4th Quarter

3:03 p.m.  :40  Packers' 3rd Drive
All right, Aaron Rodgers, I prediced you'd get your first come-from-behind win today.   Let's do it, boys!

And of course, Will Blackmon doesn't get to the 20 yard line.

1:50 left, two time outs.  84 yard drive....and Rodgers on first down tried to thread the needle to Jennings - TRIPLE COVERED!  What are you doing, Aaron?  You're not Brett Favre.  Don't pull a Favre interception!

And, Brandon Jackson on 2nd down drops the football.

3rd and 10 in this seemingly supreme pain of the 4th quarter: YES!  A first down to Driver.  Even though he didn't get out of bounds, he got the first...worry about the sticks, then worry about the clock.

Jones for another first down with 1:04 left...just get the sticks. 

3 straight completions and he doesn't reach the sidelines or the sticks, and Driver is limping.  That REALLY hurts.

Reggie Nelson with the interception at the 27 yard line on an overthrow of Donald Lee down the middle.  Game over.

Game, set, season, as Wayne would put it, and has in past season-ending plays.

2:53 p.m.  1:56  Jaguars' 2nd Drive
Jacksonville 20, Green Bay 16
Jones-Drew 2 yd TD run (
Puhleeze, defense. 

Of course, the Jags get into the red zone, thanks to a 51-yard pass play to Northcutt.  The Packers got no pass rush at all.

3rd and 4 at the 18....Garrard FUMBLES...and, of course, he gets it back.  The ball went right back to him.

We're inside two minutes, and of course, they score.  Jones-Drew breaks right through a Chillar tackle.  No one else near Jones-Drew as well...but WAIT...it's a replay situation, and his knee WAS down before the end zone.

Part of me wants them to just give them the TD, though, because you know they're going to punch it in...and the Jags get the replay call.

Jags go for two and Jones-Drew gets denied.  Where was this defense last play, people?

2:40 p.m.  8:31  Packers' 2nd Drive
Green Bay 16, Jacksonville 14
Mason Crosby 37 yd FG
Jones made his third catch on a bomb this afternoon!  And he beat Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, Robert Bazell and the entire NBC News team to get the ball!  (OK, just the Jags' Brian Williams.)

2nd and 3 at the 27: RYAN GRANT!   You were wide open and could have gone into the end zone, and you butterfinger the ball when it's thrown right into your hands.  AAAAGH!

Rodgers - heck of a scramble to angle past the first down marker!  Mobility gets him five yards and a first.

Now on the cusp of the red zone...oh no....fumble.  Tony Moll was Johnny on the spot, but he was souplexed lke the average designated tomato can for a WWF 80's era wrestler.

Smart call to get Donald Lee on a nine-yard gain to get into better field goal range.

2:32 p.m.  10:39  Jaguars' 1st Drive
Jaguars 14, Packers 13
Garrard-Jones-Drew 14 yd TD pass
A.J. HAWK!   Where have you been!  A huge sack on a 3rd and 18....and it's MONSTROUS because Northcutt caught a 17-yard completion, just short of the 1st down, on 3rd down.

So, of course, they'll go for it on 4th down, and they get it on a run, making the Hawk sack mean nothing.

Larry makes a great point as the Jags throw the ball into the red zone - the Jags have barely run the football.  They're gashing Green Bay with the aerial ame, not the run.

And a short pass to Jones-Drew gives the lead to Jacksonville.

2:22 p.m.  14:54  Packers' 1st Drive
4th and short and it must be just an entire team thing, because John Kuhn got stuffed on 4th down.  Like he did twice last week vs. Houston.

Ugh.

3rd Quarter

2:22 p.m.  0:00  Packers' 3rd Drive
Greg Jennings got wide open on 1st down but Rodgers missed him - just missed him.

2nd and 1 and Ryan Grant couldn't get a first down - again.  He does well on normal down, but he just isn't producing today on short yardage.

3rd and 1, and again, he's stuffed!  Clint Ingram got him.  Frustration, folks.  It makes me think the Packers need a short-yardage specialist in this situation.

2:12 p.m.  2:40  Jaguars' 2nd Drive
Maurice Jones-Drew only gets 2.8 yards per carry so far today.  As I type that, Jones-Drew ran off tackle for 7 yards, and if Tramon Williams doesn't pull off an ankle tackle, it's a 97-yard TD run.

Nice job after that to force the Jags to go three-and-out.

2:02 p.m.  5:01  Packers' 2nd Drive
SCREEEEEEEEEEN!  Ryan Grant levels a couple guys to smash for a 12-yard gain and a first down.  (I just love yelling SCREEEEEEEN! like we did in high school ball when the other team was throwing a screen pass.)

Brandon Jackson with some shifty Fred Astaire moves to get to the cusp of a first down and a much-easier 3rd down and 1, and Rodgers takes the Bart Starr-Jerry Kramer playbook for a sneak and a first down - about the 3,914,027,983th sneak for a first down this year.

Maybe Jackson should have gone for the first down on 2nd and 1 instead of Grant, because he just didn't have the burst of speed you needed to get a first down.

Hmm...3rd and 2 and Rodgers missed an open Jennings because Clint Ingram was in his shoulder pads, and in fact Rodgers was hit when he threw it.

1:55 p.m.  9:18  Jaguars' 1st Drive
It is nowhere near good when Garrard can find Northcutt deep on a bomb.  It is REALLY bad when you have Al Harris and Brady Poppinga standing there arguing who was covering whom at the end of the play.  No one has an idea on this defense!!!

Still, they stop them near midfield....and a good bounce for the Packers lets a great punt get into the end zone.  Phew.

1:48 p.m. 12:51  Packers' 1st Drive
The first five minutes of the second half are the most important minutes of the game...and the first set of downs lead to - who'd have thunk it - a third and five.  Momentum swing time if they fail, and they don't - Driver with a great catch as Brian Williams comes off the anchor desk to anchor him to the ground on a 13-yard gain.

1st down and Rodgers was scrambling to throw, not scrambling to run, and he was waiting to get rid of the ball, and he missed a chance to gain yards.  I like the movement to wait to throw, but that time, he needs to decide to go after it himself.

3rd and 8: Rodgers is sacked inside the 30 yard line.  Call that a coverage sack as nobody got open.

2nd Quarter

1:29 p.m.  0:00  Packers' 3rd Drive
Rodgers sacked after a pump fake as Reggie Hayward got in to sack him, and the half ends with a thud.

1:27 p.m.  1:28  Jaguars' 3rd Drive
"Do you want a ride in my" Mercedes "boy" Lewis must have the receiving skill of Pebbles, as he dropped an easy third down pass.

1:23 p.m.  1:18  Packers' 2nd Drive
Green Bay 13, Jacksonville 7
Mason Crosby 23 yd FG
Awesome start to the drive, Driver, with a 24-yard catch, but in 3rd and four...GREAT CATCH by Jones, juggling it, and he held on inside the 13 yard line.

Oh hang on, the referees are chatting about their dinner plans and they make the ref do all the work to see on a replay....and I don't know.  To me, ti's a judgment call as to whether he had possession when his feet were down. 

They gave it to him - THANK YOU refs.  Go get some five-star steaks tonight for dinner.

Jones got his bell rung and had to walk off the field, but he did it on his own power.

3rd and goal and they tried a tight end screen pass, and John Henderson found Donald Lee in the backfield.  Ugly play call - why not throw to the end zone???

Crosby FG - perfect.

1:07 p.m.  4:12  Jaguars' 2nd Drive
The Jags forced into a 3rd and 14 at the JAX 47, but after that 3rd and 19 TD, I'm scared...and Northcutt was wide open, beating Nick Collins, but someone fed him Yancey Thigpen butterfingers and he dropped the ball.

12:55 p.m.  8:33  Packers' 1st Drive
Green Bay 10, Jacksonville 7
Rodgers-Jennings 4 yd TD pass
They're using Ryan Grant on a few plays to get him a bit of a lather.  Awesome use of the play fake with the run to Grant for a first down.

Rodgers got roughed up by LB Clint Ingram for a 15-yard penalty, and there was more than a smattering of clap in Lambeau South...I mean whatever corporate name they gave the Gator Bowl stadium.

3rd and 9 at the 22 1/2 yard line: NICE first down to the 11 with Jennings, and he beat Tom Brokaw's replacement.  "See ya tomorrow night."

3rd and 3 1/2 for a first down, 4 1/2 to the end zone: TOUCHDOWN on a perfect comeback pattern, but Jennings pushed off to get separation...oh, they didn't call it!  THANK YOU Mr. Referee!  Jack Del Rio just uttered a George Carlin word on the sideline!  Don't look, kids!

12:38 p.m.  14:40  Jaguars' 1st Drive (continued from 1st quarter)
A nice 3rd down stop, but a great spot for a 4th down play...hang on...the receiver only had one foot in bounds...that means a 51-yard field goal attempt for Josh Scobee....SCHTOINK!!!!!!!!    Off the upright.

1st Quarter

12:35 p.m.  0:00  Jaguars' 2nd Drive
Man, on 2nd and 4 near midfield, Jacksonville had the tight end wide open!  The gator in the nearby swamp was the nearest defender.

12:25 p.m.  2:33  Packers' 1st Drive
Jacksonville 7, Green Bay 3
Mason Crosby 22 yd FG
Geez, the game basically starts on a 3rd and 10.  That stinks...and Rodgers DOESN'T STINK!  Great throw to Jones into Jacksonville territory, but like Wayne said, Rodgers got the play to happen because of his feet.

Mr. Referee!  Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw's replacement, bumped James Jones to the ground as the ball was in the air, and the refs say no call!  Incidental?  That's the fleecing of America!

Rodgers through the eye of the needle on a quick slant for a first down...heck of an accurate throw when it had to be....again, on third down.

That's twice as many in 10 minutes as the Packers had last week against Houston!

SCREEN!  Grant for 15 yards...looked like Dorsey Levens there, circa 1996.

A third down and goal from the 5...and they had to go with a screen to Jackson for a one-yard gain because Rodgers was going to get eaten up for a sack.  Wideouts, you've got to get open.

Field goal, though, is good.

12:15 p.m.  8:03  Jaguars' 1st Drive
Jacksonville 7, Green Bay 0
Garrard-Northcutt 30 yd TD pass
First play - our linebackers stink it up off the bat, unable to cover Reggie Williams out of the backfield on a 13-yard gain.  Then a reverse for nine yards...lots of trickeration on Jacksonville's part.

Way to work off a block and stone a running back, Charles Woodson!  Can you do it on 3rd down?  Uh, nope.

Nice job Brandon Chillar, guarding Jones-Drew on the first pass play he had to defend.  We've missed his pass coverage the last couple weeks.

Lance Allan warned of this - David Garrard able to run for a first down.  Larry had a great comment, saying he has a "thick lower half."  (No more information needed, Larry.)

3rd and two's are not good friends of defenses, because guys like Washington can do not-a-lot and get the first down inside the 25 yard line.

I'm disappointed that Jack Del Rio is not wearing the suit today, but I'm not disappointed with holding penalties to send Jacksonville back 10 yards.

I'm really disappointed that no one decided to cover Dennis Northcutt on a 3rd and 19 play where even getting close to a 1st down shouldn't happen.

Pregame

12:01 p.m.  As the flyover happened, the Packers won the toss but deferred to the 2nd half, and the Jaguars will take the football.

11:59 a.m.  Before we start the game, let's congratulate 620WTMJ/Packers Radio Network intern T.J. Thurman for graduating from Marquette University!  He's taking a well-deserved day off from the network to get his diploma and scurry away from a report of a fire at the U.S. Cellular Arena.