The Washington Post - USA (2021-10-25)

D10 EZ SU THE WASHINGTON POST.MONDAY, OCTOBER 25 , 2021

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Washington 700310

Packers 777324

Washington’s drives

Time

received

How ball

obtained

Drive

began

Number

of plays

Net

yards

Last

snap

Drive

result

17 :11 KickoffWAS 17 88 3GB 40 Touchdown

21 :17Punt WAS 37 93 9GB 24 Blocked FG

35 :17Blocked FG WAS 28 54 5GB 27 Downs

40 :15 KickoffWAS 25 1-1WAS 25 End of half

51 5:00 KickoffWAS 23 24 WAS 29 Fumble

61 2:30 KickoffWAS 23 11 76 GB 1 Downs

74 :04 Punt WAS 41 75 6GB 3Downs

81 1:22 KickoffWAS 23 13 65 GB 12Interception

95 :39 Fumble GB 386 11 GB 27Field goal

10 2:03 Punt WAS 31 06 5GB 45 End of game

FIRST QUARTER

Green Bay: Adams 17 pass from Aa. Rodgers (Crosby

kick), 7:11.

Washington: McLaurin 40 pass from Heinicke (Blewitt

kick), 2:26.

SECOND QUARTER

Green Bay: Lazard 10 pass from Aa. Rodgers (Crosby

kick), :15.

THIRD QUARTER

Green Bay: Tonyan 20 pass from Aa. Rodgers (Crosby

kick), 12:30.

FOURTH QUARTER

Green Bay: FG Crosby 39, 11:22.

Washington: FG Blewitt 45, 2:25.

A: 78,219.

Was GB

First Downs ....................................... 2519

Rushing ................................................ 9 2

Passing .............................................. 1516

Penalty ................................................. 1 1

Third-down efficiency ..................... 4-11 6-12

Fourth-down efficiency .................... 1-4 1-1

Total net yards ................................ 430 304

Total plays ......................................... 7053

Average gain ..................................... 6.1 5.7

Net yards rushing ............................ 195 57

Rushes ............................................... 2915

Average per rush .............................. 6.7 3.8

Net yards passing ............................ 235 247

Sacked-Yards lost ........................... 4-33 3-27

Gross-Yards passing ........................ 268 274

Completed-Attempted ................. 25-37 27-35

Had intercepted ................................... 1 0

Yards-Pass play ................................ 5.7 6.5

Kickoffs-End zone-TB ................... 3-2-2 5-5-1

Punts-Average. .............................. 0-0.0 3-46.3

Punts blocked ...................................... 0 0

FGs-PATs blocked ............................. 1-0 1-0

Total return yardage ........................ 100 0

Punt returns ..................................... 0-0 0-0

Kickoff returns .............................. 4-100 0-0

Interceptions .................................... 0-0 1-0

Penalties-Yards .............................. 4-50 4-36

Fumbles-Lost .................................... 4-1 2-1

Time of possession ....................... 32:54 27:06

RUSHING

Washington: Heinicke 10-95, Gibson 14-51, Carter 1-27,

McKissic 4-22.

Green Bay: Jones 6-19, Aa. Rodgers 2-17, St. Brown

1-13, Dillon 3-6, Hill 3-2.

PASSING

Washington: Heinicke 25-37-1-268.

Green Bay: Aa. Rodgers 27-35-0-274.

RECEIVING

Washington: McLaurin 7-122, Seals-Jones 6-51, McKiss-

ic 4-34, Humphries 3-36, Milne 2-16, Gibson 2-5, Carter

1-4.

Green Bay: Adams 6-76, Lazard 5-60, Jones 5-20, Tonyan

4-63, Lewis 3-31, Cobb 3-22, Dillon 1-2.

PUNT RETURNS

None.

KICKOFF RETURNS

Washington: Carter 4-100.

Green Bay: None.

TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS

Washington: Collins 7-0-0, Curl 5-1-0, Holcomb 4-2-0,

Davis 4-1-0, Johnson 4-0-0, Fuller 3-0-0, McCain 3-0-0,

St-Juste 3-0-0, J.Allen 2-0-2, Sweat 1-1-1, Payne 1-1-0,

Ioannidis 0-2-0, Young 0-2-0.

Green Bay: Campbell 10-3-0, Amos 6-0-0, Savage 5-1-0,

Keke 4-2-1.5, Douglas 4-0-0, Sullivan 4-0-0, Gary 3-4-2,

Stokes 3-0-0, Lowry 2-3-.5, Black 2-0-0, Burks 1-1-0,

Lancaster 1-1-0, Garvin 1-0-0, J.Smith 1-0-0, Yiadom

1-0-0.

INTERCEPTIONS

Washington: None.

Green Bay: Sullivan 1-0.

MISSED FIELD GOALS

Washington: Blewitt 42.

Green Bay: Crosby 34.

Packers’ drives

Time

received

How ball

obtained

Drive

began

Number

of plays

Net

yards

Last

snap

Drive

result

11 5:00 KickoffGB 25 13 75 WAS 17 Touchdown

22 :26 KickoffGB 25 3- 11 GB 14Punt

31 1:22 Missed FG GB 321 05 2WAS 16 Blocked FG

42 :58 Downs GB 289 72 WAS 10 Touchdown

51 4:07Fumble WAS 27 32 7WAS 20 Touchdown

65 :52 Downs GB 1 35 GB 6 Punt

71 :05 Downs GB 4 97 5WAS 21 Field goal

86 :29 Interception GB 202 18 GB 37Fumble

92 :25 KickoffWAS 39 3-1WAS 40 Punt

JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST

Aaron Rodgers, shown running for a first down, did this with his arm: 2 7 for 35 for 274 yards and three touchdown passes.

SCORING

Excerpted from
washingtonpost.com/sports

Red-zone woes sink

Washington again

The Washington Football Team
outgained the Green Bay Packers
by 126 yards, and Tress Way
didn’t punt once, but the offense’s
inability to finish drives kept
Washington winless at Lambeau
Field since 1988.
In the season’s first six weeks,
the Packers’ defense, led by
former Washington defensive
coordinator Joe Barry, had
allowed 15 touchdowns on its
opponents’ 15 trips inside the red
zone. Washington crossed the
Green Bay 20 four times in the
second half alone Sunday and
managed one measly field goal
with the game all but decided in
the fourth quarter.
Coupled with a block on Chris
Blewitt’s first career field goal
attempt and a turnover on downs
in the second quarter,
Washington scored three points
on six trips inside the Green
Bay 30. Terry McLaurin had a big
game, finishing with seven
catches for 122 yards and a
4 0-yard touchdown grab in the
first quarter, but he also had a
rare drop in the end zone.

Heinicke’s big mistake

Taylor Heinicke was charged with
a lost fumble when he was hit
from behind on Washington’s
opening drive of the second half,
and he threw an interception in
the end zone late in the fourth
quarter, but the Washington
quarterback’s biggest blunder in
his first career game against the
team he and his late father
bonded over came on a short run
that should have capped an
impressive drive with a
touchdown.
After the Packers took a 21-7
lead in the third quarter,
Heinicke led Washington to the
Green Bay 3. On third down, he
tucked the ball and scrambled to
his right. While he appeared to
have a clear path to the end zone,
he initiated a dive forward just
short of the goal line. After he

TAKEAWAYS

TOTAL NET

Y ARDS

x

x

WASH GB

430 304

70 plays 53 plays

6.1 avg. 5.7 avg.

NET PASSING

YARDS

x

x

WASH GB

235 247

37 att.35 att.

5.7 avg.6.5 avg.

NET RUSHING

YARDS

x

x

WASH GB

19557

29 att.15 att.

6.7 avg.3.8 avg.

TIME OF

POSSESSION

x

x

WASH GB

32:5427:06

celebrated his apparent score

with a Lambeau leap, officials

reviewed the play and ruled that

he had given himself up before

the ball crossed the plane.

Heinicke was stuffed for no gain

on a quarterback sneak on the

ensuing fourth-down play.

Packers share the love

Aaron Rodgers capped Green

Bay’s opening drive with a 17-yard

touchdown pass to his favorite

receiver, Davante Adams.

Washington did a decent job

limiting Adams — who finished

with six catches for 76 yards — for

the remainder of the game, but

Rodgers had plenty of success

spreading the ball around to his

other targets.

On a nine-play scoring drive

before the half, the NFL’s

reigning MVP connected with

Allen Lazard five times, including

for a 10-yard touchdown on a

back-shoulder throw with Danny

Johnson in coverage. Lazard had

10 catches all season before

Sunday. On the third play after

Heinicke’s lost fumble to start the

second half, Rodgers picked on

rookie linebacker Jamin Davis,

who was no match for Robert

Tonyan on a 20-yard touchdown

grab. Rodgers finished 27 for 35

for 274 yards and three

touchdowns and shouldered the

load for an offense that had only

15 carries for 57 yards.

Defense gets pressure

The front four was the least of

the Washington defense’s

problems against the Packers.

Montez Sweat registered a s ack

on Green Bay’s first drive, and

Jonathan Allen forced a t hree-

and-out by dropping Rodgers for

a loss of 13 yards on the Packers’

next possession. Allen added

another sack in the first half,

and he and Sweat combined for

all six of Washington’s

quarterback hits.

Washington forced at least one

turnover for the third straight

week, but Landon Collins’s

fumble recovery came with the

Packers leading by 17 and looking

to run out the clock in the fourth

quarter. Getting off the field

remained an issue for defensive

coordinator Jack Del Rio’s unit;

the Packers converted 6 of 12

third downs.

— Scott Allen

RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST

The Packers’ Robert Tonyan burned Washington rookie Jamin Davis for a 20-yard touchdown grab.

SEPT. 12

L

LAC

20-16

SEPT. 16

W

NYG

30-29

SEPT. 26

L

@BUF

43-21

OCT. 3

W

@ ATL

34-30

OCT. 10

L

NO

33-22

OCT. 17

L

KC

31-13

OCT. 24

L

@ GB

24-10

OCT.

31

@ DEN

4:25, Fox

NOV.

7

BYE

NOV.

14

TB

1, Fox

NOV.

21

@ CAR

1, Fox

NOV.

29

SEA

8:15, ESPN

DEC.

5

@ LV

4:05, Fox

DEC.

12

DAL

1, Fox

DEC.

19

@ PHI

TBD

DEC.

26

@ DAL

8:20, NBC

JAN.

2

PHI

1, Fox

JAN.

9

@ NYG

1, Fox

Washington’s schedule

the past six NASCAR Cup Series

playoff races. Larson has won

three-straight races twice this sea-

son and is the first driver to do

that since the late Dale Earnhardt

in 1987.

Larson is locked into the Nov. 7

championship finale, and the re-

maining three spots in the win-

ner-take-all title race will be set-

tled next Sunday at Martinsville

Speedway in Virginia — where the

Hendrick flight was headed on

that 2004 race morning.

Larson beat reigning Cup

champion and Hendrick team-

mate Chase Elliott by 3.619 sec-

onds for the win. The Hendrick

cars have been far and above the

strongest on tracks in which NAS-

CAR uses its 550 horsepower

package, but Kansas was the final

race of the season with those

rules.

In finishing second, Elliott

moved above the cutline and is

second in the standings headed to

Martinsville. Denny Hamlin is

third, and his Joe Gibbs Racing

teammate Kyle Busch is fourth, a

point above the elimination line.

Kevin Harvick finished third in

a Ford, and there was no chance of

another incident with Elliott after

NASCAR demanded the two end

their feud two weeks ago.

Kurt Busch was fourth and fol-

lowed by Hamlin, the highest-fin-

ishing Toyota driver.

It was a terrible day for Team

Penske despite Joey Logano’s

ninth-place finish. Brad Kesel-

owski finished 17th, and Ryan

Blaney was wrecked on a late re-

start and finished 37th.

All three Fords from the Penske

camp go to Martinsville below the

playoff elimination cutline. Mar-

tin Truex Jr. is also below the

cutline. Blaney is one point below

Kyle Busch, while Truex is three

points behind his JGR teammate.

Keselowski is six points below

the cutline, and Logano is 26 and

ranked last. A win by any of the

drivers is worth an automatic

berth into the championship field.

— Associated Press

BY JENNA FRYER

kansas city, kan. — Kyle Larson

drove to yet another victory, his

ninth of the year and most mean-

ingful to date in his new job with

Hendrick Motorsports.

Larson drove the No. 5 Chev ro-

let to Victory Lane at Kansas

Speedway on Sunday, the 17th an-

niversary of a Hendrick plane

crash that killed all 10 people

aboard. The plane was traveling to

a race in Virginia, and among

those killed was Rick Hendrick’s

only son.

Ricky Hendrick used the No. 5

during his driving career, and the

24-year-old was the heir apparent

of NASCAR’s winningest team at

the time of his death. Larson’s car

is stylized to re semble Ri cky Hen-

drick’s scheme, and hours before

Sunday’s race, team owner Hen-

drick texted Larson to stress what

a win would mean to him on this

date.

“I didn’t ever get to meet Ricky

or the other men and women who

lost their lives that day,” Larson

said. “But I felt the importance of

this race. So crazy how it all

worked out for me to win. So

again, thank you to Rick Hen-

drick, I know this means a lot to

you, and I’m glad I could get it

done.”

When Rick Hendrick texted

Larson earlier Sunday, he told his

new driver that all four of the

Hendrick crews would turn their

hats backward on the fifth lap in

honor of how Ricky Hendrick

wore his caps. He urged Larson to

be the leader on the fifth lap, and

Larson was determined to deliver.

“To lose your child and so many

other people that day, I c an’t imag-

ine what the feeling may have

been for everybody at that time,”

Larson said. “So to come here

17 years to the day and win in this

paint scheme, with this number,

it’s just pretty surreal. I’ve heard

lots of good stories about Ricky,

and I wish I could have met him.”

The victory was Larson’s third

consecutive and fourth win over

NASCAR

Larson gives Hendrick

a win on a somber day