Packers vs. Cowboys, Divisional Playoffs: First Half Game Updates & Disussion

Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott were stellar.

It’s finally game time – join APC as we follow along with the Divisional Playoff game between Green Bay and Dallas.

Mason Crosby then nailed a 51-yard field goal as time expired that sent Green Bay to a NFC Championship berth in Atlanta next weekend.

It was an improbable ending to an improbable season for the Dallas Cowboys in Sunday’s 34-31 divisional playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers.

As Skip’s Fox Sports colleague Clay Travis pointed out, Skip’s a participation trophy guy now? “We understand the importance of the game and how important each play is”. The play was reviewed and it was insane how close Cook came to being out of bounds, but the man made a career-highlight catch.

-Then Mason Crosby became a factor.

Aaron Rodgers continues to dominate.

The Green Bay Packers are on a roll and have won seven straight games. Rodgers rolled out to his right and delivered an absolute strike – on 3rd-and-20, no less – to Jared Cook, who brilliantly toed the sideline and made the haul.

The game would be tied again after the Cowboys kicker split the uprights with just over thirty seconds remaining. Packers 28 Cowboys 24. A second Super Bowl victory would cement Rodgers as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time. Even as Rodgers rolled to his left on that final play, throwing a laser across his body and just out of reach of two Cowboys defensive backs, who among us really doubted that somehow his pass would connect, bending the boundaries of space and time, if necessary? “What a game. We’re gonna celebrate this and move on to Atlanta”. Meanwhile, quarterback Aaron Rodgers has rediscovered his exceptional play of late, tossing 19 touchdown to zero interceptions in the weeks since Turkey Day. But it didn’t cost him the game. Guard Jerry Kramer kicked three field goals in the 16-7 victory. It also was the first National Football League title game played in Green Bay, before a then-team record crowd of 39,029 at City Stadium.

Bailey’s 50-yard field goal gave Dallas an early 3-0 lead.

But it would be ludicrous to tear down the unit for coming up one play short against arguably the best quarterback in the NFL.

Lightning could be seen from inside the stadium as the Cowboys twice fought back to level before a cruel defeat.

The game looked bleak at first, with the Packers jumping out to a 21-3 lead in the second quarter. He threw for 101 yards over two clutch drives before spinning into the end zone on a two-point conversion to knot this game at 28-all with four minutes to play.