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

Packers Favre

Brett Favre (fahrv) spent a half-hour with reporters today at the Packers minicamp, making his first public comments since announcing two weeks ago that he would return to play this season.And, despite comments earlier in the offseason that there was "no doubt" the upcoming season would be his last, the veteran quarterback now isn't so sure.
He says, "I'm going to play this year, give it my best and not talk about it. And I'm sure that it will come up from somewhere else at some point, but it's been a distraction not only for me but for I think the guys I played with in the past, and I'm not going to talk about it this year."
Favre reiterated several times that he never considered asking to be traded to another team in the offseason.
The aging signal caller says he came back intending to win, but if the Packers can't go to the Super Bowl, he hopes to at least have fun.
The Packers finished 4-and-12 last season.