Week 17 vs. Detroit Game Release.indd - NFL.com
Week 17 vs. Detroit Game Release.indd - NFL.com
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LIONS AT PACKERS - WEEK <strong>17</strong><br />
NOT IN A GIVING MOOD<br />
The Packers have always prided themselves on their ability to take care of<br />
the football, an emphasis that has helped place them among the league<br />
leaders once again in the category three quarters of the way into the season.<br />
The franchise record for the fewest giveaways in a season is 16 in 2009,<br />
a mark the Packers have an opportunity to break heading into this<br />
week’s game <strong>vs</strong>. <strong>Detroit</strong>:<br />
Team Total Giveaways (2011)<br />
1. San Francisco 10<br />
2. Green Bay 12<br />
3. New England 16<br />
4t. Cleveland 18<br />
4t. New Orleans 18<br />
Since ’09, Green Bay has turned the ball over just 50 times, which ranks<br />
No. 2 in the <strong>NFL</strong> over that span:<br />
Team Total Giveaways Since 2009<br />
1. New England 48<br />
2. Green Bay 50<br />
3. San Francisco 57<br />
4. Atlanta 61<br />
Their 22 giveaways in 2010 brought the Packers’ three-year total (2008-<br />
10) to just 59 turnovers. That was the fewest over a three-year span by<br />
the Packers since the <strong>NFL</strong> went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, besting<br />
the previous mark of 67 from 1994-96.<br />
When the Packers have turned the ball over the past two seasons, the<br />
defense has helped limit opponent scoring following those giveaways.<br />
This season, Green Bay ranks No. 2 in the <strong>NFL</strong> in giveaway points allowed:<br />
Team Giveaway Points (2011)<br />
1. San Francisco 26<br />
2. Green Bay 45<br />
3. New England 47<br />
4. Seattle 51<br />
5. Tennessee 57<br />
In 2010, the Packers gave up just 39 points following their 22 turnovers<br />
on the season, an average of 1.77 points per giveaway that ranked No. 4<br />
in the league. Green Bay’s three TDs off of giveaways were tied for No.<br />
2 in the <strong>NFL</strong> last season.<br />
The Packers’ average of 1.77 points off of giveaways last season was the<br />
best mark posted by Green Bay since 1.70 in 2000.<br />
Since 2010, Green Bay ranks No. 2 in the league in fewest points allowed<br />
off of giveaways:<br />
Team Giveaway Points (Since 2010)<br />
1. New England 71<br />
2. Green Bay 84<br />
3. San Francisco 85<br />
4. Baltimore 95<br />
Since taking over as the starting quarterback in 2008, Aaron Rodgers<br />
has recorded 35 games without an interception. In those games, the<br />
Packers have a 28-7 (.800) record.<br />
If the Packers don’t <strong>com</strong>mit a turnover, they’re almost guaranteed to<br />
win. They are 48-5 (.906) regular-season games playing turnover-free<br />
football since a loss at Dallas, Nov. 18, 1996. Green Bay’s only losses<br />
in such games during that stretch came three times against Minnesota,<br />
twice in Minneapolis (2005, ’08) and once at home (2009), in <strong>Week</strong> 15<br />
in 2009 at Pittsburgh, and this past Sunday at Kansas City.<br />
Giveaways in game GB Record Since 2006<br />
None 23-4 (.852)<br />
One 20-8 (.714)<br />
Two 13-11 (.542)<br />
Three-plus 5-10 (.333)<br />
BREAKING DOWN THE 53<br />
It’s a balanced roster for the Packers, which holds 25 offensive players, 25<br />
defensive players and three specialists.<br />
Of the 53 players on Green Bay’s roster, 30 of them (56.6 percent) were<br />
drafted by the Packers.<br />
With nine non-drafted free agents on the roster having started their <strong>NFL</strong><br />
career with Green Bay, 39 of the 53 players (73.6 percent) began their<br />
pro career with the Packers. For 46 of the 53 (86.8 percent) players, the<br />
only team they have played for in the regular season is Green Bay.<br />
Seven of the team’s draft picks from 2011 made the opening-day roster,<br />
and for the second straight season, so did three non-drafted free agents<br />
(S M.D. Jennings, LB Jamari Lattimore and LB Vic So’oto). A<br />
pair of non-drafted rookies, G/T Ray Dominguez and RB Brandon<br />
Saine, have been elevated to the practice squad during the season.<br />
Nearly 60 percent of the players (31) on Green Bay’s roster entered the<br />
league as a sixth-round or seventh-round pick or as an undrafted player.<br />
Of the 53 players on the roster, 45 of them (84.9 percent) are 28 years<br />
old or younger.<br />
For the sixth straight season, the Packers’ roster was one of the five<br />
youngest teams in the league (based on Kickoff <strong>Week</strong>end rosters). This<br />
season, Green Bay checked in tied for No. 3 with an average age of<br />
25.74, trailing only Tampa Bay (25.<strong>17</strong>) and Seattle (25.72).<br />
The Packers were the youngest team in the league for four straight<br />
seasons (2006-09) before checking in at No. 5 in 2010 (25.92).<br />
GREEN BAY’S ROSTER...<br />
BY AGE<br />
21-24 21 players<br />
25-28 24 players<br />
29-32 5 players<br />
33-plus<br />
3 players<br />
BY EXPERIENCE<br />
R/1 11 players<br />
2-3 18 players<br />
4-5 13 players<br />
6-9 7 players<br />
10-plus<br />
4 players<br />
BY DRAFT ROUND<br />
1st<br />
7 players<br />
2nd/3rd<br />
9 players<br />
4th/5th<br />
6 players<br />
6th/7th<br />
14 players<br />
Undrafted<br />
<strong>17</strong> players<br />
16
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