Best quotes of the game
“Well, you’ve got to compliment Denver. It was clearly, like I said, that was a humbling loss. I haven’t had my ass kicked like that is a long time. They covered us very well,” Packers head coach Mike McCarthy said of the game.
“We are crazed dogs chasing a cat. That’s it, trying to go get something to eat. This is our livelihood. This is how we eat,” Malik Jackson said of the mentality the defense played with in pursuit of Rodgers on Sunday.
Chris Harris Jr. had this to say in reference to any “doubters”: “We just thank them for the motivation. Everybody that’s saying we’re not the real ‘no fly zone’ or anything like that, that motivates us. Ray Lewis saying we’re not great. That motivated us. We just want to continue to be the best. Everybody on this team is starting to be great. As long as we continue to push each other, have this competition that we’re having, everybody is going to continue to play well.”
Play of the night
The Broncos had just given up 10-straight points to the Packers from the late second quarter and into the first drive in the second half. The 17-10 score was as close as the game would ever come but they needed to rebound.
After a Packers timeout, Manning went over to the sideline and to discuss the Broncos next move as they inched closer to the end zone. From 28 yards out, Kubiak called a run play over the left guard, Evan Mathis. The whole between he and center Matt Paradis was huge and Anderson cut up the field and split the secondary for a touchdown.
