How to Watch: Packers at Buccaneers in Week 3 Showdown
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin — The Green Bay Packers will face their biggest test of the 2022 NFL season when they play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. Kick-off is scheduled for 3:25 p.m. What channel is the game on? Here is this week’s viewing information.
Instructions: Packer at Buccaneers
TV: This will be Fox’s game of the week and will be shown to much of the nation. Kevin Burkhardt (play-by-play) and Greg Olsen (commentary) will be on the phone while Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi work from the sidelines.
Live broadcast: fuboTV (Start your free trial).
Radio: Packers Radio Network (Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren) and SiriusXM 386 or 106 and the SXM app.
Pre-game vitals
Time and date: 3:25 p.m. Sunday.
Location: Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
Records: Packers, 1-1; Privateers, 2-0.
Story: The Packers lead the series 33-23-1. This also includes a split into two playoff games. With Tom Brady as quarterback in 2020, Tampa Bay beat the Packers in the regular season and then came to Green Bay and won again in the NFC Championship Game.
Trainer: Packers – Matt LaFleur (fourth season, 40-11). Buccaneers – Todd Bowles (first season with Bucs, 2-0; he was 24-40 with the Jets from 2015-2018).
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Referee: Scott Novak. Novak rose to the rank of referee in 2019. In 2019, 2020 and his two games in 2022, his side decided fewer penalties than the league average. In 2020, the road team went 13-3. In 2021, the road team went 9-7.
You can bet on it
The Buccaneers are 2.5 points on SI Sportsbook with an over/under of 41 points, among the week’s lowest. In early betting at FanDuel, the Buccaneers have 55 percent of the money and 62 percent of the bets.
At SI Sportsbook, Green Bay has +1200 to win the Super Bowl, unchanged from last week. In the NFC, the Buccaneers are the favorites at +650, with the Eagles and Packers having the second-lowest odds.
At FanDuel, Aaron Rodgers is +1700 to win MVP. That’s a sharp drop from +1000 at the start of the season and +1500 from a week ago. Having a great Week 2, Aaron Jones is +1200 to lead the NFL in Rushing, sixth-shortest.
Packers-Bucs: Did you know these five things?
– You probably knew this was going to be an Aaron Rodgers vs. Tom Brady quarterback matchup. Rodgers has won four MVPs and Brady has won three. Their combined seven is the most in NFL history. Rodgers played in the last such game. In 2015 it was five-time MVP Peyton Manning against then-two-time winner Rodgers.
– Rodgers faces a big challenge. The Buccaneers are first in the NFL with 6.5 points allowed per game, 10 sacks and one touchdown allowed, second in first downs allowed and third down conversions allowed, and third in yards allowed per game, yards allowed per passing game, and takeaways.
– LaFleur became Packers manager in 2019 — the same year that Bucs manager Todd Bowles took over as their defensive coordinator. In their more than three seasons on the job, the Buccaneers are first in the NFL by 351 points and the Packers are third by 282 points. Incidentally, Bowles started out in the NFL as an assistant scout for the Packers in 1995-1996.
– On Sunday, LaFleur improved his regular-season record to 40-11. In 51 games he reached the threshold of 40 wins; Only Paul Brown (47) and Chuck Knox (50) reached their goal faster.
–Defensively, the Buccaneers are No. 1 with 10 sacks. Offensively, the Packers rank 27th with an allowable pressure rating of 31.0 percent, according to SportRadar.
The big picture
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