It's time for our every-ocho-years trip to Lambeau Field. The Texans won the first one in 2008 and lost the last one in the snow in 2016.
Let's dive into the numbers for this one.
3 - The outside temperature at kickoff at Lambeau on 12/7/2008, the first Texans trip to Green Bay.
32 - The outside temperature at kickoff at Lambeau on 12/4/2016, the Texans second trip to Green Bay, but it also snowed the entire day.
71 - The projected outside temperature at kickoff at Lambeau on Sunday, the Texans third trip to Green Bay. When the schedule was announced and I saw back-to-back road games at New England and Green Bay IN OCTOBER, I danced in Studio. It should be tremendous weather for this fall trip to Green Bay.
1 - The Texans have one win over the Packers (2008) against four losses (2004, 2012, 2016 & 2020)
270.5 - Texans QB C.J. Stroud has the highest yards per game average for any NFL QB since the start of the 2023 season.
44 - Packers QB Jordan Love has the most passing TDs since the start of the 2023 season.
These two young stud QBs will lock horns on Sunday.
3 - Texans DE Will Anderson Jr. recorded his career high in sacks last Sunday at New England with three. He was named AFC Defensive Player of the Week as a result…for those sacks and much more.
4 - Through the first six weeks of the season, the Texans have earned Player of the Week honors four different times and in all three phases - RB Joe Mixon in Week one, K Ka'imi Fairbairn in weeks 2 and 5 and Anderson Jr. in week six.
2 - This is just the second game the Texans will play outdoors this season. Furthermore…
392 - It's been over a year, 392 days to be exact, since the Texans played a regular season game on grass. It was week three in Jacksonville last year on September 24, 2023, a win no one will forget.
That's a 20-game regular season span of not playing on grass. That will end on Sunday as the Texans will play on the natural grass of Lambeau Field on Sunday.
59 - Texans RB Joe Mixon reeled off a 59-yard run last Sunday against the Patriots, which was the longest run of the DeMeco Ryans era…by 37 yards! It was the longest run since…
75 - …his teammate Dameon Pierce's 75-yard TD run against the Chargers in week four of the 2022 season. Dameon added his own 50+ yard run, a 54-yarder to salt away the three touchdown win over the Patriots.
41 - The Texans scored 41 points last Sunday, the first time that the Texans did that in the regular season since scoring 41 on 12/26/2021 against the aforementioned Chargers. They did score 45 in a playoff game last year against the Browns, but in the regular season, it was two and a half years since hitting the 40 mark.
6 - The Texans have scored 40+ points just six times in the last eight years, no more than one time each year since the 2017 season.
Okay, that'll do it for this week, jacked up for this trip to Green Bay. Can't wait! See ya on Sunday, everyone!
