Packers Public Relations Lambeau Field Atrium 1265 Lombardi Avenue Green Bay, WI 54304 920/569-7500 920/569-7201 fax Jeff Blumb, Aaron Popkey, Sarah Quick, Ricky Zeller, Jonathan Butnick, Tom Fanning, Mike Spofford, Duke Bobber VOL. XII; NO. 14 GREEN BAY, OCT. 26, 2010 WEEK 8 GREEN BAY (4-3) AT N.Y. JETS (5-1) WITH THE CALL Sunday, Oct. 31 New Meadowlands Stadium Noon CDT FOX Sports, now in its 17th season as an NFL network television partner, will broadcast the game to a regional audience. PACKERS HEAD EAST TO TAKE ON THE JETS Play-by-play man Kenny Albert and color analyst Green Bay goes on the road after back-to-back home games to visit Daryl Johnston will have the call from the broadcast the New York Jets in the Packers’ first-ever game at New booth with Tony Siragusa reporting from the side- Meadowlands Stadium, which opened this season. lines. Milwaukee’s WTMJ (620 AM), airing Green Bay games Sunday’s game will be Green Bay’s first trip to New York since 1929, heads up the 53-station Packers Radio Network, with to face the Jets since the teams squared off on Dec. 29, Wayne Larrivee (play-by-play) and two-time Packers Pro Bowler 2002. New York won, 42-17, in that ’02 season finale. Larry McCarren (color) calling the action. The duo enters its 12th It will be only the fifth meeting between the teams in New York, with the season of broadcasts together across the Packers Radio Network, which Packers also traveling there in 1981, 1982 and 1991, all Jets wins. covers 43 markets in five states. Green Bay trails 2-8 in the all-time series. The teams last met in Head Westwood One radio will air the game across the country. Howard Coach Mike McCarthy’s first season when the Packers hosted New David (play-by-play) and Tony Boselli (analyst) will call the action, York on Dec. 3, 2006. The Jets won that contest, 38-10. and Scott Graham hosts pregame and halftime shows. The Jets are coming into Sunday’s game off of their bye, and they are For out-of-town listeners, the broadcast is available to NFL Field Pass tied with New England and Pittsburgh for the best record in the league subscribers on www.packers.com as well as on Sirius Satellite Radio at 5-1. New York enters the matchup with Green Bay on a five-game (channel 90 WTMJ feed) as part of the network’s NFL Sunday Drive. winning streak, its longest since a five-game streak in 2008. DIRECTV subscribers can watch the game in HD on channel 709. Sunday’s matchup with New York will be Green Bay’s third game of the PRESEASON season against a team from the AFC East. The Packers hosted Buffalo Date Opponent Time TV in Week 2 and Miami in Week 6, beating the Bills, 34-7, while falling in Sat., Aug. 14 CLEVELAND BROWNS (Gold Pkg.) . L, 24-27 (68,958) overtime to the Dolphins, 23-20. Green Bay wraps up its AFC East slate (Midwest Shrine Game) in Week 15 at New England. Sat., Aug. 21 at Seattle Seahawks. .W, 27-24 (65,586) Green Bay will be playing on Halloween for just the second time since Thu., Aug. 26 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS . .W, 59-24 (68,987) 1995, with the only other contest coming at Washington in 2004, a (Bishop’s Charities Game) Thu., Sept. 2 at Kansas City Chiefs. L, 13-17 (63,843) 28-14 Packers win. Next Sunday, the Packers return home to host the Dallas Cowboys in REGULAR SEASON a nationally televised contest at 7:20 p.m., the second straight Sunday Date Opponent Time TV night home contest for Green Bay. The following week the Packers will Sun., Sept. 12 at Philadelphia Eagles . .W, 27-20 (69,144) have their bye, with the Week 10 bye being the latest ever for Green Bay. Sun., Sept. 19 BUFFALO BILLS. .W, 34-7 (70,741) Mon., Sept. 27 at Chicago Bears . L, 17-20 (62,179) KEEPING IT CLOSE Sun., Oct. 3 DETROIT LIONS (Gold Pkg.) . .W, 28-26 (70,729) On Sunday night, the Packers snapped a two-game losing streak with Sun., Oct. 10 at Washington Redskins . L, 13-16+ (87,760) a thrilling 28-24 victory over the division-rival Minnesota Vikings at Sun., Oct. 17 MIAMI DOLPHINS. L, 20-23+ (70,815) Lambeau Field to improve to 4-3 on the season. Sun., Oct. 24 MINNESOTA VIKINGS . .W, 28-24 (71,107) Sun., Oct. 31 at New York Jets . 12 noon FOX For Green Bay, it was yet another game that was decided in the closing Sun., Nov. 7 DALLAS COWBOYS (Gold Pkg.) . 7:20 p.m. NBC seconds, something the team has become accustomed to so far this Sun., Nov. 14 Open Date . season. Sun., Nov. 21 at Minnesota Vikings. *12 noon FOX Of the Packers’ seven games this season, six have been decided by Sun., Nov. 28 at Atlanta Falcons . *12 noon FOX seven points or less, with the last five decided by four points or fewer. Sun., Dec. 5 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS . *12 noon FOX That total of six games with a touchdown or smaller margin already Sun., Dec. 12 at Detroit Lions . *12 noon FOX matches the number of contests they were involved in with that scoring Sun., Dec. 19 at New England Patriots . *7:20 p.m. NBC differential in 2009. Sun., Dec. 26 NEW YORK GIANTS . *3:15 p.m. FOX The Packers join Baltimore and Washington as the only teams in the NFL Sun., Jan. 2 CHICAGO BEARS. *12 noon FOX *—Start time and broadcast may shift due to NFL flexible scheduling to have six games decided by seven points or less this season. + – overtime Green Bay has already been involved in two overtime contests this season, going to the extra session in back-to-back games against NFL POSTSEASON DATES Washington in Week 5 and Miami in Week 6. It was the first time the Packers played consecutive overtime games since Oct. 11-18, 1987. Jan. 8-9 ................................................AFC and NFC Wild Card Playoffs This weekend the Packers will be facing a Jets team that has been Jan. 15-16 .............................................AFC and NFC Divisional Playoffs involved in only two games this season that were decided by seven Jan. 23 ............................................AFC and NFC Championship Games points or less. New York’s average margin of victory in its current five- Jan. 30 .......................... AFC-NFC Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium, Honolulu game winning streak is 11.8 points. Feb. 6 ............... Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas PACKERS TEAM NOTES TAKEAWAY POINTS KEY FOR PACKERS THE MEDICAL REPORT Points off of turnovers have been a vital part of Green Bay’s makeup the Every team in the league has to deal with injuries at some point in the past three seasons, and that was on display in Sunday night’s game vs. season, and the Packers have already had to deal with a season’s worth of Minnesota when the Packers scored two touchdowns off of turnovers in significant ones in just the opening seven weeks. the 28-24 win. The Packers have lost four players who started in Week 1 for the remain- Of the Packers’ 12 takeaways this season, eight of them have been con- der of the season due to injuries, two on each side of the ball. verted into touchdowns. That 66.7 TD percentage ranks No. 2 in the NFL RB Ryan Grant, coming off back-to-back 1,200-yard seasons, behind only Kansas City (6-of-8, 75.0 percent), and Green Bay’s eight sustained a season-ending ankle injury in Week 1 at Philadelphia. TE touchdowns off of takeaways lead the NFL. Jermichael Finley, whose 301 yards receiving in the first four games Green Bay’s 56 points off of takeaways so far this season rank No. 2 in was the best start ever to a season by a Green Bay tight end, was lost for the league behind only Tennessee (63), and the Packers’ 10 intercep- the year after suffering a knee injury on the second play from scrimmage tions rank tied for No. 4 in the NFL. at Washington in Week 5. Scoring points off of turnovers has become a trend for the Packers at Rookie S Morgan Burnett, who became only the second Packers Lambeau Field, as they have a current streak of 14 straight games at rookie safety to start a season opener since 1988, sustained a season- home with points scored that were set up by a takeaway. That home ending knee injury against Detroit in Week 4. In the same game, LB streak ranks first in the NFL. Nick Barnett, the No. 2 tackler in franchise history, suffered a wrist Green Bay posted 30 interceptions and 10 fumble recoveries in 2009, which it turned into 141 points. The 40 takeaways led the NFL, and the injury that brought an end to his season. 141 points scored off those 40 takeaways tied New Orleans for most in Against Minnesota on Sunday, the Packers were without starting DE the league. Cullen Jenkins, who injured his calf in pre-game warmups, and start- The 30 interceptions led the league and was the team’s highest single- ing DE Ryan Pickett for most of the game after he re-injured an ankle season total since 1981, when it also had 30. that forced him to sit out the Week 6 game vs.