Green Bay kept giving Tampa Bay opportunities to extend the game, but in the end the Packers (2-2) defeated the Buccaneers (0-4), 17-14.<\/p>\n
The Packers lost more men to injuries on Sunday, most notably linebacker Edgerrin Cooper going down with an Achilles injury. Rookie cornerback Brandon Cisse also was pulled for a suspected concussion.<\/p>\n
Due to existing injuries, questions surrounded how the unproven offensive line would hold up, but quarterback Jordan Love was able to stand in the pocket throughout the afternoon and Green Bay was able to establish a better run game compared to prior weeks.<\/p>\n
The Packers nearly blew another halftime lead.<\/p>\n
Green Bay had a chance to make it a 10-point game in the fourth quarter when Love led the offense down the field, but running back Kaleb Johnson fumbled at the 3-yard line.<\/p>\n
\u201cA great teacher is the bench. If guys don\u2019t start holding onto the ball, they\u2019re gonna be sitting on the bench,\u201d head coach Matt LaFleur said after the game.<\/p>\n
After Tampa gave the ball back to Green Bay, Love threw an ill-advised pass on 1st down and the ball was picked by Jacob Parrish.<\/p>\n
Led by undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels, Tampa Bay couldn\u2019t manage to get into field goal range in their final possession.<\/p>\n
Love finished the game 22-for-30 with 197 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.<\/p>\n
With Cooper likely out significant time, the Packers must move forward without him while already dealing with other injuries. Wide receiver Jayden Reed was ruled out for the season last week.<\/p>\n
Green Bay signed multiple offensive lineman last week to make up for injuries as well.<\/p>\n
While star edge rusher Micah Parsons remains out nursing a knee injury and star running back Josh Jacobs is sidelined by the NFL.<\/p>\n
But despite that, Green Bay remains unsatisfied with Sunday’s result. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere were some positive things but we\u2019re never going to be satisfied with scoring 17 points in a game,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cThat\u2019s just not to our standard and we have to find ways when we\u2019re in the red area to convert. We can\u2019t be turning the ball over. We can\u2019t have penalties. That is a stingy defense. You have to give them a lot of credit. \u2026 But we also have to clean up a lot of stuff. It\u2019s gotta get fixed and it\u2019s gotta get fixed now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green Bay hosts the Chicago Bears (3-1) next Sunday at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay kept giving Tampa Bay opportunities to extend the game, but in the end the Packers (2-2)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-418889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}