Previously, lawyers representing Packers running back Josh Jacobs filed a motion seeking to keep evidence in his criminal case from being released to the public. The victim in the case has now done the same thing.
But while the current order is temporary in nature, the new motion filed on behalf of Jacobs’s former girlfriend seeks to have the evidence in the case — including a key video — permanently sealed.
Via Rob Demovsky of ESPN, her lawyers said Tuesday that the motion “is consistent with our client’s desire to protect her privacy.”
The motion complicates the NFL’s effort to obtain the video. On Sunday, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network said that the league is “trying all sorts of legal maneuvers” to get the video.
One fairly direct maneuver would be to file an opposition to the motion, with a request for a limited opportunity to inspect the video subject to the requirements of a strict and comprehensive confidentiality order. And the league should ask Jacobs to join in the effort.
Common sense suggests that the harder Jacobs tries to keep the league from seeing the video, the worse to his ongoing career it may be. If the league decides to take an aggressive approach to the situation, the league could tell Jacobs that he’ll remain on paid leave until the league processes his disciplinary case — and that the case won’t be processed until the NFL sees the video.
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Jets first-round pick Omar Cooper appears set to miss some time after injuring his ankle in the team’s Week 1 win over the Titans.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Cooper is considered week-to-week after an MRI showed he suffered a sprain. Rapoport adds that the hope is that he is able to return within the next four weeks, which suggests that the wide receiver is not considered a candidate for injured reserve as that move would rule him out for at least four games.
Cooper made one catch before leaving Sunday’s win and the 30-yard gain set up the first touchdown in their 23-10 victory.
Garrett Wilson, Adonai Mitchell, Isaiah Williams, and Arian Smith are the other wideouts on the Jets’ 53-man roster.
Packers quarterback Jordan Love was pressured relentlessly by the Vikings’ defense in Sunday’s 39-22 loss, and Matt LaFleur said after watching the film that the pass protection needed to be a lot better.
“I saw some of the things we have to clean up,” LaFleur said. “What’s disappointing is, we had a few protection busts that should not and cannot happen. We knew that was the challenge going in. They were gonna give some tough looks. That’s the toughest test you’re going to face Week 1, to play that defense in that environment. I thought there was some really good stuff, but when your quarterback gets hit 15 times, that’s too many times. There are some things we could do schematically that we’ve got to do a better job with and there are some things we have to go out and execute. But we have to have everybody on the same page if we want to give ourselves a chance.”
LaFleur also noted that the Packers’ passing game had several explosive plays when they took advantage of the Vikings’ blitzing. Love finished with 387 passing yards and an impressive average of 18.4 yards per completion, but ultimately the Vikings’ defense got to Love too often.
“We had some great moments when we feasted on it, certainly, but at the end of the game when we needed to make plays, they did what they do,” LaFleur said.
What the Vikings do under defensive coordinator Brian Flores is relentlessly pressure the quarterback, and that happened a lot on Sunday.
Wide receiver Bo Melton is back on the 53-man roster in Green Bay.
Melton was released late last week and re-signed to the practice squad ahead of Sunday’s loss to the Vikings. He was elevated to play in the game and saw action on both offense and special teams.
Melton caught one pass for 10 yards and returned four kickoffs over the course of the afternoon. That was his 39th appearance with the Packers since joining the team in December 2022.
The Packers also announced that they have released long snapper Scott Daly from the practice squad. Daly did not take part in Sunday’s loss.
Packers safety Javon Bullard got a 15-yard penalty for the hit that knocked Vikings quarterback Kyler Murray out of Sunday’s game. Vikings right tackle Brian O’Neill thinks Bullard should have gotten more than that.
O’Neill shoved Bullard after that hit, but after the game he said he wishes he had been more aggressive toward the opponent who just gave his quarterback a concussion.
“It was so bang, bang,” O’Neill said, via ESPN. “You don’t want to freak out if you’re wrong. I was probably wrong to not freak out more than that. So I kind of wish I took a shot at him.”
Bullard easily could have been ejected for the hit, and he’ll surely at least be fined by the NFL, if not suspended. But he escaped the Vikings dishing out any justice on the field, something that O’Neill regrets about Sunday’s game.
Late in the third quarter of Sunday’s Week 1 game at U.S. Bank Stadium, the Packers controlled the game, with a 22-10 lead.
Then came the latest melting of the cheese.
The Vikings scored the final 29 points of the game, becoming the first team who trailed by 12 or more with less than 20 minutes left in a game to win by 17 or more points.
It’s the most recent example of a very troubling trend for the Packers.
In last year’s wild-card game against the Bears, the Packers led at the half, 21-3. They were then outscored 28-6 in the second half before losing 31-27.
In Week 17 against the Ravens, the Packers trailed by three points after three quarters, 27-24. The Ravens outscored Green Bay in the final 15 minutes, 14-0.
In Week 16 against the Bears, Green Bay led by 10 after three quarters, 13-3. The Packers were outscored in the fourth quarter and OT, 19-3.
In Week 15 at Denver, the Packers led 23-14 in the second half. The Broncos outscored them the rest of the way, 20-3.
Much of it relates to the absence of linebacker Micah Parsons. The offense has had a hand in it, too. As Chris Simms pointed out on Monday’s PFT Live, the Packers often empty the tank with the best stuff in their game plan early, and then they don’t have answers as the game continues.
Whatever the reason, it has become a problem for the Packers. On Sunday, it robbed them of the opportunity to wrest a road win against the division rival who had lost its starting quarterback. Instead, the Vikings staged a dramatic turnaround that will leave the Packers searching for answers.
The good news is that they play the Jets on Sunday. If the Packers blow that one, there will be nothing good about the early weeks of their season.
The Packers continued a run of late-game meltdowns in Minnesota on Sunday afternoon and one of head coach Matt LaFleur’s decision loomed large as they went from leading the Vikings to an 0-1 record.
LaFleur opted to accept an offside penalty after Trey Smack made a field goal that would have extended Green Bay’s lead to eight points with just over 13 minutes left to play. The decision resulted in no points when Jordan Love was stopped on a quarterback sneak and the Vikings would score 22 straight points to run away with a 39-22 win.
“I think that’s just we’re going to be aggressive,” LaFleur said in his postgame press conference. “It was going to be an eight-point game. If it would have been a two-possession game, I probably would have thought otherwise. But I thought we had a chance. We didn’t do very well in the red zone. . . . Sometimes you live and die by that, but we’re gonna be aggressive and we’re gonna try to go for the throat in that situation.”
Those kinds of decisions have haunted the Packers on a run that dates back to last season. They’ve lost six straight games overall and they’ve held two score leads in four of those games, including the 22-10 lead they once held before the roof caved in on Sunday. There have been different reasons for each of the losses, but the inability to finish ultimately lands on LaFleur every time.
“I think it’s going to be a topic of conversation for all you guys until we do it,” LaFleur said. “That’s the bottom line.”
It will be a topic of conversation for many people as the Packers try to put an end to their streak against the Jets in Week 2.
After the Packers lost their final three games in 2024, they went out and traded for Micah Parsons right before the start of the 2025 season.
The Packers started last season 9-3-1 with Parsons recording 12.5 sacks.
They lost their Week 15 game to the Broncos 34-26 when Parsons tore the ACL and damaged his meniscus in his left knee. They lost their next four games of 2025, including a 31-27 meltdown loss to the Bears in the postseason.
They opened this season with a 39-22 meltdown against the Vikings.
So, the Packers have lost the past nine games the All-Pro pass rusher has not started and finished. They have been outscored 152-73 in the second half and overtime of those games.
Only once in those nine games have the Packers outscored their opponent in the fourth quarter, and that was in Week 17 of 2024 when they tried to rally against the Vikings.
The Packers will play at least three more games without Parsons, who is on reserve/physically unable to perform. He and the team are pointing to the Week 6 game against his former team, the Cowboys, but Parsons’ return can’t come soon enough.
Early in the fourth quarter, armed with a 22-17 lead over Minnesota, Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur made a couple of decisions.
The result of those choices proved to be disastrous and allowed the Vikings to come away with a 39-22 victory to open the 2026 season.
On fourth-and-6 from Minnesota’s 22-yard line, Packers rookie Trey Smack hit a 40-yard field goal to give Green Bay an eight-point, 25-17 lead. But the Vikings were flagged for an offside penalty.
That induced LaFleur’s first choice — taking the field goal off the board to go for it on fourth-and-1.
The second choice was LaFleur’s play call: A QB sneak.
But quarterback Jordan Love failed to convert, with a virtual measurement confirming Love was short of the sticks.
Now with Green Bay holding just a five-point lead, the Vikings got down the field due to a cacophony of errors from Green Bay’s defense. It looked like the Packers would get off the field on third-and-11 with a sack of Carson Wentz, but Green Bay was flagged for illegal contact for a free first down.
On the next set of downs, when Wentz just avoided a sack by getting rid of the ball on third-and-3, Chris McClellan was flagged for a questionable roughing-the-passer penalty, as he braced himself before falling on Wentz with his full body weight.
Then when Wentz was intercepted by safety Evan Williams in the end zone, the Packers got flagged for defensive holding, giving the Vikings another free first down.
Finally, Aaron Jones ran it in against his old team for a 3-yard touchdown.
It got worse — or better, depending on your perspective — from there. Love was sacked twice in a row on the ensuing drive, with the ball coming out on the second. The Vikings started their next drive from the 1-yard line, with Jordan Mason powering it in for a touchdown on the first play.
And then Love tossed the first interception of his career at U.S. Bank Stadium, with the ball getting tipped at the line before going off of Harrison Smith’s hands and into the waiting arms of James Pierre.
Justin Jefferson caught his second touchdown of the game to finish that drive, giving the Vikings a stunning 17-point lead.
The Packers had led 22-10 in the third quarter and were outscored 29-0 for the rest of the game, including 22-0 in the fourth quarter.
It was a remarkable victory for the Vikings, who lost their starting quarterback on their third possession. Kyler Murray was hit hard in the head while sliding on a third down. The Packers were flagged for unnecessary roughness while Murray went straight to the locker room for further examination and was diagnosed with a concussion.
So Wentz came in and managed the game well, finishing 12-of-19 for 133 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. Two of his TD passes went to Justin Jefferson, who hadn’t caught a score at home since 2024. The wideout finished with eight catches for 92 yards with two TDs.
On the other side, things were going very well for the Packers before the ill-fated QB sneak. Love finished the contest 21-of-42 for 387 yards with two touchdowns and a pick. Christian Watson had six catches for 147 yards with two TDs, but five of those receptions and 131 of those yards came in the first half.
Now at 1-0, the Vikings will be on the road for another divisional game against the 1-0 Bears next week.
The 0-1 Packers, who now have a disturbing trend of blowing significant leads, will again be on the road to face the 1-0 Jets.
Christian Watson is going off and the Packers have a 19-10 lead over the Vikings at halftime.
After turning on the burners to get an 81-yard touchdown in the first quarter, Watson caught a 2-yard touchdown just before halftime to put Green Bay up by nine.
Watson has been quarterback Jordan Love’s top target, catching five passes for 131 yards with those two TDs in the first half.
According to the CBS broadcast, Watson is the first Packer with at least 130 yards and two touchdowns in the first half of a game since Jordy Nelson in 2013.
Watson’s second touchdown came with just 14 seconds left in the half — after Justin Jefferson caught his first touchdown of the season.
On first-and-10 from Green Bay’s 39, Carson Wentz drew the defense offside and took advantage of the free play by tossing it deep to Jefferson. The stellar wideout made an outstanding catch in the end zone to give the Vikings their first touchdown of 2026.
Minnesota had not thrown a touchdown pass since Week 15 of last season.
But the Vikings will be playing for at least the rest of Sunday without their starting quarterback, as Kyler Murray is out with a concussion. Murray was hit hard in the head while sliding on a scramble in the first quarter. He was able to walk off the field under his own power before heading straight to the locker room for further examination.
Murray’s first start with the Vikings ended with him going 3-of-5 for 18 yards with an interception. The pick came on Murray’s first pass.
Wentz ended the first half 6-of-10 for 79 yards with a touchdown.
On the other side, Love is 9-of-19 for 199 yards with two TDs.
While rookie kicker Trey Smack hit his first field goal from 59 yards and had another 43-yard field goal, he missed his first extra point wide right.
The Packers will receive the second-half kickoff with a chance to double up.
