{"id":781996,"date":"2026-09-25T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781996\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:00:09","slug":"nfl-green-bay-packers-booed-during-butt-whooping-at-home-to-atlanta-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781996\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Green Bay Packers booed during &#8216;butt-whooping&#8217; at home to Atlanta Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Falcons&#8217; offence struggled as they lost their first two games of the NFL season but quarterback Michael Penix Jr&#8217;s return from knee surgery helped them bounce back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Running back Bijan Robinson rushed for two touchdowns and 194 yards, and added 19 receiving yards, while Drake London racked up 194 receiving yards from just nine catches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Packers were already without defensive star Micah Parsons and running back Josh Jacobs but lost two offensive linemen to injury in last week&#8217;s win at the New York Jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the hosts took the lead through a Christian Watson touchdown, the Falcons then took charge with Bijan Robinson, Austin Hooper and Brian Robinson Jr all getting into the endzone while Nick Folk added two field goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Golden&#8217;s touchdown stopped the rot for the Packers but Bijan Robinson claimed his second score late on to seal an emphatic win for the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both teams now have a 1-2 record, with Green Bay visiting Tampa Bay next Sunday while Atlanta travel to divisional rivals New Orleans a week on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons&#8217; offence struggled as they lost their first two games of the NFL season but quarterback Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}