![]() ![]() They will host the Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football in week 15 before a Christmas Day game in Miami, followed by home games against their two domed divisional opponents, Minnesota and Detroit, to close out the year. the Home StretchĬoming out of their bye, the Packers will have three of four games at home to close the season. That’s a long time to go without a break, and the Packers’ one long week of rest (which comes following a Thursday Night Football Game) comes only two weeks prior to the full bye, as the team hosts the Tennessee Titans in week 11 before a Sunday night game in Philadelphia in week 12. ![]() Still, a week 14 bye by its very definition means that the team will play 13 straight games to start the season, including the aforementioned game in London. That puts them in position to be somewhat rested and hopefully healthy heading into the final four weeks of the regular season. Indeed, the Packers have a favorable late-season bye week, as they will be idle in the final possible window in week 14. Any head coach for a playoff-caliber NFL team will tell you that they would prefer to have their bye later in the season, as it helps their team prepare for a stretch run to clinch a division title and hopefully a high playoff seed. The tradeoff for not getting a bye after the London game is that it comes very late in the season. This adds an interesting dynamic to the timing of that bye. UPDATE: According to Tom Silverstein of, the Packers evidently were given the choice to have their bye immediately after the game in London, but declined, preferring instead to have it later in the season. However, both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks, who will be the teams in the NFL’s first regular-season game held in Germany, will have byes in week 11 after their week 10 matchup in Munich. Only one of the six teams participating in a London game in 2022 has a bye the following week that is the Denver Broncos, who play the Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in week 8 and will be idle in week 9. This situation is not unique to the Packers, however, as the NFL has shifted from its bye week strategy for almost all teams playing in London this year. Rather, the Packers will have a 12 Noon kickoff a week after playing six time zones away, effectively putting them on short rest when they face a team led by the best man in LaFleur’s wedding, Robert Saleh. This is a departure from the NFL’s typical approach, which has been to give teams playing in London a bye in the following week. Instead, the Packers will return home to face the other team that calls New Jersey home, hosting the New York Jets at Lambeau Field seven days after their game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. However, the biggest issue with the Packers’ scheduling around their London game is the fact that they do not have a bye week following their trip across the pond. Head coach Matt LaFleur has been a part of London games twice before, once with the Los Angeles Rams in 2017 and again as the Tennessee Titans’ offensive coordinator in 2018. That game in and of itself is not that much of an issue. Green Bay will play the home team opposite the “visiting” New York Giants in week five, with fans in the United States facing an early wake-up call for a 9:30 AM Eastern/6:30 AM Pacific kickoff. Packers fans were already well aware of their team’s trip to the United Kingdom in the fall, as the date of their game against the New York Giants was revealed more than a week ago. Let’s look at the big storylines coming out of the Packers’ schedule, which starts four months minus one day from tonight. ![]() On the other, they have a three-game stretch on the road plus two trips to Florida and one across the Atlantic Ocean, and even following the latter they will have to play again seven days later. On one hand, the Packers do not have to travel farther west than Minneapolis in 2022. The Packers play a first-place schedule, facing three other division winners from last season as they look to try to earn home-field advantage in the postseason for a third straight season - though the team has gone 1-2 in home playoff games in that time period. Really, it ends up balancing out a bit in the second year of the 17-game schedule. In others, they are facing an uphill climb to repeat as the No. Packers Experiences powered by QuintEventsĬOPYRIGHT © GREEN BAY PACKERS, INC.In a few respects, the Green Bay Packers got lucky with their schedule for the 2022 NFL season. ![]()
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