{"id":25352,"date":"2024-09-26T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=25352"},"modified":"2024-09-26T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T19:57:26","slug":"packers-would-love-to-end-vikings-perfect-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/packers-would-love-to-end-vikings-perfect-start-to-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers Would Love to End Vikings Perfect Start to Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The big question heading into Sunday\u2019s game is will Jordan Love play after suffering a knee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>injury in the opening game of the season? Even if he doesn\u2019t play Green Bay is still a slight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>favorite at home as the NFC North foes renew their rivalry at Lambeau Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Green Bay Packers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coaching staff has done a fabulous job for Willis and the offense. In two games, he is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25-for-34, 324 yards, and two touchdowns. WIllis also has added to the ground game rushing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for 114 yards and a score in those games. Green Bay is the number one rushing team in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NFL racking up 204 yards per game. But the Pack face a big challenge as the Vikings are #2 in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the NFL allowing just 71 yards on the ground. The defense has been playing lights out. Last<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>week, 8 sacks and two interceptions including a pick-6. With or without Love the Packers are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>built well to end Sam Darnold\u2019s undefeated run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minnesota Vikings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vikings have been the surprise team of the season thus far as Sam Darnold has revitalized<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>his career, throwing for 657 yards and 8 touchdowns with just two interceptions through three<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>games. And he\u2019s looked quite comfortable for the first time in his NFL career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota sits fifth in rushing success but has faced three of the worst rushing defenses to start<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the season. Now they take on one of the better defensive units that has 7 interceptions and two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fumbles, Green Bay\u2019s turnover ratio of +7 is the best in the league. Minnesota\u2019s path to victory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>relies heavily on Justin Jefferson having success against the secondary. Over his career, JJ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>has been held to 59 or fewer yards in 5 of the 7 games. But in the other two, he had 169 and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>184 yards, and two scores in each game, both wins by the Vikings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Player Prop Best Bets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aaron Jones: Over 57.5 Rushing Yards (-118)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron Jones was the heart and soul of the Packers during his 7 seasons in Green Bay. You<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>know he\u2019ll be looking to impress his former team and has had a great start to the season. Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>rushed for 102 yards vs the Texans and another 94 against the Giants. He\u2019s also rushed for at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>least 51 yards in 8 of his last 9 games and with the extra motivation, he should hit this mark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sam Darnold: Over 0.5 Interceptions (-139)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems like a game where the defense will be too much for Darnold to avoid throwing an<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>errand pass. The Packers have been all over opposing quarterbacks picking off 7 passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xavier McKinney leads the league with 3 while Jaire Alexander has 2. Playing in a hostile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>environment can only lead to bad decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game Betting Odds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vikings +2.5 (+103)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Packers -2.5 (-117)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total: 43.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Trends<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vikings are 6-3 SU in last 9 road games<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota is 6-2-1 ATS in the last nine games as an underdog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Bay is 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games at home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Lafleur is 22-8 SU against the NFC North as head coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big question heading into Sunday\u2019s game is will Jordan Love play after suffering a knee injury in the opening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":24239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-25352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25353,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25352\/revisions\/25353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}