The Packers discard the Cardinals to improve to 4-2 in a sensational team performance.
LAS VEGAS — Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love threw for four touchdowns, wide receiver Romeo Doubs had two touchdown catches and the NFL’s league-leading defense in takeaways added three more to its portfolio powering the Packers to a 34-13 dissection of the Arizona Cardinals Sunday afternoon at venerable Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
ARIZONA AT GREEN BAY
- Packers 34 Cardinals 13
- Total Yards: GB 437 AZ 303
- Yards per pass: GB 8.1 AZ 6.7
- Yards per rush: GB 4.7 AZ 3.9
- 3rd Down Efficiency: GB 7/12 AZ 4/10
- RZ Efficiency: GB 2/4 AZ 1/3
- Turnovers: GB 1 AZ 3
- TOP: GB 36:35 AZ 23.25
- Penalties: GB 5-40 AZ 13-100
- Closing Line: GB -5.5, Total 47
KEY MOMENT
The Christian Watson 44-yard TD catch
- 2nd Quarter, 4:39 left, 1st & 10 GB from the AZ 44-yard line. It’s a 17-0 game at this juncture. This Watson catch made it 24-0, which mattered, as the Cardinals offense responded after this score, albeit in a losing effort. On a day where many key plays were made, I thought this was the play which accentuated the fact this was the Packers’ day.
GAMEBALLS
🏈: Jordan Love
- Four TD passes and was throwing to open space — not open receivers — all game. This was easily the best 10 has looked season to date and Sunday he was in fine form.
🏈: Packers safeties
- Xavier McKinney, Evan Williams and Juvon Bullard accounted in-aggregate for 16 tackles, a forced-fumble (Williams) and were splendid in run-support and in deep coverage essentially the entire game. Whatever Green Bay DC Jeff Hafley and his coaches are doing this unit, it’s working.
🏈: Packers receivers
- Well if it felt like most of the WR room made a contribution, it’s because it basically did. 11, 9, 87, 13 and 80 and 11 had 14 receptions on 19 targets (73.7%), including all four of 10’s touchdown passes.
🏈: Matt LaFleur/Jeff Hafley
Again, in a theme to this season, I thought the quality coaching really let itself be known on Sunday. LaFleur is running a tight ship and has provided an ethos to where the standard is the standard and the grit needed to win takes what it takes. I thought the offense and defense looked great in stacking success from the week prior. The penalties and poor Football-IQ plays are down. As for the defense, if you can’t see the progression from last year to now and the progression from Week 1 to this writing, well then, I honestly don’t know what tell you.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
When Brayden Narveson missed the 44-yard kick wide right and FOX cut away to LaFleur screaming into his headset and JL10 walking away from watching the try in express, that was the moment it was curtains.
You guys, last season when I said the last kicker had to be replaced, like, I meant with somebody capable and worth investing in getting if need be (draft, trade, etc.).
As for Brandon McManus, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and a fresh start from the fan perspective.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING
RANDOM GBP STATS OF THE WEEK
GBP WAGER OF THE WEEK
In The 7 Best v6.0 , readers were given Green Bay -5 as part of the College Football and NFL’s top positions for the week. This wager was an eclectic mix of professionalism and high-quality as GB -5 was the correct position from kickoff to the final whistle. It was never the Cardinals. It was always Green Bay. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve delivered a Green Bay W so far this season.
A RANDOM PACKERS/CARDINALS HISTORICAL IMAGE
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