- Packers are reserved for four games in prime time… for now.
Washington marks the first of the four prime Time Green Bay games is scheduled for the moment.
Packers are locked up in Sunday evening football in Dallas during week 4 and planned for another in week 8 in Pittsburgh.
Packers will face the defending champion of the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles, Monday evening Football during the week 10 (November 10), but could also play the Bears on Soldier Field in a Saturday evening match in prime time during week 16.
Although this competition on December 20 is broadcast on Fox, it is undecided to know if it will be played at 3:30 p.m. or 7 p.m. CT.
This is the 33rd consecutive year, Green Bay will appear on Monday evening football.
- Packers play Thanksgiving for a third consecutive year.
After welcoming Miami Last Thanksgiving, the packers return to Detroit to face the Lions for the second time in three years on vacation.
This is the first time that Green Bay has played on Thanksgiving in three consecutive seasons from a section of 13 consecutive Thanksgiving games from 1951 to 1963.
It will be the 23rd time that Green Bay and Detroit have met during Thanksgiving, the most in the NFL. The packers won the last meeting, a triumph 29-22 in Ford Field on November 23, 2023.
- The last section is NFC North Heavy.
After the opening against the Lions, the packers will not play another division opponent for 2 and a half months.
Green Bay has five division games in his last seven, from week 12 with a three consecutive section NFC North (against Minnesota, Detroit and against Chicago).
Packers also face the Bears twice over three weeks, the first time this has happened for the last three weeks of the 1998 season. The meeting of week 16 of the teams the first time that Green Bay and Chicago have played a Saturday match since a 17-3 packers victory on December 5, 1964.
- Green Bay received an early bye.
After receiving a rare mid-season bye in 2024, the open week of packers arrives again on the side of the calendar.
Packers will be shifted in week 5, which has followed a familiar trend in the last decade. Green Bay also had the Byes early in 2023 (week 6), 2020 (week 5), 2018 (week 7) and 2016 (week 4).
