Packers Controlling The Clock At Record Clip

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The Packers are coming off a record-setting performance controlling the ball in their 30-24 win over San Francisco, and the team's success in that area over the past six games has played a large part in its offensive production during that span.

In Green Bay's win over the San Francisco 49ers last Sunday, the Packers controlled the ball for 41 minutes, 39 seconds. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, time-of-possession statistics have only been kept since 1977, but that mark for the Packers was a franchise record.

Combined with the Packers' 40:48 time of possession against the Lions in Week 6, it gives the team two games with 40-plus minutes of controlling the ball, which is also a single-season franchise record. Green Bay is the only team in the NFL to accomplish that feat in a regulation game twice this season, with Pittsburgh also having done it twice, but one of those came this past Sunday in an overtime loss at Kansas City.

"When you control the ball..

Source: Packers.com
 

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