GREEN BAY, Wis. — Robbie Gould’s kick sailed in the course of the uprights, and as his San Francisco teammates, bundled in crimson parkas, scampered onto the grass Saturday evening, the Inexperienced Bay Packers simply stood on their sideline. They’d no longer misplaced all season at Lambeau Box, no longer in heat climate or temperate stipulations or the wintry weather kick back, however a definite finality had now descended amid the blizzard.
The 49ers ousted the top-seeded Packers from the playoffs, 13-10, on Gould’s 45-yard discipline target as time expired. San Francisco, the 6th seed, advances to play at both the Los Angeles Rams or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in subsequent Sunday’s N.F.C. championship recreation.
Past finishing Inexperienced Bay’s season, one that flickered amid the parity of the N.F.L., San Francisco may have ended Aaron Rodgers’s marvelous occupation in inexperienced and gold. Rodgers has no longer gained a Tremendous Bowl in 11 years, dropping within the convention name recreation 4 occasions, and he reconfigured his contract with Packers control final summer time to permit him to change groups.
The query for Rodgers will probably be whether or not he needs to play in other places. It’s not going that every other workforce will be offering as complete a roster as Inexperienced Bay’s, which was once loaded on offense and protection — however no longer, because the Packers surely discovered, on particular groups.
Inexperienced Bay scored on its opening force, a 6-yard run through A.J. Dillon, however no longer once more till early within the fourth quarter, on a 33-yard discipline target through Mason Crosby. On the finish of the primary part, Crosby had a field-goal strive blocked. Then, overdue within the fourth quarter, Jordan Willis blitzed in the course of the Inexperienced Bay line to dam Corey Bojorquez’s punt, which Talanoa Hufanga scooped up and returned 6 yards to tie the ranking at 10-10.
That blocked punt got here just a few mins after Rashan Gary, a disruptive drive all recreation for Inexperienced Bay, crammed Elijah Mitchell on fourth-and-1 from the Packers 19-yard line.
After the 49ers stopped Inexperienced Bay and Rodgers — who finished 20 of 29 passes for 225 yards — Jimmy Garoppolo drove San Francisco 44 yards in 9 performs to arrange Gould’s game-winning kick. It was once San Francisco’s fourth consecutive playoff win over Inexperienced Bay, courting again to the 2011 season.
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