GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers showed how dangerous they can be when they're at full strength Saturday night, overwhelming the Minnesota Vikings 24-10 in an NFC wild-card game that was never really close.
Green Bay will now travel to play at San Francisco in the second round at 7 p.m. Saturday on FOX.
John Kuhn scored two touchdowns, DuJuan Harris added another and Rodgers connected with an NFL playoff-record 10 receivers as he threw for 274 yards. Defensively, the Packers (12-5) finally managed to contain Adrian Peterson and were all over Vikings backup Joe Webb, pressed into service because of Christian Ponder's elbow injury.
Peterson was held to 99 yards -- an improvement after gaining 199 and 210 in the first two games. Webb, who hadn't thrown a pass all season, was sacked three times and off target all night. His only highlight was a 50-yard scoring pass to Michael Jenkins late in the fourth quarter.
Rodgers led touchdown drives of 82, 62 and 80 yards as the Packers built a 24-3 lead.
Webb did not fare well. He tripped over Clay Matthews for an easy sack early in the second quarter, and he was called for intentional grounding while being swarmed behind the line of scrimmage on the next play.
Webb ran five times for 60 yards, but completed only seven of his first 20 attempts for 61 yards. Peterson gained 99 yards.
l=10f=Helvetica s=6 l=6.5Minnesota 3 0 0 7--10
Green Bay 7 10 7 0--24
|First Quarter|
Min--FG Walsh 33, 9:26.
GB--Harris 9 run (Crosby kick), :00.|
|Second Quarter|
GB--FG Crosby 20, 3:25.
GB--Kuhn 3 run (Crosby kick), :38.|
|Third Quarter|
GB--Kuhn 9 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 9:25.|
|Fourth Quarter|
Min--Jenkins 50 pass from Webb (Walsh kick), 3:39.|
A--71,548.
|Min GB
First downs 17 20
Total Net Yards 324 326
Rushes-yards 29-167 31-76
Passing 157 250
Punt Returns 3-25 4-17
Kickoff Returns 3-73 2-28
Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0
Comp-Att-Int 11-30-1 23-33-0
Sacked-Yards Lost 3-23 3-24
Punts 5-49.6 8-37.8
Fumbles-Lost 2-2 0-0
Penalties-Yards 4-30 2-10
Time of Possession 27:02 32:58
|INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS|
RUSHING--Minnesota, Peterson 22-99, Webb 7-68. Green Bay, Harris 17-47, Rodgers 2-12, Grant 7-7, Cobb 2-6, Kuhn 3-4.
PASSING--Minnesota, Webb 11-30-1-180. Green Bay, Rodgers 23-33-0-274.
RECEIVING--Minnesota, Jenkins 3-96, Rudolph 3-42, Simpson 2-21, Wright 2-13, Peterson 1-8. Green Bay, Harris 5-53, G.Jennings 4-61, J.Jones 4-51, Nelson 3-51, Kuhn 2-15, Grant 1-16, Crabtree 1-10, Finley 1-10, Cobb 1-7, Taylor 1-0.
MISSED FIELD GOALS--None.