The teams will look to ride the momentum of those stirring wins when they meet at Lambeau Field on Sunday.
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The Dallas Cowboys are headed back to Lambeau field to take on the Green Bay Packers.
Can Dallas pull off the upset? The ball is in a good spot. Green Bay won 27-23.
Last week Dallas pulled out an improbably 19-16 MNF win against the Redskins by driving for the winning field goal with less than a minute left on the clock, shortly after they surrendered the tying touchdown.
For the fifth time in the last six games, Green Bay struggled to get things going offensively and failed to enter halftime with the lead.
A pair of fourth quarter touchdown runs by the Packers-a 30-yarder from James Starks and a one-yarder by Eddie Lacy-provided the dagger, sending the Cowboys to 4-9 on the season.
It was the kind of performance Vince Lombardi would have been proud of, and it was a big, needed win for a Packers team trying to win its 5th Lombardi.
COMPLETING THE CATCH: This will be the first meeting between the teams since the Packers’ 26-21 win in the NFC divisional playoff round in January. The Cowboys need everyone in their secondary healthy and ready to play against Aaron Rodgers. This is very uncharacteristic for the Green Bay Packers.
Aaron Rodgers will take advantage of failed blitzes and burn the Cowboys repeatedly making for a long day. The 25-year-old has seen a significant dip in production with just 517 rushing yards on 127 carries and two touchdowns. To those people, I’d say pump your brakes, and let’s focus on Sunday’s game. “We’ve got to build on some of the stuff we did in the second half last week, and be more consistent”.
The Green Bay offense was bolstered Wednesday by the return to practice of rookie receiver Ty Montgomery, who has been out for a month with an ankle injury. The Cowboys should use a lot of press coverage. On the play after Shields exited the game, Cassel went after Randall by hitting Bryant for a 28-yard catch down the middle, but the reception was overturned by replay review since the football touched the ground as Bryant came down with it. An ineffective Cassel was a woeful 13-of-29 for 114 yards and no touchdowns with a dismal passer rating of 41.5.
The Green Bay Packers are certainly not the team we expected them to be. In all, Green Bay finished with 230 rushing yards total. Lucky Whitehead has shown some good flashes of what he can do with the ball in recent games and Terrance Williams was once known for taking it to the house at times.
One player in particular that needs to be utilized more on offense is wide receiver Cole Beasley.
The Packer need more out of the running game. There’s another one coming his way on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, in Dallas’ Dez Bryant.
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With no Murray in the backfield to help, the Cowboys running game is nowhere near what it was last year, and with guys like Cassel playing quarterback, they’ve managed to accumulate a league-worst minus-14 differential in giveaways/takeaways this year.
