A confluence of events all but ensures the Packers are going to get a heavy dose of old-school football on Sunday. The ground-and-pound game really isn’t a thing in the 2022 NFL, but that kind of approach is pretty much all the Patriots have going for them this year, and the Packers will have to be ready if they’re going to take advantage of the clear talent disparity between the two teams.
My colleague Rcon digs into the Patriots’ likely offensive approach here, but I wanted to go a bit deeper on the two guys likely to do the most damage for the Patriots on the ground: Damien Harris and Rhamondre Stevenson.