Mike McCarthy got his first ever 1-0 start as the head coach of the , and he did it in style with a 40-0 win in the rain over the Giants in their own stadium. The next item on the to-do list was to go back home to Dallas and beat his former quarterback Aaron Rodgers, now with the Jets. Now, the list has changed.
Cowboys fans weren’t even finished celebrating the impressive victory when Rodgers, on just the fourth play of his first game with his new team, went down with what turned out to be a season-ending Achilles tear.