The Big Party Begins with Mike McCarthy’s Team as Second Seed

The table is served with the places already assigned.

The big party begins with Mike McCarthy’s team as the second seed, behind a San Francisco 49ers who take the bye in this first round of wild card games.

On the NFC side, everything begins this Sunday at the edge of 3:30 pm central time with the famous visit of the legendary Green Bay Packers to the arena in Arlington. The evening has the Rams visiting the Lions in a duel of old acquaintances, while on Monday the Eagles visit the Buccaneers in Tampa Bay.

After this day, things take flight with the divisional games session and those who survive reach the National Conference Championship game, thus competing for the ticket to Super Bowl LVIII to take place on February 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Snowfall.

For McCarthy, seeing again the team he took to Super Bowl XLV in 2011 in a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers precisely at AT&T Stadium has him turning this page in his long career in the NFL. During the week he declared that on this occasion he took the bull by the horns and completely buried the sentimentality and attachment to whatever those years with Brett Favre and Aaron Rogers were.

That was then, this is now.

For the Cowboys franchise, born in 1960, the championship games at the Cotton Bowl and Lambeau Field, before the current NFL merger, came after seasons with the pains and disappointments of an expansion team that suddenly He found himself in the foreground before the tenants of the city known as “Titletown” under the tutelage of one Vince Lombardi.

Today’s Packers arrive as the seventh seed with their record of 9-8 having won six of their last eight games to strike out their card to their respective place. Within this series of victories is a 29-22 in Detroit, another 27-19 at home against Pat Mahomes’ Chiefs and consecutive victories against divisional rivals Vikings and Bears by scores of 33-10 and 17-9 respectively, to close the regular season.

AT&T Stadium expects a raucous crowd and the fans present have been asked to dress in white to show off an angelic tide to welcome what could be two, or even three home games, if this continues in good path and someone can give San Francisco the lethal trip in their long-awaited divisional duel.

The Cowboys come in as the offense five overall, 14th in rushing and three with passing. The blue-silver defense is number five in the league, 16th against the run and five against the pass. For their part, those in green-yellow arrive with the eleventh total offense, fifteen with the carry and twelve when raising the pass. They are the 17th defense in the league, 28th against the run and ninth against the pass.

With the odds favoring the hosts by up to 7.5 points, let’s get to the five keys to the game for the 39th matchup, now including nine in the postseason, for this version of Cowboys-Packers.

2024-01-12 18:30:50
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