Dallas to edge Green Bay in playoff showdown

With Green Bay’s win over NY on Sunday night, the Dallas Cowboys will host the Packers in the NFC Divisional round Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

The Packers quickly turned that into another score before the half.

But the Giants were plagued by a series of drops by their receivers.

Rodgers was left with just one final heave to end the first half, and that was enough time. Dallas might not have won the NFC that season if Bryant’s catch stood, but Cowboys fans will probably argue that it was taken from them. D-backs are used to throws of that length coming in at shallower angles, so they’re used to just making sure they’re in front of any receivers, and can just jump and knock it down.

The New York Giants were in the news for all the wrong reasons this past week. Green Bay has won seven consecutive games, and they’ve almost tied the Cowboys for the NFC’s best Super Bowl odds. We’re not going to worry about them. Had Cook caught the ball, the clock likely would have expired, and the Packers wouldn’t have had another chance to score.

Regardless, both the Giants and Packers are riding hot form heading into their Lambeau Field showdown in expected frigid conditions in Wisconsin.

“Certainly you’d like to help your players develop the right mindset leading into a ballgame, but as much as anything else, you want them to be themselves, and he’s done an outstanding job doing that with every new experience he’s had up to this point this year”, Garrett said. This will be Dallas and Green Bay’s eighth all-time meeting in the playoffs.

Pittsburgh’s victory also sent the Houston Texans to season-wins leader New England next Saturday, the same day Seattle will visit Atlanta in the other second-round playoff game. Dallas also boasts the NFL’s fifth-best scoring defense and one of the league’s most dynamic linebackers in Sean Lee, another first-team All-Pro selection.

This is always the defensive plan for slowing Rodgers. And then there was a third pass that many people considered a drop.

– Odell Beckham Jr. had his second-worst career performance in his National Football League postseason debut, catching only four passes for 24 yards.

Sunday’s game is a ideal example. If it’s incomplete, it’s just another pass that didn’t find its target.

Prescott: 311/459, 3,667 yards, 23 touchdowns, 4 interceptions. Giants head coach Ben McAdoo didn’t think it was such a big deal given it was their day off. Eli Manning joked his way out of questions about the boat.

However, the last two weeks have seen Rodgers and the offense sputter out of the gate.

That same year, on December 31, the same two teams battled at frigid Lambeau Field in the famous Ice Bowl – with the Packers winning again, 21-17, en route to a second-straight Super Bowl title.

The total has gone over in three of the Dolphins’ last four games against the Steelers. He just is. If this thought escaped you during the first ten games of the season, it is understandable as the Packers had a record of 4-6 and Rodgers and company were nothing anyone was too concerned about. He tried to keep his balance for the return, but his momentum carried him out of bounds untouched. By night’s end, Rodgers was 25 of 40 for 362 yards, with four touchdown passes, no interceptions and a passer rating of 125.2.

– 241: The combined receiving yards for Davante Adams and Randall Cobb.

Jordy Nelson will be tough to replace on throws along sidelines – ESPN Nelson still might play, but if he can’t, his play on the edges of the field will be the tough thing to replace.