San Francisco 49ers 30-33
Green Bay Packers Mason Crosby hits winning field-goal week after horror show
Mason Crosby kicked a 27-yard field goal as time expired to cap an 81-yard drive set up by Kevin King’s interception with 1:07 left, and the Green Bay Packers outlasted the San Francisco 49ers for a 33-30 win on Monday night. The drive was extended after 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman was called for an illegal contact penalty on third-and-15 that wiped out a sack of
Aaron Rodgers with 43 seconds left.
Rodgers, who was bleeding from the elbow as the game reached its final stages, rushed up the middle for a 21-yard gain on the next play. The two-time NFL MVP completed two more passes for 19 yards to set up Crosby’s game-winner for Green Bay (3-2-1). It was a sweet win for Crosby: the veteran kicker was perfect a week after missing four field goals in a loss at Detroit. Rodgers threw for 425 yards and two scores.
CJ Beathard passed for 245 yards and two touchdowns for the 49ers (1-5). Beathard connected with speedy receiver Marquise Goodwin for two long scores, and for a while it looked like the 49ers might hold on for their first victory since quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was lost for the year in Week 3 with a torn ACL.
Turnovers hurt San Francisco again: there were three more on Monday night, but none bigger than King’s pick at the Packers 10. The second-year cornerback was locked in 1-on-1 coverage with Goodwin, who had burned the secondary all night. This time, King kept up and pulled in a ball that looked slightly underthrown by Beathard.
Then Rodgers went to work, aided by the penalty on Sherman, who was covering Davante Adams. The Packers scored 10 points in the final two minutes, capped by Crosby’s fourth field goal of the night.