Defence carries Colts to OT win

Colts 34

Packers 31

OVERTIME

INDIANAPOLIS— The Indianapolis defence may have turned Aaron Rodgers into a believer Sunday.

Everyone else might want to take notice, too.

After allowing three touchdown passes and 28 first-half points, the Colts gave up only three second-half points. They also forced a game-changing fumble less than a minute into overtime for a 34-31 victory over Green Bay.

Rodrigo Blankenship won it with a 39-yard field goal with 7:10 remaining.

Indy (7-3) did it with an oldschool combination: an offence that played keep-away, a defence that came up with two three-and-outs and a fourthdown stop late in the fourth quarter, and the key turnover in overtime.

Philip Rivers was 24-for-35 for 288 yards, three touchdowns and one interception in his 234th consecutive start, tying Eli Manning for the 10th-longest streak in league history. Jonathan Taylor had 22 carries for 90 yards in a wild game that included Green Bay scores in the final 10 seconds of each half; Indianapolis erasing a 14-point halftime deficit, then failing to seal the win because of five holding calls on its final drive in regulation.

Rodgers took full advantage of the second chance, hooking up with Marquez Valdes-Scantling on a 47-yard pass play. That took the Packers from the sixyard line to the Colts 47. Seven plays later, Mason Crosby tied the game at 31 with a 26-yard field goal with three seconds remaining.

After Green Bay won the coin toss, Valdes-Scantling lost a fumble when hit by Julian Blackmon on Green Bay’s second play. DeForest Buckner recovered and four plays later, Blankenship won it.

Rodgers was 27-of-38 for 311 yards, three TD passes and one interception.

Davante Adams had seven catches for 106 yards and one score, and Aaron Jones rushed for another score.

The Packers ran only 18 plays over the final 33 minutes.