Final play was ‘scary,’ but Packers prevail again

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GREEN BAY – Aaron Rodgers referenced Cal-Stanford, of course.


All the Packers, including Rodgers, were certainly glad the play didn’t make the historical archives like the famous 1982 lateral-filled college kickoff return did.


But boy, was it close.


“It looked like they had something,” cornerback Tramon Williams said. “I ain’t gonna lie to you, it looked like they had something.”


Chicago definitely did. On the final play of the Packers’ 21-13 triumph on Sunday, the Bears eschewed a Hail Mary from the Green Bay 34-yard line and decided to complete a short pass and try to lateral their way to the end zone instead.


It very well could have worked, partly because the Packers were expecting the Hail Mary, so the change-up caught them off-guard.


Running back Tarik Cohen grabbed Mitch Trubisky’s pass around the 30-yard line, ran another 10 yards, and pitched the ball back to Trubisky. He dropped it, scooped it up off the frozen Lambeau Field turf, avoided Kyler Fackrell to stay alive for a few yards, and lateraled to tight end Jesper Horsted around the 15.


As Horsted started angling to his right toward the pylon, suddenly the Bears did indeed have “something,” like Williams said. Receivers Anthony Miller and Allen Robinson were both to Horsted’s right, and they might have had the Packers outflanked.