The Packers elevated Ben Braden and Equanimeous St. Brown for the third time this season from the Practice Squad.  Players can only be activated twice per season (St. Brown was elevated last week as a Covid Replacement Player, which does not count towards the limit on elevations).  If the Packers want St. Brown to see the field again, they will have to sign him to the 53-man roster or use him as a Covid Replacement if another player gets placed on the Covid list in the future. 

The inactive players were Jenkins, Heflin, Myers (due to injury) plus Vernon Scott, Rasul Douglas and Jaylon Smith.  Jenkins had been listed as questionable.  Vernon Scott was not listed on the injury report this week, so he appears to have been a healthy scratch.

Dennis Kelly, who did not practice this week due to an undisclosed illness, and Jordan Love were active but did not play.  Jake Hanson finally saw the field, though it was only on special teams.

The statistics suggest that the Packers ran the ball well.  Aaron Jones carried the ball 14 times for 103 yards (7.4-yard average) and Dillon had 8 carries for 30 yards (a 3.8-yard average).  I suppose that they did, but it was a case of feast or famine.  To be fair, the Bengals have a good defensive front four - the other team gets paid, too.

Jones had runs of 14, 11, 3 (on the first possession), 3, 0, 1, 8, 1, 5, 4, 57, 0 and in overtime -1, -4 and -1 yards.  Three of the runs were good for first downs (the 14, the 11 and the 57 yarder).  Dillon carried the ball for 3 yards and 2 yards in the first half, both on first and 10 situations.  In the second half, Dillon had runs of 7, 17, -1, 0, 1, and 1 yard.  Only the 17 yard run picked up a first down.  Dillon did catch 4 passes on 4 targets for 49 yards, all in the first half, including one for a touchdown.  Jones had a big hole on his long run but also made two players miss to turn it into a huge gain. 

The line overall provided pretty good pass protection. During the game I thought Rodgers seemed to have "happy feet" at times even when there was not much pressure.  Pro Football Focus' Game Recap  noted that when throwing in 2.5 seconds or less Rodgers attempted 17 passes for just 70 yards, a 4.1 yards per attempt average.  On longer developing plays (2.6 seconds or longer), Rodgers attempted 21 passes good for 274 yards (a whopping 13.4 yards per attempt).  Those 21 passes included 9 explosive pass plays (apparently defined as gains of 15 yards rather than the more common 20 yards).  In any event, PFF suggested on first review that Nijman and Runyan each allowed 3 pressures.  Patrick allowed zero, per PFF's first impressions.

Davante Adams caught 11 passes on 16 targets for 206 yards.  Cobb and Marcedes Lewis chipped in with two receptions each good for 34 and 30 yards, respectively.  Lazard caught both of his targets and gained 6 yards.  Tonyan caught one of two targets for 8 yards. Kylin Hill saw 2 snaps and caught a pass for 5 yards.  Aaron Rodgers has passer ratings over 100 in the first and second halves and in overtime as well.  He finished with a 102.9 rating.

The defensive line statistically got good pressure on Burrows.  His passer rating was 139.1 in the first half but for the entire game he finished at 85.5.  By my stopwatch, Burrows had 7.34 to 7.4 seconds on the 70 yard touchdown pass to Chase at the end of the first half.  Before that throw, Burrows had 64 passing yards in the first half.  Watching the play, initially the Packers rushed four (Clark, Keke, Smith and Gary) but both Preston Smith and Gary dropped back into coverage after initially rushing.  Burrows was sacked 3 times and hit 8 times.  Lowry batted down two passes. 

Slaton had 2 quarterback hits, and the Packers got 1 QB hit from Burks, Barnes, Gary, Smith, Lowry, and Garvin.  Earlier this week I noted that the Bengals were weak at center and especially at right guard.  Per the PFF article, their right guard allowed 7 pressures and the center 3 more.  Their tackles each allowed two and the left guard one for a total of 15 pressures on 26 passing attempts.

The Bengals only rushed the ball 5 times for 25 yards in the first half.  They finished with 24 rushes for 103 yards and a 4.3 yard average.  Amos and Campbell finished with 8 tackles each (6 and 5 solo, respectively).  The Packers got tackles for loss from Barnes, Smith, Campbell, and two from Clark.  Campbell did a nice job in coverage as well: PFF noted that he allowed 22 yards on 35 coverage snaps, and had 3 stops as well.  Jean-Charles got one snap, though he allowed a rushing touchdown.  Hamilton played quite a few snaps.

Whichever defensive back that had to cover Jamar Chase probably had a tough day statistically.  Anyone who did not have to cover Chase probably fared well, except for the person who allowed the completion to Tee Higgins for the two-point conversion.  Kevin King allowed just 17 yards in coverage before he left the game. 

Special teams is not fixed.  The Packers allowed kickoff returns of 44, 28 and 22, good for a 30 yard average, while the Packers returned one kickoff 16 yards.  The temperature at game time was 80 degrees.  There were southerly winds at 8 M.P.H. with gusts to 12 M.P.H.  Crosby managed touchbacks on 3 of his 7 kickoffs.  The Bengals got touchbacks on 3 of 4.  Crosby missed 3 of his 7 field goals.  Blocking on the right side of the line has not been fixed as shown by the tweet by Justis Mosqueda.  It shows lots of penetration on the right side of the line on Crosby's game winning attempt with the score tied 22-22.  All three of the field goals that Crosby missed were pulled to the left.

WRs: 2.64

RBs: 1.05

TEs: 1.31

DL:  2.34

OLB: 2.01

ILB: 1.50

DB: 5.15