How to Watch: Packers at Saints

The Green Bay Packers (2-0) will face the New Orleans Saints (1-1) in a big NFC game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome at 7:20 p.m. Sunday.

Bill Huber | Sep 22, 2020

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers (2-0) will face the New Orleans Saints (1-1) in a big NFC game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome at 7:20 p.m. Sunday.

How to Watch

TV: NBC – Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya (field reporter).

How to Listen

Packer Radio Network (50 stations in four states) – Wayne Larrivee, Larry McCarren and John Kuhn (sideline).

National radio: Westwood One – Brandon Gaudin, Rod Woodson.

Sirius: 81 (GB), 83 (NO) | XM: 226 (GB), 225 (NO)

Worth Knowing

The Line: Saints by 3 at PointsBet.

Referee: Brad Rogers.

Series: Packers lead 16-9.

Streaks: Saints have won past two.

Last game: Saints 26, Packers 17 (Oct. 22, 2017; Brett Hundley was Green Bay’s quarterback.)

Last game at site: Saints 44, Packers 23 (Oct. 22, 2014).

The Quarterbacks

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the NFL’s all-time leader in passer rating, though by a slim margin over Seattle’s Russell Wilson (102.6 to 102.0). He’s also No. 1 – by a much wider margin – in touchdown-to-interception ratio. Rodgers has thrown 370 touchdowns vs. 84 interceptions, a mark of 4.40 touchdowns per interception. Wilson is second with 236 touchdowns vs. 69 interceptions, a mark of 3.42.

Saints quarterback Drew Brees is the NFL’s career leader in completion percentage, passing yards and passing touchdowns, among other stats. He led the NFL in passing yards in 2014 through 2016 and in completion percentage from 2017 through 2019. In 2017, he set an NFL record by completing 72.0 percent of his passes. In 2018, he beat that mark with a 74.4 percent completion rate. Last year, he fell just short at 74.3 percent. He’s at only 64.7 percent to start this season.

Did You Know?

– The Packers, who have totaled 85 points and 1,010 yards of offense in their 2-0 start, are the fourth team to score at least 80 points and register at least 1,000 yards of offense through the first two weeks of a season in NFL history, joining last year’s Baltimore Ravens, the San Francisco 49ers (1998) and Buffalo Bills (1991).

– Green Bay is No. 1 in the NFL by a wide margin in time of possession with an average of 38 minutes, 1 second in its two games. New Orleans is 26th with an average of 27:33. The Saints possessed the ball for only 23:42 in their loss at Las Vegas on Monday. Lamenting that disparity, Brees said, “Listen, we know what wins football games and we know what makes it very difficult to win football games and obviously we made way too many mistakes out there in order to win that game.”

– Since Rodgers took over as Green Bay’s starter, he is third with 115 wins. Brees is second with 117.

Published Sep 22, 2020

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.