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Green Bay Packers have won more playoff games at AT&T Stadium than have the Dallas Cowboys. Score is 3-2.
Cowboys’ rank in regular-season wins since 2021: second.
Consecutive 12-win Dallas seasons: three.
Playoff record in that stretch: 1-3.
Dak Prescott three-word self-eval following Cowboys’ 48-32 loss to the Packers on Sunday: “I sucked tonight.”
Prescott: 41 of 60 passing for 403 yards and three TDs. Also, two interceptions, one of them a pick six, during a horrific first half that sealed the loss.
Mike McCarthy: 42-25 in four seasons in Dallas.
Jimmy Johnson’s first four in Dallas: 32-32 plus a ring.
Bill Parcells’ four: 34-30.
Patrick Mahomes has never played on the road in the post-season. (Super Bowl neutral-site games don’t count.) This is Mahomes’ seventh NFL season. Chiefs visit Buffalo this weekend.
The 49ers broke the Eagles. Entering the teams’ Week 13 matchup, Philadelphia was 10-1. A 42-19 beatdown by SF in front of their home Philly fans initiated a 1-6 nightmare flop to end their season.
Starting quarterbacks remaining in the NFL post-season:
—AFC: Mahomes, Jackson, Allen, Stroud.
—NFC: Purdy, Goff, Mayfield, Love.
Jordan Love vs. Dallas: 16/21, 272, 3 TDs.
Love passer rating: 157.2.
Perfect passer rating: 158.3.
Playoff wins since 1995: Baker Mayfield 2, Cleveland Browns franchise 1.
QB of Browns’ only playoff win since 1995: Baker Mayfield.
Years between Detroit Lions’ playoff wins: 33.
Previous playoff victory before last weekend: 1991 vs. Dallas.
Last time Lions won twice in a post-season: 1957.
Dolphins’ scoring in final four games: 22, 19, 14, 7.
Most regular-season coaching losses, NFL history: Bill Belichick, 165. (T-1 with Dan Reeves and Jeff Fisher.)
Bill Belichick regular-season, all time: 302-165 (.647).
Belichick post-season: 31-13 (.705).
Rings: 6.
Belichick post-Brady, regular season: 29-38.
Get yerself a quarterback, coaches.
Barry Switzer is available should Jerry Jones decide to go in another direction. 😂😂 Just saying.