Wild Card Round: St. Louis Cardinals at Green Bay Packers (Lambeau Field), the bracket opens here. Kickoff: Sat January 8, 1983 at 12:30pm. Winner advances to the divisional round. Loser starts the offseason early.[1][2]
Wild card weekend is the most chaotic football the calendar produces. St. Louis Cardinals at Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field is the kind of game that decides whether a season was a long buildup or a quick exit. These are the games where the second-tier playoff teams have to prove they belong. Most don't. The few who do define the rest of January.
The bracket has narrowed to the teams that survived the regular season. St. Louis Cardinals and Green Bay Packers are two of them; the rest of the league is in scouting mode for the offseason. What happens in Lambeau Field shifts the rest of the tree: a road favorite winning rearranges seeding expectations; a home upset shows the bracket math underweights heart.
St. Louis Cardinals versus Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card Round. The teams who reach this round have already proven they survive a long schedule; the stats that matter most now are the ones that compress: scoring differential, red-zone efficiency, turnover margin. At this stage of the year, the simple math is that defenses tighten and the team that protects the ball wins more often than the team that scores the most. Whichever side of St. Louis Cardinals-Green Bay Packers cleans up the careless plays first usually walks out with the result. Conservative-game expectations should not surprise the reader; both staffs know exactly what worked all season and will lean hard on what travels. The early answer is the kicking game, where any swing of field position compounds.
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Bengals | 7-2 | W2 |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | 6-3 | W2 |
| Cleveland Browns | 4-5 | L1 |
| Houston Oilers | 1-8 | L7 |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Miami Dolphins | 7-2 | W3 |
| New York Jets | 6-3 | L1 |
| New England Patriots | 5-4 | W1 |
| Buffalo Bills | 4-5 | L3 |
| Baltimore Colts | 0-8-1 | L2 |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Raiders | 8-1 | W5 |
| San Diego Chargers | 6-3 | L1 |
| Seattle Seahawks | 4-5 | W1 |
| Kansas City Chiefs | 3-6 | W1 |
| Denver Broncos | 2-7 | L3 |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Atlanta Falcons | 5-4 | L2 |
| New Orleans Saints | 4-5 | W1 |
| San Francisco 49ers | 3-6 | L1 |
| Los Angeles Rams | 2-7 | W1 |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Green Bay Packers | 5-3-1 | L1 |
| Minnesota Vikings | 5-4 | W1 |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 5-4 | W3 |
| Detroit Lions | 4-5 | W1 |
| Chicago Bears | 3-6 | L1 |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | 8-1 | W4 |
| Dallas Cowboys | 6-3 | L2 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 5-4 | L1 |
| New York Giants | 4-5 | W1 |
| Philadelphia Eagles | 3-6 | L1 |
| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinals | Neil O'Donoghue 18 yard field goal | 3-0 |
| Packers | John Jefferson 60 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | 3-7 |
| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Packers | James Lofton 20 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | 3-14 |
| Packers | Eddie Lee Ivery 2 yard rush (Jan Stenerud kick) | 3-21 |
| Packers | Eddie Lee Ivery 4 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | 3-28 |
| Cardinals | Pat Tilley 5 yard pass from Neil Lomax | 9-28 |
| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Packers | Jan Stenerud 46 yard field goal | 9-31 |
| Packers | John Jefferson 7 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | 9-38 |
| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Packers | Jan Stenerud 34 yard field goal | 9-41 |
| Cardinals | Mike Shumann 18 yard pass from Neil Lomax (Neil O'Donoghue kick) | 16-41 |
Green Bay Packers defeated St. Louis Cardinals 41-16 at Lambeau Field in the Wild Card Round. The final scoring play was Cardinals: Mike Shumann 18 yard pass from Neil Lomax (Neil O'Donoghue kick). The 25-point margin made it a one-sided afternoon. Top line of the day: Neil Lomax: 385 pass yards on 32-of-51, 2 TD, 2 INT. Green Bay Packers advance to the divisional round.[1][2]
Green Bay Packers walked out of Lambeau Field as the team that survived a Wild Card Round St. Louis Cardinals will replay in its head for the entire offseason. The scoreboard says 41-16. This was a 25-point margin, which is unusual for this round of the postseason and tells a story about which staff out-prepared the other from the opening series. The final scoring play came from Cardinals: Mike Shumann 18 yard pass from Neil Lomax (Neil O'Donoghue kick). Whether it was the game-decider or just the period at the end of the sentence depends on what the camera caught earlier. Green Bay Packers advance to the divisional round.
Green Bay Packers 41, St. Louis Cardinals 16.
Round: Wild Card Round.
Q1: 2 scoring plays.
Q2: 4 scoring plays.
Q3: 2 scoring plays.
Q4: 2 scoring plays.
Top performers:
- Neil Lomax: 385 pass yards on 32-of-51, 2 TD, 2 INT
- Eddie Lee Ivery: 67 rush yards on 13 carries
- John Jefferson: 6 catches for 148 yards
Wild Card Round, played at Lambeau Field. Final: St. Louis Cardinals 16, Green Bay Packers 41, with Green Bay Packers taking the result by 25.
First quarter
- Cardinals: Neil O'Donoghue 18 yard field goal
- Packers: John Jefferson 60 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick)
Second quarter
- Packers: James Lofton 20 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick)
- Packers: Eddie Lee Ivery 2 yard rush (Jan Stenerud kick)
- Packers: Eddie Lee Ivery 4 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick)
- Cardinals: Pat Tilley 5 yard pass from Neil Lomax
Third quarter
- Packers: Jan Stenerud 46 yard field goal
- Packers: John Jefferson 7 yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick)
Fourth quarter
- Packers: Jan Stenerud 34 yard field goal
- Cardinals: Mike Shumann 18 yard pass from Neil Lomax (Neil O'Donoghue kick)
Top performers
- Neil Lomax: 385 pass yards on 32-of-51, 2 TD, 2 INT
- Eddie Lee Ivery: 67 rush yards on 13 carries
- John Jefferson: 6 catches for 148 yards
The 25-point margin says most of what needs saying about how the day went; the box score is the rest.
| Cardinals | Packers | |
|---|---|---|
| Team totals | ||
| First Downs | 27 | 22 |
| Total Yards | 453 | 394 |
| Turnovers | 4 | 1 |
| Passing | ||
| Comp/Att | 32/51 | 19/26 |
| Pass yards | 385 | 286 |
| Pass TD | 2 | 4 |
| Interceptions | 2 | 0 |
| Sacks taken | 5 | 0 |
| Sack yards lost | 38 | 0 |
| Net pass yards | 347 | 286 |
| Rushing | ||
| Rushes | 23 | 31 |
| Rush yards | 106 | 108 |
| Rush TD | 0 | 1 |
| Discipline | ||
| Fumbles | 3 | 1 |
| Fumbles lost | 2 | 1 |
| Penalties | 6 | 5 |
| Penalty yards | 78 | 35 |
| Player | C/A | Yds | TD | Int | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STL | |||||
| Neil Lomax | 32/51 | 385 | 2 | 2 | 82.6 |
| GNB | |||||
| Lynn Dickey | 17/23 | 260 | 4 | 0 | 150.4 |
| Rich Campbell | 1/2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 75 |
| Gerry Ellis | 1/1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 112.5 |
| Player | Att | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STL | ||||
| Ottis Anderson | 8 | 58 | 0 | 13 |
| Stump Mitchell | 7 | 21 | 0 | 13 |
| Wayne Morris | 3 | 14 | 0 | 8 |
| Neil Lomax | 4 | 9 | 0 | 6 |
| Roy Green | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| GNB | ||||
| Eddie Lee Ivery | 13 | 67 | 1 | 18 |
| Gerry Ellis | 5 | 27 | 0 | 10 |
| Del Rodgers | 6 | 18 | 0 | 9 |
| Jim Jensen | 3 | 10 | 0 | 6 |
| Lynn Dickey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harlan Huckleby | 2 | -1 | 0 | 3 |
| James Lofton | 1 | -13 | 0 | -13 |
| Player | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STL | ||||
| Roy Green | 9 | 113 | 0 | 29 |
| Mike Shumann | 4 | 59 | 1 | 18 |
| Stump Mitchell | 4 | 57 | 0 | 36 |
| Pat Tilley | 5 | 55 | 1 | 23 |
| Ken Thompson | 3 | 41 | 0 | 20 |
| Wayne Morris | 3 | 32 | 0 | 15 |
| Doug Marsh | 2 | 18 | 0 | 17 |
| Willard Harrell | 2 | 10 | 0 | 5 |
| GNB | ||||
| John Jefferson | 6 | 148 | 2 | 60 |
| James Lofton | 3 | 52 | 1 | 24 |
| Paul Coffman | 4 | 39 | 0 | 15 |
| Gerry Ellis | 3 | 29 | 0 | 14 |
| Del Rodgers | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Eddie Lee Ivery | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Jim Jensen | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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