Ravens Insider: Date and time of Ravens-Packers Week 17 game at Lambeau Field announced

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If the Ravens are going to make the playoffs — a thought four months ago that some might have considered absurd — they are likely going to have to win most if not all of their remaining four games. Among them is a showdown against the surging Green Bay Packers.

That Week 17 game at Lambeau Field will take place on Saturday, Dec. 27 at 8 p.m., it was announced on Wednesday. The game will be exclusively streamed on Peacock with Noah Eagle (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (analyst) and Kathryn Tappen (sideline reporter) on the call. It will be broadcast locally on NBC (WBAL).

The time and date of the game, along with a handful of others, had not been previously released by the league to allow for flexible scheduling of contests with the most compelling matchups with playoff implications. It will also be Jackson’s first game at Lambeau.

That maiden visit also comes at a critical time.

The Packers (9-3-1) have won four straight and have a slim lead over the Chicago Bears in the NFC North. Baltimore (6-7) has dropped two in a row, is a game back of the AFC North-leading Pittsburgh Steelers and travels to Cincinnati to face the Bengals and quarterback Joe Burrow on Sunday.

A loss to the Bengals, who beat the Ravens just two weeks ago on Thanksgiving night in Baltimore, would be a significant blow to the Ravens’ playoff chances. It’s also feasible that they could be out of it entirely by the time they get to Wisconsin, though much of that of course depends on the Steelers.

Baltimore’s most likely path to the postseason is as division champs, and the Steelers will play the Ravens in Pittsburgh in Week 18.

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Whatever happens between now and then, it will mark the Ravens’ first game at Lambeau since November 2017. Baltimore won, 23-0, against Packers backup quarterback Brett Hundley on the strength of the five turnovers it forced along with Joe Flacco throwing for 183 yards and one touchdown with one interception.

The Ravens’ most recent game against the Packers, however, was in December 2021 when then-Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes in a 31-30 victory at M&T Bank Stadium that clinched a division title for the Packers. Jackson did not play in that game because of a sprained ankle, while Tyler Huntley nearly lead the Ravens back from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit with an 8-yard touchdown run with 42 seconds remaining before his 2-point conversion pass fell incomplete.

That loss was the third of what ended up being six straight for the Ravens. It was also the last time they failed to make the playoffs.

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