Aaron Rodgers could barely keep the smile off his face throughout his postgame Zoom. One of the biggest came when asked about finally playing in an NFC title game at home: "It means a lot. Jordy (Nelson) and I talked about it years ago… had a lot of starts in this league without being able to host an NFC Championship.'
Aaron Rodgers will make his fifth appearance in the NFC Championship Game -- and first at Lambeau Field -- next weekend after the top-seeded Packers beat the Rams on Saturday.
If the No. 1 scoring defense can't slow down the Packers, who can? "Nobody," Davante Adams said adding that the only ones that can stop them is themselves. "I think that's been proven at this point."
— Aaron Rodgers made sure he’d play an NFC championship game at home for the first time in his Hall of Fame-caliber career.
Jaire Alexander played 31 coverage snaps and was the nearest defender on 3 targets per Next Gen Stats. The Rams had -3 yards on 1 reception when Alexander was nearest defender in the game.
From ELIAS: The Packers finished with 484 total yards on offense. That's the most against a No. 1 defense (in terms of yards per game) in a playoff game since the merger.
You can really see the effect play action has on Jordan Fuller (32) here on the Lazard touchdown. Animation via Next Gen Stats.
The Packers are now up to 451 yards of total offense, their fourth-most ever in a postseason game and most since putting up a franchise record 493 against Arizona on Jan 10, 2010.
The Packers are just the third team in the last 20 postseasons to score on each of their first 5 drives of a game. The 2003 Colts did so in the wild-card round vs. the Broncos and 2013 Chiefs in the wild card vs. the Colts -- the game in which KC blew a 38-10 lead.
The Packers have scored on each of their first five drives of a game for the first time since 2016 Week 3 against the Lions.
In the Super Bowl era (since 1966), the Packers are 13-1 in home playoff games when holding a halftime lead with the only loss coming in the 2007 NFC Championship against the Giants (in OT in Brett Favre's final game with the Packers).
Jalen Ramsey lined up across Davante Adams on eight of Adams' 16 routes in the first half. Adams had two receptions for 13 yards and a TD on two targets with Ramsey when lined up across from him, and three receptions for 30 yards on four targets against all others, per NFL Next Gen stats.
Halftime numbers: Aaron Rodgers: 14-of-20 for 160 yards, 1 passing TD, 1 rushing TD. Jared Goff: 9-of-10 for 91 yards, 1 TD. Packers have the edge in rushing, 74 yards to 62.
Aaron Rodgers has a TD pass and a TD run in a playoff game for the third time in his career, but it's his first rushing TD in the postseason since the 2010 NFC title game.
The Packers are the first team this season to score on each of their first three drives against the Rams, and it's also the fourth consecutive that the Packers have scored on each of their first three drives.
The Packers had 10 rushes for 46 yards in the first quarter. It's only the second time this season they rushed 10+ times in the opening quarter, and they ran four more times before Rodgers' 1-yard TD pass to Adams.
That was Aaron Rodgers' 41st touhcdown pass of his postseason career, which passes Peyton Manning for fourth in NFL history. Next up are Brett Favre (44) and Joe Montana (45).
Packers ILB Krys Barnes has a thumb injury and his return his questionable.
Packers scored 73 points on opening drives in the regular season, most by any team in the last 20 seasons. That was only the third time this season the Packers kicked a FG in a goal-to-goal situation. They had scored a TD on 21 straight goal-to-go drives entering the day, per ESPN Stats & Info.
Since 2008 and including playoffs, Aaron Rodgers entered today with 41 passes for 1,146 yards and 17 TD on "free plays" -- all most in the NFL. He added a 27-yarder to EQ St. Brown on the game's opening drive today.
