"The thing I'm most proud of is when he turned his head," Rodgers said of the rookie sixth-round pick from Notre Dame. "It's something we've talked about at various times, but the awareness it's two-shell (coverage), he's kind of in that hole-shot area. He turned his head at the perfect time. The ball was slightly behind him, he made the catch, stayed up and got out of bounds."

Rodgers followed by firing to the other side, again for Adams, for another 19-yard gain. He saw Adams get such a clean release off the line of scrimmage it was a relatively easy pitch-and-catch. The same two-deep coverage that was taking away the deep cross or "over" route Rodgers referred to before made the sidelines available early in the play, and his last three completions all worked the boundary, covering 46 yards in just 13 seconds.

"Their answer (to Adams' game-tying TD) was to go to two high safeties," Rodgers said. "When they're playing two-high man, the leverage for the (corners) is usually inside. They don't want to give up the middle (when) two safeties are running with width. I knew we could get the ball up and down quickly outside."

He makes it sound so easy, but the precision of the operation shouldn't be overlooked. Standing on his own 45-yard line with 19 seconds left and no timeouts, he got off four plays – the three completions for 46 yards, and an intentional overthrow to take the clock down to three seconds to assure the walk-off situation.

A walk-off kick actually six yards shorter than an extra point, too.