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NFL Wild Card weekend watchability rankings

By Andrew Dowdeswell

Jan 1, 2017; Detroit, MI, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. Mandatory Credit: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 1, 2017; Detroit, MI, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. Mandatory Credit: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 1, 2017; Landover, MD, USA; New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) stands on the field prior to the Giants
Jan 1, 2017; Landover, MD, USA; New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) stands on the field prior to the Giants /

1. New York Giants at Green Bay Packers

There is not a better matchup this weekend, in any game, between any team, on either side of the ball, than the Green Bay Packers offense up against the stifling New York Giants defense. When the Giants splashed the cash in free agency last offseason in a desperate attempt to fix a defense that was the worst in the league bar the New Orleans Saints, there were many doubters suggesting that such money was wasted.

Was Olivier Vernon worth the $52.5 million guaranteed money? Was Janoris Jenkins the shutdown corner that New York hoped he would be? Would the reach for Eli Apple in the first round of the draft be vindicated?

Well, now the season is done, it is fair to say ‘Yes’.

Despite such success on the defensive side of the ball, the Giants now enter the realm of Aaron Rodgers, a one-man wrecking machine with a rocket-powered arm who can scramble for years, watching and waiting for the inch of space that Jordy Nelson shimmies his way into at the back of the end zone, before firing a bullet of a pass right into his open arms. Touchdown Packers.

This is the marquee matchup that we have all been waiting to feast our eyes on, and what a feast it is set to be.

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Oh, and if you weren’t yet convinced that this is the best game of the weekend, then there’s the little factor of Odell Beckham Jr. up against a deteriorated Packers’ secondary. Now that will be fun.

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