Nobody gave this Packer team a chance. The Fox broadcast team of Howie Long, Gronk, Terry Bradshaw, Michael Strahan and Jimmy Johnson all had the Cowboys, and nobody said it would be close.
The Vegas experts had the Cowboys. Even most Packer fans were just happy the team was in the playoffs. But the men wearing Packer jerseys in the visiting locker room believed. And boy did they produce.
Jordan Love – First Year Starter Phenom
Jordan Love, who CBS and Sirius Radio pundit Adam Schein has repeatedly stated in his pundit wisdom, “Can’t play football” just played the best statistical first career playoff game of any quarterback in NFL history. Jordan Love’s passer rating was 157.2.
He found seven different receivers for 267 yards and three touchdowns. He hit Romeo Doubs six times for 151 yards and a score. Doubs’ average yards per catch was 25.2 yards.
Love converted six of ten third downs and his only attempt on 4th down, a 2-yard dart through traffic, the Packers 6th touchdown, looked like at the time it sealed the win. 48-16 Packers.
Aaron Jones is Still on Fire
Aaron Jones added three touchdowns, 118 yards, rushing at a 5.2 yard per rush clip. He added a vicious block on Dallas’ premiere pass rusher Micah Parsons to allow a long pass and catch to Doubs to keep a drive alive. The Packers asked for the ball at the opening kickoff and made good on LaFleur’s decision to give Love the first snaps of the game.
The Packers scored touchdowns on three of their first four possessions. Add on a much-maligned Green Bay defense that intercepted Dak Prescott twice in the first half and you have a Packer blowout that made Dallas’ AT&T stadium seem like a church with 100,000 people attending a funeral.
Add on a much-maligned Green Bay defense that intercepted Dak Prescott twice in the first half and you have a Packer blowout that made Dallas’ AT&T stadium seem like a church with 100,000 people attending a funeral.
Jaire Alexander started the Green Bay party with a pick that gave the Packers great field position and ultimately a 14-point lead. Darnell Savage made his best play of the season with a pick six with time winding down in the first half.
That score made it 27-0. Only a literal last second throw, that was benefited by an unwarranted 15 yard “horse tackle” penalty on Quay Walker, a dropped interception by De’Vondre Campbell, and a missed false start on Dallas on the last play allowed the Cowboys to score before half.
Love had another unbelievable game but give credit to the offensive line. They held the Dallas defense at bay. Dallas’ defensive leader, Parsons, was held to two tackles, no tackles for loss and no sacks with one quarterback hit that seemed late to Packer fans, but no penalty was called.
Love was not sacked and had time to throw making the most of it. Dallas’ defensive coordinator, Dan Quinn, was talked up as a potential head coach next year. This Packer performance may change that.
The Packers had a bad habit early in the season of playing one good half but not being able to sustain quality plays for an entire game. On this day in Dallas the third quarter answered any doubters.
WR Romeo Doubs Has Career Game
The Packers scored touchdowns the first three times they had the ball in the third quarter. They were surgical in their dissection of the vaunted Dallas defense. Five plays, seventy-five yards, highlighted by a 46-yard beauty to Doubs from Love.
Three plays seventy-five yards, which had Aaron Jones busting for ten, then 27 and finished by a bomb to wide open Luke Musgrave for 38 and the score. Then eight plays for forty yards after the defense had stopped the Cowboys on downs.
LaFleur went for it on 4th down at the Dallas three-yard line, which seemed unnecessary with ten minutes left in the fourth, but the laser by Love to Doubs, who was his second option, was a highlight play that was necessary thanks to the easy time Dallas had with the prevent defense after the score.
The defense gave all a scare late but did enough to seal this win and the Packers live to play another week in the playoffs. The broadcast team said the 49ers are up next.
Let’s hope the game plan next week is as remarkable as this week. The 49ers are the toughest opponent the Packers will face this year. The truest evaluator of greatness awaits.
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That TD throw to Doubs was disgusting. Not many guys can make that throw. I have said that of Love multiple times this year, kind of like the last guy that played QB for the pack.
https://twitter.com/JacobMorley/status/1746744705163878779?t=k3kSlTtrNjxEP0ZimXFlpA&s=19
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Sure was fun watching WRs “bail out” Love to the tune of a 157 passer rating. I learn so much from the folks here at TP!
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I promise, it’s ok to give Love credit for how well he is playing the position. It isn’t a slight to 12. Have fun with this playoff run, they weren’t supposed to be here, and are playing with house money. Will they beat SF? Probably not, but I don’t particularly care, I am enjoying this team more than I have in a while
From ESPN:
And speaking of that offensive line, the five up front might have had the best view of it all. Consider what center Josh Myers said of the fourth-down touchdown pass to Doubs.
“I didn’t even celebrate because I was just standing there with my hands on my hips looking at [right guard Jon] Runyan like I couldn’t believe the throw I had just seen,” Myers said. “I don’t know what it looked like from the TV, but it was one of the craziest throws I’ve ever seen in my life, and I’ve seen a lot of crazy ones.”
No doubt Kato….
Love and the Packers are shocking the NFL world and it’s well deserved.
Pretty much what i’ve been saying all season 😁🤔
Yep! I said that . . . I still stand by it. I ALSO said that Love made an amazing throw as well . . . why not mention that? Btw, that throw to Musgrave and a few of the other throws were underthrown or behind the WRs . . . Or very high (the one to Doubs). But, I guess that you have another definition of “bailout”? Right? Right asshat? I have been giving credit to the WRs AND to Love. However, some of you HOMERS are already becoming LOVE CENTRIC . . . Do any of you realize this???? But i guess it is okay because it is not Aaron Rodgers right? Kato the hypocrite . . .
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BTW, Go Pack Go! I am TOTALLY stoked by what they ( the WHOLE fucking team) have been doing.
Yeah, 12 was never bailed out by incredible plays by his WRs. I literally never remember you nitpicking on 12 in that way. Face it. You feel like you are cheating on Rodgers by praising what Love has done. I don’t understand you at all. At this point I feel like any and all debate with 12 stans is a waste of my precious time on this earth.
Kato, lets put on our big boy pants.
Can you try and get along with the rest of the readers?
I understand your feelings get hurt, but seriously….i don’t think anyone here cares.
I don’t understand why you insist on having a problem with people.
Did your parents not love you enough?
I’ve told you countless times Kato, he who angers you, controls you.
You’d have done well to learn that lesson when i first taught it to you years ago.
Hope you feel better.
KATO! Did I mention Rodgers? Or DID YOU?
I told ya’ll that this Packer team was for real.
Maybe now you people will start listening to me!!
You might want to sit down for this….
Preston Smith got a sack!! 😲
You heard it here first.
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Meanwhile, late in the 3rd quarter…Rashan Gary made a call to pizza hut and ordered 50 pizza’s for the locker room….to do his part.
Dude, people are sick of your shit. It’s getting old. Only you would be on here complaining making smart ass comments after the Packers (who weren’t supposed to be a playoff team) beat the shit out of the 2 seed. Preston Smith, blah blah blah (he had 8 sacks in the regular season on a $6M cap hit). Meanwhile Armstead on the 49ers had 5 sacks with carrying a $12M cap hit. Grow up. Teams and management aren’t perfect. Sometimes they have players that don’t produce up to their cost. Actually, it happens all the time. Grown ass man crying on a message board finding shit to nit pick. Gary only had 9 sacks. Waaaahhhhhh. The 49ers are paying Bosa more and he finished with 10.5 sacks.
Like MMSUCKS told you recently…FU CK OFF.
I’m not concerned if your feelings get hurt.
Tell your problems to Jesus, maybe he cares, i don’t.
Go continue to cry because you are looking like an idiot for calling Love a wasted draft pick and complaining about the Packers FO being the worst in sports, despite years of evidence in the contrary. Continue being negative despite the Packers beating the unholy piss out of the 2 seed. This was the best playoff performance period for this team since 2010 against the falcons. I honestly feel sorry for you and your God awful misery. Maybe just stop watching football if it makes you thus goddamned miserable
You FU CK off. So sorry you’re heading for 50. I bet you’ve been bitter since 1975.
You gotta take it down a notch or I have to hide the comments from Googlebot and it’s going to make them more of a pain in the ass to use for all of us.
No one wants to read someone talk this way, man. Your passion for the Packers is fine, but you gotta hit the brakes on the verbal abuse.
Don’t upset the children!!
THUS you will make them goddamned miserable
Preston Smith got a sack? The same guy you said we paid too much money for Kevin? We all appreciate you and Cheese keeping tabs on how Gutekunst spends the Packers money. In the meantime this young team wins playoff games.
Can we now say Gutekunst hit a home run with 4th round draft pick Romeo Doubs? Or do you need more time to evaluate Kevin?
Mindful of his three TD performance against the Cowboys last season. Dan Quinn rolled his coverage to Christian Watson. This provided opportunities for everyone else. Yet another example of how stats don’t tell the whole story. I thought the most impressive throw was the TD to Wicks which was reminiscent of the TD throw to Reed the week before.
I work with a boat load of 49er fans and they’re more than just a little worried. Saying, we don’t have enough guys to cover all these Packer receivers. And not a first round pick in the bunch…..
Is this the same Preston Smith who got skunked 10 of 17 regular season games?
If that isn’t worth a 14 million dollar/year average, right Gomer?.
You’re so smart.
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Nothing to say about Rashan Gary?
I’ll help ya 😲😃
In the last 6 games of the season, Gary contributed a .5 sack.
That is one half of one Goober.
Hope that helps.
But before he ordered the pizza’s for all the playmakers of the Packers, for after the game.
Gary did manage to get himself a solo tackle in a playoff game..
A SOLO TACKLE!!!!
GO GET YOU SOME GARY!!!
WOW!!, right?
All that for the low annual average of only 24 million/year.
I’ll say it for you Tommi….
That’s quite a bargain!!
Amirite?
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Not enough guys to cover the Packer receivers, is that what they say Scooter?
What’s…..more than a little worried?
A lot worried?
So entertaining 😁😏🤪😉
You guys should worry more about pulling the fries so they don’t overfry.
Or working as a team unit so the drive thru doesn’t get congested.
But as always, thanks for playing 🥱
While you and Cheese bitch about the roster and salary cap. The youngest team in the NFL just wins playoff games. If Jordan Love upsets the 49ers on Saturday he’ll have accomplished what Aaron Rodgers couldn’t do in your wildest wet dream. Beat San Francisco in the playoffs. The way Jordan Love and this team’s playing, I wouldn’t bet against them. But feel free to complain and embarrass yourself. It’s what you do.
Still don’t want to talk about Gary?
Don’t you know he had a solo tackle to help annihilate the Boys?
Lets give the man his props Nancy.
Pssstt Tommi…..
Rodgers….is no longer with the Packers.
Spread that news around your Trailer Park.
But Gute and MLF are with the Packers.
So what does reality tells us?
What do we have now with the ‘current’ Packers
Gute’s roster is now 0-2 against the 49ers in the playoffs.
MLF is now 0-2 against the 49ers in the playoffs.
Don’t embarrass myself? Lol
Like what you do in every post you submit talking about Rodgers?
As always Scooter,
Thanks for playing.
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Even before the Rodgers/Jets trade was complete, i wrote in here that Tommi will not be able to stop talking about him.
Rodgers has been gone for a full season plus and…..gee whiz…lol
We witness Goobers continued obsession about Rodgers in almost every post he submits.
Ya can’t help but feel sorry for the poor bas tard
After eating Jerry Jones lunch.
We now head to Cali to face the 49ers in the Divisional round.
If we beat them, it’s one game to see who goes to the Super Bowl.
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Didn’t some blowhard want the Packers to tank the season?
Anyone remember that?
Ragnar?
I gotta admit I was on the fence after the 4 game losing streak and seeing my predictions coming true. But even then I thought you gotta give him at least a year. Plus there was no way the Packers were going to end up with a top 1 or 2 pick anyway to give them any choice at a QB.
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But here we are. At some point Love’s accuracy got much, much better, he even said something to the effect that he stopped thinking about it and things changed. He’s exceeded everyone’s expectations. I still say it’s do early to say if the Packers have done it again, but it’s definitely trending that way.
Seeing Skip Clueless melt down was probably one of the most satisfying things to come out of this dub.
fact
Amen!
So far for the “highly succesful” coach. I loved it. Would he be on the other side the Packs probably would lose in the last minute.
This is sort of telling
https://twitter.com/KNBR/status/1747365285668217112?t=biRnLlilr6hseXAIA4eF-g&s=19
What Nick Bosa is telling you is this, we can beat Aaron Rodgers because we’ve done it before. We know exactly where he’s going with the ball and he refuses to be coached. If Nick Bosa is saying that, so are coaches, front office personnel, and other players around the league. It’s the media and his fans that tell each other Rodgers is the greatest that ever lived.
And that’s the beauty of Jordan Love. He throws the ball to everyone and is an extension of great coaching by MLF on the field. You literally have no idea where Love will throw on any play. Meanwhile with Aaron Rodgers it was always going to his select friends. Davante Adams would get 10 to 15 balls. While Lazard and Cobb might split 8 to 10. Rarely throwing to a TE or RB. Always changing run plays to pass. Jordan Love will give us a chance on Saturday where Aaron Rodgers never did.
Meanwhile, back at crazy camp…..
Rodgers is still living in Flip Flops head.
You are a fool . . . Rodgers consistantly threw to Aaron Jones a RB! Duhhh . . .
Some of those replies are so clueless, as usual. How could anyone possibly see that as a diss on Love? That is an absolute compliment towards Love.
Doesn’t mean he can’t improvise, we’ve seem him do that, but he stays in his lane and TRUSTS HIS COACHES. It doesn’t work without trust. Period.
Jason, don’t bother. None of the Packers issues were ever 12s fault. Despite what anyone that knows the position says otherwise. It’s weird how it’s always management’s fault, yet here we are with what seems like another dude at QB and a team that seemingly overachieved and couldn’t make the playoffs last year with golden boy that goes on McAfee and plays victim and talks about getting non football shit out of the building out one side of his mouth, then also talks about a late night host being on pedo Island with zero proof. Yeah, the guy is all business.
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That’s your only response? What are you, 5 years old? I honestly hope they win the super bowl so I can see you in here pitching about certain players and your mental gymnastics
I honestly hope you can find some happiness in your life, so maybe you can stop trying to instigate problems with people, that you seem to enjoy so much.
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Feel better Little Man
Because Nick Bosa hangs out at 1265 Lombardi avenue and sits in on the film and game planning meetings.
So he knows …….
No PF4L. Anyone with a modicum of understanding knows Rodgers often played outside of play structures unnecessarily last year, and really, it started during 2021. Yeah, he won MVP, that’s cool, and that shit works when you have a HOF WR playing shitty corners. It doesn’t work when you play legit nfl DBs and smart defensive coordinators, that know Rodgers tends to abandon plays as they are drawn up and do shit his way. When you don’t have a HOF WR, and have average guys at the position, surprise that shit don’t work. I don’t know how many breakdowns I saw of all 22 film where you clearly can tell Rodgers wasn’t going through progressions. Literally all the time where there was an obvious route concept side of the formation he would look away from it too quickly. That’s what Nick Bosa is referring to. Love plays a lot more within the scheme, whereas 12 did whatever. Sometimes it worked great. Unfortunately in 2022, it ended with him rolling his eyes a lot. Weird how much more successful the offense was this year in virtually every metric
JFC Little man…..
You watched the all 22’s?
Congrats….You want a cookie?
Tell me, who gives a F?….Rodgers is gone, why do you children need to live in the past?
Can’t you just enjoy this season and these playoff games without making Rodgers the center of conversation.
Bosa said this about Rodgers…….
I watched Rodgers 22’s……..
Rodgers was selfish……..
Rodgers didn’t go through his progressions…..
Rodgers won MVP’s because he played shitty corners……..
Waa Waa Waa Waa 😭🍼👶🏻
Fk’n A…HE’S GONE…GROW UP
No response to your constant whining?…shocking
So, really, you don’t understand why i post these referring to you?
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Kato, I don’t understand why you whine and cry that people have opinions, and voice them.
ISN’T that why there are football forums, to voice opinions?
If you don’t agree with them cupcake, you CAN’T just act like a PETULENT child crying foul for every opinion you don’t like.
Thanks for trying to be a big boy and understand.
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https://twitter.com/ByRyanWood/status/1747748154714300882?t=biOQ47oxmVBHQpyoym_AHw&s=19
I mean…….
That is teamwork poetry.
https://x.com/totalpackers/status/1746718676970061976
Keep forgetting Ryan has the TP twitter account blocked, lol
Jeff Saturday has said on multiple occasions now that Mike McCarthy would call plays and Aaron Rodgers would roll his eyes in the huddle and say, I’m not doing that and proceed to run whatever the hell he wanted. It was Mark Murphy who said after the Rodgers trade, we’re finally going to see what Matt LaFleur’s offense looks like. What you’re hearing from Nick Bosa is right in line with what NFL players and coaches in the know have been saying for a while now. Aaron Rodgers is his own worst enemy and refuses to be coached.
What it tells me is Rodgers never needed a second WR. What Rodgers needed to do was trust his HC, buy into his system, and have faith in the process. Rodgers could never do that. His ego just wouldn’t allow it. Because no one is smarter than he is. But this puts responsibility on him for his playoff failures and his clueless fans will have none of it. They have to look for someone to blame.
Meanwhile Jordan Love, after three years on the bench and finally shaking the rust off, is showing us what the Kyle Shanahan/Sean McVey/Matt LaFleur offense can do. It’s been pretty impressive. We got the QB, the HC, and the GM right. Mark Murphy is gonna leave this organization the way he found it. In great shape! And we can all thank him for it. Most of us will anyway….
Dak Prescott ran all Mike McCarthy called plays.
They looked pretty good!! 👍😁💯😲
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Sidenote: Princess….Any chance you can talk about Rodgers more?
Jones is keeping McCarthy. I am going to start betting on this stuff.
I don’t know football as well as most of you, but I know human psychology and predicting behavior in the NFL is fish in a barrel stuff.
Let’s talk about Brian Gutekunst Kevin. I’m sure you and Cheese agree with me now what a great GM he is. You can’t say enough good things about Jordan Love. Not only is he a great young QB. But Packers fans have embraced him. He’s no diva, no thug, just a fine young man we all can be proud of. And he’s ours thanks to Brian Gutekunst.
Let’s talk about all these receivers. Watson, Doubs, Reed, Wicks, Musgrave, Kraft. Any one of them are primed to be the hero. It changes week to week because they’re all so good. That’s 5 pass catchers in a row Gutekunst hit on in the last two drafts.
Let’s talk about 7th round draft pick LT Rasheed Walker who’s making everyone forget about David Bakhtiari. Or 5th round draft pick RT Zach Tom. It wasn’t that long ago you clowns were saying Gutekunst couldn’t draft past the second round. And Rasheed Walker isn’t the only 7th round starter.
Let talk CB Carrington Valentine. Another 7th round pick that’s playing so well Gutekunst was able to trade Rasul Douglas. How about that DL of Davante Wyatt, Colby Wooden, Karl Brooks, and TJ Slayton. Or pass rushers Preston Smith, Rashan Gary, and Lukas Van Ness. Who all make Dak Prescott their bitch last Sunday.
This is the team that Gutekunst build. And he’s not done girls. He’s got another 5 picks in the top 100 on this year’s draft.
Let’s talk Mark Murphy who had only two things to get right as team President. Hire the right GM and hire the right coach. Murphy nailed them both. Murphy will go down as beloved a team president as Bob Harlan. Because Jordan Love/Matt LaFleur/Brian Gutekunst are going to win more championships than Rodgers ever did. You can bet your unemployment check on it.
So, what should they have done Scooter, tank the season?
Isn’t that what you said as ‘acting football forum Packer General Manager’?
I love you guys!! 😁