Packers power up on Dallas

“Alabama coach Nick Saban told Packers only way to change Eddie Lacy behavior is take (the) game away from him”, Werder said.

“Every week is a fight, it’s a different challenge”. They had two three-and-outs later in the game, which wasted stands by the defense and wore them out in the long run.

No matter who is calling the plays for the Green Bay Packers, their offense remains inconsistent. The defense had some good plays throughout the half, but the disparity in possession time and plays run just overwhelmed them.

“I think when you are at Lambeau Field you are going to have some cold games and some bad weather game, so you have to be able to run the ball”. Shields would leave the game in the second quarter for evaluation of a concussion when he tumbled out of bounds near the Dallas bench.

The Packers (9-4) have a one-game lead in the NFC North over Minnesota after their second straight victory. Cassel displayed sub-Peyton arm drive, and so little accuracy it was hard to believe he was the best the Cowboys had to offer with their season on the line.

“That just brings energy”, left guard Josh Sitton said of Lacy’s powerful runs.

Lacy and Starks each had touchdown runs in the fourth quarter during the rainy evening.

Today’s’ game involves two teams who are each coming off emotional, late comeback wins: the Packers with the Motown Miracle, the Cowboys with a win Monday at Washington with 17 points scored in the final few minutes.

Dallas got back into the game in short order in the third, driving 80 yards on only 4 plays, all on the ground.

Previously, Bryant appeared to make an incredible touchdown grab against the Packers in the divisional round of last season’s playoffs, only to have the call overturned.

“It is what it is, man. When they called it incomplete, it was incomplete”, Bryant said. Lacy barrelled for 124 yards on 24 carries and a touchdown, a week after he was benched for missing curfew in Detroit. A week after catching his 1,000th career pass, Dallas TE Jason Witten played in his 200th consecutive game….

Rodgers moved the Packers down the field easily to go up 14-0 on a 3-yard pass from Rodgers to tight end Richard Rodgers to cap an 11-play, 81-yard drive. The Packers piled up 230 rushing yards, the most in McCarthy’s tenure and the most in 11 years, on a whopping 44 carries. Yeldon also caught a 1-yard pass and made a tackle.

The Packers ran out the clock from there.

That was it for Green Bay’s offense until a 12-play, 84-yard drive in the fourth that ended with a 30-yard touchdown run from Starks on second-and-25. “I just wish I never put gloves on in the first place”.

Damarious Randall simply had to step in for Sam Shields, the veteran cornerback who has been defending very well all season, and who did so very well in the first quarter against Dallas.