“That woke us up for sure,” cornerback Jaire Alexander said. “He doesn’t really yell, but he was yelling at us then. And you see the results. He probably needed to yell at us at the beginning of the game.”
The Packers made a few changes in the secondary in the second half, with Innis Gaines replacing the injured Nixon in the slot and Darnell Savage lining up at safety with Adrian Amos.
Even before the flurry of fourth-quarter interceptions, the Packers did a better job of locking down Hill and Waddle. All told, the defense allowed just 105 total yards and no points in the second half. Of Miami’s 294 passing yards, just 81 came in the final two quarters.
Waddle had just one catch for 17 yards in the second half, while Hill had three for 47.
“We kept the top on the defense. We eliminated the big plays,” Amos said. “They had two big plays in the first half that led to their points. Other than that, make them drive the rest of the field. We started playing them better.”
The Packers’ fourth-quarter rally began with Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander intercepting an overthrown pass across the middle intended for Tyreek Hill. His timing couldn’t have been better, either, as Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers had just been intercepted on the previous play in Miami’s end zone.
Before Kader Kohou picked off the pass, there appeared to be contact on the play between the Dolphins cornerback and Packers receiver Allen Lazard but it went uncalled. What could have been a big momentum swing for Miami turned into Green Bay ball at the Miami 14 thanks to Alexander. Green Bay wasn’t able to punch it in, but Crosby drilled a 28-yard field goal to give the Packers their first lead of the game.
On the next series, it was De’Vondre Campbell ending a potential Miami scoring drive when he picked off Tagovailoa at the Packers’ 22 and returned it 14 yards. Green Bay’s offense then engineered a nine-play, 56-yard drive that culminated in another Crosby field goal with a little more than two minutes left.
“They start coming. That’s how it is,” Douglas said. “You get one pick, more are going to come. Keep catching those and you keep getting them.”
Leave it to Douglas to be the one to finish the job. On the second play of the Dolphins’ final drive, Campbell baited Tagovailoa into throwing an ill-advised pass that Douglas nabbed for his fourth INT of the year, and with no timeouts remaining, the Packers were able to kneel out their seventh win of the season.
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