How to Watch, Stream, Listen to Packers at Bengals
GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers will kick off a stretch of four road contests in five weeks with a game at the Cincinnati Bengals at noon Sunday. Both teams are 3-1. Here’s how to watch, listen and stream the game, plus a few other game notes.
How to Watch Packers at Bengals
TV: Fox – Kenny Albert (play-by-play), Jonathan Vilma (analyst) and Lindsay Czarniak (sideline)
Stream: You can stream the game on FuboTV. Get a 7-day Free Trial.
Coverage Map: Check out the map at 506Sports.com to see if the game will be broadcast in your neighborhood.
Radio: Packers Radio Network – Wayne Larrivee, Larry McCarren. SIRIUS: 113 (GB), 83 (Cin.) | XM: 386 (GB), 225 (Cin.) | SXM App: 811 (GB), 806 (Cin.) Sports USA Radio, with Josh Appel (play-by-play) and Mark Carrier (analyst), will have the national broadcast.
Packers vs. Bengals History
Leader: There are seven teams with a record of better than .500 against Green Bay. You probably wouldn’t have guessed the Bengals, with a franchise record that is 87 games below .500, are among those teams. Cincinnati leads the series 7-6.
Streak: The Bengals won three in a row, with victories of seven, seven and four points in 2005, 2009 and 2013, respectively. Green Bay snapped that streak in 2017.
Last meeting: Green Bay won the last matchup, 27-24 in overtime, on Sept. 24, 2017. William Jackson intercepted Aaron Rodgers and returned it for a touchdown to give the Bengals a 21-7 lead in the second quarter. It was a stunning play. Rodgers hadn’t thrown a pick-six since the 2009 season. For context, Philip Rivers threw 19 pick-sixes during that span. But Rodgers threw two touchdown passes to Jordy Nelson, including one with 17 seconds remaining in regulation that tied the game. In overtime, Rodgers’ 72-yard completion to Geronimo Allison set up Mason Crosby’s winning field goal.
Packers-Bengals Point Spread
The Packers opened as 3-point favorites with an over/under total of 50.5 points at SI Sportsbook. By midday Saturday, the line was down to 2.5. By Sunday morning, it was back to 3.
The Quarterbacks: Aaron Rodgers vs. Joe Burrow
Packers: After a dismal opening game, Aaron Rodgers is doing typical Aaron Rodgers things. Over the last three games, he’s thrown eight touchdown passes vs. zero interceptions, good for a 119.3 passer rating. Only Dallas’ Dak Prescott has a higher rating (128.9) over that span. His eight touchdowns are the most for any quarterback without an interception. Against Pittsburgh, he tied Dan Marino for fifth all-time with 420 career touchdown passes. With one touchdown against Cincinnati, he’d tie Philip Rivers for fifth all-time.
Bengals: Last year’s No. 1 overall pick, Joe Burrow has taken enormous strides in Year 2. In 10 games as a rookie, he completed 65.3 percent of his passes with 13 touchdowns. In four games this year, he’s completed 72.9 percent with nine touchdowns. He’s third in completion percentage and yards per attempt (9.23). In Thursday’s victory over Jacksonville, he was 25-of-32 passing for 348 yards with two touchdowns and zero interceptions. He set career highs for completion percentage (78.1) and passer rating (132.8). He enters the week as one of only four quarterbacks with two-plus touchdown passes in all four games.
Four-Point Stance
One: This will be the 15th career start for Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. This week, the NFL produced an interesting 14-start comparison between Burrow and Rodgers.
Record: Rodgers, 5-9; Burrow, 5-8-1. Completion percentage: Rodgers, 63.5; Burrow, 66.9. Passing yards: Rodgers, 3,470; Burrow, 4,676. Passing touchdowns: Rodgers, 23; Burrow, 22. Interceptions: Rodgers, 12; Burrow, nine. Passer rating: Rodgers, 91.8; Burrow, 94.8.
“I definitely followed the guy, just being a football fan, what he did at LSU his last year,” Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry said. “Son of a coach, gym rat, the makeup that he has, I think has allowed him to be the quarterback he is in the league at such a young age. The thing I was impressed with, he tore his ACL pretty late in the year last year. For him to be able to come and start the season and go like he’s been going, to me, that’s been impressive. He’s a heck of a quarterback. He can make all the throws. His pocket savviness, his awareness, I think those are all things that to play quarterback in this league at a high level you have to have, and [what] he’s shown in a small sample size [has] been pretty impressive.”
Two: The Bengals drafted Burrow with the No. 1 pick in 2020 and receiver Ja’Marr Chase with the No. 5 pick in 2021. At LSU, they were practically unstoppable. In 2019, Burrow won the Heisman Trophy as the best player in college football and Chase won the Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s top receiver. With Burrow setting NCAA records for completion percentage, passing yards and passing touchdowns, Chase set SEC records with 1,780 receiving yards and 20 touchdowns.
They’ve picked up right where they left off. In Week 1, Chase caught a 50-yard touchdown pass in his NFL debut vs. Minnesota. In Week 2, he caught a 42-yard touchdown pass at Chicago. In Week 3, he caught a 34-yard touchdown pass at Pittsburgh. In the process, Chase became the first player since 1976 to have touchdown catches of 40-plus yards in each of his first two games and the first player since 2002 to catch a touchdown pass of 25-plus yards in each of his first three games.
Three: Through four weeks, 12 teams had at least three wins. Seven of those teams didn’t reach the playoffs last season, a list that includes Cincinnati. Meanwhile, Green Bay is one of five teams that lost in Week 1 but carries a three-game winning streak into this week.
Four: For the first time since the in-state showdown between Cleveland and Cincinnati in 2016, the Bengals are expecting a full-house crowd of about 65,000. A capacity crowd is big news in Cincinnati. Lambeau Field’s sellout streak, on the other hand, reached 352 games last week.
