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How to Watch: Packers vs. Patriots in NFL Preseason

The Green Bay Packers will host the New England Patriots on Saturday night. Can’t be at Lambeau Field? Here’s how to watch, stream, listen and more.

Bill Huber

How to Watch: Packers vs. Patriots in NFL Preseason
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers won Day 1 of joint practices. The New England Patriots won Day 2. The tiebreaker will be held on Saturday night at Lambeau Field when the Packers (1-0) host the Patriots (0-1) for their second preseason game. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Central.

Here’s how to watch and more.

How to Watch Patriots at Packers

Packers TV Network: Kevin Harlan (play by play), John Kuhn (analyst) and Lance Allan (sideline) will be on the call on these 22 stations: WTMJ/NBC, Milwaukee; WGBA/NBC, Green Bay; WQOW/ABC, Eau Claire, Wis.; WXOW/ABC, La Crosse, Wis.; WKOW/ABC, Madison, Wis.; WAOW/ABC, Wausau, Wis.; KQDS/FOX, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis.; WLUC-NBC/FOX UP, Escanaba/Marquette, Mich.; WMBD/CBS, Peoria/Bloomington, Ill.; KCCI/CBS, Des Moines, Iowa; WHBF/CBS, Davenport, Iowa; KWWL/NBC, Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Iowa; KTVI/FOX, St. Louis, Mo.; KETV/ABC, Omaha, Neb.; KNDB/BEK, Bismarck, N.D.; KRDK/BEK, Fargo, N.D.; KNDM/BEK, Minot, N.D.; KDLT/NBC, Sioux Falls, S.D.; KYUR/ABC, Anchorage, Alaska; KATN/ABC, Fairbanks, Alaska; KJUD/ABC, Juneau, Alaska and WYTU/Telemundo Wisconsin.

Stream: With fuboTV, you can stream games and your favorite programming all year.

NFL Network: The game will not be aired live. Rather, it will be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday and noon Wednesday.

How to Listen to Packers-Patriots

With Wayne Larrivee (play by play) and Larry McCarren (analyst) on the call, all Packers games can be heard on the 51-station Packers Radio Network. Click here for the list of affiliates. The audio also will be streamed at Packers.com.

Packers-Patriots Betting Line

The Packers are 2.5-point favorites at FanDuel Sportsbook for Saturday’s game. Only Buccaneers-Jets (36.5) has a lower total than the over/under of 37.

Weather Report

Saturday’s forecast calls for sunny skies and a high of 86. For kickoff, the temperature will be in the upper 70s. No rain is in the forecast and winds will be around 10 mph.

Three-Point Stance

Romeo Doubs
Romeo Doubs (Photo by Dan Powers/USA Today Sports Images)

One: Packers coach Matt LaFleur wouldn’t say whether Jordan Love and Co. would play. After two days of intense practices, it’s possible he’ll rest his key players for this game but play them for next week’s finale against the Seattle Seahawks.

The Patriots did not play their starters for last week’s 20-9 loss to the Houston Texans. With Mac Jones kept on the bench, Bailey Zappe was the 12-of-14 passing for 79 yards, with Malik Cunningham (3-of-4) and Trace McSorley (1-of-3) also running the show.

Two: Among coaches in NFL history with at least 50 games, LaFleur ranks fourth all-time with a .712 winning percentage. Patriots coach Bill Belichick is No. 1 among active coaches with 298 wins and is just two wins from joining Don Shula (328) and George Halas (318) as the only coachers with 300.

“You always want to go against people that you respect,” LaFleur said of Belichick. “And, obviously, he’s been able to have been the model of consistency in this league for a long time and they’ve had a lot of success. It’s no secret; He’s highly regarded as one of the greatest coaches of all time. So, why not try to steal a little piece from how they do things and just get a closer look at it?”

Three: In Week 4 of last season, the Packers needed a fourth-quarter comeback and overtime to beat the Patriots 27-24. Green Bay’s rookie receivers were key factors. Christian Watson’s 15-yard touchdown run put the Packers on the board and Romeo Doubs’ 13-yard touchdown sent the game to overtime. Doubs had two catches on the game-winning drive, which was capped by Mason Crosby’s 31-yard field goal.

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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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