GREEN BAY, Wis. – Until they find more explosiveness on offense, these Green Bay Packers won’t be built for blowouts this season.
That means a lot of games like Sunday’s nail-biting 27-24 overtime victory over the New England Patriots. The Packers played most of the game against third-string rookie quarterback Bailey Zappe, a recipe to run an opponent out of Lambeau Field in the past. This is a different year, a different team, and certainly a different offense.
So Sunday came down to a big special-teams play with a Pat O’Donnell punt downed at the 2-yard line.