The Packers (2-1-1) have reached the bye week, marking the earliest bye week for Green Bay since 2020 (Week 5).
- Green Bay has a winning record at the bye for the 13th time in the last 16 years and the 17th time in the last 26 years.
- It was the second time in the last four seasons that Green Bay had back-to-back road games heading into the bye week (2022).
- The Packers played a road game heading into the bye for the second straight season and the third time in the last four years.
- It is the third time in seven seasons under Head Coach Matt LaFleur that the Packers' bye has been prior to Week 10.
- The Packers are now 4-2-1 under LaFleur in the game heading into the bye.
- The Packers are one of seven NFC teams with only one loss this season.
- Green Bay is one of three NFC teams to not lose a game (2-0-1) against a conference opponent this season (Philadelphia and San Francisco are 3-0)
- The NFC North is one of two divisions where all four teams have at least a .500 record (NFC West).
- It is the first time since 2011 (Minnesota and San Diego) that Green Bay went into its bye playing an NFC team (Dallas) and will come out of its bye against an AFC team (Cincinnati).
AFTER THE BYE
- Green Bay will be looking to win the week following the bye for the fourth time in the last five years and for the second year in a row.
- The Packers have played close games the week following the bye each of the last two years with point differentials of one point and two points.
- In games immediately following its bye week, Green Bay has won 19 of its last 29 (.643), including wins in 10 of the last 16.
- Since 2009, Green Bay is 89-52-1 (.630) overall after the bye.
- Under LaFleur (since 2019), the Packers are 33-14 (.702) in games played after the bye (5-3 in 2024, 7-5 in 2023, 3-1 in 2022, 4-1 in 2021, 9-3 in 2020 and 5-1 in 2019).
- Dating back to 1990 when bye weeks started, Green Bay is 20-15 (.571) in the game following the bye week.
- The Packers play at home following the bye for the first time since 2022.
- Dating back to 2000, this is the ninth time the Packers will play an AFC team coming out of the bye, but just the second time at home:
- 2023 at Denver L
- 2015 at Denver L
- 2011 at San Diego W
- 2008 at Tennessee L
- 2007 at Denver W
- 2006 at Miami W
- 2002 vs. Miami W
- 2000 at Miami L
- Dating back to 2000, Green Bay has played at home following the bye 10 times and won nine of those contests:
- 2022 L.A. Rams W
- 2021 Chicago W
- 2017 Detroit L
- 2016 N.Y. Giants W
- 2014 Chicago W
- 2013 Detroit W
- 2009 Detroit W
- 2004 Minnesota W
- 2002 Miami W
- 2001 Tampa Bay W
NOTES AFTER WEEK 4
- The Week 4 tie at Dallas (40-40) was the second-highest-scoring tie in NFL history (43-43, Oakland Raiders at Boston Patriots in Week 6, 1964). It was the first tie for Green Bay since Week 2 of 2018 vs. Minnesota. The game ended with nine consecutive scoring drives (by either team), the most consecutive scoring drives to end any game dating back to 1993.
- This season was the third time since 2000 (2001, 2019) that Green Bay held each of its first three opponents to less than 20 points (13, 18, 13). u Dating back to 2024, the Packers have held their opponents to less than 20 points 12 times, tied for No. 1 in the NFL over that span (Denver, Philadelphia and Los Angeles Chargers).
- Dating back to last season, Green Bay has held its opponent to less than 20 points in eight of its last 12 games.
- Green Bay's streak of 11 straight wins against teams outside of the NFC North, which is the longest streak by the Packers in games played outside the division since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger (per the Elias Sports Bureau) and the longest streak by an NFC North team since divisional realignment in 2002, was snapped with a Week 3 loss at Cleveland.
- Green Bay has scored 20-plus points in 13 of the last 14 road games. The Packers' streak of scoring 20-plus points in 12 straight road games in the regular season, the longest streak in team history (STATS), came to an end in Week 3 at Cleveland.
- The Packers have won their first home game of the season in 13 consecutive seasons (2013-25), which ties the Miami Dolphins (1976-88) for the longest winning streak in home openers in NFL history (per STATS).
A LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE
The Green Bay Packers' 2025 NFL schedule will feature eight home games and nine road contests and is highlighted by four prime-time contests (subject to flexible scheduling). Of the 17 games on the schedule, nine will be against teams that made the playoffs last season, including four versus division champions.
- The Packers are tied for the fifth-hardest schedule based on opponents' combined 2024 winning percentage (161-128, .557).
- Green Bay has seven contests against teams that won 12-plus regular-season games in 2024, including five games against teams that had 14-plus wins.
- Over half of the Packers' games will be against teams that recorded double-digit wins in 2024 (nine of 17).
- Five of the Packers' eight regular-season home games will come against 2024 playoff teams, including both teams that made it to the 2024 NFC Championship Game.
- Green Bay opened the season with back-to-back home games against 2024 playoff teams (Detroit and Washington). It was the first time since 2018 that Green Bay played its first two games at home.
- The Packers opened the season at home for the first time since 2018 and only the third time in the last 13 seasons. Green Bay was the only team in the NFL to open the season on the road each of the last six years (2019-24).
- The Packers play one NFC North contest in the first 10 games.
- Green Bay has four road games in a five-game stretch from Weeks 3-8 (Week 5 bye). Green Bay will have one home game (Oct. 12 vs. Cincinnati) over a 51-day span between home games (Sept. 11 vs. Washington – Nov. 2 vs. Carolina).
- The Packers have three separate instances of back-to-back road trips (Weeks 3-4, Weeks 7-8, Weeks 15-16).
- The Packers went on the road for the first time in Week 3 when they traveled to take on the Cleveland Browns, kicking off a stretch of three AFC North opponents in five games.
- Green Bay faced a prime-time road test in Week 4 at Dallas against the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football.
- It was the second time in the last four seasons that Green Bay had back-to-back road games heading into the bye week (2022).
- The Packers will be on the bye in Week 5, marking its earliest bye week since 2020 (Week 5).
- Green Bay takes on the Cincinnati Bengals at home in Week 6 before going west to take on the Arizona Cardinals in Week 7.
- The Packers go east in Week 8 to play a Sunday night game at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- Green Bay follows up back-to-back road games with two straight home games, a Week 9 contest against the Carolina Panthers and then a Week 10 Monday Night Football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, marking the third time playing the defending Super Bowl champion at home in the last four seasons (defeated the Los Angeles Rams in 2022 and Kansas City Chiefs in 2023). It is the 33rd straight season (1993-2025) that Green Bay will play on MNF.
- Week 11 brings another game against the NFC East as the Packers travel to play the New York Giants.
- Between the Nov. 16 game at the Giants through the Nov. 27 game at the Lions, it will be three games over a 12-day span for Green Bay.
- The next three games will come against the NFC North. After hosting the Minnesota Vikings in Week 12, the Packers will play at the Lions on Thanksgiving, marking the third straight year that Green Bay has played on Thanksgiving, including the second time over that span in Detroit. The Packers begin December at home against the Chicago Bears in Week 14. After a road game at the Denver Broncos in Week 15, Green Bay faces the Bears again in Week 16 at Chicago on a Saturday.
- Since realignment in 2002, it is just the second time (2012) the Packers will play five of their last seven games against NFC North foes.
- The final two regular season contests are against teams with 12-plus wins in 2024 (vs Baltimore, at Minnesota).
- Green Bay is scheduled to play on a Saturday or Sunday in both Week 17 (vs. Baltimore) and 18 (at Minnesota). If either of those two games is played on a Saturday, it will mark multiple Saturday games for the Packers for first time since 1966.
- Green Bay finishes the regular season with three of four games on the road.
- It is the first time since 2020 that the Packers are not finishing the season with back-to-back division contests and the first time since 2021 that Green Bay will finish the regular season on the road.
- It is the fifth time in seven seasons under LaFleur that the Packers start and end the season with an NFC North game.
- The Packers and Vikings finish the regular season against each other for the first time since 2015 and in Minnesota for the first time since 2012.
