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The Green Bay Packers return home to take on the Arizona Cardinals.
The Packers and Cardinals have been playing against each other since 1921, with Green Bay holding a 45-24-4 (.652) advantage in the the regular-season series, including a 27-10 mark at home.
This will be the Packers' 74th regular-season meeting against the Cardinals, their fifth most against an opponent behind the Chicago Bears (206), Detroit Lions (187), Minnesota Vikings (126) and Los Angeles Rams (97).
Dating back to 1955, Green Bay is 8-1 in the series at home.
The Packers are 18-7 in the month of October against the Cardinals, with wins in each of the last four meetings.
Since they moved to Arizona, Green Bay is 8-3 against the Cardinals during the regular season.
The Packers won the last matchup, 24-21, at Arizona in 2021.
Including the postseason, the last three matchups have been decided by a total of 12 points (6, 3, 3), including an overtime game.
Under Head Coach Matt LaFleur, the Packers are 43-20 against NFC teams, a .683 winning percentage that ranks No. 1 in the conference since 2019.
Since 2019, Green Bay is 8-1 against the NFC West in the regular season, an .889 winning percentage that ranks No. 1 in the NFC and is tied for No. 2 in the NFL over that span. It is the best winning percentage that the Packers have against any division since 2019. Green Bay also has a plus-nine turnover differential against the division over that span, No. 3 in the NFL.
DL Kenny Clark tied his career best with seven solo tackles in the 2018 matchup against Arizona.
DL Preston Smith has faced the Cardinals four times, posting a sack, five QB hits, an interception and a fumble recovery.
Green Bay will take on a couple AFC teams over the next two weeks with a home game against the Houston Texans in Week 7 and a road trip to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 8. It will be the second time this season (Weeks 2-3) that Green Bay will play back-to-back AFC South games. It is only the third time since the 1970 merger that the Packers play four AFC teams in the first eight games of the season (1984, 1999).
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FOX Sports, now in its 31st season as an NFL network television partner, will broadcast the game.
Play-by-play man Kevin Kugler joins analyst Daryl Johnston and sideline reporter Laura Okmin.
The game is also available through NFL Sunday Ticket by YouTube.
All Packers games can be heard on the Packers Radio Network, which is made up of 54 stations in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and North and South Dakota. 97.3 The Game – WRNW-Milwaukee is in its third season as the flagship station of the Packers Radio Network. For a map and full listing of radio affiliates, go to packers.com/video/radio-network. Wayne Larrivee (play-by-play), two-time Packers Pro Bowler Larry McCarren (analyst), and three-time Packers Pro Bowler John Kuhn (sideline reporter) call the action. McCarren first joined the team's broadcasts in 1995 and enters his 30th season calling Packers games. After originally being paired together in 1999, McCarren and Larrivee enter their 26th season of broadcasts together. They surpassed Jim Irwin and Max McGee for the most regular-season and postseason games broadcast for the Packers with 313 at the 2018 season opener against Chicago.
The broadcast is also available on Sirius Satellite Radio on channel 83 or 226 or through the app (Packers Radio Network feed).
Sports USA Radio will be broadcasting the game to a national audience with Josh Appel (play-by-play) and James White (analyst) on the call.
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JustJeff wrote:Packers 38
Cardinals 17
Palmy - "Very few have the ability to truly excel regardless of system. For many the system is the difference between being just a guy or an NFL starter. Fact is, everyone is talented at this level."
Gotta contain Murray. He has trouble seeing over his lineman in the pocket. The edge needs to contain and the interior need to press the pocket. I haven’t been that impressed with MHJ so far. He’s not the elite prospect people made him out to be. I think he’s good for sure but he isn’t AJ Green or Calvin Johnson or Jamar Chase type prospects that went that early at WR IMO. Gotta watch out for James Connor too. He’s still a good back at his age and I think he might have a game if we continue to not acknowledge how bad Quay Walker is.
Offensively I want to see us lean into the run a little more on early downs. I think we are passing entirely too much on 1st down instead of getting Jacobs the ball and letting him do damage.
I want to bring this comment from the Packers Defense - 2024 thread to the GDT because I think it warrants further discussion and is applicable to this game specifically.
I don't expect any noticeable uptick by a statistical measure. I would expect their marching orders will be to rush while maintaining containment and not allow Murray to run wild through vacated rush lanes.
There's a measure of success to be had in doing that but it won't necessarily show up on the stat sheet, which is how most people measure "production".
I know I, for one, will be frustrated and yelling at the TV when I see it, but it is the right play with Murray.
Arizona has enough talent to put points on the board. They have more talent than the depleted Rams we faced last week. Maybe not as good of a passer, but otherwise better.
This might actually be a game that Quay turns in a strong performance. He is made for games like this. Let's see what he does in containing their running QB.
I do wonder if Hafley has tuned his blitz package enough to count on it several times a game now. Could come in real handy again.
Will Watson play? Assuming that Doubs plays. Maybe Musgrave puts in some snaps. Hoping our offense keeps dynamic and unpredictable and that Love doesn't try any more 1% passes deep downfield. We are at home. We need to protect the ball, protect the QB, and create some pressure ourselves on their QB.
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Arizona has enough talent to put points on the board. They have more talent than the depleted Rams we faced last week. Maybe not as good of a passer, but otherwise better.
This might actually be a game that Quay turns in a strong performance. He is made for games like this. Let's see what he does in containing their running QB.
I do wonder if Hafley has tuned his blitz package enough to count on it several times a game now. Could come in real handy again.
Will Watson play? Assuming that Doubs plays. Maybe Musgrave puts in some snaps. Hoping our offense keeps dynamic and unpredictable and that Love doesn't try any more 1% passes deep downfield. We are at home. We need to protect the ball, protect the QB, and create some pressure ourselves on their QB.
He's a big, fast WR and physically it would seem (from a measurables standpoint) that Stokes probably matches up best with him. I don't know if I trust Stokes, though. He doesn't play to his size, like, at all. Keisean Nixon is probably the most physical of our CBs but he has terrible technique and takes too many chances. Get burned once by MHJ and it may be a house call. If Jaire plays, it would seem he'd be limited and has historically had trouble with bigger receivers.
I'll be interested to see how Hafley approaches this matchup. MHJ just seems like a player that could cause fits.
SHOOTOUT, both offenses are loaded with talent, both through the air and on the ground, both defenses are suspect, could be whomever has the ball last gets the W, that's if our offense plays as tentative as it has in the first half as it has this season, if it clicks from the get go, could be a long day and flight home for zona
if our defense plays up to it's talent level, Willis will be closing this one out
SHOOTOUT, both offenses are loaded with talent, both through the air and on the ground, both defenses are suspect, could be whomever has the ball last gets the W, that's if our offense plays as tentative as it has in the first half as it has this season, if it clicks from the get go, could be a long day and flight home for zona
if our defense plays up to it's talent level, Willis will be closing this one out
The concept of the Packers going into the second half of the 4th quarter with a huge non-reversible lead allowing my man Malik to come in and perform mop up warms both my heart and soul. Hooray!
Arizona has enough talent to put points on the board. They have more talent than the depleted Rams we faced last week. Maybe not as good of a passer, but otherwise better.
This might actually be a game that Quay turns in a strong performance. He is made for games like this. Let's see what he does in containing their running QB.
I do wonder if Hafley has tuned his blitz package enough to count on it several times a game now. Could come in real handy again.
Will Watson play? Assuming that Doubs plays. Maybe Musgrave puts in some snaps. Hoping our offense keeps dynamic and unpredictable and that Love doesn't try any more 1% passes deep downfield. We are at home. We need to protect the ball, protect the QB, and create some pressure ourselves on their QB.
From what I have noticed of Quay, he tends to make dumb decisions. I don't think he's a very smart player. Let's have him spy Murray on most snaps. I think he'd be better at that than anything else.
"It's better to decide wrongly than weakly; if you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway."
- Bill Parcells
Not a ton to say, we are the better team, with higher expectations, playing at home. Our franchise QB should be recovering better from his knee, getting some WR's back, Ja should be back, defense starting to build some confidence.
No reason we shouldn't come out and win convincingly.
I'll be there, first game I'm bringing my kids to (wasn't cheap).
Arizona has enough talent to put points on the board. They have more talent than the depleted Rams we faced last week. Maybe not as good of a passer, but otherwise better.
This might actually be a game that Quay turns in a strong performance. He is made for games like this. Let's see what he does in containing their running QB.
I do wonder if Hafley has tuned his blitz package enough to count on it several times a game now. Could come in real handy again.
Will Watson play? Assuming that Doubs plays. Maybe Musgrave puts in some snaps. Hoping our offense keeps dynamic and unpredictable and that Love doesn't try any more 1% passes deep downfield. We are at home. We need to protect the ball, protect the QB, and create some pressure ourselves on their QB.
Musgrave is a bust!!
Nope. He's still a project in work. But if you think otherwise, tell us how/why.
Until recently, many "experts" talked about how many TEs don't "get it" until their third year.
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He's a big, fast WR and physically it would seem (from a measurables standpoint) that Stokes probably matches up best with him. I don't know if I trust Stokes, though. He doesn't play to his size, like, at all. Keisean Nixon is probably the most physical of our CBs but he has terrible technique and takes too many chances. Get burned once by MHJ and it may be a house call. If Jaire plays, it would seem he'd be limited and has historically had trouble with bigger receivers.
I'll be interested to see how Hafley approaches this matchup. MHJ just seems like a player that could cause fits.
Maybe this is one where Hefly normally puts a Safety over the top? Who else is their WR anyhow? No matter what, Haf will use multiple looks. Is Murray up to this?
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I’m actually really surprised how much the Cards have run Murray. In the past they really stopped running him as much. Now it’s like they unleashed him. New coaching staff obviously but I always felt it made the most sense to let him run and if he got hurt you love with it but at his size you can’t win with him in the pocket. It’s just don’t think he can see.
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