How excited was star Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander about Inexperienced Bay’s return to the playoffs behind new quarterback Jordan Love?
Simply ask the native Inexperienced Bay information reporter who obtained interrupted throughout a dwell report exterior Lambeau Subject on Monday — by Alexander, who she understandably thought was only a very excited Packers fan.
“I am simply right here to let you know, the Pack is again!” Alexander mentioned, earlier than demonstrating the sword-sheath celebration he typically breaks out in video games.
As one Packers reporter put it, the information reporter was understandably taken off guard and didn’t understand that the keen man interrupting her dwell on digicam was, in actual fact, the highest-paid at his place in NFL historical past.
However the pleasure endeared Alexander all that rather more to Packers followers, and maybe eased the bitter style from the final time he made waves for one thing impromptu — when he took the sphere for Inexperienced Bay’s coin toss regardless of being unauthorized to take action earlier than their Week 16 sport in opposition to Carolina, which earned him a one-game suspension from head coach Matt LaFleur. Alexander defended himself by saying he did so as a result of he’s from Charlotte.
However Alexander returned for the Packers’ Week 18 playoff-clinching win over the Chicago Bears and is slated to play in opposition to the closely favored Dallas Cowboys within the NFC wild-card spherical (Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports activities App).
His happiness, and that of his teammates and Packers followers, is comprehensible. As Colin Cowherd put it on Monday’s version of “The Herd”, the Packers could also be 7.5-point underdogs at Dallas however are primarily “enjoying with home cash” after returning to the postseason of their first yr with Love as their beginning quarterback.
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“When you go to Aaron Rodgers’ ultimate 10 video games final yr with largely the identical dudes, and Jordan Love’s ultimate 10 video games this yr, it isn’t shut,” Cowherd mentioned. “Jordan’s higher than Aaron now. … Jordan was wonderful. What’s actually cool isn’t just the stats. Inexperienced Bay, in case you’re evaluating Aaron and Jordan, has a team-first locker room unifier, fairly paid, ascending in his prime, wildly athletic quarterback, and it was utterly on show yesterday.
“Mission completed. It does not matter in the event that they lose at Dallas, it is one of many youngest groups to ever make the playoffs.”
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