r/GreenBayPackers • • 14h ago

Analysis [Week 7] X's & O's: Packers @ Lions

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This is X's & O's! This is a recurring Day-After-Game thread where we talk about and share game highlights and lowlights! This is a serious discussion, all top level comments must be Questions, Highlights or Play Breakdowns.

ANY TOP LEVEL JOKE/MEME WILL BE REMOVED!

Lets start breaking down the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Stat Packers Lions
TOTAL FIRST DOWNS 17 26
By Rushing 4 7
By Passing 12 14
By Penalty 1 5
TOTAL NET YARDS 324 415
Total Offensive Plays (inc. times thrown passing) 65 66
Average gain per offensive play 5.0 6.3
NET YARDS RUSHING 60 119
Total Rushing Plays 19 33
Average gain per rushing play 3.2 3.6
Tackles for a loss-number and yards 0-0 6-14
NET YARDS PASSING 264 296
Times thrown - yards lost attempting to pass 1-10 1-7
Gross yards passing 274 303
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-INTERCEPTED 45-27-1 32-22-0
Avg gain per pass play (inc. # thrown passing) 5.7 9.0
KICKOFFS Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 4-0-0 4-1-2
PUNTS Number and Average 2-50.0 2-52.0
Had Blocked 0 0
FGs - PATs Had Blocked 1-0 0-0
Net Punting Average 42.5 42.0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not Including Kickoffs) 0 15
No. and Yards Punt Returns 0-0 1-15
No. and Yards Kickoff Returns 2-48 4-90
No. and Yards Interception Returns 0-0 1-0
PENALTIES Number and Yards 8-81 5-50
FUMBLES Number and Lost 0-0 3-2
TOUCHDOWNS 2 2
Rushing 0 0
Passing 2 2
EXTRA POINTS Made-Attempts 2-2 2-2
Kicking Made-Attempts 2-2 2-2
FIELD GOALS Made-Attempts 1-3 2-2
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 29:59 30:01
FINAL SCORE 17 20
Team 1 2 3 4 Final
GB 7 0 7 3 17
DET 7 3 7 3 20

r/GreenBayPackers • • 4h ago

Fandom Shoutout this dawg for keeping us afloat

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Refs hate him, receivers doing him no favors…continues to control everything he can at a very high (dare I say the E word?) level. I feel very lucky to have this guy leading us every week, hopefully his time in the twilight zone ends soon


r/GreenBayPackers • • 2h ago

Analysis Officiating, from a rival

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I’m a diehard Vikings fan, and generally don’t come in peace. With that said you guys are getting fucked over in ways I couldn’t fathom as recently as last year. I don’t get it. I’ve watched nearly every pack game this year. In week 1, I remember thinking we got at least 75% of calls that game and it sticking out as odd. We had several drives get extended by Ticky Tack calls (lord knows this offense needed them to function, too)

Then I watched the next week when you guys got all these phantom calls against you again. Then last week with the phantom RTP call(s). So many drive-extending calls against Green Bay. This week against the lions was a masterclass on one-sided officiating. What the hell, man? ANOTHER phantom roughing the passer call? What’s with the jumping offsides Lions dances? I started laughing because I figured they’d get called for team celebration and they’d pull a Lions and miss the FG by taking the neutral zone infraction, then moving back 15. But nope. All good, I guess!

I don’t mind seeing you lose, but not like this.

I’m not saying anything you all aren’t also screaming about, but it’s not just been one or two games, and it’s not getting better or regressing to the mean. This year’s NFC North is awesome and I don’t want it spoiled by weird officiating.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 6h ago

Analysis Should this have been a penalty on Branch?

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487 Upvotes

Didn’t see this hit get talked about much, but isn’t he leading with his helmet and then hits Kraft’s helmet?


r/GreenBayPackers • • 3h ago

Analysis Whenever Pack a good play.

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r/GreenBayPackers • • 4h ago

News Packers All-Pro safety Xavier McKinney unloads on the officiating. Have a listen. Says he’d rather get fined and try and help his team.

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻


r/GreenBayPackers • • 8h ago

Analysis Jordan Love has been hit the most by any starting QB yet no roughing the passer calls

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By the numbers he has been hit 46 times with 0 roughing calls. On the other side Packers defense has hit QBs 42 times and been called for roughing 8 times. Let's all submit a inquiry to the NFL highlighting the disparity and players safely. Here's a link where you can submit it. If it didn't initially open click the top right menu and submit a request.

https://support.nfl.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=33743387093140


r/GreenBayPackers • • 1h ago

Analysis A Massive Issue

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The refs.

I am here to discuss the refs, the god-awful, blind as fuck, scatterbrained and inbred delinquents of society that the NFL employs, who should be jailed for what is clear and blatant rigging of NFL games for what is either personal bias or personal profit. In the words of X, “A lot of shit that doesn’t make sense.”

There is a clear bias currently, and especially this year but in previous years since Rodgers left the team, against the Packers. Before this season, however, it was the regular things occurring with most teams: missed but clear as day holds and easy to call PIs that the ref crew simply thought was ’hand fighting‘.

This year has been egregious, however. You cannot touch the QB. It will be flagged. You cannot show extra effort and make sure a player is down. It will be flagged. Handfighting and taunting? Only a penalty if the Packers do it.

I do not agree that the Lions should be flagged for celebrating, but I believe that if one ref crew calls flexing an excess celebration that warrants a fine and flag, it should be called evenly across the league. Other leagues, like the NBA, have shown this as an issue and are working to correct it by outlying and outlining more clearly what should be points of emphasis in the rulebook. We hear none of this with the NFL refs.

At this point, I am considering watching only Packers games and ‘boycotting‘ the rest of the league (not that does much). Some action has to be taken: the product is the NFL is being cheapened out, and arrests need to be made eventually because there is clear gambling going on here. I am aware the Packers have many issues involving players and the team, but we cannot fight a battle both with the opponent and the refs and expect to win.

Go Pack Go!


r/GreenBayPackers • • 7h ago

News [Rapoport] Packers C Sean Rhyan, who left Sunday’s game with an ankle injury, is believed to have suffered a high-ankle sprain, sources say. X-Rays were negative, and he has an MRI today. But high-ankle sprains are often 4-6 week injuries.

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r/GreenBayPackers • • 2h ago

News Packers sign G Mekhi Becton Sr. to active roster, Place C/G Jacob Monk on IR

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r/GreenBayPackers • • 6h ago

Fandom Salt in the wound

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All I can do is laugh at how unserious the NFL is about officiating. Last week Golden gets flagged for taunting, and then get fined for it. This week the Lions get the Packers in the neutral zone and the entire offense starts dancing. The worst part is, the NFL makes a montage of the whole thing on their official Twitter page. Are the Packers being punished?

The Packers still had chances to take the game yesterday and ultimately didn't execute, but man, its just silly how these refs have been.

They have to play better so the refs cant decide the game.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 9h ago

News Ian Rapoport on Instagram: Zaire Franklin suffered a hairline fracture in his leg

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r/GreenBayPackers • • 9h ago

Analysis Your 2026 NFL leader in dropped passes: Matthew Golden

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Being able to get open is great but if you can’t catch the ball it doesn’t matter. Dropped passes are plaguing this team.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 6h ago

Meme How do I get this job?

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r/GreenBayPackers • • 7h ago

Analysis The NFL Has an Officiating Problem

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Instead of the usual Packers film study, a 16-minute rant about the NFL's officiating problem.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 18h ago

Analysis I don’t understand how this wasn’t called for taunting

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So Golden gets flagged for taunting just for 'flexing' his biceps after a catch against the Cowboys, but this is fine?


r/GreenBayPackers • • 57m ago

Rumor Are they fining TB12 for his honesty on the officiating?

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Is this just more rage bait click bait or are they really able to fine TB? If that’s even a discussion…… this is pretty pretty…. Broken


r/GreenBayPackers • • 8h ago

Analysis John Williams Deserves Credit

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Came in at a new position in his first NFL playing experience and did a solid job all game. O-line is still a problem but he played his role and made zero major mistakes. Almost didn’t notice we were down all of our centers all game.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 7h ago

Analysis The Packers have missed a kick in an astounding 47% of games since the start of the 2023 season. XP or FGs.

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This includes at least one miss in all four playoff games.

29 of 62 games they have missed atleast at least one kick (47%)

8 of 62 games they have missed 2 or more kicks in a game (13%). They have had FIVE different kickers miss multiple kicks in a game in this span. Carlson, narveson, McManus, havrisik, and Trey Smack.

In total, they are 78% on field goals and 92% on extra points since the start of 2023. Absolutely putrid. An organizational failure.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 6h ago

Meme I think we forgot to tell him

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r/GreenBayPackers • • 14h ago

Analysis About Smack. Just let it go. He missed a nasty one tonight. The other was blocked. Trust the young guy to get it together and keep hitting 55ers. What other choice do we have anyway?

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r/GreenBayPackers • • 4h ago

Fandom Ready to Smack Some FG

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I was practicing field goals at the local school practice field after yesterday's game. I can make about 50% from 20 yards and getting better. If the Packers kicking game gets any worse, I'll be ready for a league minimum contract.

All jokes aside, give the young kid some room to grow. We spent a draft pick on him and for this year, we are invested in him. Mason Crosby even had a year where he struggled.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 22h ago

News Player comments on refs tonight.

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Depending on how games continue to go, I might continually update this over the season. Any of my own thoughts will be italicized.

 

Devonte Wyatt on his penalty: "If you asked me right now, I’d do the same thing 100 times over. So that’s the refs. They gotta figure out what they need to do because I definitely did my job."

-Rob Demovsky

 

Xavier McKinney: “it’s kinda fucking up the game... I would rather get fined trying to help my team."

-Rob Demovsky

 

[Xavier McKinney] said the game was “for sure” stolen from the Packers by the refs.

-Matt Schneidman

 

Xavier McKinney calls some of the officiating “bullshit."

“We’re not seeing the same calls for our quarterback.”

- Matt Schneidman

 

Devonte Wyatt to Rob Demovsky:

"What if (St. Brown) would’ve got up and ran for a touchdown? Then everybody would be looking at D-Wy like, ‘You let him go’ ... I feel like the refs were on their side the whole day."

"If it wasn’t for the flags, we would’ve won that game."

-Matt Schneidman

 

Edit: 10/25/26 11:30 pm CT updates below

McDuffie (on the Wyatt unnecessary roughness: “I did not hear a whistle."

-Tom Silverstein

 

One player who didn't want to be quoted for fear of a fine from the NFL said, "He (Moore) was mad. He literally got up mad. He threw the flag because he was on the ground. And he got kicked."

-Tom Silverstein

 

Said Kraft: “I was running a flat route. That’s when he told me. I’m like, ‘So, when the back is in protection and you’re dirting it to the ground and you’re still in the pocket … Anyway, don’t get me started on any of the officiating stuff.”

-Tom Silverstein

 

Said Love: “I thought I had a receiver right there. It is what it is.” Always chill Love. I don't know how he does it.

-Tom Silverstein

 

Full Xavier McKinney rant- https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLAnumJ3/

 

Edit: 10/26/26 8 am CT updates below

On Wyatt unnecessary roughness: "That was a crazy call," Packers cornerback Keisean Nixon said. "It was a terrible call."

-Rob Demovsky

 

Brenton Cox on his RTP: "Maybe like stop in my tracks and like, I don't know, I'm trying to give you a good answer but it's disappointing that these are veteran guys -- I'm not trying to go after the refs -- well-informed guys, and I feel like you've got to know the difference between what's intentional and what's not."

-Rob Demovsky

 

Tucker Kraft: ""I don't think the refs lost us the game. I don't. We had the game, and we gave it away."

I don't necessarily disagree, I just want consistency in the calls.

-Rob Demovsky

 

Karl Brooks declined to comment on his RTP

-Rob Demovsky


r/GreenBayPackers • • 22h ago

Rumor NFL feels unwatchable after witnessing how that game was officiated

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For the first time ever I had to turn off the game before it was even over because seeing the calls genuinely made me sick. There needs to be an investigation or its not worth my time watching this sport anymore. It’s not even about winning or losing, it is ruining the experience of watching the game.


r/GreenBayPackers • • 20h ago

Fandom My passion for this sport died today

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I think this loss definitely pushed me over the edge lol. No doubt the team sucked with drops and missed field goals, but these refs have me 100% convinced this game is influenced and definitely meant for entertainment. All these roughing the passer calls today, the Vikings game and the Dallas game were bs, but the intentional grounding call was the icing on the cake.. I was even saying during Thursday’s game how bad this season has been for flags in all the games I’ve watched this year just not Packers.

The Sports betting market definitely ruined sports. Along with the league wanting to go international. Refs in the NBA got caught rigging games with calling fouls trying to change the outcome of the games and I believe the NFL does it now too. Lifelong fan and my passion ended today. I’ll probably still watch since I have nothing else going on Sunday’s, but I definitely won’t be buying anymore merch or be emotionally invested in this sport anymore.

Let’s be honest it’s going to be another Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl again anyway. Packers might sneak in with the 7th seed again and just lose to San Fran too. I’m done.