After the season kicked off Thursday with a dramatic finish between the Chiefs and the Ravens, the NFL will make history Friday night with its first game in Brazil.
The Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers will face off in Sao Paolo and will enter the regular season from wildly different vantage points. The Eagles are looking to rebound from a 1-6 finish to 2023, which included a Wild Card round loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Packers finished hot to end last season and won a road playoff game before losing to the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional Round.
Follow along for live coverage
The game will be exclusively streamed on Peacock, the third-ever game to be exclusive to the streamer, followed by the Buffalo Bills vs. Los Angeles Chargers last December and the Miami Dolphins vs. Kansas City Chiefs during Wild Card weekend in January.
How to watch the Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles game
- Date: Friday, Sept. 6
- Time: 8:15 ET
- How to watch: Stream on Peacock
Storyline to watch
This game is really all about the quarterbacks, and how their paths have diverged over the last season.
Entering 2023, Jalen Hurts was one of the NFL’s rising stars. He led the Eagles to a Super Bowl in the 2022 season and was rewarded with a massive, $255 million extension in April 2023.
And Philadelphia picked up where it left off to start last season, winning 10 of its first 11 games. The Eagles finished on a 1-6 skid, however, and lost in a 32-9 blowout to the Bucs in the first round of the postseason. It was a far cry from their Super Bowl run, and Hurts’s shaky finish to the season — which was undoubtedly marred by injury — has invited questions about his ultimate ability to lead Philly’s offense.
It’s the opposite for the Packers and quarterback Jordan Love. After starting 2023 2-5, the Packers finished the regular season 7-3 to make the playoffs. Then Love led a 48-32 upset over the Cowboys to start the postseason, before ultimately falling to the eventual NFC champion 49ers in the second round. The hot streak to end the year and the win over Dallas was enough for Love to nab his own extension this summer, worth $220 million over four years.
Will Love continue his ascension? Or will Hurts have a bounce-back performance? Whichever team — and quarterback — wins will have a chance to make an early-season statement.