Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer hailed wide beneficiary Larry Fitzgerald as "unique" after his execution in extra time settled an exciting divisional play-off experience with the Green Bay Packers.
The Cardinals took a 17-13 lead on a diverted touchdown go to Michael Floyd and afterward extended their favorable position to 20-13 with a Chandler Catanzaro field objective after a fizzled fourth-down change endeavor by the Packers.
In any case, went down in is his own particular end zone on fourth down with 55 seconds left, Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers moved to one side and discovered Jeff Janis for a 61-yard catch to keep the Packers' trusts alive.
What's more, as time lapsed, Rodgers constrained additional time in unimaginable manner, again getting away from the Arizona pass surge and hurling a 'Hail Mary' go into the end zone for Janis to make a jumping snatch, with the additional point tying the amusement up at 20-20.However, after an extra minutes coin hurl done twice after the coin neglected to flip first time around, Fitzgerald secured an emotional triumph for Arizona.
Palmer by one means or another evaded a sack and tossed over his body to a completely open Fitzgerald, who hustled up field for a 75-yard pick up before then fixing the triumph and a spot in the NFC Championship diversion by getting a five-yard scoop pass and strolling into the end zone.
Gotten some information about Fitzgerald, Palmer said: "Extraordinary I mean he's only an uncommon player, he plays well in defining moments, as basic of a word as exceptional is it depicts him, likely the best.
"It was a wild diversion, we knew they [Green Bay] were going to play well, you need to take your cap off to them. They battled and played us better than average on guard, they made plays on offense clearly.
"We simply didn't surrender trust, talking at the locker room at half-time we were correct where we should have been be, and went ahead top, kept the confidence, continued accepting and we discovered our way toward the end."
The triumph stamped 36-year-old's Palmer's first play-off win having gone 0-2 in his past post-season begins.
"It feels great [to win a play-off game] it feels superior to anything I expected," Palmer included. "However, its absolutely impossible we're done or fulfilled. We're amped up for what's coming down the road of us."
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