All of the Inexperienced Bay Packers wanted to beat the Dallas Cowboys was a bit of little bit of Love and a touch of Jones.
Jordan Love and Aaron Jones gave the Packers a bit greater than that en path to a 48-32 throttling of the Cowboys of their NFC wild-card sport on Sunday. Love had three landing passes and Jones ran for 3. Darnell Savage additionally had a pick-six within the win.
The Packers began off sizzling when Jones ran for his first landing with 7:08 to go within the first quarter. It appeared as if the sport might evolve right into a slugfest. However after just a few stops and a few turnovers, the Packers had been up 27-0 within the blink of a watch.
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Jones scored his second landing early within the second quarter. It was adopted by a 20-yard landing go from Like to Dontayvion Wicks. Savage then returned a Dak Prescott interception 64 yards for a landing.
Dallas acquired into the tip zone on a Prescott landing go to Jake Ferguson to chop the deficit to twenty factors earlier than the primary half was over.
Jones and Love continued their tear within the second half. Jones scored his third landing with 6:38 left within the third and Love had his second landing go with 1:27 left when he discovered a wide-open Luke Musgrave, who ran for a 38-yard rating. Love threw his third landing go to Romeo Doubs within the fourth.
Love was 16 of 21 with 272 passing yards. Jones ran for 118 yards.
Doubs led all receivers with six catches for 151 yards. Musgrave had three catches for 52 yards. Wicks added two catches for 25 yards.
Dallas did its highest to get again into the sport. Prescott threw two extra landing passes to Ferguson nevertheless it was too little too late.
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Prescott had 403 passing yards, three landing passes and two interceptions. Tony Pollard ran for 52 yards and a landing. Ferguson had 10 catches for 93 yards. CeeDee Lamb had 9 catches on 18 targets for 110 yards.
The Cowboys hadn’t misplaced a sport at house since Sept. 11, 2022, towards the Tom Brady-led Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The staff got here in because the favorites after ending the 12 months with a top-five protection and ranked first in factors scored and fifth in yards gained.
The staff sputtered out of the gate and will by no means get proper. A Prescott interception to Jaire Alexander, which arrange a Jones landing to make it 14-0, took the wind out of their sails early.
Dallas has didn’t make the convention championship every season since 1995. It’s additionally the final time they gained a Tremendous Bowl.
Inexperienced Bay, which completed 9-8 and eked into the playoffs, have gained a playoff sport with a quarterback not named Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers since Lynn Dickey led the staff to a 41-16 win towards the St. Louis Cardinals in 1983.
The Packers are the primary No. 7 seed to win a sport because the playoffs expanded to incorporate seven groups from every convention 4 years in the past. They subsequent hit the highway to play the San Francisco 49ers within the divisional spherical.
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