Green Bay entered winners of seven of its last eight, including a 33-7 victory against the Cardinals on the same field a week ago.

But the team with the fewest turnovers in the NFL (16) started the game with two of them and ended it with another.

In between, Green Bay rallied from a 21-point second-half deficit to twice tie the game.

“The game was so back and forth, it was unbelievable,” Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk said.

After Rackers missed the field goal, the Packers won the toss. Since Arizona hadn’t stopped them since the first half, it didn’t look good for the home team.

But on third-and-6 at the Green Bay 24, the 5-foot-8 cornerback Adams came through on a blitz and stripped Rodgers. On a bad bounce the Packers will remember for a long time, the ball caromed off Rodgers’ foot and right to Dansby.

“We had the play called earlier, but we missed the sack,” Dansby said. “With the game on the line, we called it again. ... See you in New Orleans, baby.”

Rodgers said he should have just taken the sack.

“I was trying to unload it,” he said. “I should have held on to the ball. I was looking at the front side for Driv (Driver). It looked like he was getting grabbed a bit. Then I was looking for James (Jones) and they were driving in on him as he was running a little in cut, so I kind of pulled the ball back and someone hit my arm.”

The Cardinals took the second-half kickoff and drove 80 yards for a touchdown to go up 31-10, Warner throwing 33 yards to Fitzgerald, who has nine TD catches in his five playoff games, at least one in each contest.

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But nobody could stop anybody in this one.

After Rodgers’ 6-yard pass to Greg Jennings cut the lead to 31-17, the Packers caught Arizona off guard with an onside kick, then drove for another score. Rodgers’ 10-yard pass to Jordy Nelson trimmed the deficit to seven.

Arizona got another score on Fitzgerald’s diving grab of an 11-yard pass, but the Packers scored two more in a hurry, tying it at 38 on John Kuhn’s 1-yard run with 10:57 to play.

Each team scored again, Green Bay tying it at 45 when Rodgers threw 11 yards to Spencer Havner with 1:52 to play.

That was plenty of time for Warner to drive the Cardinals downfield, but Rackers — 16 of 17 for the season and 10 of 10 inside 40 yards — booted it well left of the upright.

Green Bay called “tails” and won the toss. Three plays later, it was over.

“Man,” Warner said, “what a football game.”

Warner took a victory lap around the field, leading some to wonder if all that speculation about his impending retirement was true.

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“Everybody relax,” he said. “That was my way of saying thanks to the fans because we’re not coming back here this year.”

As for retirement, Warner said that decision would be made later. He has a year left on his contract.

“I don’t think you every want to stay too long, but you never want to go out before it’s time,” he said. “The hard part is trying to figure that out, but right now it’s about another playoff game. It’s about New Orleans and then we’ll go from there.”

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