Posted on 01/15/2024 6:58:47 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Aaron Jones grew up idolizing Emmitt Smith and the Cowboys.
The Green Bay running back found a new, and most painful, way to torment the all-time rushing leader's former team.
Jones ran for three touchdowns, Jordan Love threw for three more in his postseason debut, Darnell Savage returned an interception 64 yards for a score and the Packers handed the Cowboys their first home loss since the '22 opener in a 48-32 wild-card stunner Sunday.
“This was my dad’s team,” Jones, who shared a moment with Smith before the game and now has 488 yards in four career games against the Cowboys, said of his late father. “You always want to be like your father, so that’s how it became my team. Dallas is a special place to me, so it’s a full-circle moment.”
Even against a team that had won 16 consecutive home games.
Green Bay (10-8) will visit top-seeded San Francisco in the divisional round next weekend.
Dak Prescott threw two interceptions before three mostly empty touchdown passes in another playoff flop for him and the No. 2 seed Cowboys (12-6).
The first home loss for the Cowboys since now-retired Tom Brady and Tampa Bay beat them 16 months ago was also the most points the franchise has allowed in a postseason game. The previous high was 38.
The Cowboys, who haven’t reached an NFC championship game since the most recent of their five Super Bowl titles 28 years ago, didn’t trail by more than eight points at AT&T Stadium this season before falling behind 27-0 in the first half.
The loss will raise questions about the future of Dallas coach Mike McCarthy after the Cowboys lost their playoff opener at home for the second time in three postseasons under the former Green Bay coach.
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IIRC Belichick did get them to the playoffs when he was there.
I’m not a Packers fan but I love watching the Cowboys lose. Speaking of which, this new Packers QB has some serious skills. As I watched, I was reminded of Tom Brady. He read the defensive set and checked off, issued audibles and did it with great effect. He’s like Brady with wheels. I hope he stays healthy. He has a great future. Aaron who?
Classic Tramp Game.
Today....waiting to see what happens in the Buffalo Ice Rink game and who the Chiefs will play!
(Sister is in Racine, nephews in Milwaukee....I should call my brother in Iron Mountain and hear what he has to say!)
I will say this about the Packers- their management has had a knack, over the years, for picking great quarterbacks- Bart Starr, Favre, Rogers, and now Jordan Love.
I have a great picture of Dak that I wish I knew how to post
Cowboys need to replace their General Manager Jerry Jones.
...at the golf course?
A classic case where they should do like in soccer and show the halftime score along with the final score to show the dominance.
LeFluer >>> Rodgers
New owner? Maybe if all Dallas fans put up 1,000 bucks they could afford to buy the team.
*** People quickly forgot that the Lions actually won that game and failed to factor that loss into prognostications about Dallas in the play offs. They were in trouble and that ref helped hide it.***
My husband chuckled when’s he heard me yell at the tv that I knew who really won the game between the Lions and the Cowboys. It was exactly as you said. A ref helped hide that.
Packers have had 33 starting qbs since their inception..so about 12 percent of their qbs were “great”....if you assume Love is gonna be great...if not it’s 3/33 which is less than 10% great. I do like their uniforms colors, their history of sound football, and their ownership model.
I do. I hate the Ravens but damn they’re good.
Yes, they absolutely did. I’m happy it didn’t work.
Brutally hilarious!
Ugh, that’s almost as annoying as the KC fight song and Tay Tay.
“The 49ers and the Ravens will meet in the super bowl.”
It doesn’t take any special voodoo to see that.
or owner?
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