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Do you think the Packers would have an edge, because the SB is in a dome?
Packers-Steelers Super Bowl XLV Dope Sheet
Since the arrival of MM, the Pack is 11-6 in domes, Rodgers has a 111+ passer rating and averages 300 yards and offense total average points of 30.6!
Packers-Steelers Super Bowl XLV Dope Sheet
INSIDE JOB
After playing five of the past six games outdoors in cold-weather conditions, the Packers will head indoors for the second time this postseason, an environment they have had some success in during Head Coach Mike McCarthy’s tenure.
Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will be the sixth time in franchise history that the Packers have played in a dome in the postseason. It will be the second time they have played indoors in a Super Bowl, with the first instance coming in Super Bowl XXXI vs. New England at the Superdome in New Orleans on Jan. 26, 1997.
Since McCarthy took over in 2006, the Packers are 11-6 (.647) in dome games (including playoffs).
McCarthy won his first six dome games as a head coach before the Packers fell just short at Minnesota in a 28-27 loss on Nov. 9, 2008.
Green Bay’s offense has been productive indoors, averaging 381.6 yards of total offense and 30.6 points in the 17 dome games compared to averages of 356.3 yards per game and 24.3 points per game in outdoor contests over that span. In 12 of the 17 dome games, the Packers posted at least 370 yards of total offense.
QB Aaron Rodgers has a 111.5 passer rating in 12 career starts (including postseason) in domes, with 3,434 passing yards, 25 TDs and just six INTs on 264-of-385 passing (68.6 percent).
His 111.5 passer rating indoors (including playoffs) since 2008 ranks No. 1 in the NFL. He leads the league in yards per attempt at 8.92 and ranks No. 2 in interception percentage at 1.6 (min. 200 attempts).
Rodgers has registered seven 300-yard games in domes in his 12 starts, and has averaged 286.2 passing yards per game despite playing less than a half at Detroit this season in Week 14 (concussion).
Of his top five single-game yardage totals, three have come indoors, including a career-best 423 yards at Arizona last year in a Wild Card game (Jan. 10, 2010) and 366 yards at Atlanta this season in the Divisional contest (Jan. 15, 2011).
The Packers’ defense has done its part as well, posting 36 takeaways (2.1 per game) and seven defensive touchdowns in the 17 dome games since ’06, including six contests with at least three takeaways. That has contributed to Green Bay’s plus-11 turnover ratio indoors since 2006.
Since the arrival of MM, the Pack is 11-6 in domes, Rodgers has a 111+ passer rating and averages 300 yards and offense total average points of 30.6!