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Well… that was certainly a football game. In what should have been a get-right game to head into the bye with heads held high, the Green Bay Packers found themselves in a shootout against a Ceedee Lamb-less Dallas Cowboys team with an abysmal defense. Dak Prescott’s drive after drive spoiled Micah Parsons’ return to Dallas, as the Packers’ back end failed to hold up their end of the bargain. And once defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt exited the game in the second quarter? Well, things got worse! And as if that wasn’t enough, the Packers chipped in some vintage clock mismanagement and a bit of special teams tomfoolery to ruin Parsons’ homecoming.
While there will surely be a swath of pundits and fans going full Chicken Little as 2 weeks without Packers football approach, below you’ll find some fun numbers! So sit back, relax, and check out the stats of the game for Week 4.
Hang. The. Banner. An embarrassing tie will not stop me from pointing out that the Packers are still undefeated in AT&T Stadium. On Sunday night, Green Bay moved to 5-0-1 against the Cowboys in Jerry World, and 6-0-1 all-time, including Super Bowl XLV. Fellow Packers fans who don’t remember the ’90s, let’s try not to take this for granted.
The 40-40 tie was the highest scoring tie of the Super Bowl era, but push that criteria back a few years and you find the 43-43 pre-merger barn burner between the Oakland Raiders and the Boston Patriots. Oh, to be a fly on the wall of Fenway in 1964…
Jordan Love was phenomenal on Sunday night. Thanks in part to an overly conservative game plan, Love completed 28 of 28 passes thrown fewer than 10 yards downfield. With a banged-up offensive line that couldn’t even hold its own against a poor Dallas pass rush, Love stayed calm and made smart decisions throughout the night.
That’s all for this week’s Stats of the Game! Be sure to check back after Week 6 to go behind the numbers again.
