The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers met at Lambeau Field with both teams looking for their second straight win. Thanks to a career-high tying four-touchdown game from Jordan Love, the Packers prevailed. Here’s a recap of all the stats and notes you need to know about the game.
Arizona Cardinals vs. Green Bay Packers Box Score
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | T | |
| Cardinals | 0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| Packers | 7 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 34 |
Cardinals-Packers Stat Leaders
Leading Passers
Kyler Murray: 22-of-32, 214 yards, 1 touchdown
Jordan Love: 22-of-32, 258 yards, 4 touchdowns, 1 interception
Leading Rushers
Trey Benson: 5 carries, 26 yards
Emari Demercado: 4 carries, 25 yards
James Conner: 7 carries, 24 yards
Josh Jacobs: 18 carries, 62 yards
Leading Receivers
Trey McBride: 8 receptions, 96 yards
Emari Demercado: 5 receptions, 39 yards
Christian Watson: 3 receptions, 68 yards, 1 touchdown
Romeo Doubs: 3 receptions, 49 yards, 2 touchdowns
Cardinals-Packers Game Recap
The Packers opened the scoring with Jayden Reed’s third receiving touchdown of the season. Reed has scored in three of the four games Love has started this season.
Bird is the word.
TOUCHDOWN. JAYDEN. REED.#AZvsGB pic.twitter.com/VOwG4XEY7Q
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 13, 2024
Love extended the Packers’ lead to 14 with his second touchdown pass of the day to open the second quarter, hitting Doubs after the receiver missed last week for disciplinary reasons.
It was Love’s eighth straight game throwing multiple touchdowns, a streak eclipsed by only Aaron Rodgers (13 straight in 2011) and Brett Favre (12 straight from 1994-95) in Packers history.
Quarterbacks in the history of the #NFL with multiple TD passes in 10 straight games (including playoffs) before turning 26 years old …
Patrick Mahomes
Dan Marino
Jordan Love— Kyle Soppe (@KyleSoppePFN) October 13, 2024
Following an injury to Marvin Harrison Jr., the Packers were bailed out on a muffed punt return fumble by Reed by offsetting penalties. Green Bay capitalized on the gift, with Love throwing his third touchdown on the first play of the drive on a 44-yard strike to Watson.
GO off Jordan Love! 💛
Long TD pass to Christian Watson, and the @Packers are rolling at home! It's Love's 3rd TD Pass of the half!
📺: FOX pic.twitter.com/3NX1fvPS0M
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) October 13, 2024
The Cardinals did show some signs of life near the end of the first half. Michael Wilson’s second touchdown of the season got Arizona on the board, and a Sean Murphy-Bunting interception off Love pulled the Cards to within two touchdowns at halftime.
SMB liked what he saw pic.twitter.com/m5tsmaT1cI
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) October 13, 2024
However, Love restored order with his fourth touchdown pass of the day, finding Doubs for a second score. It’s the second time in three weeks that Love has thrown four touchdowns after doing so in Week 4 versus the Minnesota Vikings.
Jordan Love lofts it up and Romeo Doubs adjusts for another touchdown!
📺: #AZvsGB on FOX
📱: https://t.co/waVpO909ge pic.twitter.com/3Tq0RyHxVh— NFL (@NFL) October 13, 2024
That essentially ended the competitive portion of the game, with the remainder of the fourth quarter seeing three lost fumbles from the Cardinals to stymie any comeback effort.
Jordan Love Played His Best Game of the 2024 Season
Love averaged a season-high 0.34 EPA per play while completing 68.8% of his passes, his first game eclipsing a 60% completion rate this season. Playing the woeful Cardinals defense certainly helped, but he also excelled when pressured. Love averaged 0.74 EPA per dropback under pressure, going 6-of-9 for 84 yards and a touchdown.
For the season, Love continues to be a fairly boom-or-bust passer. He leads the NFL with an 8.2% touchdown rate but also has the second-highest interception rate at 4.1%, trailing only human turnover machine Will Levis. Even in Sunday’s stellar game, Love threw an interception — and he has at least one pick in all four of his games this year.
The Packers’ defense canceled that out with three takeaways of its own, giving Green Bay a staggering 17 takeaways this year. The Packers have eight turnovers this year … yet still have the best turnover margin (+9).
That type of takeaway volume is unsustainable long-term, so Love will have to clean up his play to offset that defensive regression. But the big-play generation that emerged at the end of last season remains evident, and it appears Love is fully recovered from his Week 1 knee injury.