The Packers’ late touchdown at MetLife Stadium didn’t just swing a game. It snapped Green Bay out of a sloppy, tense stretch and put Christian Watson in the middle of one of the team’s best finishes of 2025.
Green Bay entered Week 11 at 5-3-1 after a strange run of results. The Packers had come out of their Week 5 bye with three straight wins over the Bengals, Cardinals and Steelers, and that Steelers game stood out as one of their sharpest offensive outings of the season.
Jordan Love completed 20 straight passes in front of Aaron Rodgers - the man he sat behind for 3 years. Love’s EPA in that game was +16.3, second only to his +21.7 performance against the Cowboys in Week 4.
Then came a dip: the Packers dropped the next two and managed just 20 combined points against the Panthers and Eagles at Lambeau Field before heading to face the 2-8 Giants.
The game itself was messy, and the Packers spent much of it trying to hold off a New York team that refused to go away. Green Bay led for most of the afternoon, but the Giants grabbed a 20-19 advantage after a 15 play, 85 yard touchdown drive to start the fourth quarter. That left the Packers with 7:22 to work with, starting from their own 35 after a touchback.
From there, Green Bay pieced together a drive that mattered. The Packers moved 48 yards in seven plays, including a 33 yard pass to Savion Williams on 3rd & 10, and reached 2nd & 7 at the Giants 17.
The call was built to stress a single-high look. Green Bay lined up in 11 personnel, in a 2x2 shotgun spread.
John FitzPatrick was outside on the right, Christian Watson in the slot. On the left, Romeo Doubs was the front man in a stack, with Matthew Golden underneath.
The Packers were running a pick-play for Emanuel Wilson out of the backfield and a delayed in-cutter from Doubs on one side, while the other side featured Smash Fade: FitzPatrick on a quick-hitch and Watson taking the deep fade.
The Giants showed single-high before the snap, and that was the picture Jordan Love wanted. The snap itself made things trickier.
It came high and to Love’s left, forcing him into a double-catch. With pressure already a constant issue - the 44.4% pressure rate was the second-highest Love had faced up to that point in the season - he had to work fast, but he still checked the coverage.
New York stayed in single-high, the boundary defender widened with FitzPatrick, and Love went to Watson on the fade.
The throw was high and outside, and Watson had to go up through traffic to finish it. He outmuscled two defenders for the catch and the go-ahead touchdown. Green Bay added the two-point conversion and pushed the lead to 27-20 with 4:02 left.
That was the final score from the Packers’ side. The Giants mounted one last push, driving 10 plays for 51 yards and getting into the Green Bay red zone with less than a minute to go, but Evan Williams ended it with an interception. The Packers left with a 27-20 win, and the victory helped spark a four-game winning streak that continued against the Vikings, Lions and Bears.
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