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Trying To Break The 55-Year Drought In Pittsburgh

On February 6, 2011, the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers would be linked forever as opponents in Super Bowl XLV. The two storied franchises, who hadn’t both made a conference championship game in the same season since 1997, met in a memorable Super Bowl, with the Packers being victorious 31-25. The matchup featured the league’s top 2 defenses in 2010, as well as two quarterbacks who are likely to be in Canton someday in Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger. Rodgers had one of the best performances of his career, finishing with 304 yards and three touchdown passes. His fourth quarter completion to Greg Jennings is arguably the most important throw of his career.

The game was the last Super Bowl appearance for both franchises. The Packers and Steelers are two of just seven franchises with at least four Super Bowl wins. The others in that category are: Patriots 6, 49ers and Cowboys 5, Giants and Chiefs 4. There have been 49 different matchups in Super Bowls, as the Steelers have made the second-most appearances with eight and the Packers have five.

Sunday’s matchup, a Super Bowl XLV rematch, will be memorable now for another reason: it will be Aaron Rodgers against the Green Bay Packers. Rodgers will join the likes of Joe Montana, Brett Favre, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning as former MVPs and Super Bowl champions to go against their former team.

This season, Rodgers joined Russell Wilson as the only former Super Bowl winning quarterbacks to join the team they defeated in the Super Bowl. Wilson was traded to the Denver Broncos in 2022, a team his Seahawks beat in Super Bowl XLVIII. Rodgers joined the Steelers this offseason after two forgettable seasons with the New York Jets.

Ironically, Sunday’s game will be the first Packers at Steelers game to feature Aaron Rodgers since 2009.

The last two times the Packers played in Pittsburgh, the starting quarterbacks were Brett Hundley (2017) and Jordan Love (2023). The 2017 contest was also on NBC’s Sunday Night Football. The Packers are 0-3 in Acrisure Stadium (more famously known as Heinz FIeld), all three losses coming in the final seconds. They also lost their last three games at Three Rivers Stadiums, with losses in 1980, 1986 and 1998. The last time the Packers won in Pittsburgh was all the way back in 1970. It was a 20-12 win, where the starting quarterbacks were Bart Starr and Terry Bradshaw.

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It’s Not Just A Game — It’s A Generational Clash | Packer Transplants Live 308

The past meets the present this Sunday in a matchup dripping with drama. Jordan Love leads the Green Bay Packers into Pittsburgh to face the Steelers — and standing across from him is his legendary predecessor, Aaron Rodgers. All that and more on this week’s Packer Transplants Live from Cheesehead TV — your home for the best Packers talk on YouTube.

Living on 3rd Down Almost Cost the Packers

Last Sunday’s victory in Arizona wasn’t exactly pretty, but a win is a win. The Cardinals have been competitive in all seven of their games this year, but they’ve had their share of misfortune. They have lost their last five games by a combined 13 points. They played Sunday’s game without their franchise quarterback (Kyler Murray) and their three top running backs (James Conner, Trey Benson, Emari Demercado). They were also missing their 2025 first round pick (Walter Nolen III). Despite all of these injuries and misfortunes, the 2-5 Cardinals outplayed the Packers in many facets.

That said, the Packers aren’t going to apologize for finding a way to win. “Here's the deal. This ain't never easy in this league. I mean, you watch across the league every week, da– near all these games are going down in the end,” said head coach Matt LaFleur. “But the bottom line is this. We did enough to win the game. Are we satisfied? No. There's a lot of stuff out there where we can get better at.”

The Packers victory in Arizona offered plenty to dissect, but there was one aspect of the game that kept resurfacing in the worst ways - third down. Prior to Sunday’s game, the Packers thrived on third-down, both offensively and defensively. The Green Bay offense had the NFL’s best third-down conversion rate, and the Green Bay defense had the sixth-best third-down conversion rate. Sunday was a different story. The Packers struggled on third-down on both sides of the ball. The offense stalled out too many times, and the defense couldn’t seem to get off the field.

Whether it be play-calling or execution, the Packers weren’t good enough on third down, and it almost cost them the game. This week’s edition of “Monday Musings” examines all of the third-down opportunities for both Green Bay’s offense and defense - the good and the bad. There were times where the execution on third-down was downright pathetic. Other times, the Packers stepped up. Unfortunately, it felt like it was more of the former than the latter. Let’s dive in to the good, the bad, and the ugly on third-down for the Green Bay Packers.

Let's Talk Football: LaFleur’s Guts, Parsons’ Glory

Aaron and Andy dive into a win that tested the Packers’ resilience. Between LaFleur’s bold decisions, Josh Jacobs carrying the load through injury, and Micah Parsons wrecking Arizona’s final drive, this was Green Bay’s first real “prove it” game of 2025. They didn’t dominate — they dug deep. And that’s a sign of a team built for January.

Packers Showed Their Resilience

It was certainly not a pretty win on Sunday, and there are legitimate weaknesses on this Packers team, but every team has them, and expectations have simply become too high for what this Green Bay team “should be” doing to opponents every week in the minds of some fans.

The Cardinals are no pushovers. They have now lost five games by a combined 13 points. At 2-5 coming into the game, they were also a desperate team, fighting to essentially save their season.

Winning on the road is always tough, and should not be taken for granted, especially given the aforementioned context behind this Arizona team’s record, as well as the travel issues Green Bay encountered on their way out west.

This was really the first opportunity for the Packers to prove they can play from behind and overcome adversity to pull out a victory, and they did it.

It is another box ticked in terms of a way they have shown they can win, and it is a trait which will matter come playoff time.

Matt LaFleur deserves criticism for how his offense played in the first half, as well as some of his decision making on 3rd and short, but he also made two crucial calls which were huge in swinging the game his team’s way.

The decision to run a play at the end of the first half, with only seven seconds on the clock and one timeout, earned them three crucial points after Lucas Havrisik’s 61-yard field goal.

LaFleur could have been spooked by the ghosts of what happened at the end of the first half in Dallas, but he made the right call. If not for those three points, the Cardinals could have won the game with a field goal on their final drive.

His decision to put the offense back out on 4th and 2 late in the game took some gumption, and was rewarded. The Packers almost surely do not win the game without that choice being made.

Fans wanted to see this team show a killer instinct in the fourth quarter of games, and they did it Sunday, with the defense making a huge fourth-down stop, the offense scoring the go ahead touchdown, and the defense then holding the Cardinals out of the end zone.

There will be plenty of time to focus on the negatives after losses, but this team deserves credit for digging deep and finding a way to win.

Visiting the Former QB1 Feels Different This Time

Green Bay Packers fans are experiencing a bit of Deja vu this week. That would be because they are preparing for the same thing they experienced over 16 years ago. They are getting ready to watch their Packers face a legendary quarterback who led their team to victory many times for over a decade. Much like October 5th, 2009, when the Packers faced Brett Favre at the helm of the Minnesota Vikings, the Packers will be facing Aaron Rodgers at the helm of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But it just feels different this time.

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