The Green Bay Packers beat the Patriots 45-27 at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, and the score flatters New England. This one was decided before halftime.

Jordan Love threw for 372 yards and three touchdowns. He ran for another. By the time backup Tyrod Taylor took over with nine minutes left, Green Bay had already hung the most points any visiting team has ever scored in that building.

It was a statement win, the kind that changes how people talk about a team. Green Bay came into Foxborough at 5-3, tied with the Patriots. It left at 6-3, having won five of its last six, looking like a side nobody in the NFC wants to meet in January.

Packers beat Patriots 45-27: the first half told the story

Green Bay won the toss and deferred, so New England got the ball first. That lasted about a minute.

Rhamondre Stevenson was stuffed on first down. On the second play from scrimmage, Drake Maye threw into traffic for Mack Hollins. Xavier McKinney was waiting. The Packers safety picked it off and returned it 36 yards to the New England 14.

Two plays later, Love kept it himself and scrambled 13 yards into the end zone. Seven-nothing, and the air went straight out of Gillette Stadium.

Green Bay didn’t slow down. A seven-play, 86-yard drive ended with a Matthew Golden touchdown, and the Packers led 14-0 after the first quarter. Trey Smack added a field goal. Then Maye found Stevenson on a 30-yard wheel route for New England’s first score, and the home crowd had something to cheer about for a moment.

It didn’t last. Evan Williams intercepted a tipped pass near the sideline — Brandon Cisse got a hand to it first — and Maye’s day kept getting worse. McKinney grabbed his second pick of the half on a late throw meant for tight end Eli Raridon. Love needed almost no time to punish it: a 24-yard strike to Golden, a 43-yard connection with Christian Watson, and Kaleb Johnson powered in to make it 24-7 with 4:45 left in the half.

Maye answered with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Efton Chism III just before the break. Halftime: 24-14. The Patriots were still in it on the scoreboard. Nobody watching believed it.

Love and his receivers ran riot

The numbers read like a video game. Love finished 23 of 29 for 372 yards, three touchdowns through the air, one more on the ground, no interceptions, and a 153.2 passer rating. That’s 5.1 points short of a perfect rating.

His receivers did the heavy lifting. Watson caught seven passes for 171 yards and a touchdown — a career high. Golden caught 10 for 164 and a score, with 150 of those yards coming before halftime. Between them, Watson and Golden accounted for 335 of Love’s 372 passing yards.

Green Bay scored on seven different drives. The Packers put up 21 points directly off New England’s four turnovers. And here’s the wild part: they did it on the ground too. Green Bay came into the day dead last in the NFL in rushing, averaging 60.6 yards a game. It finished with 129 yards on the ground.

The second half opened the same way the first one had. Love marched Green Bay 70 yards in seven plays and hit Williams for a 10-yard touchdown. Then came the fourth takeaway of the day, and on the very next play Watson ran a post right past Christian Gonzalez — the highest-paid cornerback in football — for a 39-yard touchdown. Love scored the two-point conversion himself.

Smack’s third field goal, a 38-yarder, made it 45-21 with 11:51 to play. Corey Kiner’s 4-yard touchdown run closed the scoring at 45-27 with 3:54 left. Garbage time, and everybody knew it.

Packers beat Patriots 45-27: what it means for the NFC race

Let’s be honest about what this was. Green Bay hadn’t scored 45 or more points while piling up 450 or more yards since Nov. 11, 1962, at Philadelphia. That’s 64 years. The Packers did it in Foxborough, against a 5-3 team, in front of Tom Brady.

Three weeks into the season, Green Bay was 1-2, with losses to Minnesota and Atlanta by a combined 38 points. Since then, the Packers have won five of six, and Sunday was their best performance of the year by a distance. Love is playing like an MVP candidate right now. His young receivers are growing up fast. If the defence keeps taking the ball away like this — four turnovers on Sunday — Green Bay becomes a genuine headache for anyone in the NFC playoff race.

New England, meanwhile, has a problem it can’t ignore. The Patriots are now 0-3 against NFC teams this season, after road losses at Seattle in Week 1 and at Chicago in Week 7. All five of their wins have come against AFC opposition. Sunday was supposed to be the day Gillette Stadium made the difference. It didn’t.

Maye’s regression stung, too. The 24-year-old had thrown 14 touchdown passes against just two interceptions from Week 4 through Week 8, and New England had won four of five in that stretch. On Sunday he threw three picks before halftime and finished 21 of 38 for 299 yards. He still threw three touchdown passes — to Stevenson, Chism and Mack Hollins — but the damage was done early, and the Patriots spent the whole afternoon chasing the game.

Brady watched it all from the booth

There was a strange symmetry to the day. Before kickoff, Gillette Stadium celebrated the 10th anniversary of the 2016 team that pulled off the record comeback over Atlanta in Super Bowl LI. Rob Gronkowski was inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame. Brady, who called the game for Fox, was introduced last, and the place roared.

It was Brady’s first Patriots game in the Fox booth since he became the network’s lead analyst in 2024. He got a front-row seat to the worst home defensive performance in the franchise’s Gillette Stadium era instead.

The 45 points Green Bay scored are the most the Patriots have ever given up at Gillette Stadium, which opened in 2002. The old mark was 42, set by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2017 season opener.

Around the league: Chiefs handle Jets

Elsewhere on Sunday, Kansas City shook off a slow start to beat the New York Jets 35-12 at Arrowhead Stadium.

Travis Kelce marked his 200th NFL game with a 1-yard rushing touchdown on fourth-and-goal in the third quarter, taking a lateral near the goal line and barely getting the ball across. He also caught four passes for 72 yards.

Kenneth Walker III scored three touchdowns and ran for 102 yards, and Patrick Mahomes finished 23 of 31 for 242 yards. The Chiefs, who had lost two straight, outscored the Jets 21-0 after halftime to move to 6-2.

What’s next

Green Bay hosts the Minnesota Vikings next week at noon. New England’s schedule doesn’t get any kinder: the Patriots travel to Munich to face the Detroit Lions in Week 10.

The Packers will take the short week and the long flight home feeling very good about themselves. They should. Sunday was the day Jordan Love and his receivers announced themselves as a problem for the rest of the league — and the day the Patriots found out exactly how far they still have to go.

For more from Sunday around the NFL, read our report on Luka Doncic’s 53-point night and 61-foot buzzer-beater for the Lakers.

Frequently asked questions

What was the final score of Packers vs. Patriots?

Green Bay won 45-27 at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. The Packers led 24-14 at halftime and never trailed.

How many yards did Jordan Love throw for?

Love completed 23 of 29 passes for 372 yards and three touchdowns, with no interceptions. He also ran for a 13-yard touchdown and finished with a 153.2 passer rating.

Did Drake Maye throw any interceptions?

Three, all in the first half. Xavier McKinney picked him off twice and Evan Williams once. Maye still threw three touchdown passes and finished 21 of 38 for 299 yards.

Was Tom Brady at the Packers-Patriots game?

Yes — Brady called the game for Fox from the broadcast booth, his first Patriots game as Fox’s lead analyst. The Patriots also celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Super Bowl LI team before kickoff.

Who do the Packers play next?

Green Bay hosts the Minnesota Vikings next week. The Patriots travel to Munich to play the Detroit Lions in Week 10.