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The Green Bay Packers (5-8) will host the Los Angeles Rams (4-9) on Monday Night Football, marking the latest MNF contest ever at Lambeau Field.

It will be the first time the Packers have hosted the defending Super Bowl champions since Oct. 14, 2001, vs. Baltimore.
It will be the first prime-time matchup between the teams since they met on MNF at Lambeau Field (Nov. 29, 2004). It was the only times the two teams met on MNF.
It will be the latest regular-season visit for the Rams to Lambeau Field since 1992, a 28-13 victory by Green Bay on Dec. 20.
Green Bay has won six of the last seven regular-season matchups with the Rams and 13 of the last 18.
Including the postseason, the Packers have won each of the last four home games against the Rams, outscoring them, 116-59.
During the regular season, the series between the Packers and Rams is 46-46-2 while Green Bay holds a 2-1 advantage in the postseason.
This will be the third time Head Coach Matt LaFleur will lead the Packers against the Rams, which he was the offensive coordinator for in 2017. Green Bay has beaten Los Angeles in the 2020 postseason and 2021 regular season, scoring 30-plus points in both contests.
QB Aaron Rodgers has started against the Rams seven times (including postseason) with the Packers winning six of those contests and scoring 24-plus points in all seven games.
Rodgers has thrown for 15 TDs, three INTs and a passer rating of 109.6 against the Rams.
Rodgers has posted a passer rating of 100-plus in five of the seven contests.
This will be the Packers' first home game in over a month, having last played at Lambeau Field against Tennessee on Nov. 17.
The Packers are coming off a victory at Chicago in Week 13 that gave Green Bay 787 victories, the most in the regular season in the history of the NFL. It is the first time since December 1921 (Buffalo All-Americans) that the Bears franchise (786) does not lead the NFL or have a share of the lead in all-time regular-season wins.
Under LaFleur, Green Bay is 14-1 (.933) at home in Week 10 or later, marking the best record in the NFL since 2019 (Kansas City, 11-1, .917).
Green Bay will end the regular season with three of its last four at home for the first time since 2011.
In Week 16, Green Bay will travel to Miami to play the Dolphins, marking the second straight year and the fourth time in franchise history that the Packers will play on Christmas. It will be the first time Green Bay will play on the road on the holiday.

JustJeff wrote:Packers 38
Rams 17

go pak go wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2022 14:56

I just hope it's decisive one way or the other.

Like either show up Packers and give us a reason to be excited or just get the season over with. I don't really want a repeat of a Bears game where we barely win because of two plays from Christian Watson but the rest of the team is garbage.

BSA wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2022 17:43

Almost exactly 60 years ago, Vince took his 12-1 Packers west to face the LA Rams on Dec 16, 1962

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... 160ram.htm

Will MLFs Packers top Vince's Packers in rushing or passing ?

Rushing: 33/181 yds and a TD

Passing: 17/35 250yds and 2 TDs

( Max McGee threw the INT)

RingoCStarrQB wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2022 18:14

Did the Rams really go 1-12-1 that year? Kind of like the old Lions and Buccaneers.

BF004 wrote: ↑

16 Dec 2022 10:32

One of Aaron's best throw's of all time. This will probably never get the respect it deserves. Rolling left, fading back, 45 yard rope, dropped on an actual dime sized window.

Yoop wrote: ↑

16 Dec 2022 10:42

when fans say they want to run the ball, and play great defense at the expense of the quick strike passing, as the preferred offense design, makes my ears burn 5 yrds and a cloud of dust is so boring to watch compared to Rodgers exploiting a secondary as shown in these two vids.

BF004 wrote: ↑

16 Dec 2022 10:32

One of Aaron's best throw's of all time. This will probably never get the respect it deserves. Rolling left, fading back, 45 yard rope, dropped on an actual dime sized window.

Labrev wrote: ↑

16 Dec 2022 12:26

Yoop wrote: ↑

16 Dec 2022 10:42

when fans say they want to run the ball, and play great defense at the expense of the quick strike passing, as the preferred offense design, makes my ears burn 5 yrds and a cloud of dust is so boring to watch compared to Rodgers exploiting a secondary as shown in these two vids.

And what you fail to understand from those of us saying so is, every opposing Defense wants to take away the big pass play from Rodgers knowing he can make plays like this, that's exactly why you have to ESTABLISH the run: force the D to respect your ground game so they can't just key in on stopping Rodgers. Stretch the D thin, create holes otherwise Rodgers can't "exploit" anything.

But the attitude you just articulated, i.e. "these run gains are too short and BORING, can we pass it already?!?" ... is the enemy of establishing a run that the opposing D will respect, and how (good) teams beat Green Bay.

Among other lame excuses for why we shouldn't commit to the run. Others include: "the run wasn't 'working' this game!" or "they were stacking the box!" or "we were down, we had to pass!" (you probably recognize these).

It's especially egregious given that the signature move of the Kubiak scheme, which MLF's offense originates in, is the Play-Action pass, which only works if the defense is selling out to stop the run.

Yoop wrote: ↑

16 Dec 2022 14:10

what YOU fail to understand is the reason opposing defenses succeed at slowing our passing attack and why McCarthy was fired in the first place, our GM's forgot that ya need quality receivers for that stuff to work,

Spoiler

RUN THE BALL

NE has done PA for decades with nothing but average RB's