Packers Schedule

[wildcat83]

Seems like odd chunks of games. Two division games to start and three to end the year. Run of Raiders, Chiefs, Chargers right in the middle.

 

Nice prime time matchups with young QBs with Bears, Eagles, Chiefs.

 

Week 11 bye is as late as I can remember. Seems like we’ve been stuck with early bye weeks forever.

[OnTheBlack]

Seems like odd chunks of games. Two division games to start and three to end the year. Run of Raiders, Chiefs, Chargers right in the middle.

 

Nice prime time matchups with young QBs with Bears, Eagles, Chiefs.

 

Week 11 bye is as late as I can remember. Seems like we’ve been stuck with early bye weeks forever.

 

 

Feels like they had a run of later season bye weeks before the last 3-4 years. Sadly, the bye week has always been a welcome break where we could get back Nick Perry or Randall, or Rollins or King or whoever year after year and finally get healthy. A late season bye may help this team if Pettine can get this D to gel and Rodgers can bounce back this year. We face a couple of really talented AFC West teams in KC and SD, but the schedule is very manageable. I'm calling 11-5 right now in my way too early predictions.

[PeaveyFury]

What a weird grouping of home games early. Five of our first seven games?

[OldSchoolSnapper]

If I still went to NFL games I'd be all for it. Once I stopped drinking and partying and reached about age 29 standing around Lambeau Field in December and beyond was about as enticing as a fork in my eyeballs. I just lost my stomach for it completely. I also found NFL to really be the worst live experience in major sports. With nothing to fill the commercials breaks and nonstop reviews in person you are left with its agonizing pace.

[Pugger]

What a weird grouping of home games early. Five of our first seven games?

 

It is a shame we have so many home games early in the season and so few later on. But having a bye at week 11 is better than week 4/5.

[brewcrewdue80]

I dont feel the 2 early vs division and 3 late is all that abnormal. The 3 to end the season seem to be an annual rite. With maybe sticking 1 non division oppenent in final 4 games. Same can be said with 1 non divisional to the first 3 games. The Home/Away is definitely not the best and the bye week seems incredibly late. Feel like its a tough schedule falling in to Carolina/SF as your outside the 2 division scheduled. Afc west, NFC East.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I consider it to be pretty advantageous. They get to be home a lot early in a transitional year with a chance to really get off to a nice start, something that McCarthy teams were basically never able to do. The only really rough patch is being in SF and then being in NY a week later. There isn't a lot of drastic travel either. The whole last part of the season is at home or in a division state. No clue what kind of team they'll be but nothing really egregious for me about the schedule.

[nodakfan17]

I caught a Yahoo! article today claiming the Packers are receiving preferential treatment from the league because they haven’t had to play a regular season game overseas. Seems like a bit of a stretch considering the Packers would probably love that kind of opportunity to build their brand, they just can’t give up a home game due to the economic impact. If the NFL insists on holding games overseas, the cities that host a Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, or Draft should have to give up a home game. Problem solved.

 

Also, here’s a schedule quirk for you - The Jets will play their entire 2019 regular season in the Eastern Time Zone.

[Point Beer Is Best]

I caught a Yahoo! article today claiming the Packers are receiving preferential treatment from the league because they haven’t had to play a regular season game overseas. Seems like a bit of a stretch considering the Packers would probably love that kind of opportunity to build their brand, they just can’t give up a home game due to the economic impact. If the NFL insists on holding games overseas, the cities that host a Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, or Draft should have to give up a home game. Problem solved.

 

 

They aren't the only team that has refused to give up a home game. I believe the Steelers made a claim that their lease requires that they hold 10 home games (2 preseason & 8 regular season) which conveniently gave them a legal excuse for not having to give up a home game. The added quirk for the Packers is that the teams that are otherwise willing to give up a home game to play overseas have so far refused to give up a home game against the Packers due to their own economic impact. Packers fans travel well. It's pretty much a guarantee that a game featuring the Packers is going to be a sellout so there is no motivation for those teams to play the Packers anywhere other than their home stadium.

[nodakfan17]

Indeed. The article failed to mention that fact. Playing the homeless Chargers in London seemed all too perfect, but I guess the attendance-challenged Bolts didn’t want to give up an opportunity to sell out their soccer stadium to 30,000 Packer fans.

 

That being said, as a Brown County resident, I’d trade a home game for the NFL Draft. We’re paying a new 0.5% sales tax to build a convention center across from Lambeau Field. I guess the Packers have been waiting to submit a bid until that project is complete and the Titletown District is further along.

[homer]

 

That being said, as a Brown County resident, I’d trade a home game for the NFL Draft. We’re paying a new 0.5% sales tax to build a convention center across from Lambeau Field. I guess the Packers have been waiting to submit a bid until that project is complete and the Titletown District is further along.

 

I think that's the only way it would happen. The Packers home games are too important to the local economy up there.