BAD NEWS: Green Bay lose championship…
Green Bay Packers’ first-half surge stuns Dallas Cowboys in wildcard playoffs.
Jordan Love threw three touchdown passes, Aaron Jones ran for three more, and Darnell Savage returned an interception 64 yards for a score as the Green Bay Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 48-32 in a wildcard game on Sunday.
Dallas had won their previous 16 regular-season home games, but they have now allowed the most points in a playoff game in the club’s history. The previous high was 38.
The Cowboys, who haven’t won an NFC championship since the most recent of their five Super Bowl victories 28 years ago, had never trailed by more than eight points at AT&T Stadium this season until falling down 27-0 in the first half.
The loss may raise doubts about Dallas coach Mike McCarthy’s future, after the Cowboys lost their playoff opener at home for the second time in three postseasons under the former Green Bay Packers coach.
Dallas is the only club to win at least 12 games in three straight postseason seasons without qualifying for a conference.
Romeo Doubs had a career-high 151 receiving yards a week after being hospitalized with a chest ailment, and the Packers won Love’s playoffs debut after going 6-2 and securing the NFC’s last playoff place.
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Dak Prescott tossed two turnovers before three meaningless touchdown passes, resulting in another postseason disaster for the quarterback and the Cowboys (12-6).
Facing the NFL’s fifth-best defense, Green Bay matched their Super Bowl-winning team from 2010 for the most points in a playoff game. That was also on the road, a 48-21 victory at top-seeded Atlanta in the divisional round.
Doubs, who returned to the Green Bay sideline after his hospital trip before the end of last week’s 17-9 home victory over Chicago that secured a playoff spot, had 102 yards at halftime. It was seven more than the second-year player’s previous best.
Love completed 16 of 21 passes for 272 yards as the Packers scored touchdowns on six of their first seven offensive attempts in their highest-scoring game since 2014.
One of those was set up by Prescott’s first interception at the Dallas 19-yard line from Jaire Alexander, who was doubtful coming in after spraining his ankle earlier in the week.
Doubs’ 46-yard grab early in the second half helped finish off the Cowboys, who had scored 10 points on either side of the break. Doubs, Luke Musgrave, and Dontayvion Wicks recorded touchdown receptions.
Jones carried for 118 yards, surpassing the century mark in all four career games against the Cowboys, and scored nine touchdowns.
