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HBO’s Terry Bradshaw: Going Deep unveils its trailer
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The HBO Sports-NFL Films documentary combines the Hall of Fame former quarterback and longtime Fox Sports studio analyst’s stage show with an interview and rare archival footage. Terry Bradshaw: Going Deep premieres Feb. 1.
FOX Bet Super 6: How to play ‘Stack The Cash’ for 49ers-Packers
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National Football League FOX Bet Super 6: How to play ‘Stack The Cash’ for 49ers-Packers 1 day ago share facebook twitter reddit link
By Kevin Cooney
Special to FOX Sports
Usually, in Green Bay in January, the only thing that gets stacked upon itself is snowfall totals.
This weekend, however, the Divisional Round contest between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field is allowing those who play FOX Bet’s Super 6 Jackpot to stack up a blizzard-sized portion of dollar bills from Terry Bradshaw.
The app that has paid $6 million in prizes in just over two years will have a huge jackpot on this Saturday’s NFC tilt (8 p.m. ET on FOX), as the “Stack the Cash” promotion is back!
In case you missed it earlier this year, the premise behind “Stack the Cash” is simple: the more people who enter the contest, the more money FOX Bet Super 6 will give away. In fact, back in Week 8, the “Stack the Cash” jackpot rose to $313,794 before it was split evenly between a few different winners who all managed to make six correct picks about that weekend’s NFL games.
This week, “Stack the Cash” is only slightly different, as fans will answer six questions about how the 49ers-Packers game specifically will play out. But that’s the only difference, with the “Stack the Cash” jackpot climbing and climbing as more people participate.
As of Saturday afternoon, the 49ers-Packers jackpot had surpassed a quarter of a million dollars, and that’s before the late entries that always come pouring in right before kickoff.
How do you win? Well, the answer is simple — just answer all six questions on the FOX Bet Super 6 app correctly with the right margins for such questions as how many passing yards will Aaron Rodgers have, who will have the longest field goal and who will win the battle of two old playoff rivals.
Get them all right, and you will be taking home a jackpot! It’s easy, fun and free.
But the best part of all is that the more people that play, the more the jackpot goes up. That means that you, your family, your friends, your neighbors — whoever! — can help lift the jackpot to an even larger amount just by signing up and spreading the word with the #StacktheCash hashtag on social media.
You can’t win the jackpot unless you play, and the best way to make the most of your entry is to tell everyone you know. So in reality, there’s no reason not to give it a try this weekend.
Download the FOX Super 6 app for your chance to win thousands of dollars on the biggest sporting events each and every week, including this week’s “Stack the Cash” progressive jackpot on Saturday’s matchup between the 49ers and Packers! Just make your picks, and you could win the grand prize. Download and play today!
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What went wrong for Packers in playoff loss to 49ers? Special teams, Aaron Rodgers and another Lambeau miss
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The Packers’ Super Bowl hopes died on the frozen tundra again.
Green Bay lost to San Francisco 13-10 in the NFC divisional round Saturday night in a shocker that knocked the No. 1 seed out of the playoffs, renewed questions about Aaron Rodgers’ future and exposed a key weakness at the worst possible time.
If it’s possible to have a meltdown in zero-degree temperatures, then that is what happened. What went wrong for the Packers this postseason?
Special teams
The Packers could never build a two-score lead in the game because they committed a series of special teams miscues, all at the worst possible monents.
Green Bay had a chance to go up 10-0 before halftime after Rodgers completed a 75-yard pass to Aaron Jones with 26 seconds remaining in the second quarter, but Mason Crosby’s 39-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Jimmie Ward two plays later. Crosby was 25 for 34 on field-goal attempts in the regular season, a 73.5 percent rate that was the worst of his career.
Deebo Samuel returned the second-half kickoff 45 yards to set up San Francisco’s first points of the game, a Robbie Gould field goal. The 49ers tied the game with 4:41 to play when Talanoa Hufanaga returned a blocked punt for a touchdown. Gould then stuck a 45-yard field goal in the snow as time expired to seal the victory.
That’s 13 points that switched sides in a cold-weather fistfight. Packers special teams coordinator Maurice Drayton will feel the heat, but that isn’t the big question in Green Bay now.
No offense in the second half
Green Bay opened the game with a 10-play, 69-yard touchdown drive that A.J. Dillon finished with a 6-yard scoring run. But it could not take advantage of the defense limiting San Francisco to 58 yards in the first half.
The problem? Green Bay had 58 total yards in the second half. Dillon left with an injury and Rodgers took five sacks. The snowy weather in the second half worked to the 49ers’ advantage, and Rodgers locked in on Jones and Davante Adams, who accounted for 219 of Green Bay’s 225 receiving yards.
MORE: Updates, highlights from 49ers-Packers
Will the play-calling be questioned? On the Packers’ last two drives, Rodgers was 1 of 4 for 4 yards (a completion to Adams) and he took a sack. The Packers had just one running play in that critical stretch.
San Francisco set up Gould’s game-winning field goal with a 14-yard pass from Jimmy Garoppolo to Samuel and then a 9-yard draw by Samuel on third-and-7.
Should Aaron Rodgers take heat?
The stakes were high for Rodgers. He was coming off back-to-back NFC championship losses and a soap-opera offseason that included an open question about whether this would be his final season with the Packers.
Rodgers delivered a NFL MVP performance in the regular season with 4,115 yards, 37 touchdowns and four interceptions. He led Green Bay to a 13-4 record. The season wasn’t without drama, however. Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 before a Week 9 matchup against the Chiefs, and he was more open and honest with the media than ever.
MORE: Why Rodgers will be voted MVP
The criticism is coming full blast now, especially from Rodgers critics who took exception to that new-found candidness. He’s 11-10 in the postseason and 0-4 against the 49ers. That is the lowest winning percentage (.524) among NFL quarterbacks with at least 11 playoff wins, a velvet-rope fraternity that includes Tom Brady (35-11), Joe Montana (16-7), Terry Bradshaw (14-5), John Elway (14-7), Peyton Manning (14-13), Ben Roethlisberger (13-10), Brett Favre (13-11), Troy Aikman (11-4) and Roger Staubach (11-6).
Rodgers’ winning percentage is closest to Manning’s (.519). Manning, of course, left Indianapolis to get a second Super Bowl ring in Denver. Cue the uncomfortable offseason rumor-mill chatter in Green Bay. It’s coming.
Lambeau mystique fades
Green Bay was 13-0 at Lambeau Field from 1939-2001, a streak that encompassed the entire Vince Lombardi era and a chunk of the Favre heyday in the late 1990s.
Since Michael Vick torched the Packers on Jan. 4, 2003, in a 27-7 blowout, the Packers are 7-6 in home playoff games. That includes NFC championship game losses to the Giants and Buccaneers and Saturday’s loss. Rodgers is 5-4 in home playoff games.
It could be argued that the weather helped San Francisco, of all teams, pull off an improbable upset.
What now?
It’s obviously Rodgers’ future, and how coach Matt LaFleur and general manager Brian Gutekunst respond in the offseason knowing 2020 first-round pick Jordan Love has spent the last two seasons on the bench.
The Vikings and Bears will be hiring new coaches, and the psychological toll of three swings and misses in the playoffs will require a full-scale response to maintain that level of dominance within the NFC North. Rodgers could easily stay in Green Bay, but more changes are coming.
MORE: Rodgers’ history vs. 49ers
Green Bay has been great of late in the regular season. The Packers are 39-10 the past three years under LaFleur, the best regular-season record in the NFL.
That’s not what will be talked about until September.
It’s a question that will be confronted at least one week earlier than expected.
49ers-Packers, Bengals-Titans: Game times, channels, how to watch and stream playoffs
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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ path back to the Super Bowl begins against the San Francsico 49ers at Lambeau Field on Saturday night. Read more
The divisional round of the NFL playoffs kicks off Saturday with the Cincinnati Bengals facing the Tennessee Titans at 4:30 p.m. on CBS, followed by the San Francisco 49ers taking on the Green Bay Packers at 8:15 p.m. on Fox.
All eyes will be on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who overcame the controversy created by his less-than-truthful approach to the COVID-19 vaccine to post an MVP-caliber season in Green Bay. But maybe the focus should be on 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, despite his sometimes ugly stats and misplaced throws.
Garoppolo is expected to play Saturday against the Packers despite spraining his right shoulder during last week’s wildcard win against the Dallas Cowboys. The Packers are easy favorites at home in Lambeau Field, but Garoppolo is 13-5 in his career as an underdog, the best winning percentage by any NFL quarterback on an underdog team in the Super Bowl era, according to ESPN researcher Mackenzie Kraemer.
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One small caveat — Garoppolo has never started a game where the temperature has dropped below freezing, according to Pro Football Reference. The coldest game he’s started was against the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 1, 2019, where the temperature at kickoff was 40 degrees. Meanwhile, Rogers is no stranger to bad weather — the Packers are 6-3 in playoff games with him under center and the temperature at kickoff was 32 degrees or lower.
As far as the playoffs are concerned, the 49ers are 3-1 in playoff games with Garoppolo as their starter, including a 37-20 win over Rodgers and the Packers in the divisional round of the 2019 playoffs. But Garoppolo only needed to throw eight passes in that game thanks to running back Raheem Mostert, who rushed for 220 yards and four touchdowns.
Calling the game on Fox will be Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who appear to attract the same amount of irrational anger in Green Bay as they do here in Philadelphia (a reaction Buck used to mock on his Twitter bio with the phrase, “I love all teams EXCEPT yours.”). Reporting from the sidelines will be Tom Rinaldi and Erin Andrews, who got flak last month after sharing a maskless hug with Rodgers following a postgame interview where the two were socially distanced due to the league’s COVID-19 protocols.
“A lot of people forget, we’re with these guys 18 weeks out of the year. We see them all the time, we’re with them during the highs and lows of their career. I’m grateful for the access they’ve given me,” Andrews said on her podcast Calm Down with Erin and Charissa, which she co-hosts with with her Fox Sports colleague Charissa Thompson.
Here’s everything you need to know to watch Saturday’s games:
Bengals at Titans: AFC Divisional Round
When: Saturday, Jan. 22
Where: Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tenn.
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern
TV: CBS (Ian Eagle, Trent Green, Evan Washburn)
Radio: 94.1 WIP via Westood One (Ryan Radtke, Tony Boselli, Laura Okmin)
Streaming: Paramount+, fuboTV (free seven-day trial), YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV (all require a subscription)
Mobile: NFL Mobile app, Yahoo Sports app (free on smartphones and tablets within the Philadelphia market)
Referee: Clete Blakeman
Line: Titans -3 | Total: 47
CBS NFL analyst Charles Davis, known to many as the voice of Madden football, was a late scratch to the game due to COVID-19 protocols.
It’s the second time this month CBS has had to shuffle their booth at the last minute — in Week 18, Phillies announcer Tom McCarthy had to step in to take the place of Jim Nantz, who was also out due to COVID-19 protocols.
“My biggest objective was just to kind of fit in and not disrupt what they’ve done for all the weeks that they’ve done those games,” McCarthy told the Inquirer following the game.
Filling in for Davis will be former Rams and Chiefs quarterback Trent Green, who has been an analyst at CBS since 2014 and called NFL games since 2009.
49ers at Packers: NFC Divisional Round
When: Saturday, Jan. 22
Where: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisc.
Time: 8:15 p.m.
TV: Fox (Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi)
Radio: 94.1 WIP via Westood One (Kevin Harlan, James Lofton, Ben Leber)
Streaming: Fox Sports Go app (required authentication), fuboTV (free 7-day trial), YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV (all require a subscription)
Mobile: NFL Mobile app, Yahoo Sports app (free on smartphones and tablets within the Philadelphia market)
Referee: Ron Torbert
Line: Packers -5.5 | Total: 47.5
Saturday’s NFL pregame shows
ESPN, 10 a.m.: NFL Countdown (Sam Ponder, Randy Moss, Tedy Bruschi, Matt Hasselbeck, Rex Ryan)
NFL Network, noon: NFL GameDay Morning (Rich Eisen, Steve Mariucci, Kurt Warner, Michael Irvin)
CBS3, 3:30 p.m.: The NFL Today (James Brown, Phil Simms, Bill Cowher, Boomer Esiason, Nate Burleson)
Fox29, 7:30 p.m.: NFL on Fox (Terry Bradshaw, Curt Menefee, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Jimmy Johnson)
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2022 NFL playoffs schedule
Divisional Round
Saturday, Jan. 22
Time Game TV 4:30 p.m. Bengals-Titans CBS 8:15 p.m. 49ers-Packers Fox
Sunday, Jan. 23
Time Game TV 3 p.m. Rams-Buccaneers NBC 6:30 p.m. Bills-Chiefs CBS
Conference championships
Sunday, Jan. 30
Time Game TV 3 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. AFC Championship CBS 3 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. NFL Championship Fox
Pro Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 6
Time Game Location TV 3 p.m. AFC-NFC Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas ABC, ESPN
Super Bowl LVI
Sunday, Feb. 13