(GREEN BAY PACKERS) – The Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions have a long and colorful history.
What do you need to know about that series and this Sunday’s game?
- Including a 1994 playoff victory, the Packers are 28-5 against the Lions in the state of Wisconsin since 1992.
- The Packers have 61 wins at home against Detroit, tied for the most home wins by one NFL team against another all-time (Chicago also has 61 wins versus the Lions).
- This is the first time since Dec. 8, 1996 (10-3 Green Bay vs. 12-1 Denver), where both teams enter a game at Lambeau Field in Week 9 or later with a .750-plus winning percentage, per the Elias Sports Bureau.
- The Packers have won three of the last five home games against the Lions.
- Last season, each team won in the other’s stadium.
- The Packers lead the all-time regular-season series, 104-76-7 (.577), and have won both postseason contests the two clubs have played.
- Green Bay’s 104 regular-season wins over the Lions are the second most it has against any team (106 vs. Chicago).
The Lions and Packers share one of the league’s streakiest series. One team has swept the season series in six of the last eight years. The clubs have split their meetings twice in that span (2021 and 2024). - The Packers swept the season series 11 times in the last 20 years.
- Green Bay scored 42 points in the meeting at Lambeau in 2020, the most it had scored at home against the Lions since posting 45 in 2011. The Packers followed it up by scoring 35 in an 18-point victory at home in 2021.
- Three of the last four contests between the teams at Lambeau Field have been decided by 14-plus points.
- Dating back to 2019, Green Bay is 6-4 overall against the Lions.
- It is the second straight season and the fourth time in the past five years that the first meeting between the two teams will take place in Green Bay.
- This is the first of five NFC North games the Packers will play in their final nine contests. It is the first time since 2015 that five of the final nine games will be against the division.
- Green Bay will be on the bye next week. It comes in Week 10 for the first time since 2012 and marks the fourth time in six seasons under Head Coach Matt LaFleur that the Packers’ bye has been Week 10 or later.
The coaches
MATT LaFLEUR…
- In his sixth season as the Packers’ 15th head coach.
- Is in his 16th season in the NFL, having previously served as an offensive coordinator for two seasons (Los Angeles Rams, 2017; Tennessee Titans, 2018), a quarterbacks coach for six seasons (Washington Redskins, 2010-13; Atlanta Falcons, 2015-16), and an
offensive assistant for two seasons (Houston Texans, 2008-09). - In his first five seasons leading the Packers, authored one of the greatest starts to a head-coaching career in NFL history. Per the Elias Sports Bureau, his 56 wins are tied for the second most in league history by a head coach in his first five seasons in the NFL, trailing only George Seifert (62 in 1989-93).
- Became the first coach in NFL history to post 13-plus wins in three straight seasons and his 39 wins from 2019-21 passed Seifert (38) for the most wins by an NFL head coach in his first three seasons in the league (Elias). His 39 wins are also tied for the second most by
a coach over any three-season span in league history, trailing only Andy Reid’s 40 wins with the Kansas City Chiefs from 2020-22 and Mike Ditka’s 40 wins with the Chicago Bears from 1985-87 (Elias). - In his first season leading the Packers in 2019, became the first coach in club history to lead the team to the playoffs in his debut season. Also led the largest oneyear win improvement in team history (plus-seven
wins).
DAN CAMPBELL… - In his fourth season as the Lions’ 28th head coach.
- Has 26 years of NFL experience, including 15 years as a coach and 11 as a player. Most recently served as an assistant head coach/tight ends coach for the New Orleans Saints from 2016-2020.
- In 2023, helped Detroit to its first-ever NFC North title and first division title since 1993. The team finished with a 12-5 record, tying the single-season franchise record for wins in a season.
- Led Detroit to its first winning season since 2017 as the Lions finished 9-8 overall in 2022. The team finished the season ranked in the top five in the NFL in five offensive categories and also set an NFL record for sacks by rookies with 20.5. u Is the fifth former Lions player to be named a fulltime head coach for the team and the first since Joe Schmidt, who played for Detroit from 1953-65 and served as the head coach from 1967-72.
Packers alumni coming back this weekend: The Green Bay Packers are welcoming back featured alumni Bernardo Harris and Frank Wintersfor the Packers-Lions game on Sunday, Nov. 3.
Leading up to the game, the featured alumni will be signing autographs and visiting with fans at the Lambeau Field Atrium on Saturday, Nov. 2, from 11 a.m. to noon.
On gameday, Harris will be visiting with fans and signing autographs at surprise locations around Lambeau Field from 1:50 to 2:50 p.m. Winters will be visiting with fans and signing autographs during that same time in the Legends Club on the Associated Bank Club Level, an area accessible to game attendees with suite or club seat tickets.
Additional Packers alumni will also be part of the gameday festivities on Sunday, with Ahman Green signing autographs at the La Crosse Distilling Co. display on the Fan Walkway from 12:55 to 2:55 p.m.
Jeff Janis and Perry Kemp will also be at Titletown for Titletown Gameday Live presented by American Family Insurance before the game. They’ll participate in a question-and-answer session at 12:45 p.m., and will greet fans afterward until 1:45 p.m.
Bernardo Harris began his Green Bay Packers career as a free agent in 1995 and led the team in tackles for four seasons, 1997-98 and 2000-01. He played a crucial role on the defense that would eventually become Super Bowl XXXI champions. Harris played in 107 games, 79 of which he started, and recorded 355 tackles over his seven years (1995-2001) with the Packers. He finished his career with Baltimore, retiring in 2003.
Frank Winters, a hard-nosed athlete known for his freewheeling, “play to the whistle” style during his 11-year (1992-2002) Packers career, became one the NFL’s top centers after spending his first five years in the NFL primarily as a long snapper. He earned USA Today All-Pro honors in 1999 and went to the Pro Bowl in 1996. Overall, he played in 156 of a possible 176 regular-season games for the Packers and was the starting center in the team’s Super Bowl XXXI victory. Winters was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2008.
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