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The New York Giants gave all they had but left Aaron Rodgers 58 seconds too many on the clock as the Green Bay Packers marched down the field for a game-winning field goal and a dramatic 38-35 win Sunday to move to 12-0.
Rodgers is in the midst of a career year, posting a league-high 127.7 QB rating with 37 touchdowns and and just five INTs. He finished 28-for-46 for 369 yards and four touchdowns, two of which were caught by veteran receiver Donald Driver.
Rodgers did throw a rare interception, but it hardly took away from another stellar performance.
"(Rodgers) has been incredible," Driver, a close friend of former Packers legendary quarterback Brett Favre, told reporters following the game. "The way he's running things back there, it's some of the best football I've ever seen."
Greg Jennings led Green Bay with seven catches for 94 yards and a score. Jordy Nelson had four catches for 94 and Jermichael Finley added six grabs for 87 yards and a score.
Eli Manning had led the Giants on a game-tying touchdown drive complete with a two-point conversion that made it 35-35 with 58 seconds left.
But all it took was two Rodgers passes to get the Pack within field goal range, with Mason Crosby knocking in the game winner from 30 yards out as time expired.
Green Bay (12-0) joined San Francisco (10-2) in securing itself a playoff bid, needing three wins or three Niners losses to grab homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.
New York (6-6), going through its customary late season collapse under Tom Coughlin, stayed just one game behind Dallas (7-5) thanks to a Cowboys loss in Arizona.
The Giants are 47-17 under Coughlin during the first half of the season, but a brutal 24-34 over the final eight games since 2004.
The Giants play the Cowboys two more times, including next week at Dallas and the season finale at MetLife Stadium.
New York currently sits eighth in the NFC, behind seventh place 7-5 Atlanta, which loses the tiebreaker to 7-5 Chicago, which beat the Falcons earlier this season.
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