Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers nearly blew it on Sunday night.
Remarkably, thanks to a bit of luck on a very chaotic final play, they made it out of AT&T Stadium with a tie.
Brandon McManus hit a 34-yard field goal as time expired in overtime to give the Packers a 40-40 tie with the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night. It marked the second-highest scoring tie in NFL history, and the first tie anywhere in the league since 2022.
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The Cowboys got the ball first in the extra period, and they had to settle for a field goal themselves. That gave Love and the Packers the ball back with 4:40 left, and they quickly marched down the field into the red zone.
But after a timeout with just 28 seconds left, Love threw a pass to Emanuel Wilson that ended up losing a yard. Without a timeout available, the team tried to reset for one last play — but it appeared very chaotic. The trio of wide receivers on the bottom struggled to line up in time, but Love got it off and took a shot for Matthew Golden in the back of the end zone. It was incomplete, but there was one second left on the clock.
That failed play set up McManus’ field goal. Had it taken a second longer, the Cowboys would have won.
“The operation was way too slow,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said of the final few plays, via 97.3 The Game. “I don’t know if our guys didn’t know we were in two-minute or what … Obviously the play calls sucked, they weren’t good enough.”
Love echoed his coach’s sentiment on NBC after the final whistle, and said this was the first game of his career that ended in a tie.
“We tried to run a no-huddle play on the ball and take a shot right there, and they covered it really well,” Love said. “We were left with one second to be able to kick the field goal and tie it up.”
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Love ended up going 31-of-43 passing for 337 yards and three touchdowns, all of which were to Romeo Doubs, in the tie. Josh Jacobs led the team with 86 yards and two touchdowns on the ground, and he had 71 receiving yards on four catches, too. The Packers sit at 2-1-1 entering their bye week.
Dak Prescott went 31-of-40 for 319 yards with three touchdowns for the Cowboys. Javonte Williams had 85 yards and a score on 20 carries, and George Pickens had 134 yards and two touchdowns on eight catches. The Cowboys now hold a 1-2-1 record heading into next weekend’s matchup with the New York Jets.
While the Packers didn’t lose, it’s easy to wonder if they could have found the end zone had the final play from scrimmage been run better. The bright side now is that they’ll have two weeks to clean up their two-minute offense.
