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| All Games | 5-2 | +3 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 28.4 | 17.1 | 325.4 | (5.8) | 0.6 | 21.0 | 10.4 | 362.6 | (5.4) | 2.0 | | Road Games | 2-2 | 0 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 22.0 | 12.0 | 301.2 | (5.4) | 0.5 | 24.0 | 12.2 | 399.0 | (6) | 2.2 | | Last 3 Games | 3-0 | +3 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 35.7 | 22.0 | 350.7 | (5.8) | 0.3 | 17.0 | 2.0 | 326.3 | (5.2) | 2.3 | | Dome Games | 0-1 | -1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 223.0 | (4.6) | 1.0 | 19.0 | 12.0 | 353.0 | (4.9) | 3.0 |
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| Offense (All Games) | 28.4 | 17.1 | 20.4 | 28:04 | 25-99 | (3.9) | 21-31 | 66.1% | 227 | (7.3) | 56-325 | (5.8) | (11.4) | | Opponents Defensive Avg. | 23.3 | 12.3 | 19.4 | 30:54 | 25-102 | (4) | 23-35 | 64.8% | 232 | (6.6) | 60-334 | (5.5) | (14.3) | | Offense Road Games | 22.0 | 12.0 | 20.2 | 27:19 | 24-83 | (3.5) | 21-32 | 65.4% | 218 | (6.7) | 56-301 | (5.4) | (13.7) | | Defense (All Games) | 21.0 | 10.4 | 22.9 | 31:56 | 32-148 | (4.6) | 21-35 | 59.3% | 215 | (6.2) | 67-363 | (5.4) | (17.3) | | Opponents Offensive Avg. | 21.5 | 10 | 20.1 | 31:39 | 27-117 | (4.4) | 22-35 | 62.4% | 221 | (6.3) | 62-338 | (5.5) | (15.7) | | Defense Road Games | 24.0 | 12.2 | 24.5 | 32:41 | 35-167 | (4.8) | 21-32 | 65.6% | 232 | (7.2) | 67-399 | (6) | (16.6) |
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| Stats For (All Games) | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 12-5 | 44.6% | 0-0 | 33.3% | 2-44 | (23.6) | 2-19 | (9.6) | 6-43 | | Opponents Avg. Stats Against | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 14-6 | 42.2% | 1-0 | 50.5% | 2-44 | (23.8) | 23-2 | (11) | 7-59 | | Stats For (Road Games) | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 12-5 | 46.8% | 1-0 | 33.3% | 2-60 | (24) | 1-16 | (16) | 6-52 | | Stats Against (All Games) | 1.4 | 0.6 | 2.0 | | 13-6 | 45.7% | 2-1 | 54.5% | 3-67 | (24.6) | 2-11 | (5.8) | 7-60 | | Opponents Avg. Stats For | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.5 | | 13-5 | 40.1% | 1-0 | 48.1% | 3-59 | (23.6) | 17-2 | (8.2) | 7-57 | | Stats Against (Road Games) | 1.5 | 0.7 | 2.2 | | 12-6 | 52.0% | 1-1 | 60.0% | 2-62 | (27.8) | 1-5 | (4.7) | 5-45 |
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| All Games | 2-4 | -4 | 2-4 | 5-1 | 25.8 | 11.0 | 437.0 | (6.3) | 2.0 | 27.5 | 11.5 | 373.7 | (6) | 0.7 | | Home Games | 2-0 | +2 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 28.5 | 13.0 | 453.5 | (5.9) | 1.5 | 20.0 | 8.0 | 280.5 | (5.3) | 0.5 | | Last 3 Games | 1-2 | -1.5 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 25.7 | 7.7 | 452.3 | (6.5) | 2.7 | 31.0 | 12.3 | 367.7 | (6.1) | 1.0 | | Dome Games | 2-2 | -0.5 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 28.5 | 14.0 | 446.7 | (6.2) | 1.7 | 25.2 | 7.2 | 368.2 | (6.2) | 1.0 |
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| Offense (All Games) | 25.8 | 11.0 | 27.0 | 31:13 | 25-123 | (4.9) | 30-44 | 67.7% | 314 | (7.2) | 69-437 | (6.3) | (16.9) | | Opponents Defensive Avg. | 24.1 | 13 | 20.8 | 30:16 | 28-121 | (4.3) | 22-34 | 65.1% | 246 | (7.2) | 62-367 | (5.9) | (15.2) | | Offense Home Games | 28.5 | 13.0 | 30.5 | 36:02 | 30-124 | (4.1) | 31-46 | 67.4% | 329 | (7.2) | 76-453 | (5.9) | (15.9) | | Defense (All Games) | 27.5 | 11.5 | 21.5 | 30:00 | 26-103 | (3.9) | 23-36 | 65.1% | 270 | (7.5) | 62-374 | (6) | (13.6) | | Opponents Offensive Avg. | 22.2 | 9.6 | 19.8 | 30:07 | 27-115 | (4.3) | 21-34 | 61.5% | 235 | (6.8) | 61-350 | (5.7) | (15.8) | | Defense Home Games | 20.0 | 8.0 | 16.5 | 26:45 | 21-62 | (2.9) | 18-31 | 58.1% | 218 | (7) | 52-280 | (5.3) | (14) |
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| Stats For (All Games) | 1.2 | 0.8 | 2.0 | -1.3 | 12-6 | 50.0% | 1-0 | 50.0% | 1-31 | (23.1) | 1-6 | (5.8) | 5-50 | | Opponents Avg. Stats Against | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 13-5 | 41.4% | 1-0 | 51.4% | 2-36 | (22.3) | 19-2 | (8.7) | 7-59 | | Stats For (Home Games) | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1.5 | -1.0 | 13-7 | 57.7% | 0-0 | 0.0% | 2-44 | (22) | 1-1 | (1.5) | 5-40 | | Stats Against (All Games) | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | | 13-6 | 46.2% | 0-0 | 100.0% | 2-55 | (25.4) | 1-4 | (3.6) | 8-67 | | Opponents Avg. Stats For | 1 | 0.6 | 1.6 | | 13-5 | 40.8% | 1-0 | 36.1% | 2-52 | (23) | 16-2 | (8.7) | 7-57 | | Stats Against (Home Games) | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | | 12-4 | 37.5% | 0-0 | 0.0% | 3-97 | (27.9) | 2-11 | (4.4) | 10-78 |
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| 9/4/2014 | @ SEATTLE | 16-36 | L | 4.5 | L | 46.5 | O | 21-80 | 23-33-175 | 1 | 37-207 | 19-28-191 | 1 | | 9/14/2014 | NY JETS | 31-24 | W | -7 | T | 46.5 | O | 22-80 | 25-42-310 | 1 | 37-146 | 16-32-166 | 1 | | 9/21/2014 | @ DETROIT | 7-19 | L | 1 | L | 51.5 | U | 22-76 | 16-27-147 | 1 | 38-115 | 22-34-238 | 3 | | 9/28/2014 | @ CHICAGO | 38-17 | W | -1.5 | W | 50.5 | O | 18-56 | 22-28-302 | 0 | 41-235 | 23-35-261 | 2 | | 10/2/2014 | MINNESOTA | 42-10 | W | -9.5 | W | 46.5 | O | 28-156 | 15-22-164 | 1 | 25-111 | 22-44-188 | 3 | | 10/12/2014 | @ MIAMI | 27-24 | W | -1.5 | W | 46.5 | O | 34-121 | 24-42-248 | 0 | 23-112 | 20-31-237 | 3 | | 10/19/2014 | CAROLINA | 38-17 | W | -6.5 | W | 48.5 | O | 30-122 | 19-24-241 | 0 | 25-108 | 22-39-223 | 1 | | 10/26/2014 | @ NEW ORLEANS | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11/9/2014 | CHICAGO | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11/16/2014 | PHILADELPHIA | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11/23/2014 | @ MINNESOTA | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| 9/7/2014 | @ ATLANTA | 34-37 | L | -3 | L | 51 | O | 28-139 | 29-42-333 | 2 | 25-123 | 31-43-445 | 1 | | 9/14/2014 | @ CLEVELAND | 24-26 | L | -5 | L | 49 | O | 27-174 | 27-40-223 | 2 | 30-122 | 24-41-202 | 0 | | 9/21/2014 | MINNESOTA | 20-9 | W | -9.5 | W | 49.5 | U | 32-108 | 27-35-288 | 0 | 22-59 | 17-30-188 | 0 | | 9/28/2014 | @ DALLAS | 17-38 | L | -3 | L | 53.5 | O | 13-104 | 32-44-334 | 3 | 35-190 | 22-29-255 | 0 | | 10/5/2014 | TAMPA BAY | 37-31 | W | -11 | L | 47 | O | 29-140 | 35-57-371 | 3 | 21-66 | 19-32-248 | 1 | | 10/19/2014 | @ DETROIT | 23-24 | L | 2 | W | 46 | O | 21-73 | 28-45-335 | 2 | 24-59 | 27-40-285 | 2 | | 10/26/2014 | GREEN BAY | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10/30/2014 | @ CAROLINA | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11/9/2014 | SAN FRANCISCO | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11/16/2014 | CINCINNATI | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11/24/2014 | BALTIMORE | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| |  | GREEN BAY: While the personnel has changed, there haven't been a whole lot of adjustments to the Packers' running game over the past couple of seasons. They still use a zone-heavy blocking scheme, with big backs pounding between the tackles. Eddie Lacy is in for a feature-back workload this year, with James Starks picking up the scraps. Johnathan Franklin's retirement leaves DuJuan Harris for a roster spot. Lacy is at his best going downhill on inside zone runs, similar to what he executed at Alabama. He took a big red-zone workload last year and will do so again. Even with quarterback Aaron Rodgers healthy for 16 games, Green Bay will still get enough scoring chances for Lacy despite skewing pass-heavy in the red zone again. Lacy, not John Kuhn, now takes goal-line carries as well. Kuhn serves as a lead blocker and occasional short-yardage guy.
McCarthy's West Coast offense mixes in a lot of deep shots. Rodgers will continue to move around and look for Jordy Nelson on the perimeter as his primary target. Randall Cobb is Green Bay's chess piece, lining up as a boundary receiver, slot man and also in the backfield. Jarrett Boykin will see extended action as James Jones' replacement, and they figure to run a lot of three-wide sets. Nelson was targeted most often inside the 20, though Boykin emerged as a favorite of Rodgers' in the red zone too.
The Packers will remain one of the better sack teams in the NFL with the addition of defensive end Julius Peppers and a healthy outside linebacker Clay Matthews (168.5 combined career sacks). The concerns with this team are the amount of points and yards it allows, and the secondary doesn't make as many plays as it used to. | | NEW ORLEANS: The Saints' running game is a Frankenstein of a series of other offenses, but its basis is in between-the-tackles power. Pierre Thomas might lead the backfield committee in playing time, but the running game is better suited for big bruising backs like Mark Ingram and Khiry Robinson. They'll rotate the three on early downs with Thomas staying on the field for most passing downs. Thomas is at his best on stretch plays that move the opposing front seven laterally, while the other two will work a lot of inside zone runs. Thomas got most of the carries inside the 20 last season, but Ingram started to eat into those red-zone touches late in the year once he was healthy.
The Saints will run the same kind of pass-happy, spread offense they have run since 2007. Tight end Jimmy Graham is the focal point of the passing game, flexing out and working the deep seam. Drew Brees will look for him any time Graham gets single-coverage, and often when he's double-covered too. He is by far the Saints' top option in the red zone. Marques Colston works downfield on the perimeter, as Brees reads high-to-low. Kenny Stills and Brandin Cooks will mix in as home-run hitters, and Cooks could see some of the catch-and-run work that used to go to Darren Sproles. Thomas, one of the NFL's best in the screen game, will see increased usage through the air with Sproles gone.
Defensive coordinator Rob Ryan transformed one of the worst defenses ever in 2012 to a unit that finished fourth among NFL defenses in yards, points and sacks. The addition of FS Jairus Boyd and CB Champ Bailey will help pass-rushing studs DE Cameron Jordan (12.5 sacks) and OLB Junior Galette (12 sacks) get more sacks. |
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*Packers-Saints Preview* ========================
By JACK CASSIDY STATS Writer
The Green Bay Packers' slow start to the season seems like ancient history. The New Orleans Saints still haven't gotten over the hump.
The two teams match up Sunday night in their first meeting since 2012.
Behind the play of Aaron Rodgers, the Packers (5-2) have rolled to four consecutive victories and erased the memories of their 1-2 start. Rodgers has thrown for 977 yards and 13 touchdowns without an interception during the win streak, and he posted the second-highest passer rating of his career - 154.5 - in last week's 38-17 rout of Carolina.
To his teammates, Rodgers' performance is nothing new.
"It's funny. I talk to old friends who have been here and are with other teams, and they don't really realize how good Aaron is until they go and play for someone else," guard Josh Sitton said. "It's hard to realize, I guess, when he's all I've known. I expect that week in and week out."
Jordy Nelson has been the primary beneficiary of Rodgers' success. Nelson ranks second in the NFL with 712 receiving yards - only seven behind Pittsburgh's Antonio Brown - and fourth in receiving touchdowns with six.
Teammate Randall Cobb is second in touchdowns with eight.
Green Bay's passing attack may be in store for another successful game, facing a Saints defense ranked 28th in passing yards allowed at 270.5 per game.
A loss Sunday would give the Saints (2-4) their worst seven-game start to a season under Sean Payton, who was suspended when they started 2-5. It would also match their loss total from last season, when they finished 11-5 and lost to Seattle in the divisional round.
Even with the poor start, however, the playoffs are still very much within reach since Carolina leads the NFC South at 3-3-1.
"That's a ton of football," Payton said. "Basically we're finished (with), I believe a third of the season, a little bit more than that. But the focus for us will be right on Green Bay."
New Orleans has allowed 27.5 points per game, ranking fifth-worst in the NFL, but the bigger concern is closing out games. The Saints squandered a fourth-quarter lead for the third time last week as Detroit rallied for two TDs in the final 3:38 of their 24-23 loss.
"We did a lot of good things and yet, we have to finish. We have to finish, especially today," Drew Brees said Sunday. "It's not like this thing was back and forth. We had a 13-point lead with however much time was left."
Brees completed 28 of 45 passes for 342 yards and two touchdowns, but he also threw a costly fourth quarter interception that led to Detroit's go-ahead score.
Wednesday, he shifted focus from the loss to the task of upending the Green Bay and the sixth-best passing defense in the NFL.
"Just know that when you got Aaron Rodgers on the other side of the ball, and that offense and the way that they execute, the way that they score points, it just makes you feel like you have to be that much more precise and execute that much better," said Brees, who is 2-3 versus the Packers despite throwing for 1,904 yards and 14 TDs with only two interceptions.
"Take advantage of every opportunity you get. All the details become that much more important."
Jimmy Graham didn't have a catch in the loss to Detroit. The tight end is still dealing with a shoulder injury that limited him in practice Wednesday.
The Packers edged the Saints 28-27 in their most recent meeting. Brees threw for 446 yards and three touchdowns, but Rodgers threw a go-ahead touchdown to Nelson with seven minutes left.
"I would like to think our whole team clearly understands we're getting ready to go into a hotbox down there in New Orleans," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "I mean, this is going to be a big-time environment, big-time game. These are the kind of games you love to play in. Everybody wants to go get this one and get to 6-2, especially after where we were four weeks ago."
Green Bay leads the all-time series 16-7.
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