The Green Bay Packers want to win this one badly.

Yes, in the grand scheme of things, they're still on top of the heap in the NFC North. Yes, they're coming off an embarrassing home loss to the Carolina Panthers, and yes, in a vacuum, getting a win on Monday Night Football over the Philadelphia Eagles would help them get that bad taste out of their mouths and get back on track.

This game is more than just a Monday Night Football clash in Week 10 of the 2025 regular season, though. This is more than moving on from Carolina and it's certainly not the type of game the Packers can't look past with a game at the New York Giants coming up next.

This feels more like a grudge, because the Eagles have admittedly had the Packers' number as of late.

Philly beat the Packers twice last season. The lasting memory of the Packers' 2024 campaign will be the 22-10 playoff loss in Philadelphia in the Wild Card round, but that season also began with the Eagles. In Week 1 from Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Eagles beat the Packers, 34-29. 

That playoff game started with a controversial Keisean Nixon fumble on the opening kickoff that may have been caused by an uncalled helmet-to-helmet hit that was later the cause of a fine.

Word On The Birds (@WordOnTheBirds) on X The NFL has fined #Eagles LB Oren Burks $8,333 for unnecessary roughness (use of helmet) on his hit on #Packers KR Keisean Nixon that caused a fumble during the opening kickoff last week.

Nixon is still smarting about that hit, but the two losses to Philly last season hurt just as much.

"Hell yeah. The hit, too. Yes, absolutely," Nixon said this week when asked if the Pack had a bad taste in their mouth all season, thanks to the playoff loss to the Eagles. "It's not even just the playoff game. We lost to them in Week 1, too. We went 0-2 against them last year and don't really want to have that feeling again."

What Nixon said without saying is that the Packers are basically playing for revenge in this game. There's a ton on the line, of course, but there's also a statement to be made.

Despite their ups and downs this season, the Eagles are still 6-2 and their the defending Super Bowl champs. Despite their ups and downs this season, the Packers are still 5-2-1, and they have the talent on both sides of the ball to be a Super Bowl contender.

The Packers want to prove that they can not only hang with the Eagles, but that they can beat them. At the very least, the Packers have that chance, and that's all they're looking for after last week's debacle against the Panthers.

"It's a new opp," defensive lineman Colby Wooden said. "That's all you can ask for is an opportunity. They're the defending champs. They're defending champs until someone knocks 'em off, so we gotta go in, play good ball, play complementary football, put together a complete game. Like not one half, second half, put together a complete game and come out here and get a victory."