How to Watch Packers vs. Lions: Time, Channel, Streaming Options

The Green Bay Packers will host the Detroit Lions on Thursday night. Here is the weekly viewing information along with stats, officiating, history and more.

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions will collide in a big NFC North showdown on Thursday Night Football at Lambeau Field. Both teams are 2-1; the winner will grab an early lead in the division race.

Here’s how to watch, stream and listen to the game, plus stats, notes, history and more.

How to Watch Packers vs. Lions

Date and time: Thursday, 7:15 p.m.

Location: Lambeau Field.

TV: Amazon Prime Video (Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit and Kaylee Hartung). The game will be aired in the Green Bay area on WGBA-TV and in the Milwaukee area by WITI-TV.

Stream: fuboTV offers more than 100 channels and a free trial. This game, however, is exclusive to Amazon Prime Video.

Radio: Packers Radio Network (Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren), Westwood One (Ian Eagles and Joe Thomas) and SiriusXM 83 or 225 (Green Bay broadcast), 88 (national broadcast) or SiriusXM.us/PackersSXM

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What You Need to Know About Packers vs. Lions

Referee: Alan Eck. Eck has been an NFL official since 2016 but this is his first season as a referee. The home team is 3-0 in his games. His crew is right around the league average in penalties per game (0.32 penalties below average) and penalty yards per game (4.21 yards above average).

Betting line: Lions by 1.5 at FanDuel Sportsbook with an over/under of 45.5. Jordan Love’s passing over/under is 227.5 yards; Jared Goff’s is 249.5 yards. AJ Dillon is the favorite for anytime scorer.

History lesson: The Packers lead the series 103-75-7. Green Bay has more wins over the Lions than any other team. Detroit won both of last year’s games, meaning one team has swept the season series six of the last seven years.

Last year, the Lions won in Week 18 to keep Green Bay out of the playoffs.

“I think we’re past that,” receiver Christian Watson said. “Obviously, we’ll watch some film from that game just to get some stuff [for the] game plan for this game but we’re not thinking about the fact that we lost to them. I’m sure there’s some guys who use that for motivation and whatnot but I’m not really worried about what happened last year. I’m worried about what’s happening this year. It’s different teams.”

Coaches: Green Bay’s Matt LaFleur is in his fifth season and has a career record of 49-20. He is 5-3 against the Lions. Detroit’s Dan Campbell is in his third season and owns a 14-22-1 record. He is 3-1 against LaFleur.

In the rankings: Green Bay on offense ranks eighth in points per game (26.7), 14th in passing per play (6.48) and 26th in rushing per play (3.43). On defense, it ranks 13th in points per game (20.7), 12th in passing per play (5.82) and 18th in rushing per play (4.27). It is plus-2 in turnovers.

Detroit on offense ranks 12th in points per game (24.0), second in passing per play (7.85) and 24th in rushing per play (3.64). On defense, it ranks 15th in points per game (21.0), 11th in passing per play (5.73) and fifth in rushing per play (3.18). It is minus-3 in turnovers.

In the power rankings: At Sports Illustrated, the Packers are 14th and the Lions are eighth.

Lions QB Jared Goff at the Packers in 2022 :: Photo by Tork Mason/USA Today Sports Images

Four-Point Stance

One: A quick look at the standings tells you this is a big game. So, too, does a quick look at history. According to the NFL, since 1990, 64.3 percent of teams that started 3-1 wound up advancing to the postseason. Of teams that started 2-2, 37.1 percent qualified for the playoffs.

“Certainly, you want these more because they’re for the division and these count,” Campbell said. “These have a significant impact on being a division winner, so I think in that regard, it certainly means a lot. It’s going to take every one of us and everybody has got to do their part and it’s never about one person. It’s about everybody – coaches, players and all three phases for us to win. You’ve got to fight for everything you get in this league. It’s too hard to win when you don’t. We do that, then I like our chances out there.”

Two: Both teams have impact rookies at tight end. Detroit’s Sam LaPorta is off to a historic start. His 18 catches in three games are the most ever for a rookie tight end, passing Keith Jackson, a former Packers player who caught 17 passes for the Eagles in 1988. He enters Week 4 leading all NFL tight ends, regardless of experience, with 186 receiving yards.

Three: Lions coach Jared Goff has been superb on Thursday nights with career marks of 16 touchdowns (15 passing, one rushing) vs. just two interceptions for a 107.9 passer rating. He’s thrown two-plus touchdowns in four of his five career games against Green Bay.

Four: Last week, the Packers faced the Saints, who had allowed 20 or fewer points in 10 consecutive games, one game off the longest streak in the NFL in 25 years. This week, the Packers will face the Lions, who have scored 20-plus points in 12 consecutive games. That’s the longest active streak in the NFL and one off the franchise record.

That streak includes primetime road wins at Green Bay to end last season and at Kansas City to start this season.

“We’ve had them all on the road it seems like and it’s kind of the us vs. everybody mentality and going in there with our backs against the wall in some ways and trying to come out with a W,” Goff said.

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