"Hearing “Go Pack Go” chants permeate throughout the stadium while the Packers scored touchdown after touchdown was akin to the most glorious dream one could have."

Awesome! From JJ's halftime rant to cut aways of stunned and dejected Cowpoke fans, couldn't ask for a better beat down.

I think it is also fair to say that the Packer's at this point are as healthy as they have been all season. Having Aaron Jones back at full strength Is huge! As with a number of other players. In addition, quietly without fanfare our WR corp is one of the best in the league. The health , the offense, the defense and the coaches deserve credit long overdue. It is now safe to mention the Green Bay Packers as legitimate Superbowl contenders. Who would have thought that only a few weeks ago!

Mike McCarthy is a high character guy. He is a good OC. As a HC, not so much. He is now 10-10 in the playoffs.

Does anyone believe MM has any control of, influence on, or sway over Dan Quinn and the D? STs?

Matt is much in the same mold. He focuses on Offense and he too is good at it.

When was the last time the Packers had a HC in the mold of John Harbaugh who coaches the entire roster?

The Packers offense, at this point, resembles a rock rolling downhill. It just keeps building more momentum and it's getting harder to stop. Unless you can get more pressure on Love, I don't see how you keep the Packers under 30.

Nothing good happens on offense unless guys get blocked and a lot of good things happened yesterday, so when you rewatch the game, look at the offensive line. The Dallas front line might as well have not even come out of the locker room because they didn't accomplish jack squat.

I'm still hugely in favor of investing in our Oline for next year, but this is a remarkable adjustment from losing Bakhtiari. Walker has earned whatever bonuses were in his contract, because he really, really improved this season. And Tom, at RT, looks like a Pro-Bowler. I'll leave it to the stats guys to figure out, but over 18 games, I don't think the guy lined up across from him has had a good game yet.

The 27-0 stuff was nice, but we had 3 TD drives in the second half to put this away. You can't catch up if the other team just keeps scoring.

It just seems to me that Jordan needs less time for a pocket to form than he did earlier in the year. The game is slowing down for him, the processing is so fast that he's waiting for his receivers to get open or complete their route and once they do he delivers the ball. With so many options and players who can make the play, all this team needs is just enough time for Jordan to throw the ball.

The challenge will be greater with the niners as they have an excellent DL. Give JL time and we may see another offensive explosion.

I am still gobsmacked from this young Packer squad's performance. Dallas has a good and talented team yet we made them look like they were totally unprepared and outclassed. There were a ton of great performance yesterday but I am going to roll this up to coaching. Matt Lafleur and Joe Barry had these guys ready to play and playing together. Mike McCarthy and Dan Quinn either did not have a good gameplan or didn't focus these guys on the Green Bay Packers. Either way, our coaches have been upping their game since the Giants/Tampa Bay/Carolina stretch.

One of the reasons that I didn't expect much from these guys is because I didn't believe in our coaching staff. And going into San Fran we are up against the best team in the NFC and perhaps the best coach in football. Matt LaFleur has been badly out coached against these guys in the past. I see a different LaFleur over the 2023 season - can he out-flank the 49er staff and get his guys in a position to win. I would not bet against him.

I'm old school and would like to have a head coach that is the field general - Setting the tone and the overall game plan while the lieutenants devise scheme for thier troops.
I don't know which is right?
Recently, it seems to have been more of the specialist type head coaches that have been winning Super Bowls.
Belicheck is hard to place, defensive specialist but clearly directs offensive scheme.
I've been hard on mlf all season and last season as well.
I'm glad to admit that I must have been wrong, because yesterday's team was prepared, trained and motivated then given a great game plan and executed it.
Even I have to tip my hat to my new favorite "newspaper boy"
GPG!

So, contrary to what some in here were saying a few weeks ago, it turns out MLF and his merry band of coaches actually were coaching the players. Interesting : )

Rex, your headline grabbed me and I was hoping you'd talk a little more about MLF. He flat out-coached MM. Lost in all the hoopla over Love and Jones, Matt's not really getting the recognition he deserves. He and his system, as well as his management of an inexperienced QB and offensive squad in general, should get a lot more run in the media than it's getting. Love's emergence is fun and sexy, but the system, and how this team has grown into it, is the real story, I think.

Jones is running at an incredible pace. 4 100 yard games in a row. Love is making plays out of nothing at a success rate that’s implausibly good. Taken together, that would make most coaches look good.

If those two continue this transcendent level of play then we have a chance. I doubt that the 49ers fail to challenge us in the trenches or that they won’t try to run on us. We have to cope with TEs better than we did yesterday, that’s for sure.

To give LaFleur credit, i think that the 2TE heavy O he dialed up and the changes in WR use that went with it threw Quinn for a loop completely. The surprise was how well Barry did for a half and how the players responded to being able to be aggressive. Such a shame he couldn’t sustain his impulse to retreat after half time.

I think the Cowboys thought their game was cancelled to weather and not the Bills game!

An abundance of accolades to Matt LaFleur and Jordan Love, as well as the rest of the offense, for about as stunning a turnaround from the first half of the season to the second half as I could imagine!!!
For LaFleur to not only design a masterful offense, but to keep the players from getting discouraged in October, is impressive to the point of being amazing.
For Love, on the same timeline, and in his first year of getting on the field, to go from modest to magnificent is astounding almost beyond belief.
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Greg Olsen, on Colin Cowherd's show today, seemed to be saying that LaFleur's offense -- with lots of motion, more compact formations, and the quarterback more often under center -- is much more versatile and reliable than offenses like the Cowboys and Eagles that continually put the quarterback in the shotgun and spread four or five wide receivers across the field.
The two of them also seemed to note that it can be advantageous to utilize multiple weapons in the receiving corps instead of relying too heavily on someone like the spectacular CeeDee Lamb for the Cowboys.
Olsen seemed to be saying that he doesn't understand why any team would run an offense other than the LaFleur model.
It's a fascinating subject I'm trying to grasp.
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Perhaps the Packers of recent times, under Aaron Rodgers at QB, have relied too much on a mostly static spread offense -- which would seem to be more predictable to defenses and less protective as far as pass blocking -- while also depending too much on Davante Adams as the guy at receiver.
While the spread offense may look sleeker and be more scintillating against lesser teams during the regular season, they may not be as effective against the tougher defenses of the playoffs, especially in wintry conditions.
It may have a lot to do with why the Packers and Cowboys have had such crushing disappointments in the big games at the end of seasons in recent years.
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It seems that the illusion of complexity of the LaFleur offense has bloomed this season to the point of full flower; also, it appears this more compact offense of more motion may be more sustainable going forward to adjust to different defenses.
Just putting a player or two in motion before the snap, and maybe being more creative with pass routes after the snap, and generally making sure there's an extra blocker or two to protect the QB, and mixing in running plays from formations the same as those used for pass plays -- all of this may add up to an illusion of complexity in that it's not that difficult for our offensive players to learn and implement, but a lot more difficult for opposing defenders to predict.
I'd be glad for more knowledgeable fans and the staff here at CheeseheadTV to further discuss the possible reasons behind this suddenly potent Packers offense over the upcoming minutes and days and weeks . . . .
I'm not the best at understanding the intricacies of the game, but it's fun to learn with the help of others.
It seems this is one way in which such fan sites can generate a lot of synergy from diverse viewpoints that are both robust and respectful, while also providing a lot of fun camaraderie.

I think Tom Clements, working behind the curtain must be given high praise.
As for Love, he continues to remind me more and more of Matt Stafford.m, except with better pocket escapability.
Go Packers!!!

I dont know what to say. Just wow how the last 8 weeks turned out for the pack the whole team including the coaching staff everybody stepped up. Not sure if we'll win this week but that's what I thought last week too but again this team will only get better next yr and I am confident in the next 2 yrs this team will be Superbowl Bound.

Kudos to Matt, Love and the young Wr's who stepped up and made this possible i.e, making to the post season with a very inexperienced team.

Wow, what a victory. I was confide T that the Pack was going to play well. The opening drive set the tone for the entire game. Great call by MLF to take the ball and drive 75 yards for an opening Touchdown!!! This upcoming game has a different feel to it than past playoff games against the 49ers. Let’s roll into Santa Clara, not San Francisco and get another win, GO PACK GO!!!

"Eating crow" is never easy, even with a full rack of spices. All season I have been of the opinion MLF is a very good OC, but a questionable HC (giving Rodgers too much control, retaining assistant coaches with poor results; players who declare themselves team captains). MLF has done a masterful job of coaching these young men (and Gute, who has done an equally masterful job selecting) into a formidable force on the football field. Yesterday's game was just pure enjoyment.

The trope "The Cowboys entered the Wild Card matchup undefeated at home in their last 16 contests." needed to carry an asterix.

The Lions lost in really dubious circumstances.

They were "gettable" - it was just a question of if the Oline could hold up enough to allow Love to attack their secondary or Aaron Jones to get going. The answer was yes.

It's interesting to note that the Packers have gotten rid of two Hall of Fame players; Rodgers and Adams, have no Pro Bowlers (I don't count Nixon as a kick returner) and yet they are unquestionably a much better team now than they were before.

The person who should be taking bows is Gute; crucified by fans and the media ever since he made the unpopular Love pick, he's now being universally lauded for his foresight. He saw something in Love that demanded he pay a steep price, and at a moment in time when QB was the last thing anyone thought the team needed. It took some smarts and iron balls to do that. It was so brilliant and courageous a move it could be described as Wolfian.

It's not only the Love pick that has elevated Gute, just take a moment to look at his last two drafts; In 2022, he picked Walker, Wyatt, Watson, Rhyan, Doubs, Tom, and Enagbare. In 2023: Van Ness, Musgrove, Reed, Kraft, Wooden, Clifford, Wicks, Brooks, Carlson, and Valentine. 15 players in two years who either started or played significant minutes in the Dallas game, not counting Clifford who got some screen time. There's not a bum in the bunch. That's remarkable. They say if you get three starters out of a draft you're doing well. He got 15.

A word about MLF - I was a major critic for the last two years, but what he's accomplished in the last month has to be acknowledged. Where I thought he should have been fired only a month ago, saying that today would sound ridiculous. I still think he needs to fire Barry, but at this point, who knows, if we win the SB I may even be here demanding Barry receive a three-year extension.

Win or lose, everyone seems to agree that this has been a great season. The Dallas game was the most fun I've had since the 2010 Super Bowl. Maybe, just maybe, this kindergarten of a football team isn't done writing the next great chapter in Packer history and will keep on winning for another month. I'm saying there's a chance.

With Jones and Musgrave finally and back on the field we are seeing the MLF offense as it is meant to be executed. The improvement on the OL has been extraordinary. Watson even used mostly as a decoy was a factor against Dallas. Hopefully he'll be ready for a larger role by Saturday evening.

Given the strength of the 49ers DL the Packers OL will need to continue to play at a high-level. Success on first and second down will be a huge key for the Packers to be successful against the 49ers. 3d and long will not be a good situation for the Packers against the 49ers. Hopefully the Packers can get off to a quick start and build again.

I give credit to MLF for for staying with his offense and totally turning it around from earlier in the season. It's been a thing of beauty to watch over the last 3-4 games. Go Pack Go! Thanks, Since '61

I think the rumors of Dan Quinn’s mind being on his recent interview plans are true. I believe that the same thing happened in the super bowl with Holmgren, when we lost to Denver.
I think the Packers were going to give Dallas a good game and maybe won anyway… but if I’m a prospective employer I don’t want Dan Quinn near my football team.
I think the media needs to hold Quinn every bit as accountable as McCarthy. I hope Jerruh hires Quinn to be the next HC, that would doom the Cowboys.
In the end though it looks like the new sheriff in town is wearing green and gold.

I hope that MLF doesn't return to his timeshare if Dillon is active. Jones has to play most of the game. The 49ers have a pretty good backup running back in Mitchell. He rarely sees the field because McCafferty is too valuable to sit. Jones should be thought of in the same way. You can lose an entire possession or two by substituting Dillon. Jones must be treated as elite, as if Sayers or Jim Taylor were out there. He may not be that good, but he's that important.

Did anyone else find it odd the Cowboy fans were waving the white flag (towel) even before kickoff? They knew!