Recipe for victory: Home, Dome, Dome, Dome!!!!
On last drive McCarthy/Rodgers were reckless; they should have kneeled three times, called a TO and let Mason boot the 93 yard FG.
Josh Hawkins played a great game! He played LCB in Dime after Burnett went down. They moved Randall to slot and Hyde played typically an ILB-type position, when Hawkins came in. Dallas only threw at him once and that was caught by Williams on a 24 yard deep-In on Dallas’ last drive. Hawkins was a yard off of Williams, so this was average coverage, but he used his speed to close and hit Williams as ball arrived. He had 4-5 snaps in 2Q, so before halftime they knew Hawkins was playing LCB during half-tome adjustments. There is no doubt they discussed exploiting Josh and Dak looked his way several times; but once, ONLY ONCE, did they throw in his direction. He had his WRs blanketed.
Clark played his best game and was close to dominant. He is now the starter over Guion. 11:33 1Q, He pushed Martin back into Prescott, to help cause INC on 3rd and 2 just before Dallas’ 1st FG. At 5:55 1Q he manhandled Leary pushing him back to Prescott as well. At 4:21 2Q GB was in base and he played 0 tech NT; he was d-teamed by Frederick and Martin and he was pushed back about 1.5 yards, as Elliot went by he was able to separate and grab and drag him down for 5 yrd gain, this result is better than normal given the quality of the Dallas Players involved. 1:19 2Q, he drove Leary back into Prescott causing pass to be airmailed. At 1:14 2Q, Dallas D-teamed Clark instead of Daniels, Clark got no penetration but timed his jump perfect to try to knock down pass, which was too high for him to do so. At 5:54 3Q Frederick couldn’t execute a reach block and Clark penetrated 1.5 yards into backfield, had Elliot, but missed tackle. At 1:48 in 3Q Clark was brilliant not only sniffing the screen, but tackling Elliot 1 on 1. 13:50 4Q he held his ground on d-team allowing Perry to stuff a Elliot run. 13:10 4Q he alertly prevented Prescott from scrambling right, when Prescott turned back Perry got a sack. 9:14 4Q GB in base, he’s playing 0tech NT, play goes GB left, he is engaged by Frederick, but Clark moved left 3-4 yards tracking Zeke without giving ground all the while engaging Frederick, Clark came off Frederick to make tackle, not sure how Elliot fell for 4 yards, but this was the play of a allpro NT and most of his other plays were in the 3 tech. Ted got a monster in Clark.
Saw Brice make 3 nice plays, one tackling Zeke by himself 3:38 2Q for no gain and made a nice break and track on the ball on the dropped INT dropped. Also made a nice open field tackle sticking it to Beasley, dumping him on his head. W/o the All-22 it hard to evaluate safety play. Saw him make one misstep v NYG that led to OBJ being wide open on GB’s left sideline, but Manning over threw. At 1:19 2Q he picked-up Witten on pass off from Ryan like he’d been doing it for years. At 5:54 3Q Brice was in run support and had contain and he followed the flow inside rather than executing his assignment, which led to 9 yard gain.
On D. Randall, who had a pretty bad game, one of the things that separates the men from the boys is being able to play well when injured. Randall may be one of those guys that is a stud only when feeling 100%.