PRO FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT : Packers Try to Prevent Big Play

The Green Bay Packers are talking as if they will use extra defensive backs and drop linebackers Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys in hopes of stopping the big play.

Such plays as that 94-yard touchdown pass from Cowboy quarterback Troy Aikman to since-departed receiver Alvin Harper in the second round of last season’s NFC playoffs.

Or the touchdown pass plays of 45 yards to Harper and 35 yards to Michael Irvin during last season’s regular-season game. Passes from a third-string quarterback named Jason Garrett, no less.

Or the 48-yard touchdown pass from Aikman to Irvin this season.

“Those are the kinds of things that I can still see very, very clearly,” safety LeRoy Butler said. “Those are the things you have to really concentrate on. That’s a big reason why we slowed down San Francisco.”

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How big are the Packers in Green Bay? As big as you would expect NFL players to be in a high-school sized town.

Mark Chmura, a tight end who is virtually unknown in the sports world, said he was walking out of a mall with his wife recently when a young girl walked up to him and started screaming.

“I’m serious, she was screaming,” he said. “I was sort of embarrassed. I had to go over and calm her down and give her an autograph . . . and then get the heck out of there.”