The Green Bay Packers have won three straight games, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers is happy his team is in the playoff hunt and playing « meaningful games. »
If Aaron Rodgers thought things were « looking up » for the Green Bay Packers last week, imagine how he felt leaving Florida with a three-game winning streak after Sunday’s upset of the Miami Dolphins.
« Definitely better than three weeks ago, » Rodgers said. « Four [weeks ago], I guess, because of the bye. »
Rodgers then turned the question on a member of the Packers’ staff.
« What do you think, pretty good? » Rodgers said. « Yeah, getting better. A lot of things happened our way. »
That might be an understatement.
The Packers got all the help they could have gotten before they took the field at Hard Rock Stadium on Christmas Day. The four teams ahead of them in the NFC playoff race — the Seahawks, Giants, Lions and Commanders — all lost on Christmas Eve.
Then the Packers helped themselves with another double-digit comeback — their third of the season, the most in one year with Rodgers at the helm. They turned a 20-10 first-half deficit into a 26-20 victory that has them at 7-8 heading into their final two games, both at home against the Vikings and Lions.
« I’d like to be, you know, 10-5, 11-4, but considering where we were a few weeks ago, a lot of has happened in our favor, » Rodgers said. « All the games that needed to go a certain way went a certain way. Now, there’s obviously much left [to do], but again, we’ve played meaningful games in December, we won all three of those.
