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With the third preseason game considered the most realistic "dress rehearsal" for the regular season, the Green Bay Packers would be hard-pressed to find a tougher opponent than the one they're facing Friday night.
The Arizona Cardinals are the defending NFC champions who came within one final Pittsburgh Steelers drive of winning Super Bowl XLIII last February in Tampa. But if you're going to play a game as close to a real one as possible in the preseason, you might as well take on the team everybody in the NFC will be trying to knock off come September.
"This is a great opportunity to play this football team and to play them on their home turf," Head Coach Mike McCarthy said. "This will be a big test for us. We have questions we're still trying to work through and making sure we have our personnel groups ready to go as we move into the regular season, but this is a big opportunity for us."
On both sides of the ball. The Green Bay offense, which has scored ..
Source: Packers.com
