Best prop bets for Falcons vs. Packers in NFC Championship Game

Falcons fever is sweeping metro Atlanta and just one team, the Green Bay Packers, stands in the way of a trip to the big game in Houston.

The Falcons enter the game on a five-game winning streak. So it’s a mystery to me why I chose to go with the old Ghost of Lombardi magic spell and predict that Green Bay will find a way to win one more on the road, 24-20. This is going to be a tough game for the Packers because their defense isn’t very strong, but they could still win. “That’s both sides of the ball, both teams [and] their run games, [the] protection”. This is the one game I want Ed to be right on more than any this season because I’ve been rooting for Anybody But The Patriots since they clinched the AFC East. After catching 30 passes for 377 yards and one touchdown during the regular season, he made his biggest splash of the season last week, catching six passes for 104 yards in a divisional round win over the Dallas Cowboys. It’s no coincidence that Brady turned in his worst performance of the season last week, matching his interception total from the previous 12 games combined.

It’s the final National Football League game ever in the Georgia Dome, as the Falcons are moving to a new stadium next fall.

The Packers went a modest 5-4 on the road this season, and three of their wins were against teams who finished with losing records.

Green Bay has Eddie Lacy and James Starks on the shelf with injuries, so it will turn to Ty Montgomery, who did not play when these two teams met in late-October. This game being in the Georgia Dome is a huge advantage for Atlanta.

The Falcons wouldn’t have the playoffs any other way. I think Rodgers tops 300 yards, gets 4 TDs, 0 INTs and shreds the Falcons defense. Both times Green Bay won the game that mattered. In his first practice, Cook caught just about everything Rodgers threw his way that summer night, including several down-the-seam throws that had been largely absent since the career-ending neck injury tight end Jermichael Finley suffered in October 2013. The Packers run defense will need to mirror what they did in the first half of the season to stop Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman. But the Packers wouldn’t have survived without two clutch kicks from Mason Crosby.

The Green Bay Packers are looking strikingly similar to their 2011 championship team when everything came together at the right time. They’ll challenge the Falcons to defend all of those offensive weapons. “I asked people, and they said ‘That’s the loudest I’ve ever heard the dome.’ That fired me up to know we are going to bring the same energy as they are”.