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Most important things to take away from Packers preseason opener

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The Green Bay Packers will enter a big week — featuring two joint practices and a preseason game against the New England Patriots — after going to Cincinnati and producing an action-packed preseason-opening win over the Bengals. Matt LaFleur’s team scored five touchdowns and outgained the Bengals by over 150 yards.

Points and stats don’t matter in exhibition games. What really matters is who played well and what the individual performances mean for the Packers as the regular season approaches.

To help put a bow on the preseason opener, here are our biggest things to take away from the win over the Bengals:

Zach Tom will start

(AP Photo/Peter Aiken)
(AP Photo/Peter Aiken)

It’s pretty clear that the Packers’ brass thinks highly of Zach Tom.