(WNFL/LEARFIELD) – Packers center Josh Myers has been struggling with a wrist injury that has forced him to miss playing time including the game against the Detroit Lions.
The good news is that that the bye week has been a blessing.
Myers said that with that time off his wrist is improving.
Myers said that ‘s a frustrating injury.
As for the team itself as the Packers began full-scale preparations for playing the Bears this weekend, Myers said that they have the talent to get to where they want to go.
Myers said that the Packers were good offensively for the first 9 games.
As a team with lofty goals, Myers discussed what they have to do to get where they want to be.
Need to know
- Dating back to 2000, this is the third time the Packers will play the Bears coming out of the bye (2021 and 2014), both wins, but the first time they will play at
Chicago following the bye. - Overall, the Packers have won 10 straight games against the Bears, tying the longest winning streak by either team in the history of the series (10 straight by
Green Bay from 1994-98). The two 10-game streaks are the longest any team has against the Bears. The 10-game streak is also the longest current streak by
an NFL team against a single opponent. During the 10-game streak, the Packers have a plus-127 scoring differential, a plus-16 turnover differential (19 take- aways, three giveaways) and have allowed 20 or fewer points in eight of the 10 wins. - The Packers have won five straight at Chicago while not allowing more than 20 points in any of those five games, joining the 1928-30 Packers as the only NFL
team to do that at Chicago. - Green Bay has not allowed more than 28 points in 17 straight games at Soldier Field (including playoffs), tied for the longest streak by an opposing team at Soldier Field since the merger (Minnesota Vikings, 1971-88).
- The Packers are 54-53-2 at Chicago (including the post- season).
- Including a 2010 playoff victory at Chicago, Green Bay has won 25 of the last 30 meetings between the rivals at Soldier Field, including 13 of the last 14.
- Eight of the last 12 games between the two clubs at Soldier Field have been decided by single digits.
- Green Bay will be looking to win the week following the bye for the third time in the last four years, having beaten the Los Angeles Rams at home in 2022, 24-12.
In 2021, the Packers beat the Chicago Bears at home, 45-30, after the bye to snap a four-game losing streak in games following the bye week. - Green Bay will face an NFC opponent (Chicago) after the bye for the first time since 2022, the eighth time in the last 10 years (2015-24) and for the 16th time in the last 23 seasons (2002-24).
- Dating back to 2002, the Packers take on an NFC North team for the 11th time after the bye and for the fifth time on
- It is the first time since 2012 (at Detroit) that Green Bay will play a road division game following the bye.
- Green Bay reached the bye with a winning record for the 12th time in the last 15 years and the 16th time in the last 25 years.
- It is the first time since 2009 that Green Bay went into its bye and comes out of its bye with NFC North games.
- In games immediately following its bye week, Green Bay has won 18 of its last 28 (.643), including wins in nine of the last 15.
- Since 2009, Green Bay is 84-49-1 (.631) overall after the bye.
- Under Head Coach Matt LaFleur (since 2019), the Packers are 28-11 in games played after the bye (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 19-15 (.559) in the game following the bye week.
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