The past doesn’t mean much to the struggling Green Bay Packers right now, but here’s two interesting subplots to the team’s daunting primetime showdown with the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night, via the Dope Sheet:
– The Packers are 0-6 overall in Buffalo, and the Bills are the only NFL team the Packers have never beat on the road.
– The Packers have won 13 straight primetime games, the NFL’s longest winning streak in primetime since 2000.
Can the Packers finally get a win a Buffalo and continue a massive streak of winning in primetime on Sunday night?
The Bills might be the best team in football, and they are coming off a bye week. Josh Allen is a top MVP candidate. The Bills defense is first in points allowed. Buffalo’s average margin of victory at home this season is 34.5 points.
Not surprisingly, the Packers – after losing three straight games as favorites – are BIG underdogs.
The Packers have never scored more than 20 points in six road games against the Bills.
Packers all-time results in Buffalo
2014: Bills 21, Packers 13
2006: Bills 24, Packers 10
2000: Bills 27, Packers 18
1994: Bills 29, Packers 20
1988: Bills 28, Packers 0
1979: Bills 19, Packers 12
Rodgers was the quarterback for only one of the games, a loss in 2014 during an MVP season.
Overall, the Packers have the NFL’s best record in primetime (16-2) since the start of the 2019 season. Rodgers threw 45 touchdown passes and only four interceptions over the 18 games.
The last primetime loss for the Packers? A 38-7 defeat to the 49ers in San Francisco in Week 12 of the 2019 season.
Packers last 13 primetime games
Week 16, 2019: Packers 23, Vikings 10
Week 3, 2020: Packers 37, Saints 30
Week 4, 2020: Packers 30, Falcons 16
Week 9, 2020: Packers 34, 49ers 17
Week 12, 2020: Packers 41, Bears 25
Week 15, 2020: Packers 24, Panthers 16
Week 16, 2020: Packers 40, Titans 14
Week 2, 2021: Packers 35, Lions 17
Week 3, 2021: Packers 30, 49ers 28
Week 8, 2021: Packers 24, Cardinals 21
Week 14, 2021: Packers 45, Bears 30
Week 17, 2021: Packers 37, Vikings 10
Week 2, 2022: Packers 27, Bears 10
Rodgers currently owns the best primetime passer rating in NFL history at 106.5. He threw 14 touchdown passes and zero interceptions over six primetime wins last season, and his 131.1 passer rating in Week 2 vs. the Bears is currently the best by a quarterback in a primetime game this season.
Here’s the Packers-Bills capsule for Week 8, via the NFL:
