The true test will come on Saturday when Green Bay travels to Arizona to face the 5 ranked team in total defense. “I said this week, it just takes one – one performance to get us going back in the right direction and believing we can make a run”.
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The Green Bay Packers rebounded from a late-season stumble with an impressive road victory over the Washington Redskins in the opening round of the playoffs on Sunday.
The thing about success is it needs to be sustained for it to mean a damn thing, though. “Don’t know a whole lot about it. So we’ll see how it goes”. They’ll look to exploit a defense that has had issues covering the middle of the field, and what better way to do so than with a duo of receivers that have topped 1,000 yards receiving with Larry Fitzgerald and John Brown.
McCarthy said Bakhtiari, who missed his third straight game with a left ankle injury, was “getting better”.
Opinion: With a guy like Aaron Rodgers, a two-time NFL MVP, at quarterback, you need to let him air out the football.
Green Bay won at Washington 35-18 on Sunday to earn a rematch with the Cardinals after losing 38-8 at Arizona on December 27. Aaron Rodgers has looked shell shocked and scared for parts of this year.
When Rodgers is rolling and feeling good, the Packers are hard to stop.
But a thrilling victory against the Redskins in the wild card round should at least make the formidable Cardinals worry a bit. Realistically, any team that has Aaron Rodgers has an advantage at the quarterback position.
But they won’t expect a one-sided affair over the Green Bay Packers like the previous time they met. After that, Rodgers was safe in the pocket.
They have the same amount on the line as the Cardinals.
“We know what happened last time, ” Packers nose tackle B.J. Raji said.
The Seattle Seahawks rallied to beat the Minnesota Vikings in frigid conditions 10-9, while the Green Bay Packers rolled over the Washington Redskins 35-18 in the National Football Conference wild card playoff games over the weekend.
Having a balanced offense will be important in the game against the Cardinals.
He finished with a modest 210 yards through the air, but threw for two scores and was the catalyst for Green Bay scoring their most points since Week 3. The Packers also mixed it up by putting Randall Cobb in the backfield, which didn’t really have major effects, but it was a good idea.
One of the more curious stories to play out at the end of the regular season was the pedestrian play of the once potent Green Bay offense.
Kurt Warner had more touchdown passes (five) than incompletions (four), completing 29 of 33 for 379 yards with no interceptions.
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The play of the Packers’ offensive line was evident to Cardinals coach Bruce Arians. The Packers won’t go down without a fight.
