Packers chase 3rd straight win with Cowboys in town
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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers are aiming to build off their best win of the season as they prepare to host a Dallas team attempting to bounce back from an embarrassing loss.
The Packers (3-2) are above .500 for the first time this season after a 31-7 blowout of the Chicago Bears. They’re chasing their third straight win in a Sunday night matchup with the Cowboys, who fell 24-16 at home to the previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Oct. 8.
“You’ve got to keep stacking,” Love said. “We talk about it in the locker room all the time and team buildings. You have a game like that, you’ve got to be able to follow it up with another great performance.”
Green Bay got good news for the long term on Friday when the league announced that top running back Josh Jacobs will be removed from the commissioner’s exempt list and can play in their next game at the Detroit Lions on Oct. 25.
The Cowboys (2-3) are eager to make up for their bad performance against Tampa Bay and fix their slumping defense. Dallas has allowed a league-high 6.4 yards per play.
Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer brought longtime NFL defensive coach Mike Pettine out of retirement this week to work as a senior assistant to beleaguered defensive coordinator Christian Parker. Pettine was the Packers’ defensive coordinator from 2018-20.
“We have to coach better,” Schottenheimer said. “We’ve got to play better. I think our players will be the first ones to say there’s things that they need to do better. There’s things I need to do better. And so no one is sitting here pointing the fingers at Christian Parker. But as the head coach, you have to make decisions that you think helps you win games. And that’s in all three phases.”
These teams met last year at Arlington, Texas, and tied 40-40 in a shootout that ended with nine straight scoring drives. It was the most consecutive scoring drives to end a game since at least 1933.
Last year’s matchup also marked the return of Micah Parsons to AT&T Stadium, a month after the Cowboys traded the superstar edge rusher to the Packers. Parsons won’t be playing Sunday as he continues his recovery from a torn ACL that ended his 2025 season, but this game features two former Packers first-round picks coming to Lambeau Field as visiting players for the first time.
Defensive tackle Kenny Clark earned three Pro Bowl selections in nine seasons with the Packers before heading to Dallas in the Parsons trade. Linebacker Rashan Gary went to Dallas in a separate trade earlier this year after collecting 46 1/2 sacks for the Packers from 2019-25.
Jacobs’ return
Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love drops back to pass against the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 28, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP file photo)
His removal from what is the same effect as a paid suspension doesn’t change the NFL’s review under the league’s personal conduct policy of Jacobs, who was arrested in May and pleaded no contest in September to misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property in an altercation involving his then-girlfriend.
Placed on the exempt list on Aug. 30, Jacobs has missed the Packers’ first five games and won’t be available Sunday night. The three-time Pro Bowl selection was prevented from practicing or attending games, but could be present at the club’s facility with the team’s permission.
Need to know
Dallas (2-3) at Green Bay (3-2).
TV: Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EDT, NBC.
Latest odds: Packers by 1.
Last week: Cowboys lost 24-16 at home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Packers won 31-7 at home over the Chicago Bears.
Last meeting: Packers and Cowboys tied 40-40 in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 28, 2025.
Series record: Packers lead 22-17-1.