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2023 NFL Schedule Loves Primetime Packers

Here is the Green Bay Packers' 2023 NFL schedule, which leads off with Jordan Love making his debut as the team's QB1 at the Chicago Bears.

Bill Huber

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – The 2023 NFL schedule shows the Green Bay Packers under new starting quarterback Jordan Love have been deemed ready for primetime.

The Love Era will begin with a Week 1 game at the Chicago Bears. Love will make his first start at Lambeau Field in Week 3 against the New Orleans Saints. Four days later, Love will make his primetime debut with a Thursday night home game against the Detroit Lions. That’s one of five games scheduled to be under the lights.

Here is the Green Bay Packers’ 2023 Schedule

Week 1: at Chicago Bears

Sunday, Sept. 10, 3:25 p.m., Fox

Week 2: at Atlanta Falcons

Sunday, Sept. 17, noon, Fox

Week 3: New Orleans Saints

Sunday, Sept. 24, noon, Fox

Week 4: Detroit Lions

Thursday, Sept. 28, 7:15 p.m., Prime

Week 5: at Las Vegas Raiders

Monday, Oct. 9, 7:15 p.m., ESPN

Week 6

Bye

Week 7: at Denver Broncos

Sunday, Oct. 22, 3:25 p.m., CBS

Week 8: Minnesota Vikings

Sunday, Oct. 29, noon, Fox

Week 9: Los Angeles Rams

Sunday, Nov. 5, noon, Fox

Week 10: at Pittsburgh Steelers

Sunday, Nov. 12, noon, CBS

Week 11: Los Angeles Chargers

Sunday, Nov. 19, noon, Fox

Week 12: at Detroit Lions

Thursday, Nov. 23, 11:30 a.m., Fox

Week 13: Kansas City Chiefs

Sunday, Dec. 3, 7:20 p.m. NBC

Week 14: at New York Giants

Monday, Dec. 11, 7:15 p.m., ABC

Week 15: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Sunday, Dec. 17, noon, Fox

Week 16: at Carolina Panthers

Sunday, Dec. 24, noon, Fox

Week 17: at Minnesota Vikings

Sunday, Dec. 31, 7:20 p.m., NBC

Week 18: Chicago Bears

Date, time and TV all TBA

Packers Playing Late and Early (and on Holidays)

This marks the 10th consecutive season in which the Packers were awarded five primetime games. Their national appeal, annual status as Super Bowl contenders and the presence of Aaron Rodgers guaranteed tremendous ratings in the marquee games played on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights.

The curiosity factor with Love means more of the same, though the networks hedged their bets. Three of their primetime games are scheduled for December – including New Year’s Eve at the Minnesota Vikings – and are subject to the NFL’s flexible scheduling.

There are nine early games on the docket, including Thanksgiving at Detroit and Christmas Eve at the Carolina Panthers, compared to five last year.

A couple factors weigh in the Packers’ favor as they attempt to rebound from last year’s 8-9 finish with Rodgers.

One, the schedule does not seem particularly daunting. By 2022 winning percentage, Green Bay will face the 24th-ranked schedule, with its 17 opponents having a combined winning percentage of .476 last year. Four games will be played against teams that won at least 10 games while eight games will be played against teams that lost 10-plus games.

Even accounting for year-to-year improvement based on free agency and the draft, 10 of their 17 games will come against teams ranked 20th or worse in Sports Illustrated’s power rankings. Eight games will be played against teams ranked 20th or worse in the latest Super Bowl odds.

Two, eight of their 17 games will come against teams ranked 20th or worse in points allowed last season compared to only two that finished in the top 10, meaning perhaps an easier breaking-in period for Love.

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Bill Huber
BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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