{"id":20125,"date":"2017-01-23T07:13:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=20125"},"modified":"2017-01-23T07:13:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:13:32","slug":"did-falcons-rattle-packers-aaron-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/did-falcons-rattle-packers-aaron-rodgers.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Falcons rattle Packers Aaron Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did Falcons rattle Packers Aaron Rodgers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Robert Alford isn\u2019t ashamed to admit it.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was definitely a flop by Alford, the Atlanta Falcons cornerback, after Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers pulled Alford\u2019s helmet off at the end of a scramble in Sunday\u2019s NFC Championship Game and then threw a little elbow on his way back to the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh yes,\u201d Alford said, grinning after the Falcons\u2019 44-21 romp sent them on to Super Bowl LI. \u201cI tried to get another penalty up on him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Rodgers was one of several Packers to get in Alford\u2019s face after an earlier hit on the Packers star that officials initially flagged, only to reverse themselves because they ruled Rodgers didn\u2019t slide.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Alford didn\u2019t seem overly impressed by Rodgers\u2019 rough day, on which the superstar had several heated exchanges with officials over flags he thought should\u2019ve been thrown and was penalized himself for the play that left Alford helmet-less and trust-falling into an official on the sideline.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou seen him snatch my helmet off,\u201d Alford said. \u201cThat\u2019s not Aaron Rodgers-like type plays. I mean, he\u2019s a great quarterback. For him to do that, I\u2019m speechless with that one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Were the Falcons in Rodgers\u2019 head?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really don\u2019t know. I\u2019ll leave it up to y\u2019all to decide,\u201d Alford said. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen Aaron Rodgers do the things, some of the things, that he\u2019s done. But I think we probably rattled him a little bit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Rodgers finished 27-of-45 passing for 287 yards and three touchdowns with one interception on a day he was far from Green Bay’s biggest problem. There were dropped passes, several injuries along the offensive line that pressed defensive tackle Letroy Guion into duty at guard, and an awful showing by the defense, which hemorrhaged 493 yards.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Falcons knew they needed to get pressure on Rodgers, and cornerback Brian Poole tattooed him twice in the early going on slot blitzes, one of which left Rodgers begging referee Bill Vinovich for a flag, gesturing that he got hit in the face.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rodgers also had words with defensive tackle Grady Jarrett, who spun the two-time MVP around on a play officials were blowing dead, but didn\u2019t take him to the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Shoot, they (didn\u2019t) dang blow the whistle until I got to him. But ain\u2019t nobody worried about that,” Jarrett said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n “They\u2019re a team that gets away with a lot of stuff as far as holding calls and everything. So, when the thing isn\u2019t going his way, when the game\u2019s played fairly, it tends to be a problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time Rodgers took that face mask penalty against Alford in the fourth quarter, the Falcons led by 29 and the outcome was long decided.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he\u2019s done that,\u201d Alford said, \u201call I could do was just smile and look at the scoreboard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/falcons\/2017\/01\/22\/defense-rattled-aaron-rodgers-robert-alford-atlanta-packers\/96936314\/<\/span><\/div>\n

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