(WNFL/PACKERS) – This Sunday’s game between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings will be a first for the two teams.
It will make the first time in the 64-year history of the series that both teams come into the game with 11 or more wins. The 24 combined wins is the most ever between the two teams.
What else is there to know?
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- It marks the fourth straight season that the two teams will meet in Week 17. Green Bay is 65-58-3 (.528) all-time against Minnesota in the regular season.
- The Packers’ 65 wins are eight more then any other NFL team has against the Vikings.
- Of the past 21 regular-season meetings in Minnesota between the teams, 14 have been decided by single digits.
- The Packers have a 31-31 record in away games against the Vikings, including wins at Minnesota in three of the last five seasons.
Since 2000, the Packers are 28-19-2 (.602) in regularseason contests versus the Vikings. - Under Head Coach Matt LaFleur, the Packers are 6-5 against the Vikings and have scored 21-plus points in nine of the 11 contests. Green Bay’s six wins over Minnesota since 2019 are the most in the NFL (Detroit is No. 2 with five).
- Of the past 44 regular-season meetings between the teams, 26 of those games have been decided by seven points or less.
- Before the two-point win by Minnesota in Week 4 this season, the series saw five straight games with a scoring margin of 14-plus points. It was the most consecutive games in the series decided by 14-plus points, surpassing four-game streaks from 1961 to 1962 and 1990 to 1991 (STATS). Prior to that five-game stretch, six of the seven games were decided by single digits, including a tie.
- The two teams have split the season series in each of the last four years (2020-23), marking the longest stretch in series history. Last season, each team won
on the road. - Green Bay has scored 30-plus points in three of the last four road games, including 33 in a win last season.
- Since realignment in 2002, the Packers (12) and Vikings (five) have accounted for 17 of the 22 NFC North titles.
- It is the first non-prime-time game for the Packers since Nov. 24. The Packers’ streak of five straight road NFC North victories ended in Week 14. Since realignment in 2002, that five-game road winning streak tied for the second longest by Green Bay against NFC North teams behind only a seven-game winning streak from 2019-21 (the first seven road NFC North contests of LaFleur’s headcoaching career).
- For the fourth straight season and the fifth time in the last six years, the Packers finish the regular season with back-to-back NFC North contests.
- After the game in Minnesota, Green Bay returns home to face the Bears in the season finale on a date and time to be determined.
Who practiced Wednesday? The Green Bay Packers continue preparing for Sunday’s game in Minnesota against the Vikings. Four players for the Packers did not practice yesterday – Evan Williams, Christian Watson, Qua Walker and TyRon Hopper. Javon Bullard, Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave each had limited participation.
Packers coach Matt LaFleur said that there was good news about Watson.
On the Vikings side of the field, Cornerback Fabian Moreau and safety Harrison Smith sat out practice Defensive lineman Jalen Redmond had limited participation.
Vikings are ballhawks: The Vikings have allowed over 4-thousand yards passing and 22 touchdowns through the air but they’ve also picked off 22 passes and sacked the quarterback 44 times.
Packers coach Matt LaFleur said he knows about the Vikings defense.
The Packers, meanwhile, have 15 interceptions and 43 sacks.
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