--- title: "Packers beat Patriots 45-27 in Foxborough as Jordan Love throws for 372 yards and three touchdowns" url: https://badiyaa.com/packers-patriots-45-27-jordan-love-drake-maye/ published: 2026-11-09T04:02:00+00:00 modified: 2026-11-09T04:02:00+00:00 section: Sports publisher: Badiyaa --- # Packers beat Patriots 45-27 in Foxborough as Jordan Love throws for 372 yards and three touchdowns Green Bay became the first visiting team to top 42 points at Gillette Stadium, intercepting Drake Maye three times while Christian Watson and Matthew Golden combined for 335 receiving yards. Jordan Love tore through a Patriots defense his own club rates among the NFL’s top 10, and Foxborough had no answer. The Green Bay Packers quarterback threw for 372 yards and three touchdowns on Sunday, November 8, as his team beat the New England Patriots 45-27 at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts. No visiting team had ever scored that many there. The Packers said afterward that 42 points had been the ceiling for an opponent in the stadium’s history. Green Bay led 14-0 after one quarter, 24-14 at halftime and 42-21 with a quarter to play. The home crowd had come for a party of its own. The Patriots honored Rob Gronkowski at halftime as part of his 2026 induction into the team’s Hall of Fame. ## Love’s afternoon in numbers Love completed 23 of 29 passes, was not intercepted and ran 13 yards for a fourth score. The Packers put his passer rating at 153.2. For readers who do not follow American football, [passer rating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passer_rating) folds completion rate, yards per attempt, touchdowns and interceptions into one figure on a scale from 0 to 158.3. Love finished 5.1 points short of the maximum. Two receivers did most of the damage. Christian Watson caught seven passes for 171 yards and a touchdown. Matthew Golden caught 10 for 164 yards and a touchdown. Both set career bests, the team said, and between them they hauled in 17 of 18 targets for 335 yards. The Packers’ record keepers had to dig deep for comparisons. The franchise had not had two players each pass 150 receiving yards with a touchdown in one game since Don Hutson and Andy Uram in 1942. And the last Green Bay side to score 45 or more with at least 450 yards away from home was Vince Lombardi’s 1962 team in Philadelphia, 64 years ago. Sunday’s offense gained 478. “Makes my job a helluva lot easier,” head coach Matt LaFleur said of his quarterback after the game. ## Maye’s streak survives a rough day Drake Maye, the Patriots quarterback, threw for 299 yards and three touchdowns: 30 yards to running back Rhamondre Stevenson, one to Efton Chism III that cut the deficit to 24-14, and 22 yards to Mack Hollins. He was also intercepted three times and sacked four times. Xavier McKinney took two of those interceptions and Evan Williams the third, while Isaiah McDuffie forced and recovered a fumble. Green Bay turned the four takeaways into three touchdowns. The cruelest came one snap after the fumble, when Love hit Watson from 39 yards to make it 42-14. Run Maye’s line through the same formula and the gap between the two passers is stark. His 21 completions in 38 attempts, 299 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions produce component scores of 1.263, 1.217, 1.579 and 0.401; add them, divide by six and multiply by 100, and the rating is 74.3. That is 78.9 points below Love’s. The Patriots’ own game notes still found milestones for the 5-4 home side: - Maye has accounted for at least three touchdowns in six straight games, the second-longest run in team history behind Tom Brady’s 10 at the start of 2007. - He now has 8,952 career passing yards, seventh on the franchise list after overtaking Mac Jones, and 64 touchdown passes, fifth after moving past Jim Plunkett. - DeMario Douglas caught five passes for a career-high 102 yards, New England’s first 100-yard receiving game of 2026. - Corey Kiner scored his first NFL touchdown on a 4-yard run and led the team with 55 rushing yards. Head coach Mike Vrabel’s postgame message, as the team headlined it, was that the defeat belonged to everyone, starting with him. ## Where the result leaves both teams Green Bay is 6-3 and has won five of its last six. New England falls to 5-4, and its home record of 3-1 means this was the Patriots’ first loss in Foxborough this season. The Packers also fixed two nagging problems, by their own account. Kicker Trey Smack made all seven of his kicks, three field goals including a 51-yarder and four extra points, for 13 points. And a running game that, the team said, had not topped 100 yards in a game before Sunday got to 129 on 32 carries, with Kaleb Johnson supplying 68 yards and a touchdown. The win closed a Sunday that began in Europe, where the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-17 in the league’s [game in Madrid](https://badiyaa.com/nfl-madrid-bernabeu-bengals-falcons-2026/). Next for Green Bay is a home date at Lambeau Field with the Minnesota Vikings, who lead the NFC North. Minnesota, 6-1, first hosts the 6-1 Buffalo Bills on Monday night in Minneapolis. ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: Passer rating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passer_rating) *Image: J. Poreda, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. 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