MOULTRIE –  Now that was a little more like it.

After 10 mostly ordinary quarters of football to open the season, the Colquitt County offense looked 2014-2015-2016-ish in a second half that shocked the Tucker Tigers and brought great pleasure to Packer Nation in the 35-21 victory on Friday on the Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium.

It was, to a much-relieved Colquitt County offensive coordinator Jeff Hammond, a return to “Packer football.”

Now 3-0, Colquitt had won its two first games to earn its ranking as the No. 2 team in Class 7A, but while the defense played like a mound of fire ants disturbed by a wayward boot, the offense lacked the crispness ordinarily produced by a Rush Propst team.

By the time the Packers trudged to the locker room trailing 14-7 at the half on Friday, the young season had already seen opposing defenses turn three Packer fumbles into touchdowns, including one that allowed the Tigers, ranked No. 1 in Class 6A, tie the game midway through the second quarter.

Mind you, this is a more than fair-to-middlin’ Tucker team. It is one that could easily find itself in the state championship game in December for the second straight season.

But once the Packers semi got rolling downhill in the third quarter, there was no slowing it.

Asked what the difference was between the way offense had played the first 2 ½ games and the way it simply bamboozled a team that appeared heading to a 3-0 record itself, Hammond gave little insight other than to say, “We just played fast. We made some big plays. And we played with some confidence.”

The Packers sent out a ringer on offense to start the second half and linebacker JJ Peterson took a Steven Krajewski pass on the first play and took it 16 yards for a first down.

It was the first of 14 straight completions for the senior quarterback who finally looked comfortable and composed in his No. 8 jersey.

So comfortable that he completed his next pass to newly discovered receiver Ty Shealey for 5 yards to midfield.

From there, he looked for old reliable, Cam Singletary, who had dropped a pass that appeared destined to be a long-gainer with less than 45 seconds left in the first half.

Singletary didn’t miss this one. He snagged it and made the Tigers secondary look ordinary while shedding tacklers en route to the end zone just 52 seconds into the second half.

In just about the only thing that did not work for the Packers in the second half, a 2-point conversion run after the touchdown failed and Colquitt still trailed 14-13.

After a Tucker three-and-out, Ty Leggett gave the Packers their second 50-plus-yard play in less than three minutes when he somehow shook off the clutches of Gerry Vaughn and bolted down the sidelines to the Tucker 13.

Three plays later, it was the Krajewski-to-Singletary act again, this one shorter, only 7 yards, but to the end zone nonetheless.

The Packers then got the missed extra point back on a little razzle-dazzle that ended up with Krajewski catching the 2-point toss from Daijun Edwards, giving the Packers a 21-14 lead

Colquitt’s defense then forced another punt, this one 57 yards. It just made the Packers drive to their third touchdown of the quarter a little longer and more time-consuming.

The end of the 89-yard drive came on its 11^th play, a 21-yard scoring pass from Krajewski to Shealey. Fitzgerald’s extra point made it Colquitt 28, Tucker 14, and the house was beginning to enjoy itself.

For the quarter, Krajewski was 13-for-13 for 169 yards and three touchdowns against a well-respected defense.

In case anyone missed it, “Steven played outstanding,” Hammond said.

Krajewski also completed a pass to Leggett on the first play of the fourth quarter and will take a string of 14 straight completions into next Friday’s home game against 1-1 Roswell.

Leggett finished off the scoring, and his 126-yard rushing evening, by Wild-Hawging into the end zone from 37 yards out on a third-and-two with 8:19 left, putting the Packers out ahead 35-14.

Of Leggett’s 126 yards, 109 came in the second half.

Tucker pulled to within 14 on a leaping grab in the end zone by South Carolina-bound Josh Vann with 4:37 left in the game. But the Tigers never got another snap.

Krajewski finished 22-for-26 for 245 yards and Singletary caught nine passes for 149 yards.

And after losing the second half in the 21-20 loss to Tucker last year at home, the Packers won the final two quarters on Friday, four touchdowns to one.

With the big plays from Leggett and Singletary, and Krajewski obviously operating in his comfort zone, Colquitt looked offensively more like the teams Propst has been sending out since he arrived here in 2008.

“We were getting positive gains on first down and we had that tempo,” Hammond said. “That’s what we want to do. That’s Packer football.”