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That list isn’t exhaustive, but a sampling of the difficult plays Rodgers made look easy, like he’s done so many times before. Beginning with Wednesday’s practice this week, he sensed he was in for a good night.
“It’s one of those feelings. It starts to creep up in warmups, and you feel like you’re locked in,” he said. “It’s fun when it translates to the field.”
He was especially sharp when he absolutely had to be, with Head Coach Matt LaFleur lauding his “clutch throws” that produced a 9-of-14 conversion rate on third down, Green Bay’s best of the season.
The chemistry with Adams reached another level, and that’s what drew the most effusive praise from Rodgers. The 32-yard connection late in the fourth quarter that gave Adams the single-game franchise postseason record for receiving yards was the epitome of being on the same page with his top target.
“He was on one tonight,” Rodgers said. “He was really crisp with his route-running, and it was one of those special nights.
“He made a number of very heady plays, and that was one of them. It wasn’t exactly the check we were looking for. It was better than the check.”
Meaning, Adams adjusted his route in a more effective way than the playbook even calls for, and Rodgers was reading his mind. His “intuition” was fully in tune.
“Tonight reminds me of the connection that Jordy and I had for so many years,” Rodgers said, referring to his full decade of work with Jordy Nelson, which is not a comparison he makes lightly. “Some unspoken things we can do without even communicating anything about it. Davante made three or four plays tonight. It was pretty fun.”
It even worked out when a Rodgers throw to Adams in the third quarter wasn’t quite on target, but Adams was able to reach back for a leaping catch, plant his foot and cut back the other way to outrun two Seattle defenders for a 40-yard TD.