Among the top four teams in the N.F.C. all season, the Seattle Seahawks (11-5) and the Green Bay Packers (13-3) are facing off, with a trip to face the top-seed San Francisco 49ers (13-3) in the N.F.C. conference championship on the line.
How to watch: The game kicked off at 6:40 p.m. Eastern. It is being broadcast on Fox and streamed live on FuboTV.
Seahawks down 7-3 after one quarter.
Seattle got on the board with a 45-yard field goal by Jason Myers that narrowed Green Bay’s lead to 7-3 at the end of the first quarter.
The Seahawks went 32 yards on six plays, with the biggest gain coming on a 28-yard pass from Russell Wilson to Tyler Lockett. Otherwise, Seattle managed very little against Green Bay’s defense.
Thus far this game has seemed almost eerily quiet compared to the barn burner in Kansas City earlier in the day.
Seattle gets away with a turnover.
After Green Bay opened the game with a quick touchdown, the teams traded punts, and midway through the first quarter it is still, 7-0, Packers.
Despite Seattle’s first possession not coming with a score, it had some notable action. Defensive end Za’Darius Smith sacked Russell Wilson — celebrating by pulling down his undershirt which read “Snubbed” in reference to his not making the Pro Bowl — and the Seahawks appeared to get away with a turnover on another play when tight end Jacob Hollister fumbled the ball. The officials said no clear recovery could be determined on a review, and the failed challenge cost Green Bay its second timeout of the half.
The Packers’ second possession was nowhere near as interesting. They went just 1 yard on three plays.
Packers immediately take 7-0 lead.
The Green Bay Packers methodically went 75 yards on eight plays, with Aaron Rodgers lofting a 20-yard pass over the defense and into Davante Adams’s arms in the end zone for an early 7-0 lead.
The game started exactly as the Packers would prefer. Coach Matt LaFleur called an Aaron Jones run on the first play, and the explosive back sliced through the Seahawks defense for 23 yards. From that point forward, Seattle was on its heels, allowing Rodgers to pick them apart for 47 passing yards and the touchdown.
The only negative to the drive was the Packers having to burn a timeout to avoid a delay-of-game penalty.
Sharing the Load
For years, quarterback Aaron Rodgers has kept the Packers in nearly every game, while often receiving fairly little help from his running game. This season, he finally was able to share the load. While no one would mistake Green Bay’s running game for those of Baltimore, San Francisco or Tennessee, the fact remains that running back Aaron Jones tied for the N.F.L. lead with 19 total touchdowns, falling just one short of the Packers’ franchise record of 20, which was set by Ahman Green in 2003.
The undersized Jones had 1,558 yards from scrimmage and appeared to be the single biggest beneficiary of a new offense installed by Coach Matt LaFleur. While it was fairly strange to see Green Bay ranked higher as a running team (15th) than a passing team (17th), Rodgers seemed happier than he had in years — which may have had something to do with the team’s 13-3 record being its best mark since 2011.
Trending in the Wrong Direction
Earlier this season, quarterback Russell Wilson of the Seahawks could do no wrong. He had a passer rating that exceeded 100 in eight of his nine games and Seattle was 7-2. He reached that efficiency marker just once in his final seven games of the regular season, and the Seahawks, thanks to three losses in their last four games, gave up a legitimate shot at the No. 1 seed in the N.F.C.
Wilson rebounded some with a 325-yard effort in last week’s win over Philadelphia, adding 45 more yards on the ground, but with a defense far more pedestrian than Seattle has been accustomed to in previous seasons, this much has been made clear: The Seahawks will go as far as Wilson takes them. If he cannot secure his first career win at Lambeau Field, Seattle’s season will end.
A Productive Shopping Spree
Looking to remake the team’s defense, the Packers signed Preston Smith away from the Washington Redskins and Za’Darius Smith away from the Baltimore Ravens. The defensive ends, neither of whom had been a key playmaker in their previous locations — Preston’s career high in sacks was 8 and Za’Darius’s was 8.5 — became the two most important members of a unit that finished ninth in scoring defense a year after finishing 22nd.
Za’Darius produced a team-leading 13.5 sacks, and hit the opposing quarterback an additional 37 times, while Preston had 12 sacks and 23 quarterback hits. That could be awfully dangerous for Wilson, who tied for the N.F.L. lead by being sacked 48 times this season.
While Preston is working his way through an ankle injury, he is expected to play.
Beast(ier) Mode
Marshawn Lynch’s second career return from retirement has only seen the 33-year-old running back gain 41 yards on the ground in two games, but he has more than proved his worth with two sensational touchdowns: a flying leap in a Week 17 loss to San Francisco, and a vintage Beast Mode blast through a group of defenders in last week’s wild-card round win over Philadelphia. Coach Pete Carroll, in a nod to the frigid conditions expected in Green Bay, said during the week that Lynch would see an increase in his workload.
While the Smiths (Preston and Za’Darius) might make life miserable for Wilson, the rest of Green Bay’s defense may struggle to contain whatever combination of rookie running back Travis Homer and Lynch that Seattle throws at them. The Packers allowed 4.7 yards a carry this season, which tied for 24th in the N.F.L., and Lynch’s style does not suffer under poor conditions, should Lambeau Field prove to be an issue.
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