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Photo by Lindsey Wasson/ The Seahawks are narrow favorites over the Giants on the road on MNF. The final game of the NFL’s week 4 kicks off tonight on Monday Night Football, with the New York Giants hosting the Seattle Seahawks. Both of these teams made the playoffs last season, earning the final two wild card spots in the NFC. Seattle fell to the 2nd-seeded San Francisco 49ers in the Wild Card round, while the Giants upset the Minnesota Vikings before losing to their own division winner, the Philadelphia Eagles, the following week. In addition to featuring a pair of...

Photo by Mike Carlson/ Robinson recorded 1,070 rushing yards in Jacksonville during the 2020 regular season, when he was a rookie. While the Green Bay Packers are reportedly out of the Jonathan Taylor sweepstakes, the team apparently isn’t done looking at the running back market. According to ESPN’s Rob Demovsky, the Packers worked out five players on Monday — including former 1,000-yard rusher James Robinson. Robinson, an undrafted player out of Illinois State, broke out as a rookie with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2020. Unfortunately, a 2021 Achilles tear has...

Photo by Scott Taetsch/ Walker is the expected starter at left tackle for the remainder of the 2023 regular season. One of the most surprising players to become an every-down contributor for the 2023 Green Bay Packers is tackle Rasheed Walker, who played just four special teams snaps as a rookie last season. Coming into training camp this summer, the expectation was that Walker, at best, was going to be fourth on the depth chart at tackle behind left tackle David Bakhtiari and Zach Tom and Yosh Nijman, who were expected to compete for the right tackle job. Since then,...

Photo by Megan Briggs/ “It’s not one thing that you can pinpoint.” Not only did the Green Bay Packers lose to the Detroit Lions on Thursday Night Football last week, but the team gave up 211 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns on 43 carries. Naturally, Packers fans and the media, again, are starting to ask the question: Is this Green Bay defense going to get run all over for another season? On Monday, Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry stood up at the podium to field questions from the local press corps, including his struggling run defense. “It’s...

Tork Mason / USA TODAY NETWORK A Thursday Night dud left the Packers with more questions than top plays. It has been 738 days since the Packers have beaten the Detroit Lions. The vibes could not be further in the dirt. We are not back. It is so over. The Packers were eviscerated at home on Thursday night by the Lions, 45-13. The lopsided loss looked fated from the Lions’ second offensive possession when Amon Ra St. Brown dropped Rasul Douglas on a red zone curl and went for a touchdown. What followed was unprepared, sloppy, and apathetic football throughout the...

Photo by Stacy Revere/ The hand-wringing over a really ugly loss (to a really good team) kept up through the weekend. Did you think that the over-analysis of the Green Bay Packers’ loss to the Detroit Lions last Thursday night was complete? Hardly! It’s just getting started. With the Packers idle over the weekend ahead of next week’s Monday night clash with the Las Vegas Raiders, there was plenty of time to go back and look at the issues that the Packers displayed on Thursday. In fact, Friday saw the team holding some more press conferences and discussing the...

Photo by Cooper Neill/ Green Bay reportedly had interest in the running back during cutdowns. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported on Sunday morning that the Indianapolis Colts are planning on having disgruntled running back Jonathan Taylor practice in Week 5. Taylor, who is currently in a contract dispute with the organization, began the season on the physically unable to perform list. Whenever Taylor does hit the practice field, he’ll have a 21-day window to practice with the team before the Colts must move him to their 53-man roster. The report...

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The Jaguars and Falcons kick off early from London, giving NFL fans their first quadruple-header of this season. Are you ready for four time slots worth of football? That’s what’s on tap for NFL fans today, as the league begins its International Series with an early morning kickoff. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons start off Sunday in week 4 with an early game, and after another 12 games take place during the middle of the day, the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets will bring the day to a close on Sunday Night Football. The...

Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via What do the numbers say the Packers are through the first month of the season? Next Gen Stat’s Keegan Abdoo joined Acme Packing Company’s Justis Mosqueda this week to break down what happened on Thursday Night Football between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. Abdoo, armed with analytical insight, also went on to speak on some of the silver linings of the Packers’ season. One stat that was mentioned in this podcast was Pressure Probability, which uses player tracking to attempt to assign value to pass-rusher’s...

Photo by Stacy Revere/ Have at it Drop all your on- or off-topic thoughts this weekend down in the comment section below. Here’s what I’m thinking about: #AllUs | #OnePride pic.twitter.com/88hJJVfxTa— Detroit Lions (@Lions) September 29, 2023 Ours too. pic.twitter.com/15JSyGgsIn— Detroit Lions (@Lions) September 29, 2023 It just. Keeps. Going. #OnePride pic.twitter.com/DcBt5PB7Wr— Detroit Lions (@Lions) September 29, 2023 Someone's been taking notes from @jaredgoff16 #EasyToCelebrate pic.twitter.com/slV6Rzw0iS— Detroit Lions (@Lions)...

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/ “I think a lot of it can be solved schematically. I really do. We got enough players.” Beyond just an injury update, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur also spoke on Packers defense in his Friday presser. Obviously, LaFleur was frustrated last night when his team gave up 401 yards and 34 points to the Detroit Lions in a nationally televised game, but he seems to have calmed down since watching the film and reviewing the game plan. Here was one key exchange about the defense that LaFleur and a reporter had today: Reporter: You did say...

Photo by Scott Taetsch/ Stokes is currently on the physically unable to perform list and hasn’t practiced since his 2022 season-ending ankle injury. On Friday, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur addressed the team’s injuries following their 34-20 loss to the Detroit Lions on Thursday Night Football. For the most part, the news was positive. LaFleur said that running back Aaron Jones (hamstring) and receiver Christian Watson (hamstring) were on a pitch count against the Lions, claiming that the team wanted “to be careful with them.” Jones had been out...

Tork Mason-USA TODAY Sports Everybody in the NFC North is the Packers’ rival, but you can hardly call their relationship with the Lions a rivalry right now Everyone in the NFC North is nominally a rival of the Green Bay Packers. That’s the whole point of the divisional structure. You set teams up to see each other twice a year, add in a little regionalism, and sooner or later you’re going to manufacture some shared history. The NFC North is fairly unique in this aspect because, in addition to those other factors, all three of the teams in the division had existing...

Photo by Cooper Neill/ Heads were hanging low after the Lions came into Lambeau and ran all over the Packers. If you’re looking for any positives to take away from the Green Bay Packers’ 34-20 loss to the Detroit Lions on Thursday Night Football, well, good luck. There’s little to be found here or anywhere, and the same goes for inside the walls of Lambeau Field. Head coach Matt LaFleur held a fiery press conference after the game, and he sounded as angry and upset as he has ever been at the podium. The run defense was a frequent (and deserving) subject of his...

Photo by Stacy Revere/ Let’s talk about the good and the bad from the first game of Week 4. Oh dear, oh my. The Green Bay Packers just lost to the Detroit Lions for the fourth straight game. Though it looked like the Packers might come back, it was but a fleeting moment of happiness. The final score was a not-pretty 34-20, but believe it or not, the full game was even uglier. Here’s a glimpse at this week’s winners and losers. Disclaimer: Until I mention him as a winner, consider Joe Barry a loser every week. Thank you. Winner: Christian Watson Welcome back,...