Rodgers' clutch, made-up play: Everybody go left and get open
Aaron Rodgers' clutch throw to tight end Jared Cook that set up the Green Bay Packers' game-wining field goal Sunday became all the more impressive once revealed that the quarterback made it up on the fly.
Cobb said the final play was not an actual playcall. Rodgers just told each receiver what to do, like a kid drawing in the dirt. Seriously.
— Robert Klemko (@RobertKlemko) January 16, 2017
On Wednesday, Rodgers discussed how he came up with the play - a first in his career.
"I said everybody kind of run over to the left, and get open - not exactly in those words, but that was basically the gist of it," Rodgers told ESPN's "Dan Le Batard Show."
The play resulted in a toe-tapping 36-yard completion with three seconds remaining. Rodgers admitted that head coach Mike McCarthy often lets him pick and choose which plays to run in their two-minute offense, but he can't put a name on the game-winning play.
"What ended up being the play was not something we talked about, but it was something that I thought about at various times throughout the season or throughout the week even," Rodgers said. "But it's hard to kind of put a name necessarily on a play where we have a roll-out with a clear-out and everybody else kind of running to the left.
"Didn't exactly have a name for that. But in situations like that Mike (McCarthy) will allow me to pick a play out of a selection of plays we have."