The Green Bay Packers stressed complete coverage on Dallas Cowboys’ receiver Terrell Owens for Sunday night’s prime time game and boy did it ever work. In the entire game, Owens was limited to only two catches for a total of 17 yards. Basically, Green Bay shut him down.

But they seemed to have forgotten about every other offensive weapon that the Cowboys have. While Owens was attracting double (and sometimes triple) coverage from the Packers’ secondary, backup receiver Mike Austin caught two huge passes totaling for 115 yards and what would prove to be the game winning touchdown.

In addition to his spectacular output, running back Marion Barber ran for 142 yards (career high) and a touchdown, and the secondary running back Felix Jones added  a 60-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.

So at least for now, Dallas remains the team to be beaten in the NFC. This matchup between the Packers and Cowboys had experts predicting the winner to be the best team in the NFL. So, according to them, that’s the Cowboys. But then again, it is only week 3 and there are several other unbeaten teams in the NFL such as the Bills, Titans, and (defending Superbowl champions) New York Giants.

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