ARLINGTON, Texas — Jordan Love threw three touchdowns, Aaron Jones scored three more, Darnell Savage returned an interception 64 yards for a score and the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys. They suffered their first home loss since the opening game of 2022, 48-32. Shocking Sunday for the Wild Card.
After finishing the regular season 6-2, the Packers clinched the NFC's final playoff berth with a win in Love's postseason debut, and one week after being hospitalized with a chest injury, Romeo Dubs He recorded a career-high 151 yards receiving and clinched the NFC's final playoff berth.
Green Bay (10-8) will visit top-seeded San Francisco next weekend in the regional round.
Dak Prescott had another playoff flop in the playoffs against the second-seeded Cowboys (12-6), throwing three mostly empty touchdown passes after throwing two interceptions. .
Dallas had won 16 regular-season home games, but is currently allowing the most points in a single game in the club's postseason history.
The previous high was 38.
The Cowboys, who have not reached the NFC Championship since the most recent of their five Super Bowl victories 28 years ago, have never trailed by more than eight points at AT&T Stadium this season and are 27-0 at the half. I was defeated and at a disadvantage.
The loss will put Dallas coach Mike McCarthy's future in question, as the Cowboys lost their playoff opener at home for the second time in three postseason games under the former Green Bay coach. .
Dallas becomes the first team to win at least 12 games in three consecutive playoff seasons without appearing in a conference title game.
The Packers have never lost in six trips to AT&T Stadium, including the Super Bowl against Pittsburgh during the 2010 season.
They have won twice in the playoffs against the Cowboys since Aaron Rodgers led them to a 34-31 division title when Dallas was the NFC's top seed in 2016, Prescott's rookie year.
The Packers blew a 21-3 lead. These Packers, featuring the heirs of a four-time MVP, left little doubt as they led 48-16 in the fourth quarter before Dallas scored two second-half TDs.
Playing against Green Bay, which boasts the fifth-best defense in the NFL, it tied the 2010 Super Bowl champion team for the most points in a playoff game. It also included a 48-21 victory over top-seeded Atlanta in the regional round.
The Dubs returned from the hospital to the Green Bay sideline before the end of last week's home game against Chicago, which clinched a playoff berth, and had 102 yards at halftime. He beat the previous best for a sophomore player by seven points.
First-half catches of 22, 26 and 39 yards set the tone for Love, as the fourth-year QB scored touchdowns on seven of his first eight drives in the Packers' highest-scoring game since 2014. completed 16 of 21 for 272 yards.
One of those was made by Prescott's first interception at the Dallas 19-yard line from Jaire Alexander, who was out this week with a sprained ankle.
Dubs' 46-yard grab early in the second half ended the Cowboys scoring 10 points on either side of the break. Dubs, Luke Musgrave and Dontavion Wicks had TD catches.
Jones rushed for 118 yards and scored nine touchdowns in all four career games against the Cowboys, eclipsing the century mark.
On a frigid day, the crowd under a retractable roof in the Dallas area was already stone-cold silent when Prescott tried to throw a slant to top receiver CeeDee Lamb.
Savage, who appeared without an interception in the regular season for the first time in his five-year career, got in front and just kept going, leading 27-0 with 1:50 left in the half.
Prescott completed 41 of 60 for 403 yards and all three touchdowns to tight end Jake Ferguson.
