packers.
Tonyan's 54-yard touchdown at his first NFL reception and Fackrell's three-bag match will be nothing more than a single brilliant point (or, in this case, two points) in a match – and a season – which was just another missed opportunity.
If the Packers miss the playoffs, they could see Thursday's game. 27-24 defeat against the Seahawks is one of the reasons. Green Bay has entered the game with a 43% chance of qualifying for the playoffs, according to ESPN's REIT. At 4-5-1 with six games to play, this percentage dropped to 31%. Considering the Packers play Minnesota a week from Sunday night, they are trying to eliminate the playoffs.
And who knows what changes might happen after a second consecutive month of January without playoffs?
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Of course, the Packers could lose in Minnesota but still win their last five games to finish at 9-6-1. The most difficult match of this last quintet will take place in Chicago during the 15th week. But their margin of error is practically nil. And, as coach Mike McCarthy always says, you can not talk about playoffs up to 10 wins.
Do you think the Packers did not understand what was at stake on Thursday?
Cancel the video on Aaron Rodgers after being sacked in the third quarter midway through the fourth quarter. Obviously upset after suffering a fifth bag, Rodgers surely realized that the Packers had managed to score the goal that earned them to be respected with 8 minutes and 23 seconds in the game, which gave them a lead of 24. After Rodgers struck 57th for Davante Adams. yard bomb – would not be enough.
And he was right.
In the same end-zone where the Seahawks won the 2014 NFC title game in overtime, they took the lead in Russell Wilson's 15-yard pass to end Ed Dickson in 5:08.
At that time, the Packers could have used another Tonyan-style room. Tonyan has never caught another pass. Rodgers faced too much pressure. Although he completed 21 of his 30 passes for gains of 332 yards and two touchdowns and 255 assists without a choice, the longest stretch of his career, he did not have an additional victory in him.
The Packers simply do not have enough weapons outside of Aaron Jones (103 yards in total since the scrum, two touchdowns) and Adams (10 catches for 166 yards).
Instead, they scored three goals and the third part is a throw that Rodgers has inexplicably pushed out of receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling. McCarthy dropped at 4:20 pm, hoping the defense would give Rodgers another shot.
But the Seahawks did not play and the chances of the Packers to be playoff.
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