“The youngest group ever to win a play-off sport and the primary group ever to win because the seventh seed – that simply reveals you that everyone right here is succesful.”
Dan Whelan, rookie punter with the Inexperienced Bay Packers and the primary Irish-born participant to function within the NFL play-offs in over 4 many years, is having fun with the trip in his debut season.
The Packers produced the largest upset in final weekend’s wild card spherical, eliminating the Dallas Cowboys with a complete 48-32 win.
Few exterior Wisconsin tipped the underdogs to spring such a shock in Texas, however Whelan says they had been decided to upset the percentages and approached the sport with the fitting mentality.
The message within the locker room pre-match was easy, in response to Whelan.
“Now we have simply received be grimier than them – struggle for it extra,” says the 24-year-old, who was born in County Wicklow earlier than shifting to California as an adolescent.
“They did not need to go the total size of the sport – we did.”
It was an enormous win for the Packers, gorgeous a fancied Cowboys facet trying to achieve their first Tremendous Bowl in additional than 25 years.
However Whelan says the Packers have already moved on, with one other daunting divisional spherical prospect on Saturday on the San Francisco 49ers, the primary seed within the NFC convention.
“Now it is a greater one this week,” provides Whelan, who supplanted nine-year veteran Pat O’Donnell for the punter place at Inexperienced Bay.
“So, it is on to the subsequent – we now have extra video games to play and we’re not performed but.”