Green Bay Packers Season Schedule

The Green Bay Packers will have a national audience three times this year. The NFL released the season schedules Thursday afternoon, which gives the Packers three primetime matchups.
The season debut of Coach Mike McCarthy is a home game against the Chicago Bears on September 10. One hopeful coincidence for Packers fans is that Vince Lombardi was the last Packers coach to make their season coaching debut against the Bears on Green Bay soil.
The schedule will also have fans thinking about the Super Bowl when the Packers host the New England Patriots, the team Green Bay defeated ten years ago in Super Bowl XXXI for the national championship.
But unlike past years, this schedule is not set in stone. This marks the first NFL season with flexible scheduling toward the end of the season. The NFL can change the time of the games if teams are doing particularly well and may attract a larger TV audience -- or if teams are doing poorly and may lose audience.
Flex-schedule times are indicated with an asterisk (*)
Date
Time (Central)
Opponent (home games are in ALL CAPS)
Preseason
August 10-14
TBA
at San Diego Chargers
August 17-21
TBA
ATLANTA FALCONS (Gold Pkg.)
August 28
7 p.m.
at Cincinnati Bengals
Aug. 31-Sept. 1
TBA
TENNESSEE TITANS
Regular Season
September 10
3:15 p.m.
CHICAGO BEARS
September 17
Noon
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS (Gold Pkg.)
September 24
Noon
at Detroit Lions
October 2
7:30 p.m.
at Philadelphia Eagles
October 8
Noon
ST. LOUIS RAMS
October 15
Bye Week
October 22
Noon
at Miami Dolphins
October 29
Noon
ARIZONA CARDINALS
November 5
Noon
at Buffalo Bills
November 12
Noon*
at Minnesota Vikings
November 19
Noon*
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (Gold Pkg.)
November 27
7:30 p.m.
at Seattle Seahawks
December 3
Noon*
NEW YORK JETS
December 10
3:05 p.m.*
at San Francisco 49ers
December 17
Noon*
DETROIT LIONS
December 21
7 p.m.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS
December 31
Noon*
at Chicago Bears
Postseason