Packers vs. Dolphins Score: Green Bay Blowing Out Dolphins 27-3

The Green Bay Packers (8-3) have won six of their last seven games. The Miami Dolphins (5-6) have won three in a row. Follow along all night for updates from Lambeau Field.

Green Bay Packers receiver Jayden Reed celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the first quarter against the Dolphins. / Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins, two of the hotter teams in the NFL, will battle in the cold of Thanksgiving night at Lambeau Field.

Third Quarter

Packers 27, Dolphins 3 (7:42 remaining)

The Packers tacked on a 24-yard field goal by Brandon McManus. On third-and-6, Christian Watson made a sensational, tumbling catch against Storm Duck for a gain of 46 – about 33 through the air and 13 after the catch. On the next play, Josh Jacobs took a screen for 15, with 20 yards after the catch and a missed tackle. Jayden Reed made an unbelievable one-handed catch on third-and-12 for a gain of 9.

Packers 24, Dolphins 3 (12:52 remaining)

The Dolphins needed something – anything – to jump-start a potential comeback. Instead, delay of game on third-and-3 led to an incomplete pass on third-and-8.

Some light snow is falling.

Injury update: Dolphins CB Cam Smith (shoulder) is out.

Halftime

Packers 24, Dolphins 3

A battle between two of the hottest teams in the NFL is a massacre at halftime.

Jordan Love is 11-of-15 passing for 111 yards and two touchdowns and four players have at least 20 rushing yards as the Packers have bludgeoned the Dolphins for 102 yards.

Green Bay is 4-of-6 on third down compared to 1-of-6 for Miami. Plus, the Packers’ woeful red-zone offense is 3-of-3 against the Dolphins after going 5-of-5 on Sunday vs. the 49ers.

Second Quarter

Packers 24, Dolphins 3 (0:00 remaining)

Brandon McManus kicked a 46-yard field goal on the final play of the half as the Packers are rolling. Starting at their 39 with 22 seconds left and three timeouts, Jordan Love hit Tucker Kraft for 17 yards, with 11 yards coming after a broken tackle, and 9 more. An 8-yard run by Chris Brooks set up McManus’ field goal.

Packers 21, Dolphins 3 (0:22 remaining)

What a bad series by Tua Tagovailoa, who underthrew Tyreek Hill on one play, overthrew him on another play and ripped one too high to De’Von Achane on fourth-and-5. The Packers took over at their 39 with three timeouts.

Packers 21, Dolphins 3 (1:36 remaining)

On third-and-2 from Miami’s 12, the Packers ran a receiver screen to Jayden Reed. Reed lined up off the left tackle, ran a speed out to the left and got a pancake block from Christian Watson and a downfield block by Dontayvion Wicks for the touchdown. Former Dolphins running back Chris Brooks had an 18-yard run in which he broke two tackles and gained 16 yards after contact and a 5-yard catch that included 10 yards after the catch.

Packers 14, Dolphins 3 (3:03 remaining)

Dolphins left tackle Terron Armstead hadn’t allowed a sack all season but he gave up two on back-to-back plays. First, it was Lukas Van Ness for a loss of 2, which set up third-and-8, with Kingsley Enagbare shot out of a cannon and blasting Tua Tagovailoa to force a punt.

As John Madden would say: "BOOM"

Back-to-back sacks!

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Packers 14, Dolphins 3 (6:33 remaining)

On the first play of the drive, Jayden Reed motioned hard to the left, stopped, then motioned hard to the right. He took the handoff on the fly, broke three tackles and gained 23 yards to Miami’s 47. The drive stalled, though. On first down, Jordan Love checked it down to Josh Jacobs for 3 yards; Dontayvion Wicks, who dropped a pass earlier, was wide open for what would have been a gain of 15.

Packers 14, Dolphins 3 (8:44 remaining)

Jason Sanders kicked a 33-yard field goal. Alec Ingold, who played at nearby Bay Port, had a 13-yard catch and De’Von Achane had a 13-yard run. On fourth-and-4 following an exchange of penalties, Tua Tagovailoa had all day and then some before hitting Jaylen Waddle for 16 to the 9. However, on first-and-goal, a jet sweep to Achane was swallowed up by Arron Mosby for a loss of 6.

Injury update: Dolphins CB Kader Kohou (back) is questionable. He started in place of Kendall Fuller.

First Quarter

Packers 14, Dolphins 0 (0:55 remaining)

The Packers ran the ball seven consecutive times to cap a 76-yard touchdown drive, which Josh Jacobs paid off with a 1-yard touchdown. Benito Jones blew straight up the middle and tackled Jordan Love as Jacobs ran past him.

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After the Packers gained a first down to open the drive, Love threw strike to Dontayvion Wicks, who dropped it. It would have been intercepted if not for Christian Watson clobbering one of the Dolphins’ starting cornerbacks, Kader Kohou, who was shaken up.

On third-and-3, Love hit Tucker Kraft for a catch-and-run gain of 17. And that was it through the air. Jacobs ran for 2, 11 and 1, Wilson ran for 5 and 15, and Jacobs moved the pile for 6 yards to the 1 before scoring. On both of the explosive runs, center Josh Myers and right guard Sean Rhyan had key blocks.

Packers 7, Dolphins 0 (7:53 remaining)

A pair of passes to De’Von Achane gained one first down, but a botched screen-turned-draw resulted in a loss of 3, plus another 15-yard loss when tight end Jonnu Smith forearmed safety Xavier McKinney.

Packers 7, Dolphins 0 (12:00 remaining)

The Packers wasted a golden opportunity to start the game. Not the second. After Keisean Nixon’s 43-yard kickoff return, Jordan Love overthrew Jayden Reed for what should have been a 58-yard touchdown. However, Malik Washington muffed Daniel Whelan’s bomb of a punt, with Robert Rochell recovering at the 9. On third-and-goal at the 3, Love hit Jayden Reed on an out against tight coverage by Storm Duck. If the ball was underthrown by a foot, it might have been a pick-six. Reed took a step into the end zone.

Injury update: Packers CB Corey Ballentine (knee) is questionable; he was injured on Nixon’s opening kickoff return.

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Pregame Weather

Pertinent because of Miami’s cold-weather history: It’s 27 degrees at kickoff with a wind chill of 18.

Takeaways Are Pivotal

The Packers entered the day tied for second in the NFL with 22 takeaways, including a seventh-ranked 11 interceptions and a top-ranked 11 fumble recoveries.

During the Dolphins’ three-game winning streak, Tua Tagovailoa has thrown one interception.

“When you're talking about takeaways and turnovers, so much of it has to do with the variable that you can't control and that's effort,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said. “The Green Bay Packers, a defense lead by Coach (Jeff) Hafley is a very high-octane, high-effort crew, so good things happen when you are pursuing the ball and have high strain.

“Some of those fumbles become turnovers when you have a collective effort, so I think it starts with the overall strain. They're very ball aware; you can tell they talk about it a ton. Ultimately, they do a good job of taking advantage of mistakes. You have an overthrow, generally it's a pick – a lot of guys with ball skills in the back end.”

Thanksgiving History

The Packers upset the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving last year. Overall, though, there’s been little to be thankful for as they are 15-20-2.

Looking back on that breakthrough game vs. the Lions, offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich said: “That whole deal was kind of one of those things where you have a young group trying to make a name for themselves, just put some positive things to get it going.

“You’ve got to rally around the situation that you have. Short week, Thanksgiving, you’re going to be primetime, night game, everyone’s going to be watching. So, just those things you can get the players motivated and fired up for, I think always helps. So, yeah, the guys are fired up, they’re excited, and we’ve got a really good opponent coming in. They’re playing really good ball right now.”

The Dolphins, playing on Thanksgiving for the first time since 2011, are 5-2.

Packers-Dolphins Inactives

Five starters are out: Three for Green Bay and two for Miami.

He’s Not Over the Hill

Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill is in his ninth NFL season. He was a Pro Bowler in each of the first eight and a first-team All-Pro in five. He topped 110 receptions each of the previous three seasons and 1,700 receiving yards in each of his first two seasons with the Dolphins.

Last year, he caught 119 passes for 1,799 yards and 13 touchdowns, leading the NFL in the last two of those categories.

This year, he has caught only 49 passes for 571 yards and three touchdowns. Hill, who ranks third in NFL history with 12 touchdowns of 75-plus yards, has only two games of 75-plus yards this season.

“It’s pretty impressive what I’ve seen him do this year,” Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley said. “Everybody’s trying to take him out of the game and they’re still not doing a very good job of it, so we’d better be on it. We better know where he is, or he could have another one of those games like you’re talking about.”

This is rather incredible: Hill, according to Pro Football Focus, has caught 5-of-16 and scored one touchdown on passes thrown 20-plus yards downfield. Last year, he caught 21-of-35 for 795 yards with eight touchdowns. For context, Jayden Reed led the Packers with 793 yards on his 64 receptions last year.

If Hill scores three touchdowns during the final six games, he’ll join a pair of Hall of Famers, Marvin Harrison and Packers legend Don Hutson, as the only players with six-plus touchdown catches in each of his first nine seasons.

The Fine Line

Packers running back Josh Jacobs needs 56 rushing yards to reach 1,000 yards this season. Jacobs is having a tremendous year with a punishing style that squeezes every inch out of every run.

He hasn’t done it on his own, though.

The starting five offensive line of left tackle Rasheed Walker, left guard Elgton Jenkins, center Josh Myers, right guard Sean Rhyan and right tackle Zach Tom have started all but one game together. The exception was the loss against Detroit, when Myers was out with a wrist injury.

That group has powered a prolific rushing attack.

“Whatever we’ve got to do to score, get the ball down the field,” Jenkins said of the rare offensive balance. “I feel like it helps us out in the pass game, as well. We’ve got people in the box worrying about the run, so it gives a much clearer view for the quarterback to see what the defense’s trying to do. Because they’ve got to stop the run, they’ve got to bring more people into the box.”

That group has consistently given Jacobs room to get started in the run game and provided exemplary protection for Jordan Love. The Packers are second in sacks allowed and third in sack percentage allowed.

“I think there’s been a lot of great moments,” coach Matt LaFleur said. “I think they’ve been battling. I think we’ve gotten better in terms of playing with better pad level and more physicality.

“That’s something that we’ve definitely been stressing and working on, especially whether it’s in walk-through drills, whatever it might be, that pad level’s critical and playing with great fundamentals. It always starts – whether you’re offensive linemen, quarterback, receiver, defensive back – it all starts with your fundamentals. So, that’s something we’ve definitely been harping on.”

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