{"id":387961,"date":"2026-01-04T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:56:12","slug":"does-packers-game-matter-in-week-18-how-nfl-playoff-scenarios-impact-starters-vs-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387961\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Packers game matter in Week 18? How NFL playoff scenarios impact starters vs. Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> are going to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve just got one more game to get through first. It&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> taking on the Packers in Week 18.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit is surprisingly already eliminated, so the game won&#8217;t have the stakes many might have expected.<\/p>\n<p>It also has less meaning for the Packers than you&#8217;d think.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/news\/what-nfl-games-matter-today-playoff-picture-standings-week-18\/a7fbe990f0b67117066f005b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breaking down what NFL games matter today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does the Packers game matter in Week 18?<\/p>\n<p>No, the Packers game won&#8217;t impact the playoff picture at all in Week 18.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what Green Bay does, it&#8217;ll be locked in to the No. 7 seed in the NFC.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers will travel to the 2-seed in the first round of the playoffs no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 seed could be either the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> (with a win or an Eagles loss) or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> (with a win and a Bears loss).<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Packers can&#8217;t move is why Jordan Love and Malik Willis aren&#8217;t starting at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it&#8217;ll be Clayton Tune getting the Week 18 start at QB for Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers are going to the playoffs. They&#8217;ve just got one more game to get through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-387961","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\/387961","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=387961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}