Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Green Bay Packers 20, New York Jets 17 (OT) — the graded call is above.
The Packers travel to face the Jets in Week 2. Our power ratings put the Jets 27th of 32 at -2.7 (Below Avg tier) and the Packers 10th at +1.4 (Playoff tier) — a 4.1-point gap that home field narrows to a 2.5-point line on the Packers, 57% to win. It rates as the 13th-widest of the 16 games in Week 2.
The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Packers offense grades +1.6 (11th of 32) against a Jets defense at -2.0 (25th) — 3.7 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Jets offense (-1.4, 28th) meets the Packers defense (-0.2, 10th), a 1.2-point gap. Special teams adds to it: the Jets grade +0.7, 5th in the league, against +0.0 (28th) on the other side — close to a point of hidden margin.
Zoom out to the full season and the model projects the Jets at 6.3 wins (favored in 3 of 17) and the Packers at 9.7 (favored in 11) — 3.4 wins apart across the year. By win probability this is the 10th-hardest game on the Jets' schedule and the 10th-hardest on the Packers'.
The series is dead level: 3-3 across 6 regular-season meetings since 2002. They last met in 2022: Jets won 27-10 in October. Over their last 4 meetings the Jets are 1-3. History says these two are hard to separate, which is the one place it agrees with the ratings.
Calibration check, because a near-even number is the easiest kind to overtrust: across 3266 walk-forward games (2013-2024) the model gave a side 55-60% in 797 of them, and those sides won 57%. The Packers at 57% are in that band. A margin that thin is why we would rather wait for a price than call it a lean.
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