Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers seemed to be in a good mood after his team thrashed Seattle last night, and when asked about their playoff chances, he deemed them “strong to quite strong,”
If only the same were true of his leg.
Rodgers came out of the game with a combination of routing the Seahawks and an injured right calf, which he said was suffered on the third play of the game, a 66-yard touchdown pass which set the stage for an easy win over an alleged good team.
“I threw a touchdown pass, and my calf started hurting me,” Rodgers said with a smile when asked about his condition.
Rodgers was also dealing with a left hamstring strain, and said it was too soon to compare the new one to the left calf strain which bothered him late in 2014. But with the Packers cruising and his leg hurting, he wasn’t going to argue with Brett Hundley finishing the game.
“Well, we’re up four scores, there wasn’t a discussion,” Rodgers said, via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com. “They just came to me and told me they were making a change, and I wasn’t going to fight ’em based on how I was feeling.”
Packers coach McCarthy said the combination of factors made it an easy call.
“I didn’t want to take any chances with him from a physical standpoint, but the game was out of hand,” McCarthy said.
But despite Rodgers’ optimism, their playoff chances are anything but secure. They’re two behind the Lions in the NFC North with three to play (though Matthew Stafford’s finger injury may open the door), and they’re jockeying with a clump of teams with seven teams behind Tampa Bay for the final Wild Card spot.