Divisional Round
Sunday January 15th, 2017 @ 3:40PM CST

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Green Bay Packers ( 10 - 6 )
[list]Total Offense = 8th
Passing Offense = 7th
Rushing Offense = 20th

Total Defense = 22nd
Passing Defense = 31st
Rushing Defense = 8th

Points For = 27.0 (4th)
Points Against = 24.2 (21st)[/list]



Dallas Cowboys ( 13 - 3 )
[list]Total Offense = 5th
Passing Offense = 23rd
Rushing Offense = 2nd

Total Defense = 14th
Passing Defense = 26th
Rushing Defense = 1st

Points For = 26.3 (5th)
Points Against = 19.1 (5th)[/list]

Edit by Zero, Passing Defense ranking was wrong as pointed out by comment below.

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If we continue to play mistake free, then we can beat anyone. We just beat the 2nd run defense in the league, and if our offense gets into a rhythm, then we can definitely beat the 1st, especially if we cause some turnovers.

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If the Packers can actually apply pressure to the QB without rushing 6 or even 7, then they'll win.

27-24 Packers

Using Zero rankings, Cowboys were 4th and Packers were 12th overall through entire 2016 regular season.

Same rankings over last four regular season games.
Cowboys are 8th overall, 16th in offense and 8th in defense.
Packers are 2nd overall, 2nd in offense and 15th in defense.


Cowboys went 2 - 2 the final four games.

Green Bay is 4 - 4 on road.
Cowboys are 7 - 1 at home.

Packers have won 4 of last 5 meetings. The loss came this past October.

All time series is tied at 17 a piece.

It was a helluva run ... but ...

Cowboys 23
Packers 17

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Zero the ETERNAL PESSIMIST picked the Cowboys. Time to pull out your life's savings and bet on the Packers in this one, folks.

betting sites only have the cowgirls down -4.5 thats not that bad ... meaning for a homegame they always give -3 so they are basically spotting the cowgirls 1.5 points or I should say GB ...

seabirds are +5 also ... I like our chances better then the hawks ... they really sucked when they played us and if it were not for the refs in the lions game not sure they would of won. I think I saw 4 calls at least not called or called in favor of the birds that game.

chiefs are -1.5 at home ... if I were a betting man (and I am) this is a bet I like. Like the chiefs this year.

crap odds on with the superbowl thou - I dont like to bet unless I get better then 15-1 odds (more fun) ...
Im temped to take a parley with the chiefs and packers winning straight up and then taking the spread on the falcons.

9.99 - 1 with the pack even, falcons -5, and chiefs - 1.5 ...

anyways this is about the dallas gb game ... GB going to take em down - will be great 🙂 28-17

gunter got scorched many times in week 6 against the cowboys. got burned n the wildcard game last weekend too but the wr dropped a td ball.
unless his play picks up significantly the cowboys will put up 30+ again...

I'm not questioning the rankings shown here but statistically I sure don't see where Dallas is ranked 14th in pass D vs GB at 31.
GB gave up 41 more passing yards TOTAL for the year.
Dallas has a higher completion rate (67.5 vs 64.9) allowed. The second worse completion rate allowed in the league.
GB has 17 INT's on the year vs. 9 for the Boys.
Dallas has given up more 1st downs passing than GB
GB has given up 32 TD's passing vs 25 for Dallas so there is that.... But then again NY allowed the second lowest passing TD's in the league at 15 and we all saw how much good that did for them. I would also note that GB gave up 12 passing TD's during that horrendous 4 game losing streak when they had no CB's for the most part.

All I'm getting at is Dallas is not any better against the pass than we are and in many categories worse. NY was a far better team against the pass and ARod ate their lunch. I expect to see him have a huge day Sunday. I think Prescott will throw for a TD and Elliot will run for a couple.
It won't be enough
GB 31
Dallas 24

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Dak Prescott interception.

35-24, Green Bay wins

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