@BrainDed posted:Streams will work, shitty WiFi from the resort is your real concern.
If it were me, first thing I would do is start asking the bartenders if the game is going to be played anywhere. If not, ask about bars nearby that play NFL games.
On my honeymoon 15 years ago, I got up in the middle of the night in Amsterdam and went to the casino to watch a game. Where there is a will, there is a way.
I just came back from a trip to Mexico over New Years. I was very lucky in that the wifi was spotty at best but they did play the Packers/Vikings game on TV.
The Cowboys are very popular down there so I get there is a way to get to see it at the resort or somewhere near by.
WILD CARD ROUND
Cleveland @ Houston
Sat 1/13
4:30 PM ET
4:30 PM ET
NBC
Noah Eagle, Todd Blackledge
Miami @ Kansas City
Sat 1/13
8:15 PM ET
8:15 PM ET
Peacock*
Mike Tirico, Jason Garrett
Pittsburgh @ Buffalo
Sun 1/14
1:00 PM ET
1:00 PM ET
CBS
Jim Nantz, Tony Romo
Green Bay @ Dallas
Sun 1/14
4:30 PM ET
4:30 PM ET
FOX
Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen
LA Rams @ Detroit
Sun 1/14
8:00 PM ET
8:00 PM ET
NBC
Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth
Philadelphia @ Tampa Bay
Mon 1/15
8:00 PM ET
8:00 PM ET
ESPN/ABC
Joe Buck, Troy Aikman
Really putting the sizzle in that Peacock stream with Jason Garrett on the stick. 
@titmfatied posted:Really putting the sizzle in that Peacock stream with Jason Garrett on the stick.
Tirico can do anything, and they left off The Olympics.
Monday Night Football, The Open, the Masters, NBA, college football, college basketball, FIFA World Cup, and tennis' U.S. Open and Wimbledon.
@Dr._Bob posted:I once watched a Packers-Bears game at the home of a Bears fan. Asshole.
Well, at the least you were supporting the winning team.
@bvan posted:Tirico can do anything, and they left off The Olympics.
Monday Night Football, The Open, the Masters, NBA, college football, college basketball, FIFA World Cup, and tennis' U.S. Open and Wimbledon.
Yeah, I would keep him away from women's sports. Can you imagine that creep around the gymnasts?
@bvan posted:Tirico can do anything, and they left off The Olympics.
Monday Night Football, The Open, the Masters, NBA, college football, college basketball, FIFA World Cup, and tennis' U.S. Open and Wimbledon.
Love Tirico. He can even stay awake while enduring three hours of Jason Garrett commentary.
@BrainDed posted:Agree but disagree about Dillon. The whole point of keeping the miles low on Jones throughout his entire career is so that he can be featured when it matters most. It matters most this Sunday.. Ride that horse to the next round.
Oh yeah. I want Jones to get a minimum of 20 touches. No 50/50 shit. But if they are successful running they are gonna need that 2nd set of legs.
And Jones loves playing in Dallas. I'd love to see him get in the EZ a couple of times. Or more. Cue the grabbing my junk or waving bye-bye gif. 
Mexican Old Fashioned in Spanish is: margarita
Yup - Cowboys are going to blowout the Packers.
Only if that Joe Berry defense that played the Giants or Panthers shows up.
The Cowboys under DC Dan Quinn run straightforward coverage schemes
— Bruce Irons (@BruceIronsNFL) January 9, 2024
They win with presnap disguises and heavy pressure
Luckily for the #Packers, Jordan Love has shown the ability to quickly read defenses and find his target under pressure
Big test of those abilities on Sunday pic.twitter.com/OxJMmaapw9
Turnovers are always such an obvious part of the winning formula.#Cowboys in 2023:
— Zach Kruse (@zachkruse2) January 10, 2024
6-0 with 0 giveaways
6-5 with 1 or more giveaways
7-0 with 2 or more takeaways
0-4 with 0 takeaways
All about protecting the ball and taking it away.
If the Packers had a playoff game in Green Bay this Sunday, temp is to be 4 degrees. I know the team embraces those cold temps but there is no way that has not affected the teams ability to produce in those temps over the past 20 years. Those temps make it more of a defensive game and the Packers defense typically is the worse unit on the field when compared to other teams defense. Hopefully JL has a moment in the Jerry World dome the same way AR had one in the Atlanta dome.
I know the team embraces those cold temps but there is no way that has not affected the teams ability to produce in those temps over the past 20 years. Those temps make it more of a defensive game and the Packers defense typically is the worse unit on the field when compared to other teams defense.
This guy gets it.
No, that's not the script. This week Love resembles Rodgers in Philly. Productive, efficient game, and Dak throws a pick when they are driving for win at the end. The San Fran game is when we shock the world behind a dominant performance by Love. That pick-6 by Jaire before half of that game is going to be fun.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Packers are able to pull off the upset here. If you take away the Cowboys' W from the Lions game, because the refs clearly got that 2pt play wrong, the Cowboys finished 1-3 down the stretch. You could argue that they peaked too early. I know they are very good at home, but they are not playing their best ball. And all of the pressure is on MM and Dak.
On the other hand, we roll into Dallas with arguably the hottest QB in the league, a revived rushing attack, and a defense that can pressure on Dak. Gary against their RT, Steele, should be a major factor in this game. Steele has given up some of the most pressures among OTs in the league. Gary is set up for a monster game.
The fast track in Dallas is perfect for our team. All of that speed and athletic ability Gutey has collected should show out.
Only thing that worries me is Barry, but something tells me MLF is more involved in the defensive strategy these days, so it's possible Barry doesn't completely blow it.
@michiganjoe posted:Turnovers are always such an obvious part of the winning formula.#Cowboys in 2023:
— Zach Kruse (@zachkruse2) January 10, 2024
6-0 with 0 giveaways
6-5 with 1 or more giveaways
7-0 with 2 or more takeaways
0-4 with 0 takeawaysAll about protecting the ball and taking it away.
More info on turnovers:
In a study conducted by the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, it was found that a team that wins the turnover margin in a game wins 69.6 percent of the time. To demonstrate the relative strength of turnover influence, home teams won “just” 57.2 percent of all games in the same sample. The effect is compounding as well, as teams that won the turnover margin by two or more won 83.9 percent of the time and 90.7 percent of the time when winning the margin by three or more.
What is crazy is that the same study found that 54% of all turnovers are "luck" (where a fumble bounces, where a tipped pass goes, etc). Lombardi recognized this. I remember a game where he was very confident in winning "unless the ball took some funny bounces". Look at Jordan's fumble Sunday, it was nothing that the defense did, the guys helmet just happened to hit the ball. Let's hope some of that "luck" is with us this week!
DAL may not have been trending up to close the season but MM has a record of having his teams prepared for the playoffs once the regular season ends. Not an assessment of his playoff record but rather how his teams usually look in that first playoff game vs. how they looked finishing the season. He usually comes out strong. FWIW.
@BrainDed posted:Streams will work, shitty WiFi from the resort is your real concern.
If it were me, first thing I would do is start asking the bartenders if the game is going to be played anywhere. If not, ask about bars nearby that play NFL games.
On my honeymoon 15 years ago, I got up in the middle of the night in Amsterdam and went to the casino to watch a game. Where there is a will, there is a way.
True that. I found a sports bar called Sports Bar in Barcelona and while I couldn’t watch live, they set up a replay of Packers v Panthers the next day and we won. Sweet!
Mike McCarthy is less chatty about a Green Bay reunion replay with his Cowboys in the playoffs
Dallas coach Mike McCarthy thought he talked too much about his return to Green Bay last season when the Cowboys lost to the Packers.
With the stakes much higher for another reunion in a wild-card game at the home of the Cowboys on Sunday, McCarthy can use the benefit of hindsight.
''I regretted it,'' said McCarthy, who coached up north for 12-plus seasons and won a Super Bowl on Dallas' home field to cap the 2010 season. ''That doesn't even need to come into our energy base. I answered the questions honestly in here last year about my experience up there. It just will not help us win. So if it doesn't help us win a game, I'm not interested in it. I apologize.''
McCarthy didn't completely shut down the questions, but was less-than-enthusiastic with the answers.
To his point, the Cowboys (12-5) are holding their highest seed at No. 2 in the NFC out of their fourth-year coach's three consecutive trips to the playoffs. Dallas is a 7 1/2-point favorite over Green Bay (9-8), according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
The franchise hasn't even reached an NFC championship game since the most recent of five Super Bowl titles to cap the 1995 season.
McCarthy went that far three other times, in addition to his title-winning season, with the Packers.
''I think the biggest thing is playoff time and we talked about it at the team meeting (Monday), this is a time for all of us to be selfish,'' McCarthy said. ''Because we've put so much into this season, getting ready for the season. We're right where we need to be.''
His last playoff victory with the Packers turned out to be a 34-31 win at the Cowboys — keyed by Aaron Rodgers' improbable completion to tight end Jared Cook in the final seconds — when Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott was a rookie during the 2016 season.
McCarthy, who turned 60 this season, was fired less than two years after that victory during a second consecutive losing season for Green Bay. The Packers made the playoffs nine times under McCarthy.
''Hell of a coach and I'm always appreciative of Mike,'' said defensive tackle Kenny Clark, one of three currently healthy Packers who played for McCarthy. ''He's one of the guys that brought me here. I've got a lot of respect for him and him giving me a chance.''
The Cowboys had a two-touchdown lead in the fourth quarter of McCarthy's return before Rodgers led Green Bay's rally in a 31-28 victory.
It was the only loss in a seven-game stretch that put Dallas solidly in the playoff picture with a month to go last season. But it stung for McCarthy.
Now he's doing everything to keep the focus on the players, which doesn't surprise safety Jayron Kearse. He's a former NFC North guy himself, starting his career in Minnesota before a season with Detroit.
''I'm pretty sure he's not going to let that get in the way of the things that we need to do,'' Kearse said. ''It's not Mike McCarthy vs. Green Bay. It's the Dallas Cowboys vs. Green Bay. And that's something that the players need to understand as well. We want to go out there and win this thing for coach, but let's understand this is a team that's in our way.''
McCarthy is 2-0 in Dallas-Green Bay playoff games. The Packers won during the 2014 season in what turned out to be Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo's final playoff game.
The most significant moment was McCarthy's decision to challenge Dez Bryant's fourth down catch on a deep ball just shy of the Green Bay goal line. The catch was overturned, and the Packers ran off the final four minutes in a 26-21 divisional-round victory.
When he was introduced as the Dallas coach in 2020, McCarthy got the obligatory question, ''Did Dez catch it?'' Perhaps he was still half a Packers coach in that moment.
Closure came with the trip to Green Bay last season, and makes this replay a little easier.
''Personally, it helps me,'' McCarthy said. ''I think the biggest thing I got out of going back there was I got to see a lot of people I didn't get to see at the end. We would've liked to have won the game, and at the end of the day, this is my team. I'm a Dallas Cowboy. This is our opportunity, and I just want to make sure I'm doing my part, and that's supporting everything in winning this game.''
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AP Sports Writer Steve Megargee contributed from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The key will be how all the young pups handle their nerves. Not too concerned about Jones, Preston Smith, Campbell and even J A to some extent. Hopefully these four can show some leadership and keep the pups grounded and not let the butterflies last too long. A rash of stupid penalties or turnovers in the 1st quarter could be devastating.
GB needs to jump out to a lead early so they can stick with the run, slow the game down and keep the D fresh. That should also limit the pressure Love will face. DAL will score so the best chance will be a back and forth contest.
Can MLF/Love/Barry break through in crunch time in the playoffs for a win?
Not worried about MLF, or Love. But Joe Blow, that is a different story.
MM.... And the entire Cowboys team is shitting their pants right now. The Cowboys absolutely cannot lose this game
Take this with a grain of salt because the Packers are wearing sneakers indoors today for a shorter practice, but every player on the 53 was wearing a helmet during warmups.
— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) January 10, 2024
Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said CB Stephon Gilmore (shoulder) will be in the rehab group. “He’s making really good progress.” He’s not expected to do anything in practice until Saturday
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) January 10, 2024
LG Tyler Smith (foot) will be limited today
@DH13 posted:GB needs to jump out to a lead early so they can stick with the run, slow the game down and keep the D fresh. That should also limit the pressure Love will face. DAL will score so the best chance will be a back and forth contest.
Can MLF/Love/Barry break through in crunch time in the playoffs for a win?
I don't think they have to jump out to a lead (although that would be nice).
If they can keep it a one score game into the 4th quarter, that would be enough to make Dallas get really tight.
@MichiganPacker posted:If they can keep it a one score game into the 4th quarter, that would be enough to make Dallas get really tight.
How many holding penalties will Micah draw on Sunday?
I'm guessing at least 2 and probably 3
#Cowboys EDGE Micah Parsons did not draw a holding penalty in the final 11 games of the 2023 season.
— Marcus Mosher (@Marcus_Mosher) January 9, 2024
However, he did record 71 pressures and a win rate of 24.8% during that span (via @PFF)
If he does it won't be on Tom or Walker. It will be an interior guy because of a stunt/twist they pull off.
@ammo posted:The key will be how all the young pups handle their nerves.
I know playoffs is a different beast, but playing at the birdkill dome in Mpls a couple of weeks ago was perfect timing. That place is always loud and jacked up at kickoff and until the fans know the home team will disappoint them again. Our team handled the situation with ease.
@Boris posted:How many holding penalties will Micah draw on Sunday?
I'm guessing at least 2 and probably 3
#Cowboys EDGE Micah Parsons did not draw a holding penalty in the final 11 games of the 2023 season.
— Marcus Mosher (@Marcus_Mosher) January 9, 2024
However, he did record 71 pressures and a win rate of 24.8% during that span (via @PFF)
He's gonna drag Newhouse.