Patriots vs. Packers NFL Week 9 live updates, Digi Mart USA News (Foxborough, Massachusetts): Going up against the NFC has not been a pleasant experience for the New England Patriots so far this season. The team of head coach Mike Vrabel is 0-2 against the conference, losing in Week 1 to the Seattle Seahawks and again in Week 7 to the Chicago Bears.
The Patriots are hoping for a change on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers, and this time they are playing in front of their home crowd after playing both the Seahawks and Bears on the road. Ultimately, however, the performance on the field will decide whether the fans have something to cheer for.
The game kicked off Sunday, Nov. 8, at 4:25 p.m. ET at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
At the end of the first quarter, Green Bay led 14-0.
New England started the game on offense, and it took only two plays for the Patriots to turn the ball over against one of the NFL’s most opportunistic defenses. An apparent miscommunication between Drake Maye and Mack Hollins resulted in an uncontested interception, and the return set the visitors up at the New England 9-yard line.
Just two plays later, Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love found an opening up the middle and scrambled 13 yards for the game’s first touchdown.
New England’s second possession went better than the first, but only barely. The unit did not turn the ball over, but it went three-and-out after a Drake Maye sack on third down.
The Packers, by contrast, had no such trouble. Their second possession included back-to-back big pass plays to Matthew Golden for 16 and 49 yards, moving them into the red zone again, and an 11-yard Christian Gonzalez pass interference penalty negated an interception.
Golden capped the series with a 5-yard touchdown when he got wide open on a busted coverage.
Maye hit his first pass of the day to start the Patriots’ third series, connecting with Mack Hollins for a gain of 5 yards. That drive starter set up New England’s first conversions of the day on throws to Hunter Henry and Efton Chism, the second putting the home team in Green Bay territory.
There, however, things went wrong again: a Rhamondre Stevenson run on first down was stopped for a loss of 7, and a deep ball on 3rd-and-17 fell incomplete when Kyle Williams seemingly failed to locate the football in the air.
