Packers seek to build on their momentum as Cowboys attempt to bounce back from ugly loss

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers are aiming to build off their best win of the season as they prepare to host a Dallas team attempting to bounce back from an embarrassing loss.

The Packers (3-2) are above .500 for the first time this season after a 31-7 blowout of the Chicago Bears. They're chasing their third straight win in a Sunday night matchup with the Cowboys, who fell 24-16 at home to the previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Oct. 8.

“You’ve got to keep stacking,” Love said. “We talk about it in the locker room all the time and team buildings. You have a game like that, you’ve got to be able to follow it up with another great performance.”

The Cowboys (2-3) are eager to make up for their bad performance against Tampa Bay and fix their slumping defense. Dallas has allowed a league-high 6.4 yards per play.

Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer brought longtime NFL defensive coach Mike Pettine out of retirement this week to work as a senior assistant to beleaguered defensive coordinator Christian Parker. Pettine was the Packers’ defensive coordinator from 2018-20.

“We have to coach better,” Schottenheimer said. “We’ve got to play better. I think our players will be the first ones to say there’s things that they need to do better. There’s things I need to do better. And so no one is sitting here pointing the fingers at Christian Parker. But as the head coach, you have to make decisions that you think helps you win games. And that’s in all three phases.”

These teams met last year at Arlington, Texas, and tied 40-40 in a shootout that ended with nine straight scoring drives. It was the most consecutive scoring drives to end a game since at least 1933.

Last year’s matchup also marked the return of Micah Parsons to AT&T Stadium, a month after the Cowboys traded the superstar edge rusher to the Packers. Parsons won’t be playing Sunday as he continues his recovery from a torn ACL that ended his 2025 season, but this game features two former Packers first-round picks coming to Lambeau Field as visiting players for the first time.

Defensive tackle Kenny Clark earned three Pro Bowl selections in nine seasons with the Packers before heading to Dallas in the Parsons trade. Linebacker Rashan Gary went to Dallas in a separate trade earlier this year after collecting 46 1/2 sacks for the Packers from 2019-25.

“It’s going to be awesome to get to go back to Lambeau, play a game and go up there to go get a win,” Clark said. “I’m really excited.”

Dallas (2-3) at Green Bay (3-2).

When/where to watch: Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EDT, NBC.

Latest odds: Packers by 1.

Against the spread: Cowboys 3-2; Packers 2-3.

Last week: Cowboys lost 24-16 at home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Packers won 31-7 at home over the Chicago Bears.

Last meeting: Packers and Cowboys tied 40-40 in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 28, 2025.

Series record: Packers lead 22-17-1.

Cowboys passing game vs. Packers pass defense: Green Bay has seven interceptions while allowing only six touchdown passes this season, but the Packers haven’t faced any quarterbacks of Dak Prescott’s caliber. Prescott has thrown for over 275 yards in each of his last four games. Dallas has one of the NFL’s top receiving duos in CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens.

— Cowboys RB Javonte Williams has six touchdown runs to rank fourth in the league, behind Buffalo’s Josh Allen (eight), Baltimore’s Derrick Henry (seven) and Detroit’s Jahmyr Gibbs (seven).

— Pickens has 1,784 yards receiving since the start of the 2025 season. The only NFL players with more during that time are Seattle’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba (2,376) and the Los Angeles Rams’ Puka Nacua (2,052).

— Green Bay has won 10 of its last 12 meetings with Dallas, including regular-season and playoff matchups. Dallas’ only win during that stretch was a 30-16 victory at Lambeau Field on Oct. 16, 2016.

— The Packers have won their last nine October games.

— Love has thrown at least two touchdown passes in each of the Packers’ first five games. He has passed for more than 300 yards three times this season.

— Christian Watson and Matthew Golden make Green Bay the only team with two players ranked among the top 10 in the NFL in yards receiving. Watson is fifth with 474 and Golden is ninth with 397.

— Packers S Xavier McKinney has three interceptions to tie Minnesota’s Byron Murphy Jr. for the NFL lead. McKinney picked off two passes in the Bears game.

AP Pro Football Writer Schuyler Dixon in Frisco, Texas, contributed to this report.

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Green Bay Packers' Christian Watson celebrates after catching a touchdown pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears in Green Bay, Wis., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Ceedee Lamb celebrates his touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Houston Texans in Houston, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott celebrates as teammate Javonte Williams scores a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first half of an NFL football game in Arlington, Texas on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sam Hodde)

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) hands off to running back Javonte Williams (33) as Williams scores a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first half of an NFL football game in Arlington, Texas on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Green Bay Packers' Jordan Love throws during the first half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears in Green Bay, Wis., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

ISTANBUL (AP) — A heavy downpour has shut down Istanbul, flooded homes and roads and killed at least three people, officials said Thursday, as rescuers evacuated hundreds of stranded people.

The downpour Wednesday night flooded homes and businesses and inundated roads and underpasses, stranding vehicles and causing traffic chaos in Turkey’s largest city. In some neighborhoods, the floods swept away cars, sending them crashing into one another.

It was the heaviest rainfall in the city in 83 years, said Murat Kurum, the minister for the environment, urbanization and climate change.

The Istanbul governor's office on Thursday reported three deaths in the city and said five other people were reported missing. A 14-year-old was electrocuted after stepping in a puddle at a park in the Fatih district, and a 34-year-old slipped on a sidewalk in the Sariyer district and hit their head, local media reports said. The governor's office said the body of a third victim was discovered near another park in the Kagithane district.

More than 3,000 people who were stranded by the floods were safely evacuated throughout the city, Kurum said.

The minister, who will chair the U.N. climate change conference, COP31, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya next month, linked the floods to the climate crisis.

“Climate change is no longer an issue of the future; it is the most important issue of today,” he told reporters. "Unfortunately, climate change is affecting rainfall patterns. We are now facing more intense rainfall events.”

In Sakarya province, around 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Istanbul, a two-story house that was built on a riverbed collapsed in the floods, HaberTurk television reported. One person was reported missing in neighboring Kocaeli province.

The country’s weather agency has predicted more showers for Istanbul and the surrounding area in the coming days.

The Istanbul governor’s office extended a school closure order to include Friday, and some state employees were placed on leave Thursday.

Kurum asked residents not to leave their homes. Motorcycles were barred from traffic until further notice.

A car lies toppled in the aftermath of floods caused by heavy rains in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Commuters arrive to the Kabatas ferry terminal during a rain in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Vehicles lie scattered in the aftermath of flooding caused by heavy rains in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Pedestrians walk along Istiklal main street under a heavy rain in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (Huseyin Ozdemir/DIA Photo via AP)

Vehicles are seen next to a partially flooded highway during heavy rains in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Egecan Ozguner)

Vehicles are stranded in a partially flooded highway during heavy rains in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Egecan Ozguner)

Vehicles drive along a partially flooded road during a heavy rain in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (Omer Hamza Yildiz/DIA Photo via AP)

Vehicles drive along a partially flooded road during a heavy rain in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (Omer Hamza Yildiz/DIA Photo via AP)