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Cook delivered on a promise he had made to offensive linemen earlier in the week.
"We were walking through and running through some halfback screens [at practice]," center Garrett Bradbury explained Monday. "We had finished and were huddling up for the next one, and Dalvin goes to all five linemen, 'You guys just get your guys down. I'll do the rest. That's it.'
"He just had this confidence about him, and we did, too, that as long as the ball is in his hands, he's going to make something happen," Bradbury added. "We just have to give him that little bit of daylight he needs. That's exactly what happened on that play."
Bradbury was the first to release and make contact with a Packers defender, cut-blocking linebacker Krys Barnes at the Green Bay 47 as Cook was about to cross midfield. Left guard Dakota Dozier then took out defensive back Chandon Sullivan to allow a cutback by Cook.
Right guard Ezra Cleveland gets enough of safety Darnell Savage to help Cook avoid a diving attempt at the 42. Then, Cook slices and dices his way past safety Vernon Scott at the 35.
Right tackle Brian O'Neill has been hustling the whole time and sees linebacker Preston Smith nearing Cook at the 30, but O'Neill takes Smith out of the play, allowing Cook to mash the gas on the way to the end zone.