Packers 2017 schedule release: Five toughest games on the schedule

2. @ Dallas Cowboys, Week 5

Last year’s NFC Divisional playoff game will go down as one of the most exciting postseason affairs in Packers’ history, and the two teams will be right back at it again in 2017.

The theme is starting to develop here. Powerful offenses that ruled the NFL in 2016 will likely give the 2017 Packers, who at this point in the offseason have yet to make any real changes to their defense, the team’s toughest potential matchups.

The Cowboys were exactly that a season ago.

Behind the league’s best offensive line and one of it’s most complete running backs, Dallas physically manhandled its opponents on its way to the fifth-best scoring offense in the NFL. Both units return just as strong in 2017.

What’s more is the Cowboys did all that with a rookie quarterback who wasn’t drafted until the fourth round. Sure, he didn’t play like a typical rookie, but Dak Prescott was getting his first NFL experience while Dallas cruised to a 13-3 record. It stands to reason that Prescott will improve in 2017.

All of this spells doom for the Packers, who needed a miracle from Aaron Rodgers to take care of the Cowboys in the playoffs last year. Without Rodgers’ incredible throw to Jared Cook, Green Bay’s 2016 season would have ended a week sooner at the hands of the ‘Boys.

Surely Dallas will be looking for revenge, and they clearly have the personnel to get it. Not to mention this is a road game as the Packers head into enemy territory in Jerry World.