Packers-49ers final score, takeaways: Aaron Rodgers engineers another magical comeback, rips 49ers' hearts out

Once again, Rodgers brought his team back from behind with a series of absurdly difficult throws into tight windows, marching them right down the field for game-tying and game-winning scores. The Packers racked up over 190 yards of offense and 17 points in the first quarter, but sputtered for the better part of the rest of the game after that. From the time Davante Adams scored with 1:58 left in the first quarter until Green Bay got the ball back down by seven points with 2:59 left in the fourth, the Packers had drives on which they ran 46 plays, gained 184 yards, and scored just six points. Green Bay was at one point 3-for-13 on third and fourth downs, with eight of their 11 third-down tries needing 10 or more yards to go for a first. They were bogging down, big time. 

And then, as if flipping a switch, Rodgers took the Packers a combined 139 yards on 14 plays to score 10 points and turn a 30-23 deficit into a 33-30 victory, all inside the final three minutes of the game. Along the way, he hit Davante Adams (10 catches, 132 yards, two scores) and Equanimeous St. Brown (one monster 19-yard grab to put the Packers in field goal range) with a smattering of preposterous lasers over the top of outstretched defenders and inside windows that seemed impossible to hit until Rodgers actually hit them. It was, as they say, vintage Rodgers. 

Rodgers' final laser-show brought the Packers from their own 10-yard line to the 49ers' nine-yard line, setting up kicker Mason Crosby for a game-winner from 26 yards out. Crosby had missed five kicks a week ago, and when the Packers lined up for one more play on first and goal from the nine with six seconds left on the clock, it looked like the team had not yet regained full confidence in him even after Crosby had nailed his first five kicks in this one. But all the Packers did on that snap was throw the ball out of bounds to ensure that Crosby's game-winner would go through with no time on the clock, which is exactly what happened on the very next snap. 

That final drive was set up by a huge play from cornerback Kevin King, who picked off 49ers quarterback C.J. Beathard when San Fran was facing third-and-3 from the Green Bay 46-yard line. Defensive coordinator Mike Pettine brought the house on a blitz, and Beathard attempted to find Marquise Goodwin down the field for a score, as he'd done twice already on the evening. But King got great position, boxed Goodwin out, and came down with the ball. Rodgers took it from there, as he's done so many times before.