The Green Bay Packers put together quite a rare performance against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football, as Micah Parsons' new team managed to hang 40 points on his old running mates in their own building, and they only managed to escape with an unsatisfying tie.
Quarterback Jordan Love did all he could to make sure that Green Bay escaped with anything except a negative result, completing 31 of his 43 passes for 337 yards and three touchdowns without being intercepted. It's not hyperbolic to say that Love was a major outlier in terms of how efficient he was in this game.
Love completed all 28 of his passes (that is not a misprint) under 10 air yards against Dallas, which is the most in the Next Gen Stats era without an incompletion and six more than the old record. Love found holes in the Cowboys' zone, and he managed to exploit them.
The fact that some odd play-calling from Matt LaFleur near the end of this game and a secondary that was getting ravaged by Dak Prescott was unable to pull out the victory here is a damning indictment of the Packers, who may have wasted Love's best game of the season.
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Outside of a brief period at the end of the first half and beginning of the second half, where the offense seemingly couldn't do anything right, Green Bay was chopping up this Dallas defense with ruthless efficiency. Love's three touchdowns were augmented by two Josh Jacobs scores as he got back in a groove.
Even without the services of de facto top wide receiver Jayden Reed, Love was distributing the ball to Romeo Doubs (who had the game of his life with three touchdowns) and tight end Tucker Kraft. The passing game is for sure not the problem with Green Bay over the last two weeks.
While the defense was lockdown for most of the first three games, Dallas seemingly had their number. Part of that was Prescott playing out of his mind, and part of that was this secondary being unable to stop a nosebleed despite not having to face CeeDee Lamb.
The Packers should feel confident in Love the rest of the way, but if they are wasting games like this, those expecting this team to compete for a Super Bowl may find themselves incredibly disappointed if they don't find a way to get this secondary in gear.