The Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears by a wild, 45-30 score on Sunday night. Instrumental to the team's victory was quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who threw for 341 yards and four touchdown passes to defeat Chicago for the second time this year. Rodgers may have given Packers' fans a sense of nostalgia on one touchdown pass, as he looked like another Green Bay legend, Brett Favre.
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers dipped into Brett Favre’s bag of tricks when he improvised on a touchdown pass to Aaron Jones on Sunday night against the Bears. https://t.co/cYniCdKSzC
— The Packers Wire (@ThePackersWire) December 14, 2021
The play in particular occurred in the third quarter of the Packers-Bears game, with Rodgers firing a 23-yard touchdown pass to running back Aaron Jones.
Rodgers, who noted that the ball wasn't supposed to go to Jones on that play, said it reminded him of something ridiculous that Brett Favre did in a 2005 preseason game, which Rodgers was clearly watching closely.
Favre was rolling to his right on a designed boot leg play and was looking downfield but ended up finding then-Packers running back Ahman Green trotting up the left sideline. Oh, the memories, Packers' fans. The play was eerily similar to the one made by Rodgers on Sunday against the Bears.
As Rodgers explained, the play was designed for Davante Adams or Mercedes Lewis, who Rodgers dubbed ‘Big Dog', to catch the pass, though the Green Bay star found himself in need of a little improvisation thanks to the Bears defense.
Rodgers was able to throw the somewhat ill-advised pass to Jones and it went for a score, prompting awe from the NBC Sports booth, chuckles from the Packers' sideline and probably expletives from the Bears' end.
Clearly, Aaron Rodgers was watching closely when he was sitting behind Brett Favre for three years, as part of that tutelage came to life on Sunday night against the Bears.
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