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Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL
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Final (Sunday, October 4, 2026): Green Bay Packers 17, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14 — NFL Week 4, 2026. Our pre-game market-anchored line had the Packers by 3 (60% to win); the Packers won, so that call hit. The last Kalshi price we archived before kickoff had the Packers at 59c. The graded recap below covers how it happened and how each player call on our board resolved.
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Green Bay Packers 17, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14Final
Model call: HITOur pre-game market-anchored line had the Packers by 3 (60% to win). The Packers won — that call landed.
Closing-line value on the Packers: -3c — we archived the Packers at 62c on Sep 28; the last Kalshi price before kickoff was 59c on Oct 4. The market moved against our side before kickoff.
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Daniels, an undrafted rookie starting for Baker Mayfield (dislocated thumb), threw two interceptions that became 10 Green Bay points. Love’s touchdowns to Matthew Golden and Tucker Kraft built a 17-7 lead, and Daniels’ touchdown pass to Kenny Gainwell cut it to three early in the fourth. Kaleb Johnson then fumbled at the Tampa Bay 4 and Love threw an interception at the Bucs 26, but Tampa Bay turned it over on downs at the Green Bay 47. The Buccaneers are 0-4 for the first time since 2014.
Packers 17—Buccaneers 14
Final✓ Call hitThe chip reads a hit. The stored probability had Green Bay at 60.5% — the market’s own number, anchored at weight zero from a 3-point Packers line — and Green Bay won by three. This was a QB-adjusted game on our board (Daniels for Mayfield), so the lean was capped at WATCH and no game-line position published. The model’s own read was Green Bay by 3.7, a 0.7-point lean toward the Packers, tier NONE. They won by exactly the anchored three, so the lean is a push. The one ledger row on this game, 2026_04_GB_TB_moneyline (MODERATE, Green Bay, entered at 40.5c on 2026-09-22), was voided before kickoff on 2026-09-28 by the QB gate and is not a grade in either direction. Saturday’s article made one call here, and it cleared: Love 2+ touchdown passes, YES at 46c, PLAY, HIGH. He threw two. The same strike was the final board’s PLAY row (HIGH, the YES at 45c, closing 44c, a CLV of minus 1c), and it clears too. The Play of the Day was also on this game: Bucky Irving 60+ rushing yards, YES at 44c. Irving ran 16 times for 61 yards, a winner by one yard. Four WATCH rows that count went 2-2 and are graded apart.
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The spread moved toward the side that won. The total fell 9 to 38.5; the game landed on 31.
Q2
Love threw a two-yard touchdown to Golden on fourth down at 12:54 of the second quarter. Daniels answered by completing both his passes for 27 yards and scrambling for nine on the drive, and Sean Tucker ran it in from two at 5:13.
Q2
Cooper stepped in front of Daniels’ throw for Kameron Johnson in the final minute of the half, got up and returned it 18 yards to the Tampa Bay 44. Smack kicked a 58-yarder on the last play.
Q3
Love’s two-yard touchdown to Kraft at 10:32 made it 17-7. Cooper was carted off later in the quarter with an Achilles tendon injury.
Q4
Daniels hit Gainwell from 10 yards 11 seconds into the quarter for 17-14. Tykee Smith forced Kaleb Johnson’s fumble inside the 5, and Jacob Parrish intercepted Love to give Tampa Bay the ball at its 15 with 4:18 left. The Bucs reached the Green Bay 47 and threw incomplete on fourth down; Todd Bowles passed on a 65-yard attempt and said a little wind factored in.
Reporting verified 2026-10-04. Further sources: ESPN — AP recap: Jordan Love throws 2 touchdown passes, Packers edge Buccaneers 17-14 · ESPN — box score · ESPN — core odds, opening and closing DraftKings line
Baker Mayfield dislocated his thumb in Sunday’s home loss to Minnesota, so Tampa Bay hands the job to Jalon Daniels — an undrafted rookie out of Kansas who has never played a regular-season NFL snap. That makes this a QB-adjusted game on our board and caps our lean at a WATCH; we publish no position on the game line. The football question underneath is narrower than the quarterback headline: Green Bay is 1-2 with the worst pass protection in the league and the worst point differential it has carried through three games since 1988, and Tampa Bay is 0-3 with a blitz-heavy defense that held both of its starting edge rushers out of Wednesday’s practice.
Quarterback rooms · the injury and practice picture
This is the input that governs everything else on the page. Mayfield dislocated his right thumb in the 23-16 loss to Minnesota, did not practise on Wednesday and is gone for at least three weeks on our feed, which leaves the offense to Daniels — signed as an undrafted free agent in May, handed the backup job on 30 August over Jake Browning, and now making his first NFL start in front of a home crowd that has not seen a win yet. Green Bay passes the gate cleanly: Jordan Love is the confirmed starter and does not appear on the report at all. The rest of Tampa Bay’s Wednesday is the longer worry — seven players sat out, including both starting edge rushers and the receiver the passing game leans on hardest. Green Bay’s own list is shorter but sits in one place: three interior defensive linemen and two of its interior offensive linemen.
Source: buccaneers.com — Buccaneers/Packers injury report, Sept. 30, Week 4 2026
Buccaneers pressure · Packers pass protection
This is the matchup that decides the game, and it is the one place a winless team has a real advantage. Green Bay’s line has graded worst in the league in pass protection through three weeks and has already allowed more pressures than anyone, with a quarterback-hit total twelve clear of second place; the problem is not one position but every position, with both guards and the right tackle near the bottom of their groups. Love has been pressured on a career-high share of his dropbacks, and the split either side of that is the whole story — he is a comfortably above-average quarterback when the pocket holds and close to unplayable when it does not, which is exactly what Atlanta did to him on Thursday night. Tampa Bay blitzes almost more than anyone in football, so the plan does not need inventing. Whether it has the bodies to run it is the open question: Yaya Diaby and Rueben Bain Jr. both sat out Wednesday, and this was already a front that turned pressure into sacks at close to the worst rate in the league a year ago.
Source: PFF — The Packers’ offensive line has been a catastrophic problem through three weeks
Buccaneers run offense · Packers run defense
A quarterback making his first start does not get asked to throw his way to a win, so the honest read on Tampa Bay’s offense is how far the ground game can carry him — and the ground game is the one part of this team that has been genuinely good, leading the league in rushing yards per attempt inside the opponent’s twenty. Two things complicate it. Bucky Irving was limited on Wednesday with a glute, and Chris Godwin Jr. did not practise at all, which thins both the hand-off and the short safety-valve a rookie reaches for when the pocket closes. Against that, Green Bay’s front is the softest target on the field right now: Atlanta rushed for 242 yards and better than six a carry at Lambeau, Micah Parsons opened the season on the physically-unable-to-perform list and is not expected back before Week 5, and three interior defensive linemen were held out of Wednesday’s practice. Green Bay also offers the clearest illustration of the trap Tampa Bay is trying to avoid — it ran nine times for 17 yards in Atlanta and then let its quarterback get hit twelve times.
Source: roundtable.io — The good, bad and ugly from Green Bay’s Week 3 loss to Atlanta
Reporting verified 2026-10-01. Further sources: buccaneers.com — Buccaneers/Packers injury report, Sept. 30, Week 4 2026 · NFL.com — official Week 4 injury report (latest practice participation) · buccaneers.com — How to watch Buccaneers vs Packers, Week 4 2026 (Mayfield dislocated thumb, 1:00 p.m. ET) · buccaneers.com — Jalon Daniels’s ascension "an incredible accomplishment" · FantasyNerds — Bucs elevate UDFA Jalon Daniels to QB2, cut Jake Browning (2026-08-30) · PFF — The Packers’ offensive line has been a catastrophic problem through three weeks · roundtable.io — The good, bad and ugly from Green Bay’s Week 3 loss to Atlanta · NFL.com — Matt LaFleur: "butt-whooping" from Falcons was humbling · NBC Sports — Jordan Love crumbles under relentless pressure (Week 3, 2026-09-24) · buccaneers.com — Red-zone defense and blitzes incoming: by the numbers, Week 3 2026 · buccaneers.com — David Walker and the Bucs defensive front: "four equals one" (2025 sack-conversion baseline) · FOX Sports — Week 4 Packers at Buccaneers game page (team records, completion-rate and red-zone rushing ranks) · FOX Sports — Week 3 Vikings at Buccaneers box score (23-16, Tampa Bay to 0-3) · FOX Sports — Micah Parsons injury and recovery timeline (PUP, not before Week 5) · roundtable.io — Pirate problems: Buccaneers continue mini-rivalry with Packers (Week 4 preview)
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Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Green Bay Packers 17, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14 — the graded call is above.
These two have played 59 times going back through the record we hold, 2 of them in the playoffs, and the modern-era series is 6-5 to the Buccaneers since 2002. History is not a handicapping input for us — rosters turn over and the model only reads 2026 ratings — but it is the reason this game gets attention the ratings alone would not justify. The number: -0.6 against +1.4, Packers by 3.5, 60% to win. One input in this line is not a rating: the Buccaneers are without their usual starting quarterback (Jalon Daniels starts), and our QB-out term moves the line 4.2 points toward the Packers — already inside the number above.
The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Packers offense grades +1.9 (9th of 32) against a Buccaneers defense at -0.1 (12th) — 2.1 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Buccaneers offense (-0.7, 24th) meets the Packers defense (-0.7, 15th), a 0.0-point gap.
Zoom out to the full season and the model projects the Buccaneers at 6.9 wins (favored in 8 of 17) and the Packers at 9.5 (favored in 11) — 2.6 wins apart across the year. By win probability this is the 10th-hardest game on the Buccaneers' schedule and the 6th-hardest on the Packers'.
On the calendar, the Packers are on 10 days and the Buccaneers are on 7 days. The Buccaneers are 3 games into a home stand. Rest measures at about a tenth of a point per day (2013-2025), and the closing line already charges for it, so a normal-week gap is not where an edge comes from.
Conditions are unlikely to be the story: across 9 Tampa Bay home games in October since 2015, the median temperature was 82°F and the median wind 9 mph. That is a neutral-weather profile, which is worth knowing mostly because it removes an excuse from both sides.
Does the model earn this number? In 666 of the 3266 walk-forward games it has been graded on (2013-2024, no market line used), it landed in the 60-65% range. Those favourites went 59%. The 60% on the Packers here sits in that same band, and the history runs slightly behind the claim.
Kalshi has not listed KXNFLGAME-26OCT04GBTB, so there is no price on the board and no edge to quote. The model's number to hold it to: Buccaneers 40%, Packers 60%. Applying our 2 points net of the book's spread floor, that makes Buccaneers contracts a buy at 38c or below and Packers contracts a buy at 58c or below — anything between is inside the noise, and we pass. Week 1's KXNFLGAME contracts opened in May 2026 and the rest of the slate lists as the season gets closer; this page picks up the price automatically when it does.
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Green Bay Packers 17, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14 — final, played Sunday, October 4, 2026; our pre-game market-anchored line had the Packers by 3 (60% to win), and the Packers won, so that call hit. The full graded recap, with every player call resolved, is on this page.
Before kickoff the market line favored the Packers by 3 points, a 60% win probability over the Buccaneers. That number is kept on this page as the record of the call; Kalshi's KXNFLGAME-26OCT04GBTB market has since settled, so no price on it is live.
Our records hold 59 meetings, 2 of them in the playoffs. Since 2002 the regular-season series is 6-5 for the Buccaneers over 11 games. The model does not use series history — it prices the 2026 ratings only.
The contract will be KXNFLGAME-26OCT04GBTB on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated exchange open to traders in all 50 states. It has not opened yet; when it does, the model would take the Buccaneers at 38c or below, or the Packers at 58c or below. There is no point spread — you buy a yes or no contract on a team and it settles at $1 or $0.
Green Bay Packers visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, October 4, 2026 — a Sunday game in NFL Week 4, at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL.
Across all 17 games the model projects the Buccaneers at 6.9 wins (favored in 8) and the Packers at 9.5 (favored in 11). This game ranks 10th-hardest on the Buccaneers' schedule and 6th-hardest on the Packers', by win probability.
Kalshi has not listed KXNFLGAME-26OCT04GBTB yet, so there is no Kalshi price for this game — anyone quoting one is quoting something else. Kalshi opens NFL game markets week by week. When it opens, our model would take the Buccaneers at 38c or below or the Packers at 58c or below, off a 3.5-point line.
This game has been played, so the Week 4 market KXNFLGAME-26OCT04GBTB has settled — there is no position left to take on it. While it was open it traded as an event contract rather than a point spread: Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange open to traders in all 50 states, you bought a YES or NO contract on a team between 1c and 99c, and it settled at $1 or $0, so the price paid was the break-even probability. Kalshi lists the next week's games on the same terms.
Our model puts it at 61% against a market price implying 59%, an edge of +1.5 points. Model 60% vs the last Kalshi price before kickoff, 59% on GB — kept as the pre-game record. We pass — no position.
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