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Packers Redskins Torrent Download Packers Vs packers redskins torrent download Packers vs. Redskins: TV information, streaming, how to watch. The Green Bay Packers (9-3) will welcome interim coach Bill Callahan and the Washington Redskins (3-9) to Lambeau Field on Sunday afternoon. The Packers are returning home to play a game for the first time in a month after playing back-to-back road games coming out of the bye week in Week 11. The Redskins, who have won two straight games, beat the Packers in Washington during the regular season in 2016 and 2018. The Packers won a playoff game in Washington in 2016 and the last game between the two teams at Lambeau Field in 2013. FOX will broadcast the game. Kenny Albert (play-by-play) will be joined by Ronde Barber (analyst) in the booth with Lindsay Czarniak reporting from the sidelines. The game can be heard over Milwaukee’s WTMJ (620 AM) and the Packers Radio Network, which is made up of 50 stations in five states. Wayne Larrivee (play-by-play) and Larry McCarren (analyst) will call the action with John Kuhn providing coverage from the sidelines. The matchup will also be aired over Sports USA Radio and the WTMJ feed of Sirius Satellite Radio. Here’s the information you need to know to watch Sunday afternoon’s game: Packers Wire staff predictions: Week 14 vs. Redskins. The Green Bay Packers have a chance to get to double-digit wins for the first time since the 2016 season when the three-win Washington Redskins arrive at Lambeau Field on Sunday. Here’s how the staff at Packers Wire believes the Week 14 matchup will go down: Zach Kruse (9-3): Packers 24, Redskins 13. If they contain the run and avoid big mistakes, the Packers should win comfortably. The guess here is that the offense won’t be dominant against a good Washington front, but the Packers defense will get stops and takeaways and control the game. Jack Wepfer (9-3): Packers 31, Redskins 13. Packers turn in the type of performance necessary to build momentum going into late December. Washington struggles in the red zone on both offense and defense. That just happens to be where the Packers are best. As a result, the Packers take control early and – to quote Mike McCarthy – stack success en route to 10-3. Marty Kauffman (7-5): Packers 31, Redskins 14. The Packers are currently benefiting with the schedule right now before the final three division games but they know they still can’t take opponents lightly and they won’t on Sunday. With strong leadership and momentum the Packers roll on Sunday with a balanced offensive attack of Aaron Rodgers through the air and Aaron Jones on the ground, while the defense continues to thrive via quarterback pressures and turnovers. Anthony Nash (8-4): Packers 28, Redskins 16. The Packers “get right” game against the Giants wasn’t exactly the perfect performance that the team was anticipating, but they’ll get another chance against Washington on Sunday. Back in Lambeau, the Packers should once again try and kickstart their offense through Aaron Jones and Jamaal Williams, and the defense can once again take advantage of a rookie quarterback who might be prone to mistakes. Much like last week, Green Bay should come away as the winner here. Nolan Stracke (7-5): Packers 38, Redskins 17. Washington comes into this game with a little momentum behind them after running all over the slumping Carolina Panthers last week. Call it lucky. Aside from their run game and rookie sensation Terry McLaurin, this offense is horrible. Last place in yards and points forced kind of horrible. It’d take an epic implosion for the Packers to lose at Lambeau this week and I don’t see that happening. Dwayne Haskins is the second rookie quarterback in a row going up against a Packers defense that feasted on Daniel Jones mistakes last week. Not much tips in Washington’s favor here. Joe Kipp (8-4): Packers 34, Redskins 14. The Packers have been bleeding yards on defense this season, allowing a whopping 376.8 yards per game (28th). The secret to Green Bay’s defensive success has been their ability to create takeaways. The Packers currently have a turnover differential of +11 (second-best), and will face a rookie quarterback who’s shown to be turnover prone. Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins has already thrown six interceptions and fumbled three times in just four starts, which bodes well for an opportunistic Packers defense. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Green Bay force three takeaways en route to a comfortable double-digit victory. Packers, Redskins have played great games. The Packers-Redskins rivalry dates back to 1932, when the franchise was located in Boston and their nickname was the Braves. Green Bay won the initial meeting in Boston, 21-0, on Nov. 13, 1932. Fast forward eight decades, and the Redskins won the last meeting, 16-13, in overtime on Oct. 10, 2010. Green Bay holds a 17-13-1 edge in regular-season play, and the teams are tied 1-1 in the postseason. While the teams never faced each other in the Packers dynasty of the 1960s, Green Bay defeated the Redskins at the beginning of the Vince Lombardi era (21-0 in 1959) and at the conclusion of his Packers tenure (27-7 in 1968), when he served only in a general manager role. The legendary coach is a common denominator between the franchises. Lombardi left Green Bay to become the head coach of the Redskins in 1969 and coached just one season before contracting cancer and succumbing to the disease on Sept. 3, 1970, at age 57. Packer Plus reviews five of the top games in the series. 5. Redskins 16, Packers 13 (OT) October 10, 2010, at FedEx Field. It was the only overtime game in the Green Bay-Washington series, and the Redskins prevailed thanks to Graham Gano's 33-yard field goal 6:54 into the extra period. Green Bay led, 10-0, in the second quarter and, 13-3, entering the fourth quarter before the Redskins mounted their comeback before 87,760 fans at FedEx Field. With a rash of injuries sidelining key players — Clay Matthews, Ryan Pickett, Jermichael Finley and Donald Lee — Donovan McNabb rallied his team to within three points early in the stanza with a 48-yard touchdown pass. Gano tied the game with a 45-yard field goal with 1:07 left, and Aaron Rodgers was intercepted by LaRon Landry in overtime to set up the game- winning kick. Mason Crosby had the opportunity to be the game's hero, but his 53-yard field-goal attempt with 1 second left in regulation bounced off the left upright. 4. Packers 37, Redskins 0. Sept. 24, 2001, at Lambeau Field. Green Bay crushed the Redskins in the season's second game as quarterback Brett Favre played efficiently, completing 20 of 31 passes for 236 yards and three touchdowns. Played in 46-degree temperatures at Lambeau Field, the Green Bay offense featured a balanced attack as Ahman Green bulled his way 25 times for 116 yards and a touchdown. The Packer defense was superb, limiting Washington to less than 300 yards of total offense and creating four turnovers to set up the offense in the rout. 3. Redskins 16, Packers 3. December 24, 1972, at RFK Stadium. In its first postseason appearance since 1968 (Super Bowl II), Green Bay ran into a Washington defense stacked to take away its potent running game led by John Brockington and MacArthur Lane. The Packers drew first blood, taking a 3-0 lead on Chester Marcol's 17-yard field goal early in the second quarter. From then on, it was all Redskins as Bill Kilmer hit Roy Jefferson with a 32-yard scoring pass and Curt Knight kicked a 42-yard field goal to give Washington a 10-3 lead at intermission. The Redskins defense, which limited Brockington to 9 yards in 13 carries, dominated play in the second half as Scott Hunter and the Green Bay offense could not muster another point. Washington's five-man front dared Hunter to pass, but head coach Dan Devine continued to bang away with Brockington and Lane. Larry Brown, however, spearheaded an effective Redskins ground game with 101 yards on 25 carries. Knight added field goals of 35 and 46 yards to put the game away in the fourth quarter. It was the second defeat in less than a month at RFK Stadium, as the Packers had lost to Washington, 21-16, on Nov. 26. 2. Packers 21, Redskins 6. Dec. 13, 1936, at Polo Grounds, New York. The Packers had already defeated the Boston Redskins twice in the regular season (31-2 in Green Bay and 7-3 in Boston), but had to do it a third time to claim the 1936 NFL Championship. The title game was riddled with off-the-field controversy, as Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, upset with support for his team in Boston, was shifting his team to Washington the following season. Marshall lobbied the NFL brass to hold the title game in New York instead of Boston, infuriating the team's fans. Green Bay struck early in the championship game, as Don Hutson and Arnie Herber hooked up on a 48-yard scoring pass just three minutes into the game. The Redskins closed to within, 7-6, before intermission on Pug Rentner's 2-yard run, but the Packers dominated play in the second half.
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