Green Bay running back Aaron Jones, a fifth-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft - McCarthy's penultimate class as the Packers head coach - ran wild for 138 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries, 5.8 yards per rush. Rodgers, playing through a broken thumb on his throwing hand, connected with then-rookie wide receiver Christian Watson for 107 yards and three receiving touchdowns, tying him with Hall of Fame wideout Randy Moss (1998) for the most receiving touchdowns in a game all-time against Dallas. His attitude about his homecoming soured after the Cowboys blew a two-touchdown lead in the fourth quarter, 28-14, to lose 31-28 in overtime against the Packers. We've talked about that game a number of times.'Īhead of Week 10 last season, McCarthy indulged questions about his Packers tenure since he was getting set to face them for the first time as the head coach of the Cowboys with the game set to be played in the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field on Nov. There were situations in that game that came up, and now that we're in the same offense, he can see the similarities and why we do what we do, and really the history about it. Dak and I have spoken about the particulars of the game time and time again, and even more so when you go through different situations.

'I am not reflecting,' McCarthy said Monday when asked about Prescott's first playoff game when McCarthy's Packers upset the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFC divisional round. This week, McCarthy is refusing to take a trip down memory lane when comes to talking about that game or his Packers emotions in general. Rodgers led a game-winning drive that allowed kicker Mason Crosby to drill a 51-yard field goal as time expired for a 34-31 Packers victory, upsetting the top-seeded Cowboys and the then-NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Prescott, McCarthy's current pupil. The last playoff meeting between the two teams came when McCarthy still donned the Green and Gold in the 2016 NFC divisional round. Dallas versus Green Bay on Sunday will be the ninth time the two iconic franchises square off in the postseason, tied for the most playoff meetings between two teams all time. That run concluded with a victory against the Pittsburgh Steelers at AT&T Stadium, which is the site of Sunday's NFC Super Wild Card Weekend matchup between McCarthy's second-seeded Cowboys and the seventh-seeded Packers. Following that victory, the city named a street after him, Mike McCarthy Way. He and Rodgers teamed up to help lead Green Bay to the Super Bowl XLV title in the 2010 season. Only the Patriots (20) and the Seattle Seahawks (11) won more playoff games than McCarthy's Packers (10) in that span.

Why wouldn't he be? McCarthy went 125-77-2 in his 13 seasons with the Packers, sporting the third-highest win percentage in the entire league in that span, trailing only the Tom Brady-Belichick New England Patriots dynasty (162-46) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (133-74-1) across the final year of Hall of Fame head coach Bill Cowher's tenure and Mike Tomlin's time with the Steelers. Whether that was comparing Cowboys cornerback DaRon Bland during his run toward the NFL's single-season pick-sixes record and up the NFL Defensive Player of the Year odds list to Hall of Fame cornerback Charles Woodson, who he coached during his 2009 Defensive Player of the Year season with the Packers, or talking about how Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott's 2023 in which he led the NFL with 36 touchdown passes compares to some of the years he had with future Hall of Fame Packers passer Aaron Rodger s up in Green Bay, McCarthy is typically an open book. FRISCO, Texas - Mike McCarthy, even as the current head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, typically lights up when a topic related to his 13 seasons as the Green Bay Packers head coach from 2006-2018 comes up.

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