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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- In 2007, the New York Giants lost at home to the Green Bay Packers in the regular season, then won at Lambeau Field for the NFC Championship.

In 2011, the Giants lost at home to the Packers in the regular season, then won at Lambeau for another NFC Championship.

It will be a similar story line entering Sunday's NFC Wild Card game. The Giants lost to the Packers in the regular season -- 23-16 at Lambeau in Week 5 -- and will try to turn the tables in Green Bay in a playoff rematch on Sunday.

"It's all different teams, different players, different coaches," said Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who led the team to an 11-5 record and its first playoff berth since 2011. "It's just a matter of studying their defense, have a great game plan, have a great week of preparation and go out there and just play each play."

Manning has as many playoff wins at Lambeau Field as his counterpart, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Manning is 2-0 while Rodgers is 2-2.

"We're playing against the 2016 Giants and they're playing against the 2016 Packers in 2017," Rodgers said.

In what should be a tremendous matchup of strength vs. strength, it will be the Rodgers-led Packers offense against a superb Giants defense.

Behind a late-season scoring binge with four consecutive games of 30-plus points, the Packers finished the league ranked fourth in scoring with 27.0 points per game. The Giants, who allowed 10 points or fewer in three of their last four games, finished second in the league with 17.8 points allowed per game. Green Bay has been strong on third down and in the red zone, ranking second and 10th in those categories, respectively. The Giants, however, finished second on third down and first in the red zone.

"You go through the video and you don't see a lot of production," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "And they've got playmakers in their back end. I think the one statistic that you can look at is their turnover opportunities is as high as we've seen this year."

Rodgers pushed himself into the MVP conversation with a string of sensational games down the stretch. After proclaiming the Packers could "run the table" and win their final six games, Rodgers threw 15 touchdown passes and zero interceptions with a passer rating of 122.8 to help the Packers finish 6-0 and win the NFC North with a 10-6 record. Rodgers threw a league-high 40 touchdown passes for the season and didn't throw an interception in his final 245 attempts of the season.

The Giants' pass defense, however, has been superb. It finished second in the league in lowestopponent passer rating. Cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (six) and safety Landon Collins (five) finished in the top five in interceptions, with Collins and cornerback Janoris Jenkins achieving Pro Bowl status.

With those three combining for 14 interceptions, the Giants were one of only two teams to finish with more interceptions (17) than touchdown passes allowed (15).

"Spags (defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo) does a great job putting guys in position to be successful and we have some talented players on the defensive side," said Giants coach Ben McAdoo, a Packers assistant from 2006 through 2013. "They enjoy seeing each other have some success. It's not all about them. It's about the team mentality and the team first, and good defense fits together like nuts and bolts and they've bought into it."

On the other side of the ball, which Manning will show up for the postseason? Well, it will be Eli (not brother Peyton or farther Archie). But which Eli? Will it be the one who piled up 15 touchdowns against two interceptions in leading the Giants to Super Bowl titles in 2007 and 2011? Or will it be the one who threw two touchdowns against six interceptions in one-and-done playoff seasons of 2005, 2006 and 2008?

Manning didn't have a great season -- he completed a career-high 63.0 percent of his passes but only three quarterbacks eclipsed his 16 interceptions -- but he'll be attacking a porous pass defense that has one starting cornerback on injured reserve (Sam Shields), another in the concussion protocol (Quinten Rollins) and another battling a knee injury (Damarious Randall).

"I just don't know what more you would ask for," star receiver Odell Beckham said in anticipation of his first playoff game. "It's fourth-and-1, it's 1:36 left on the clock, you're down five, you just need a first down to stay alive, but you score a touchdown. It's something about those moments, knowing you have to get it done. There's no ifs, ands or buts about it, there's no way around it, you just have to get it done. I do enjoy those moments. It's like taking the last shot, you never know if you're going to fail unless you shoot."

 

Game of the week! :rock:

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One has to assume that the Packers are going to the SB, right?

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No, that's a silly assumption. Mike McCarthy is basically a younger, fatter Andy Reid and you can count on him blowing a game in some spectacular fashion. Maybe it won't be this week, but it's bound to happen in this post season.

 

:Packers: 17

:Giants: 19

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But the Packers are hot and stuff. Everyone knows getting hot is the key to surviving the winter of the playoffs.

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But the Packers are hot and stuff. Everyone knows getting hot is the key to surviving the winter of the playoffs.

 

 

I used to harp on this sports cliche a lot, but historically, it's not necessarily true.

 

2015: Broncos go 2-2 in December, plus controversy/tension out the wazoo with Osweiler/Peyton.

2013: After reaching 11-1, the Seahawks go 2-2 in December.

2012: Ravens are 9-2, then go 1-4 in December.

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McCarthy is good at losing close games in the playoffs. Not expecting anything different here.

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Why blame McCarthy? The Packers just haven't been good enough to win a Super Bowl in quite awhile. I think he's run his course, too, but the players are the ones out on the field.

 

Packers 36-24

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Why blame McCarthy? The Packers just haven't been good enough to win a Super Bowl in quite awhile. I think he's run his course, too, but the players are the ones out on the field.

 

Packers 36-24

 

Five of Mikes Seven playoff defeats have come on the final play of the game. That's over a large span of time where players are shifting in and out. He's the common denominator. I am not saying fire him for it or anything, but that might be what he is remembered for in the end... Getting close, but never really getting over the hump (yes, I know he has a SB).

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You failed 7th grade math, didn't you?

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Aaron Rodgers is going to have to be great to win this game and I think he shows up. The Giants haven't topped 30 points all season. The money they spent in free agency paid off big time and their defense is awesome but they've carried the team all year and now they go up against a team that's really shredded some of the better pass defenses in the league the last 5 games. It's no secret I don't like the Giants and maybe it's effecting my pick a little bit but Rodgers is just so good at home. He's thrown like 3 picks in Lambeau for his whole career or something crazy like that lol. I think the Packers will outgun NY.

 

35-27

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This game better save the weekend.

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It's the only game between two legitimate playoff teams, so it should.

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This matchup brings about really good feels. :yep:

 

:Giants: 20

:Packers: 21

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This is starting to look like the Lions @ Seahawks game a little. Eli's passes haven't been perfect but his receivers just haven't made enough plays. To Green Bay's credit they put together a great game plan for OBJ but he can go from having a bad game to scoring a couple TD's in a hurry so we'll see.

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lol the Giants havent allowed 30 all season either. the defense is better than the first game.

Giants 24-20 or 31-20.

someone wrote on another forum that the Giants didnt blitz at all last game but will often in this game,who knows?

but there will probably be a lot of Spags worship during the game

 

About that....lemme guess the game was rigged though. That's why Rodgers has thrown for 4 TDs and scored 38pts on them?

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Giants in the first half were playing very well..IIRC they had outgained them like 195 to less than 40 yards at some point but only had 2 FG's, they had plenty of chances to score and give themselves a decent lead going into half...but they never capitalized.

 

That Hail Mary destroyed their will to even play it seemed...

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Packers dance all over the Giants 38-13! https://t.co/9z8qJWN7Fc
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/818260467688689664

 

Edit: I don't understand how to get the video embedded in as well

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Just read that a bunch Giants are getting a random drug test after the game. Man I hope they were snorting coke all night hahaha

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What were the Packers even doing in the first half? The offense was literally lob up a bunch of bombs and pray one hits.... Well, it did. They went back to their dumpoffs, drags, crosses, and slants in the 2nd half and blew the game open. I don't see why they don't just do that every week. Defense bent, but didn't break. We had Micah Hyde playing some pretty fail slot cornerback... Morgan Burnett played some hybrid Corner stuff... The cornerback position is so beat to hell, I am amazed that we don't give up 30 points a game.

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