Green Bay Packers’ lost the NFC Championship game against San Francisco 49ers on Sunday and failed to reach their second Super Bowl appearance in the Aaron Rodgers era. Still, despite this heartbreaking failure and fact that he recently turned 36, Rodgers believes his team’s window for returning to Super Bowl is still there.
Talking with reporters after the 37-20 loss, Rodgers expressed optimism that his team will soon be again in the same situation and will emerge on the winning side of the contest.
“The window’s open, and I think we’re going to be on the right side of one of these real soon,” said Rodgers. “That’s the exciting thing. It doesn’t make this feeling any easier, but that is very exciting moving forward.”
Rodgers acknowledged that there is a gap between them and 49ers, but thinks it isn’t as big as many people believe.
“Well, it looks pretty big,” he added. “They got us a couple times, but I don’t think it’s that big. I think we’re really close. I think we’re just a little more consistent performance away from consistently playing with these guys.”
Green Bay Packers had a disastrous first half, falling behind 27 points in the first half in which Aaron Rodgers failed to put any points on the board, being harassed by San Francisco’s defense. Rodgers bounced back to finish the game with 326 yards and two touchdowns, but he also added two interceptions.
This was Rodgers’ fourth trip to NFC Championship and his third loss. The one time he managed to go past this hurdle, he won it all.
