The Green Bay Packers will face the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field in the divisional round of the playoffs, thanks to Dallas’ come-from-behind win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
Oh, and the Detroit Lions are still the Detroit Lions. Even when they DO make the playoffs, which happens about once every decade.
Way to go Detroit, on a job… done.
The Lions had leads of 14-0, 17-7 and 20-7. And then they let the Cowboys put up 17 unanswered for the win.
Had the Lions won, they would have gone to Seattle to play the Seahawks and Carolina, which beat the offensively-challenged Arizona Cardinals, would have come to Green Bay. As it is, Dallas comes to Green Bay and Carolina goes to Seattle, which probably sets up Green Bay at Seattle for the NFC championship. It also probably sets up the Packers falling short of the Super Bowl, but first things first.
We’ll have more on the Cowboys throughout the week, but here are some quick facts to get you started.
- They were seventh in the NFL in total offense, but second in rushing offense with 147.1 yards per game in 2013.
- That rushing attack is led by DeMarco Murray, who was first in the league with 1,845 yards.
- Tony Romo led the league in QB rating (113.2), while throwing 34 TDs vs. 9 INTs. That was exactly one point better than Aaron Rodgers.
- Sunday marked just the second time Romo won a playoff game in his career.
- The Cowboys were 19th in total defense in 2013.
- They have no Pro Bowlers on that side of the ball.
- Dallas was the media’s popular NFC Super Bowl pick coming into the playoffs, despite the fact that they would likely have to win two road games to make it to Phoenix.
I think honorable mention in knowing what to expect once they come to town is a few questionable calls, but either way can’t really complain, I’m not personally worried about either opponent we were gonna be matched up against.
I don’t know which of these teams I hate most wanted them both to lose. But Jerry and the hugging Governor must have made some promises to the Refs. Jobs in New Jersey or an Oil well or something. I can’t imagine what the Lions fans are saying about the picked up PI flag.
it’s very suspicious that the Fox consultant Ref stated that it must have been due to “lack of trust between members of a hodgepodge ref crew that had not worked together before”. WTF? the defender was clearly visible as having his back to the passer and not playing the ball. that was visible to everybody on the field and in the stands! so what was the “mistrust” about? that the flagging ref was not playing ball with the “fix” in? more than a little suspicious with the most influential owner’s team being the beneficiary of the two min. delay in picking up the flag. will go down as the most infamous ref incident since the “fail mary”… oh, wait… those were not real refs, so they have an excuse as not being a “ref incident”… but these refs were supposed to be the cream of the crop, hand picked for the playoffs. btw, ref Morelli is not a full time ref either… his day job is a principal of a S Cal. HS. until the fans have had enough of Goodell’s mismanagement, and boycott the nfl sponsors and commercial outlets, we will continue to have more of the same… more seasons ruined by incompetent, or worse, corrupt rule making and rule enforcing…
I think there’s some merit in the argument that the NFL wants the Cowboys to succeed. The last time the NFL ratings were dropping, the solution was to increase ratings by forcing the Vikings to trade a bunch of high draft picks to the Cowboys resulting in an NFL Dynasty.
if the Rams wind up back in L.A. and the nfl doesn’t expand, then the best thing to ensure fairness is to increase the reg. season to 20 games, NO bye weeks either during reg. or post-season. and only 2 preseason games, and only 2 reg. season cross-conference games per team, selected based on the opponents previous season’s conference record. thus tie breakers would not be as frequently needed to select 4 div. champs and 4 wild cards. with no bye week in post-season, the 4 wild cards would travel to the 4 div. ch. cities based on seedings. then the “semifinals” would commence the next weekend, round 2 between the remaining four seeds. thus every team would play at least one reg. season game vs. every other team in their conference. and with no bye weeks before the SB, there would be equal rest time for all, and a fairer test in the playoffs between teams that earned their seed with a minimum chance of tiebreaker luck.
guess i am a purist, but the fairest scheduling is to go back to the original nfl goal of every team playing every other team at least once. and the total season length wouldn’t really have to be made any longer than it is now. and the ratings and revenue would go up, and justify larger active rosters and higher salary caps permitted by the increased revenue.
http://deadspin.com/nfl-execs-pissed-that-head-of-officiating-seen-on-cowbo-1618048217
Nice catch! That whole game Dallas was getting away with BLATANT O Line holding! Let alone the picked up Pass Interference flagged call! Something is VERY WRONG!
Gonna be a fun game next weekend, but thanks to the loss in Buffalo, the season’s gonna end in Seattle.
not so fast. Carolina has a mobile QB and a good defense that can take advantage of a team like Skedattle that commits a lot of infractions… so maybe this coming matchup is more problematic for the Shithawks than the Lions would be? especially since Cam Newton can run read options in response to extreme crowd noise, and be less prone to sacks and turnovers when not needing to hand off the ball to another RB.
I agree with this, I think Carolina is our best chance at having a home game at lambeau out of all the teams remaining.
I can not remember a game that the O line held a D line more than in this game! Fuck Detroit! but man! that was SOME OF THE WORST OFFICIATING that I have ever seen! That PI call that was picked up? WTF???. It almost gives me pause to question the integrity of the NFL lately! These calls and the blatant holding NON CALLS really have me concerned for the future of this game! What did this BILLIONAIRE FUCKTARD JONES do? buy off some of these fucking officials?!
people always say that only losers complain about the refs but i am a firm believer that a key call/non-call at a big moment can ABSOLUTELY affect the outcome of the game.
Detroit was driving to respond when the obviousl PI was committed. Can’t believe they picked up the flag. that was huge.
also saw numerous examples of Dallas O-line holding but, to be fair, the Detroit RT was bouncing up in his stance a full second before the snap on about 8 snaps. don’t understand why it wasn’t called.
What’s the over under on how many times “ice bowl” is mentioned this week?
FYI Packers haven’t beat them in the playoffs since
Due to the quirks in the schedule in the ’90s, the Packers played regular season games in Dallas four years straight, 93, 94, 95, and 96. Finally in 97 the game was in Green Bay and the Packers crushed the Cowboys. Had the regular season game been in Green Bay in ’95 and the Packers won, the conference championship would have been in Green Bay and I bet Green Bay would have won that game.
Not sure such a big deal should be made about Detroit not getting the benefit of calls on Dallas’ O-line for holding. Suh and company do a pretty good job at putting their hands to the face if you look for it.
Heck, our team will get away with a pretty big hold or two during the course of a game.
Anyone have a problem w that ?
The Detroit Lions would even fuck up bacon. Man, what a shitty franchise.
I prefer to call that ’67 game the glacier bowl. And I’ll never forget it. In impossible weather conditions, the two teams played rather well; I didn’t see how then, and I still don’t.
you can find out “how” on nfl network’s TV special called: “A Football Life [Vince Lombardi]”. much of the two part series on Lombardi provides insights and details into VL’s training camps and fitness regimens, as well as his extreme attention to minutest detail when designing plays, e.g., his masterpiece: the famous GB “power sweep”. Landry wasn’t exactly a slouch in that aspect of HC either, but that would of course be covered better in a different episode, i.e. about Tom Landry’s life.
also, FB players were smarter then, or made smarter by good HC, and, the GB squad was to a man aware that they were playing for, and in the presence of greatness.
not unlike the awareness that soldiers of the great commanders of history possess, that they must perform at a level fitting for the storied victories that will found the reputation that is theirs and their commander’s, that will peal down the decades, and even the centuries, of fable and legend…
How does Dez Bryant not get flagged for running out to the middle of the field without his helmet and getting into the face of the official after that PI call? Should that not have been Unsportsmanlike or am I stretching here?
Well if the officials pull that kind of crap against us next week, then the NFL has officially declared itself a reality television show sitcom staring Jerry Jones and Tony Romo. If they call it fair, then I predict that we will crush them from Romo pick sixes. If you watch how Romo throws, he has trouble throwing outs and down field. Detroit DB’s were not smart enough to play inside leverage. They would have some picks for sure. Peppers and our Dline also has chance to bat some balls for picks. Romo throws alot of low balls down the middle.
To beat Dallas, we need to create turnovers. Murray and Bryant break alot of tackles and Packers are prone to poor tackling but they also fumble alot. In the snow, we need to punch that ball loose a couple of times and they will lose their confidence.
Bwahahahahahahahaha you won’t beat Dallas. Ah consider yourself lucky. The Seahawks are on our way to #2!!!!! Fuck you Green Bay.
The Seahawks are going to make a #2 on Saturday. Can’t wait to see your fan base evaporate when you get beat at home by the mighty 7-8-1 Carolina Panthers
“The Seahawks are on OUR way to #2!!!!!” Learn some punctuation and grammar before you start to trash talk, retarded piece of dog shit.
We will put our foot up your ASS!!!!!!!!!!
Hey! SEAHAWKSOWNYOU! Someone mentioned this earlier that you seem to have an “ASS” thing going on. This confirms it. Love the simple use of invectives from you. If you were dumb would you know it? . . .