{"id":163882,"date":"2022-12-21T04:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T04:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/packers-playoff-chances-are-slim-then-again-aaron-rodgers-knows-all-about-improbable-comebacks\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T04:34:09","slug":"packers-playoff-chances-are-slim-then-again-aaron-rodgers-knows-all-about-improbable-comebacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/packers-playoff-chances-are-slim-then-again-aaron-rodgers-knows-all-about-improbable-comebacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers’ playoff chances are slim. Then again, Aaron Rodgers knows all about improbable comebacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even after Green Bay earned consecutive wins via a 24-12 victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Monday, the chances that the Packers (6-8) pull off an end-of-season run into the playoffs remains remote.<\/p>\n

First, they need to win their final three games \u2014 at Miami before visits from Minnesota and Detroit. They then need Seattle to lose at least once, Washington at least twice and the New York Giants to lose all three of their remaining games.<\/p>\n

Aaron Rodgers knows all of this.<\/p>\n

Which made Rodgers’ postgame media session even more enjoyable, as he boldly talked up the Pack’s chances, mapped out the scenarios for success and sent positive messages to his own locker room while, perhaps, sowing doubt in opposing ones should it come to that.<\/p>\n

Mainly, he acted just like a guy who has spent his career orchestrating improbable fourth-quarter comebacks, some of them in the 21 playoff games he has started.<\/p>\n

Here near the end of a season marked by unusual failure \u2014 eight losses for the Packers, 10 interceptions thrown by Rodgers \u2014 maybe it was expected that given a glimmer of hope, he reverted back to his old confident, even cocky, self.<\/p>\n

Even if those two victories were against three-win Chicago and four-win LA \u2014 not exactly a murderer’s row.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve got two [victories],\u201d Rodgers said. \u201cGot two in the bag. Look, before the Bears week, some of us who peek ahead, knew we needed to win five and then have a lot of things go our way.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we won two and just about everything we needed to happen has gone our way, so things are looking up \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He isn’t wrong. Things are looking up, if only because they couldn’t have looked worse. Earlier this season, Green Bay lost five consecutive games.<\/p>\n

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