Jordan Love tosses 2 TDs as Packers take down Dolphins

Jordan Love threw for 274 yards and a pair of touchdowns to Jayden Reed and Quay Walker made a key goal-line stop in the fourth quarter to help the host Green Bay Packers defeat the Miami Dolphins 30-17 on Thursday.Green Bay (9-3) won for the third time in 11 days to remain two games behind the NFC North-leading Detroit Lions and pull even with the Minnesota Vikings in the win column.The Dolphins (5-7) saw a three-game winning streak snapped. Miami fell two games behind Denver for the final AFC playoff spot.A 14-yard touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa to De’Von Achane and a two-point conversion drew the Dolphins within 27-11 late in the third quarter. Miami trailed by the same score when it reached the Green Bay 1-yard line early in the fourth, but Walker sacked Tagovailoa on fourth down.Green Bay responded with a 33-yard Brandon McManus field goal, his third make of the night, to seal the win with 5:02 to go.Miami is 0-8 in games started by Tagovailoa in games in which the temperature is 40 degrees or colder.Thursday’s cold, snowy weather impacted Miami’s initial opportunity to handle the ball. After the defense forced a Packers punt on the first possession of the game, Malik Washington mishandled the return. Green Bay’s Robert Rochell recovered at the Dolphins’ 9-yard line and the Packers scored three plays later on a 3-yard connection from Love to Reed.Green Bay took a 24-3 lead into halftime.Jacobs punctuated a 12-play, 76-yard drive with a 1-yard scoring run with 55 seconds left in the first quarter.

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