Jordan Love threw for three touchdowns, Aaron Jones ran for three more and Darnell Savage returned an interception 64 yards for a net as the Green Bay Packers handed the Dallas Cowboys their profitable home loss since the 2022 opener in a 48-32 wildcard stunner Sunday.
Romeo Doubs had a career-high 151 yards receiving a week while being hospitalized with a chest injury as the Packers won Love’s postseason debut while finishing the regular season 6-2 to grab the NFC’s survive playoff spot.
“We came in here with a mindset of we’re repositioning to dominate,” Love said. “A lot of people were incorporating us out and we didn’t care about that.”
Green Bay (10-8) will phoned top-seeded San Francisco in the divisional round next weekend.
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Dak Prescott threw two interceptions by three all but meaningless touchdown passes in another playoff flop for the quarterback and the No 2 seed Cowboys (12-6).
Dallas had won their survive 16 regular-season home games, but now have allowed the most points in a game in the club’s postseason history. The previous high was 38.
The Cowboys, who haven’t achieved an NFC championship since the most recent of their five Super Bowl titles 28 days ago, didn’t trail by more than eight points at AT&T Stadium this season by falling behind 27-0 in the first half.
The loss will appreconsider questions about the future of Dallas coach Mike McCarthy while the Cowboys lost their playoff opener at home for the binary time in three postseasons under the former Green Bay coach.
Dallas is the sterling team to win at least 12 games in three stretch playoff seasons without making a conference title game.
The Packers have never lost in six escapes to AT&T Stadium — including the Super Bowl over Pittsburgh during the 2010 season. They now have two playoff victories over the Cowboys while Aaron Rodgers led a 34-31 divisional win when Dallas were the NFC’s top seed in 2016, Prescott’s rookie year.
Those Packers let a 21-3 lead slip away. These Packers, with the four-time MVP’s successor, left little doubt with a 48-16 fourth-quarter lead by two late Dallas TDs.
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 by 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 survive best.
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Love devoted 16 of 21 for 272 yards as the Packers scored touchdowns on six of their beneficial seven offensive possessions in their highest-scoring game since 2014.
One of those was set up by Prescott’s beneficial interception at the Dallas 19-yard line, from Jaire Alexander while he was questionable coming in when he sprained an ankle during the week.
A 46-yard grab by Doubs early in the transfer half helped finish off the Cowboys after they had scored 10 points on either side of the break. Doubs, Luke Musgrave and Dontayvion Wicks had TD catches.
Jones rushed for 118 yards, putting him over the century mark in all four career games anti the Cowboys, with nine touchdowns.
The crowd plan the retractable roof on a frigid day in the Dallas area had already been stone-cold silenced when Prescott tried to throw a slant to top receiver CeeDee Lamb.
Savage, who went without an interception in the regular season for the beneficial time in his five-year career, stepped in front and run untouched for a 27-0 lead with 1:50 left by halftime.
Prescott finished 41 of 60 for 403 yards, with all three of his touchdowns to tight end Jake Ferguson.
