She shook up the franchise by firing team president Tom Lewand and general manager Martin Mayhew during the bye week. The Packers’ remaining opponents – the Lions (4-7), Cowboys (3-8), Raiders (5-6), Cardinals (9-2) and Vikings (8-3) – have a combined winning percentage of.527.
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“It was just to show him that without him and rest of the coaching staff, it never would’ve been possible”, McPhee said.
“Right now, it’s kind of flipped”, Lions cornerback Darius Slay said, “and it flipped at a great time”.
Fortunately for the Packers, November is now long gone, they’re still well in the division hunt, and Thursday night against an inconsistent Detroit Lions team could be the start of an important run of victories over the month of December. This time, the offense will have to carry its own weight. Packers 23-21. Laying a field goal on the road is not a good way to win bets like these, but the Packers are desperate and expect Rodgers to have a big game indoors.
In the last three games since becoming the primary running back, Shaun Draughn has rushed 43 times for 146 yards – just 3.4 yards per carry – but has 17 catches for 113 yards. That dropped his completion percentage to 60.5 after connecting on at least 63.6 percent of his attempts in his first seven seasons as a starter. “You want to put yourself in that position, but you definitely want to keep the focus small”, he said. He’s tough to handle.
If the Packers are to win this game, they have to do what they couldn’t do against the Lions in Green Bay.
But while the offense was not a factor against Green Bay and Oakland, it exploded for 45 points on Thanksgiving against the Eagles with Matthew Stafford throwing five touchdown passes, including three to Calvin Johnson.
The Packers defense hasn’t allowed an opposing running back to gain over 100 yards in its last four games, with the gem coming on November 22 at Minnesota.
Rodgers has said he needs to do more work to get in sync with receivers. We ain’t the team from last year, or two years ago, or three years ago. ESPN reported that Rodgers said he lost feeling in the fingers on his left hand during the second half of the game. “He and Tahir (Whitehead) kept showing up as guys making tackles all over the place”. Riddick is getting more and more looks as a result.
FLIPPING THE SCRIPT: The Packers have dominated Detroit in their series, going 95-68-7.
Lions safety Glover Quin sees one major change in the Packers’ offense, and it has nothing to do with schemes. They have since won three-in-a-row and are now fighting for a Wild Card spot.
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Detroit, which is 4-7 both SU and ATS, seems to have something resembling a new lease on life since Stafford got a new offensive coordinator, Jim Bob Cooter. INJURY REPORT:Packers – WR J. Abbrederis (questionable Thursday, ribs), B M. Hyde (questionable Thursday, hip), C C. Linsley (questionable Thursday, ankle), T B. Bulaga (questionable, ankle), CB D. Randall (questionable Thursday, knee), G T. Lang (questionable Thursday), WR T. Montgomery (doubtful Thursday, ankle).
