{"id":243018,"date":"2025-10-27T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243018\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:52:08","slug":"nfl-results-reek-eight-recap-colts-best-record-rodgers-loses-packers-renunion-saquon-barkley-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243018\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Results &#038; reek eight recap: Colts best record, Rodgers loses Packers renunion &#038; Saquon Barkley shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aaron Rodgers insisted revenge was not on his mind in his first game against the Green Bay Packers, but he did have history to play for as a win would have seen him join Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Brett Favre as the only quarterbacks to beat all 32 NFL teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, his replacement Jordan Love led 20 fourth-quarter points as the Packers ran out 35-25 winners for their first victory in Pittsburgh since 1970.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rodgers hopes to retire as a Packer once he calls it a day, having won four MVPs and a Super Bowl during 18 seasons at Lambeau Field &#8211; but there&#8217;s no doubt his departure stung after Love was drafted as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Love showed why though with a near flawless second half, where he completed 20 straight passes, something Rodgers never managed to do, and leading four scoring drives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Steelers need to get their defence in order if they&#8217;re to challenge, but the Packers look like contenders &#8211; and the Cheeshead fans who believe in omens will be excited for the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their quarterback Love turns 27 in November &#8211; and Green Bay&#8217;s three legends Bart Starr, Brett Favre and Rodgers all won the Super Bowl aged 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers insisted revenge was not on his mind in his first game against the Green Bay Packers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-243018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}