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The Packers won the first two Super Bowls and play in a stadium where Vince Lombardi coached and Bart Starr and Brett Favre played quarterback.
"We have to try to find a way to try to be competitive in their home stadium where they've played exceptionally well in recent weeks,Wholesale Jerseys China, just extraordinary," Belichick said. "It's going to be a huge,Wholesale NFL China Jerseys, huge challenge."
Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers leads the NFL in passer rating and average gain per attempt,Wholesale NFL Jerseys. He's second with 30 touchdown passes and tied for second with only three interceptions.
"That's really more important to use at this point than Paul Hornung and Jerry Kramer and Don Hutson and all the other guys that have played there. Not to minimize what they've done, but (there's) nothing we can really do about any of that."
Lambeau, opened in 1957, is the NFL's second oldest stadium. Only Soldier Field (1926) has been around longer.
"I don't think it takes too long to turn on the film and figure out that Aaron Rodgers is playing at an extremely high level right now, and, obviously, even higher at home," Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia said. "Every week teams are trying to figure out how to get him out of that rhythm and how to take him out of his game."
In six games on the road, the numbers are 12 touchdown passes, three interceptions and a 104.0 passer rating.
"We've got to try to find some way to stay competitive in the game to at least turn it into a game and not be trying to play from 28, 31 points behind in the first half."
The Packers (8-3) are 5-0 at home and have won seven of their last eight games overall.
Just not as good as the fast-starting Green Bay Packers when they're at home.
Denver and Indianapolis were the highest scoring teams in the league entering those games. Now New England is on top, but Green Bay is a mere three points behind.
In the first halves, they've outscored opponents 136-38 at home. But when they play on the road,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, as they will Sunday, their advantage is just 71-51.
So it doesn't get easier for a Patriots defense that controlled quarterbacks Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck and Matthew Stafford in its past three games.
In five home games, he has 18 touchdown passes, no interceptions and a passer rating of 138.1
In their last two home games, Green Bay led Chicago 42-0 at halftime and won 55-14,Wholesale Jerseys From China, then led Philadelphia 30-6 at halftime and won 53-20.
The Patriots also are unbeaten at home with six wins but are just 3-2 on the road.
What they can try to do is keep the Packers from rolling to an insurmountable lead in the first half.
"They've been so far ahead of some of these teams that they've played early in the game it's like they're almost running out the clock in the middle of the second quarter," Belichick said.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots are one of the NFL's best teams in the first half.
It's much tougher to do that when he's playing at Lambeau Field.
"It's got to be of historical proportions," Belichick said.
That game will be the next test for the Patriots against a top team — and they've passed the first three with blowout wins — 43-21 against Denver, 42-20 at Indianapolis and 34-9 against Detroit.
"There's a great tradition there and their record is great there," Belichick said. "The thing that we have to focus on is just really our matchup this week.
In their last four games at Lambeau Field,Wholesale China Jerseys, the Packers have outscored opponents 66-0 in the first quarter and 128-9 in the first half.
That's where the Patriots (9-2) will be putting their seven-game winning streak on the line Sunday in their fourth straight game against a division leader.
"We're playing Green Bay in Green Bay," New England coach Bill Belichick said Tuesday. "That's where they've been very dominant, really, in terms of getting ahead and playing from ahead, first quarter. The numbers are staggering." |
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