mike mccarthy mentioned was scott wells. here is graham, taking it to the 50 yard line at quarterback for green bay. >> i think the guy they're going to talk about next week is t.j. lang and the job that he's doing on the outside with this defensive line. this was a major question come into the game. no sacks in the ball game whatsoever from this packers offensive line. smith going in, newhouse a nice job. and then we just talked about scott wells. very impressive perform mans tonight. >> al: second and one. he played in the sunday night game after suffering a concussion the prior week in detroit. he turned in a pretty good performance that night in foxboro. that was a great game until the very end. he's the kind of guy he gets an awe tigs here anticipate teams around the league are going to look at this guy. he may wind up with a pretty good free agent contract at some point. >> cris: i think that was the last game the packers lost, right? >> al: it was. game here for the running back. >> cris: bowman took over for jennings

mike mccarthy has to be happy with how the offensive line played. they gave aaron rodgers great protection. did a great job on julius pepperpepper you didn't notice the starters being out and i think he's got to be happy about that. i wouldn't push my luck. i would take rodgers out, maybe play him a half. but i would stoort rest those guys and try to minimize my chance of injuries next week. >> bob: you don't want several weeks off before the fwlof playoffs begin for them. i definitely would not play those guys the whole game. >> al: what's your take on the cowboys and giants? >> tony: these game games have always been close. they've been high scoring. it came down to which quarterback does well in the fourth quarter. i expect it to be that way again. they were down two scores, had the big touchdown to get it close. and then another throw to ballard to really set up the game-winning touchdown. he was the difference in the first game. i think tony romo has to step up and make some of those fourth quarter plays as dallas wants to win it this time arou

and there's many circumstances, mike mccarthy has more information than anybody else.e'll make the decision that he thinks, of course, is best for his football team. jim: third and 5. it's a safety. it's mcclain that comes in and drops flynn for the two. phil: right up the middle, a blitz. and looks like it could be a blown assignment. it must be ryan grant's has the middle linebacker but hard for him to get around the quarterback to get in position to do it. that's what happens when you're underneath the center and you get those inside blitzes. the running back cannot help you in blitz pickup. jim: mcclain's second sack of the day which matches his season total coming in. put two points on the board for the raiders with 11 minutes to go. matt flynn, who will be a free agent at the end of the season, and he played exceptionally well when he started last year at new england. that was the last game the packers lost. and it was a nail biter. flynn almost leading them to victory. phil: you think back, you always got to be fortunate to have playoff runs. the packers had to

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mccarthy. george wallace. because wallace was an outsider. and, you know, miketh that and, yet, it's sort of like newt is in that category of an outsider. a street fighter. >> bobby had -- robert kennedy had an appeal that was kind of extraordinary. i can remember an evening in gary, indiana, where those streets were lined with white ethnic working class people out there to cheer robert kennedy and he is the same candidate who could go to indianapolis and announce to a largely african-american crowd that martin luther king had just been assassinated. they did not know it. he had this extraordinairy pull together appeal and i think part of it emanated from the fact that people regardless of their income, regardless of their skin color, had the feeling that he would fight for them. now, he didn't articulate the battles that they felt they had to fight. >> right. >> but they felt he would fight for them. the gingrich thing is really kind of interesting to me. if you walk around in places like new hampshire, i haven't been to iowa yet, there is a fringe element to t