{"id":12527,"date":"2024-01-20T00:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T00:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-play-offs-were-not-done-yet-packers-ready-for-49ers-says-dan-whelan\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T00:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T00:36:04","slug":"nfl-play-offs-were-not-done-yet-packers-ready-for-49ers-says-dan-whelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-play-offs-were-not-done-yet-packers-ready-for-49ers-says-dan-whelan\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL play-offs: ‘We’re not done yet’ – Packers ready for 49ers, says Dan Whelan"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“The youngest team ever to win a play-off game and the first team ever to win as the seventh seed – that just shows you that everybody here is capable.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Dan Whelan, rookie punter with the Green Bay Packers and the first Irish-born player to feature in the NFL play-offs in over four decades<\/a>, is enjoying the ride in his debut season. <\/p>\n

The Packers produced the biggest upset in last weekend’s wild card round, eliminating the Dallas Cowboys with a comprehensive 48-32 win<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Few outside Wisconsin tipped the underdogs to spring such a surprise in Texas, but Whelan says they were determined to upset the odds and approached the game with the right mentality.<\/p>\n

The message in the locker room pre-match was simple, according to Whelan. <\/p>\n

“We have just got be grimier than them – fight for it more,” says the 24-year-old, who was born in County Wicklow before moving to California as a teenager. <\/p>\n

“They didn’t want to go the full length of the game – we did.”<\/p>\n

It was a huge win for the Packers, stunning a fancied Cowboys side attempting to reach their first Super Bowl in more than 25 years. <\/p>\n

But Whelan says the Packers have already moved on, with another daunting divisional round prospect on Saturday at the San Francisco 49ers, the number one seed in the NFC conference.<\/p>\n

“Now it’s a bigger one this week,” adds Whelan, who supplanted nine-year veteran Pat O’Donnell for the punter position at Green Bay.<\/p>\n

“So, it’s on to the next – we have more games to play and we’re not done yet.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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