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Keys To The Game: Limiting The Packers' Big Plays; Stopping The Dallas Run

FRISCO, Texas – Finally it’s Friday, and here are my two biggest keys to determining who advances to the NFC Championship Game when the Cowboys and Packers face off on Sunday afternoon.

Dallas Cowboys Win If:

When these two teams met earlier in the year, the Packers were struggling to make big plays. Those in the media were starting to wonder if this was the end of Aaron Rodgers and was his career on the downward turn.

What I noticed in studying those early season games, it wasn’t that Rodgers was playing poorly, it was that he just wasn’t connecting with Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb and Davante Adams -- which had been such a staple of their offensive attack.