2026 NFL Week 6 — Cowboys at Packers

Dallas (2-3) at Green Bay (3-2)

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DAY/TIME/TV: Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EDT, NBC.

LAST WEEK: Cowboys lost 24-16 at home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Packers won 31-7 at home over the Chicago Bears.

LAST MEETING: Packers and Cowboys tied 40-40 in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 28, 2025.

SERIES RECORD: Packers lead 22-17-1.

COWBOYS OFFENSE: OVERALL (11), RUSH (30), PASS (5), SCORING (25)

PACKERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (14), RUSH (24), PASS (5), SCORING (14)

COWBOYS DEFENSE: OVERALL (26), RUSH (32), PASS (21), SCORING (26)

PACKERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (17), RUSH (32), PASS (4), SCORING (6)

TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Dallas -3; Green Bay +3

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COACHES CAPSULES

Matt LaFleur: 79-42-1, .652; (3-6 postseason); 8th NFL

season

Brian Schottenheimer: 9-12-1, .432; (0-0 postseason);

2nd NFL season

Head to Head: LaFleur 0-0-1 vs. Schottenheimer

vs. Opponent: LaFleur 3-0-1 vs. Cowboys (including 1-0

postseason); Schottenheimer 0-0-1 vs. Packers

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PACKERS SEEK TO BUILD ON THEIR MOMENTUM

Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers are aiming to build off their best win of the season as they prepare to host a Dallas team attempting to bounce back from an embarrassing loss.

The Packers (3-2) are above .500 for the first time this season after a 31-7 blowout of the Chicago Bears. They’re chasing their third straight win in a Sunday night matchup with the Cowboys, who fell 24-16 at home to the previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Oct. 8.

“You’ve got to keep stacking,” Love said. “We talk about it in the locker room all the time and team buildings. You have a game like that, you’ve got to be able to follow it up with another great performance.”

The Cowboys (2-3) are eager to make up for their bad performance against Tampa Bay and fix their slumping defense. Dallas has allowed a league-high 6.4 yards per play.

Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer brought longtime NFL defensive coach Mike Pettine out of retirement this week to work as a senior assistant to beleaguered defensive coordinator Christian Parker. Pettine was the Packers’ defensive coordinator from 2018-20.

“We have to coach better,” Schottenheimer said. “We’ve got to play better. I think our players will be the first ones to say there’s things that they need to do better. There’s things I need to do better. And so no one is sitting here pointing the fingers at Christian Parker. But as the head coach, you have to make decisions that you think helps you win games. And that’s in all three phases.”

These teams met last year at Arlington, Texas, and tied 40-40 in a shootout that ended with nine straight scoring drives. It was the most consecutive scoring drives to end a game since at least 1933.

Last year’s matchup also marked the return of Micah Parsons to AT&T Stadium, a month after the Cowboys traded the superstar edge rusher to the Packers. Parsons won’t be playing Sunday as he continues his recovery from a torn ACL that ended his 2025 season, but this game features two former Packers first-round picks coming to Lambeau Field as visiting players for the first time.

Defensive tackle Kenny Clark earned three Pro Bowl selections in nine seasons with the Packers before heading to Dallas in the Parsons trade. Linebacker Rashan Gary went to Dallas in a separate trade earlier this year after collecting 46 1/2 sacks for the Packers from 2019-25.

“It’s going to be awesome to get to go back to Lambeau, play a game and go up there to go get a win,” Clark said. “I’m really excited.”

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MATCHUP TO WATCH

Cowboys passing game vs. Packers pass defense: Green Bay has seven interceptions while allowing only six touchdown passes this season, but the Packers haven’t faced any quarterbacks of Dak Prescott’s caliber. Prescott has thrown for over 275 yards in each of his last four games. Dallas has one of the NFL’s top receiving duos in CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens.

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STATS AND STUFF

— Cowboys RB Javonte Williams has six touchdown runs to rank fourth in the league, behind Buffalo’s Josh Allen (eight), Baltimore’s Derrick Henry (seven) and Detroit’s Jahmyr Gibbs (seven).

— Pickens has 1,784 yards receiving since the start of the 2025 season. The only NFL players with more during that time are Seattle’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba (2,376) and the Los Angeles Rams’ Puka Nacua (2,052).

— Green Bay has won 10 of its last 12 meetings with Dallas, including regular-season and playoff matchups. Dallas’ only win during that stretch was a 30-16 victory at Lambeau Field on Oct. 16, 2016.

— The Packers have won their last nine October games.

— Love has thrown at least two touchdown passes in each of the Packers’ first five games. He has passed for more than 300 yards three times this season.

— Christian Watson and Matthew Golden make Green Bay the only team with two players ranked among the top 10 in the NFL in yards receiving. Watson is fifth with 474 and Golden is ninth with 397.

— Packers S Xavier McKinney has three interceptions to tie Minnesota’s Byron Murphy Jr. for the NFL lead. McKinney picked off two passes in the Bears game.

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2026 NFL Week 5 — Bears at Packers

CHICAGO BEARS (3-1) at GREEN BAY PACKERS (2-2)

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DAY/TIME/TV: Sunday, 12:00 p.m. CDT, FOX

LAST WEEK: The Bears beat the New York Jets 23-12; the Packers beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-14.

LAST MEETING: Green Bay has won 17 of the last 20 regular-season matchups.

SERIES RECORD: The Packers lead the series 108-96-6.

BEARS OFFENSE: OVERALL (1), RUSH (1), PASS (15), SCORING (9)

PACKERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (13), RUSH (28), PASS (4), SCORING (22)

BEARS DEFENSE: OVERALL (3), RUSH (13), PASS (3), SCORING (4)

PACKERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (20), RUSH (32), PASS (11), SCORING (28)

TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Chicago +1; Green Bay -2

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COACHES CAPSULES:

Matt LaFleur: 78-42-1, .649; (3-6 postseason); 8th NFL season

Ben Johnson: 14-7, .667; (1-1 postseason); 2nd NFL season

Head to Head: LaFleur 1-2 vs. Johnson

vs. Opponent: LaFleur 12-3 vs. Bears; Johnson 2-1 vs. Packers

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THE BEARS HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW AGAIN THEY’VE GAINED THE UPPER HAND IN THEIR RIVALRY WITH PACKERS

After beating the Green Bay Packers for the NFC North title and knocking them out of the playoffs last season, the Chicago Bears have one more opportunity to show definitively that a new chapter has started in the NFL’s most-played rivalry.

Chicago has won three of its past four meetings with the Packers, who had beaten the Bears 11 straight times from 2019-24. The Bears beat the Packers 22-16 in overtime last December after scoring 10 points in the final two minutes of regulation and then erased a 21-3 halftime deficit to beat them again 31-27 in the NFC wild-card playoffs.

The quarterback who led both those comebacks might not be playing Sunday when the Bears (3-1) meet the Packers (2-2) again at Lambeau Field.

Caleb Williams has missed Chicago’s past two games with a hamstring injury, but he returned to practice on a limited basis Friday and was listed as questionable for Sunday’s game. Tyson Bagent would start if Williams isn’t available.

“To say this is just like any game just wouldn’t be true,” Bagent said. “This is one of the greatest rivalries in all of sports.”

Ben Johnson’s arrival as the Bears coach last season has spiced up this series. Johnson’s locker room speech following the Bears’ playoff win over Green Bay gained lots of traction on social media as video showed him shouting an expletive before adding “the Packers.”

Packers linebacker Zaire Franklin is new to this rivalry, yet he already understands the harsh feelings between these teams.

“It’s a lot of bad blood — a lot of bad blood,” said Franklin, who came to Green Bay this year after spending eight seasons in Indianapolis. “A lot of genuine dislike, which is a little different than nowadays. Nowadays, most rivalries are just on social media, and in the offseason, you’re hanging out. I don’t think nobody wants to hang out with the Bears in the offseason.”

While Chicago has overcome Williams’ injury to start fast, the Packers are having a tougher time dealing with the absences of key players.

Green Bay has lost linebacker Edgerrin Cooper (Achilles tendon), offensive tackle Zach Bako-Bewele (knee) and wide receiver Jayden Reed (neck) to season-ending injuries.

All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons hasn’t played yet this season as he recovers from a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Green Bay’s running game has struggled without Josh Jacobs, who is on the commissioner’s exempt list after pleading no contest to two misdemeanor charges stemming from a May altercation with his then-girlfriend.

Green Bay could get over .500 for the first time this season by avenging those two losses to the Bears and perhaps silencing Johnson for the time being.

“I mean, he’s dissing us,” Packers offensive tackle Jordan Morgan said. “He’s dissing the Packers. A lot of people in here, I’m pretty sure, take that to heart. And we’ve got a chance to prove to everybody on Sunday that we’re the best team.”

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BEARS QB CALEB WILLIAMS RETURNS TO PRACTICE AND IS QUESTIONABLE FOR GAME WITH PACKERS

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams returned to practice on a limited basis Friday and is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game at Green Bay.

Williams has missed the Bears’ last two games since injuring his right hamstring during a 9-3 loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 20. Bears coach Ben Johnson had indicated Monday that Williams wouldn’t be available this weekend, but that was before the quarterback returned to practice.

“He’s doing a great job with his rehab,” Johnson said Monday. “He’s not going to be there this week for us. We think it’s still a week-to-week deal for us.”

The Bears (3-1) have won each of the two games Williams has missed, with Case Keenum taking his place in a 27-7 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles and Tyson Bagent starting in a 23-12 triumph over the New York Jets. Bagent is expected to start Sunday against the Packers (2-2) if Williams is unavailable.

In other injury news, the Bears ruled running back Kyle Monangai (thumb/toe) and linebacker Keyshaun Elliott (quadricep) for Sunday’s game. Defensive back Kyler Gordon (calf), linebacker Noah Sewell (Achilles), defensive lineman Shemar Turner (knee) and Williams are questionable.

The Packers have ruled out running back Chris Brooks and wide receiver Savion Williams due to ankle injuries. Guards Aaron Banks (knee/toe) and Jacob Monk (quadricep) are doubtful. Center/guard Jager Burton (back) and defensive tackles Anthony Campbell (ankle) and Javon Hargrave (toe) are questionable.

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MATCHUP TO WATCH

Bears running game vs. Packers run defense: Chicago has an NFL-leading 196.3 yards rushing per game with Kyle Monangai and D’Andre Swift splitting carries. Monangai (thumb/toe) has been ruled out for Sunday’s game. Green Bay has allowed 139.3 yards rushing per game to rank 28th in the NFL in run defense, and opponents have run wild in the Packers’ past two home games. Derrick Henry rushed for 216 yards — the most ever by a visiting player at Lambeau Field — when Green Bay lost 41-24 to Baltimore in its home finale last season. Atlanta’s Bijan Robinson rushed for 194 yards as the Falcons beat Green Bay 35-14 in the Packers’ home opener this season.

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STATS AND STUFF

— The Bears lead the NFL in total yards per game (429.0) and time of possession (36:36).

— Bears DB Dillon Thieneman has started his rookie season by leading the team in tackles in each of his first four games.

— In its previous game, Chicago’s defense didn’t allow the Jets to convert any of their seven third down situations.

— The Bears have an NFL-leading 14 drives of at least 10 plays.

— The Bears have an NFL-best turnover margin of plus-23 since Johnson’s arrival in 2025.

— Packers QB Jordan Love has 13 touchdown passes and two interceptions in seven games against the Bears, including last season’s playoff loss.

— In Green Bay’s victory at Tampa Bay, S Evan Williams became the first Packer to have at least seven tackles, multiple passes defended, a sack and an interception in a game since Morgan Burnett did it against Carolina in 2011.

— Green Bay has won its past eight October games.

— The Packers have an NFL-high 86 penalty yards per game.

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2026 NFL Week 4 — Packers at Buccaneers

GREEN BAY PACKERS (1-2) at TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS (0-3)

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DAY/TIME/TV: Sunday, 12:00 p.m. CDT, FOX.

LAST WEEK: Packers lost to the Falcons 35-14; Buccaneers lost to the Vikings 23-16.

LAST MEETING: Buccaneers beat the Packers 34-20 on Dec. 17, 2023, in Green Bay.

SERIES RECORD: Packers lead 34-24-1

PACKERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (22), RUSH (32), PASS (5), SCORING (29)

BUCCANEERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (23), RUSH (2), PASS (12), SCORING (23)

PACKERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (29), RUSH (28), PASS (11), SCORING (29)

BUCCANEERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (19), RUSH (24), PASS (26), SCORING (23)

TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Green Bay -2; TB -5

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COACHES CAPSULES

Matt LaFleur: 77-42-1, .646; (3-6 postseason); 8th NFL

season

Todd Bowles: 61-77, .442; (1-3 postseason); 10th NFL

season

Head to Head: LaFleur 1-1 vs. Bowles

vs. Opponent: LaFleur 1-3 vs. Buccaneers; Bowles 1-1 vs.

Packers

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Battle of the Bays features two struggling teams searching for an identity and a win.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-3) need a victory even more than the Green Bay Packers (1-2) on Sunday. They’re trying to avoid an 0-4 start because only one team in NFL history — the 1992 Chargers — overcame that to make the playoffs.

But 1-3 isn’t much better so there’s plenty of urgency for the Packers, who were booed at Lambeau Field following an embarrassing loss to Atlanta in their home opener last Thursday.

At least Green Bay has quarterback Jordan Love. Tampa Bay is turning to undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels after Baker Mayfield dislocated his right thumb in a loss to Minnesota.

“For us, it’s just trying to get a win,” Bucs coach Todd Bowles said. "(Jalon Daniels) is not playing by himself. Everybody has to do their job. We’ve got to coach it the right way on both sides of the ball, including special teams. He’s got to play and just do his job. We’ve got 21 other guys that (are) going to be out there playing with him, so he’s not by himself. It’s (a) nervous (feeling) but it’s exciting at the same time because you get to see somebody play. No matter where you come from, your first NFL game has to come at some point, whether you’re a first-round pick or whether you’re a free agent. You’ve got to touch the field for the first time at some point, and then you’ve got to play. He’s just got to play.”

While the Buccaneers have a new quarterback, Love will have new faces blocking for him. The Packers have had to revamp their offensive line because of several injuries. They signed veteran guards Kevin Zeitler, Laken Tomlinson and Mekhi Becton this week.

“It’s just a matter getting to work, seeing how fast those guys can pick up the offense,” Love said of the recent additions. “I think at the end of the day, putting the best five out there and there’s always going to be some competition in those positions, so do whatever the team feels best at that position.”

EMBARRASSING HOME-OPENING LOSS EXPOSES LACK OF RUSHING ATTACK

 

Green Bay’s most lopsided home loss in eight years underscored how the Packers must establish some semblance of a rushing attack to have any hope of competing for a fourth straight playoff berth.

“We’re going to get it going,” right tackle Anthony Belton said after the Packers were outrushed 242-17 and outscored 35-14 by the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night. “That’s all I’ve got to say about it.”

They haven’t done so thus far.

Green Bay’s 146 rushing yards are the fewest in franchise history through the first three games of a season, according to Sportradar. The last time any NFL team had such a low rushing total three games into a season was in 2019, when Cincinnati, Miami and Washington all had fewer than 146 yards.

The Packers (1-2) are missing three-time Pro Bowl running back Josh Jacobs, who was placed on the commissioner’s exempt list after he pleaded no contest two weeks ago to misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property stemming from a May altercation with his then-girlfriend.

It might not have mattered who was in the backfield for Green Bay. An offensive line decimated by multiple injuries couldn’t create running room for anyone.

Green Bay’s nine rushing attempts represented the second-lowest total in franchise history, only behind a 24-14 loss to Miami in 1994 in which the Packers ran the ball just seven times. The Packers’ 17 yards rushing matched their third-lowest single game total ever.

The Packers have just 48 carries so far this year, their fewest through the first three weeks of a season since 1994, according to Sportradar.

“We’ve got to continue to work with these guys and try to figure out what we do well, because right now, I don’t know what we’re doing well offensively,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said.

Atlanta snapped Green Bay’s string of 13 straight home-opening victories. This marked the Packers’ worst home loss since the Detroit Lions hammered them 31-0 in their 2018 season finale, Green Bay’s last game before LaFleur’s arrival.

Green Bay’s inability to run the ball isn’t a new problem. Even with Jacobs on the field last year, the Packers gained just 4.1 yards per carry, their lowest single-season average since 2012.

Since then, the Packers allowed left tackle Rasheed Walker to depart via free agency and released veteran lineman Elgton Jenkins, a two-time Pro Bowl guard who moved to center last year and played just nine games before an injury shut him down.

Green Bay’s offensive line took a couple more hits when right tackle Zach Bako-Bewele tore his patellar tendon and left guard Aaron Banks injured a toe in a 20-17 overtime victory over the New York Jets on Sunday. Banks didn’t play Thursday, and Bako-Bewele will miss the rest of the season.

That left a makeshift line trying to create running room for MarShawn Lloyd and Kaleb Johnson, who had a combined 34 career carries before this season.

Neither Lloyd nor Johnson did much with the few running lanes that Green Bay’s line created. They remain hopeful they can turn this around.

“I think we definitely can do it,” Lloyd said. “We’ve just got to put our foot on the gas and go for it.”

WHAT’S WORKING

Not much. Daniel Whelan landed four of his five punts inside Atlanta’s 20-yard line.

WHAT NEEDS HELP

Take your pick. The Packers’ rushing woes are obvious. A defense that had given up just 2.9 yards per carry in its first two games allowed Atlanta’s Bijan Robinson to run for 194 yards. The secondary couldn’t cover Drake London, who had 194 yards receiving. On special teams, Trey Smack had a potential tying 47-yard field-goal attempt blocked in the second quarter. Green Bay cut its penalty totals to six – the Packers had totaled a league-high 26 in their first two games - but one was an unnecessary roughness call on Brenton Cox Jr. that kept alive an Atlanta touchdown drive.

STOCK UP

WR Christian Watson had his fourth touchdown catch of the season… WR Matthew Golden had five receptions for a career-high 100 yards.

STOCK DOWN

The entire starting offensive line featuring LT Jordan Morgan, LG Jager Burton, C Sean Rhyan, RG Jacob Monk and Belton struggled. Burton, a rookie fifth-round pick, was making his first start… QB Jordan Love is completing just 52.4% of his passes… Lloyd has just 68 yards rushing on 23 carries this season… Johnson has only 38 yards on 12 rushes… TE Tucker Kraft was targeted eight times but had just four catches for 26 yards.

INJURIES

LB Edgerrin Cooper was evaluated for a concussion in the second half. Monk left with a quadriceps injury late in the fourth quarter.

KEY NUMBER

17 — This 35-14 home-opening loss to Atlanta followed a 41-24 defeat against the Baltimore Ravens in the Packers’ 2025 home finale. This is only the third time the Packers have lost by at least 17 points in back-to-back games at Lambeau Field. The other instances came in 2006 and in 1986-87 (the Packers’ final home game in 1986 and home opener in 1987).

KEY MATCHUP

Packers wide receivers Christian Watson and Matthew Golden vs. Buccaneers cornerbacks Zyon McCollum, Jacob Parrish and Benjamin Morrison. McCollum has allowed a passer rating of just 69.3 in the first three games. He’ll be tested by Watson, who has 17 catches for 284 yards and four TDs.

STATS AND STUFF

— Packers QB Jordan Love has 89 TD passes, tied with Tobin Rote for No. 5 in team history. Love has thrown multiple TD passes in each of the first three games, the first Packers QB to do so since Aaron Rodgers in 2020.

— WR Christian Watson is the first Packers player with a TD catch in each of the first three games of the season since Davante Adams in 2018. Watson is the first Packers player with four TD receptions in the first three games since Jordy Nelson in 2016.

— Watson is the first Packers player with 15-plus catches, 275-plus receiving yards and four-plus receiving TDs in the first three games of the season since WR James Lofton in 1983.

— Safety Xavier McKinney had his 20th career interception last week.

— Packers punter Daniel Whelan placed four punts inside the 20-yard line last week.

— The Buccaneers are 0-3 for the first time since 2014.

— Jalon Daniels will be the first backup quarterback to start for Tampa Bay since Ryan Fitzpatrick in 2018.

— The Buccaneers allowed 230 total yards against Minnesota on Sunday, their fewest allowed in a game this season and the second-fewest overall since the start of the 2025 season.

— WR Ted Hurst III had a 40-yard touchdown reception vs. Minnesota for his first career score.

— OLB David Walker has two sacks in his first three career games.

— Kicker Chase McLaughlin is 9 for 9 this season. He leads the NFL with 14 field goals of at least 50 yards since 2025.

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