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The Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers have completed the most improbable playoff-clinching performance in recent memory. Needing to run the table for the last five weeks, the Packers have won five straight games to keep their playoff hopes alive.
The hammering of the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field ensured the Packers control their playoff destiny. Needing to win against the Vikings to keep hope alive, Rodgers and the Packers put the foot on the gas and never looked back.
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With the Washington Commanders losing to the Cleveland Browns, it pushed the playoff door wide open for Rodgers and his team to walk straight through it. But they didn't walk through it, they ran through it.
The win over the Vikings was as good for Green Bay as it was bad for Kirk Cousins and the Vikings. With the win, the Packers are now in the playoffs with one game remaining, against the Detroit Lions in Week 18.
Playoff scenarios for Green Bay Packers
The playoff scenario is straightforward for Rodgers and co.
Win against the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field in Week 18 and the team will once again be playing in the NFL postseason.
After an up-and-down season that saw Green Bay go on a five-game losing streak, Rodgers can now lead his team to the playoffs yet again.
Given the type of weapons that Rodgers has at his disposal in running backs Aaron Jones and A.J. Dillon along with receivers in Christian Watson, Allen Lazard, Romeu Doubs and Randall Cobb, Green Bay will still be a force to be reckoned with in the postseason if they make it.
With #12 under center, Green Bay is always going to be in with a shot of upsetting whoever they play, but it will be on the road.
One game for all the marbles in Week 18. Can Rodgers and his Green Bay teammates do it? Given the form they are currently on, it would be hard to pick against them.
