Prime TV opens their Thursday night schedule with a pair of attractive teams that advanced to the playoffs last season, the Green Bay Packers and Washington Commanders. The homesteading Packers are favored by 3 points, both teams are looking for their second straight win to open the 2025 campaign.
There is good reason to expect the Packers will pick up a win tonight.
Last week, in their home opener, they beat the Detroit Lions by a wider margin than the final score would indicate. A 14 point triumph, 27-13, could have been a gap twice that margin based on the way Matt LaFleur’s team dominated the action. One would have thought based on last Sunday that it was the Packers who won 15 games last season and the Lions that slipped into the postseason as a Wild Card.
Not only is Green Bay Quarterback Jordan Love healthy, something he seldom was last season, but he appeared one more year of maturity has improved his game day decisions. He found open receivers and looked confident even on the few occasions the Lions put pressure on him. In all, Love completed an efficient 16 of 22 passes and was not sacked.
On defense, the Packers unveiled their new destroyer, one-time Cowboy defender Micah Parsons. In the opener he had only one sack, but the Lambeau Field crowd went nuts when he did. It is also worth noting that the back injury that kept him on the sidelines during his time last month with Dallas wasn’t an issue in the opener.
The fact that the Packers looked good against the Lions was not unexpected.