Most importantly, the Green Bay Packers walked out of Lambeau Field with a Week 6 win over the Dallas Cowboys, and a controlling one at that. The secondary not only survived, but it stifled the potent Cowboys offense.
Thanks in large part to that effort, and despite a plague of frustrating drops, Packers wide receivers Matthew Golden and Christian Watson also walked away with their title intact: by receiving yards, they are still the NFL's most dominant duo.
The runners-up? The Cowboys' CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens.
It wasn't so much what Golden and Watson did as what the Packers' defensive backs did to Lamb and Pickens, but if you were looking for a cherry on top of the victory, there it is.
Packers' Christian Watson and Matthew Golden remain NFL's top WR duo
It was far from a perfect performance. Golden juggled and dropped one pass and let another perfectly placed dime, a would-be bomb of a touchdown, slip through his fingers. He still led either team with six catches for 104 yards and a score. He was productive, and it was far from his best day at the office.
Watson dropped his own would-be touchdown in the end zone to finish with three catches for 65 yards. Again, productive but not pretty.
Nonetheless, he and Golden have now combined for a league-best 1,039 receiving yards (on 17.6 yards per catch, plus nine touchdowns!) through six games. Watson holds a narrow edge over Golden, 538 yards to 501.
Lamb and Pickens have combined for 1,005 yards (and only five TDs) on 16 more targets. Green Bay defensive backs Evans Williams, Keisean Nixon, and company made sure the gap widened in Week 6.
Lamb and Pickens' already modest output looks a lot less impressive when you reach the "targets" column. A combined 15 catches and 143 yards…on 29 targets. A healthy chunk of that came late, with the Packers staked to a big lead and content to allow short completions.
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was frustrated most of the night. As irritated as Packers fans were watching dropped touchdowns, it's not like Dallas receivers fared better. Prescott finished 34-of-54 for 258 yards, an average of 4.8 yards per attempt.
Slippery soap hands or not, Golden does deserve some credit. Week 6 was his fourth game with at least 95 receiving yards this season, and his third time leading the team. Watson continues to vindicate his offseason extension with every week that goes by.
Not even Packers fans would have tagged Watson-Golden as the top combo in the game, but here we are. With a little more sticky tack on those gloves, they could be in for a monster Week 7 against the Detroit Lions' pitiful secondary, even as star safety Brian Branch eyes his season debut.
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