According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetDSI, the Packers are 11.5-point home favorites after opening as 13-point favorites versus the Lions. “We needed to convert that one”, Rodgers said. “It’s the first one in this quarter (of the season), against a division foe that’s been outstanding within this league”.
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“She was excited, extremely excited”, head coach Jim Caldwell said of Ford’s reaction after the game. That drive culminated with a Stafford touchdown pass to Lance Moore. Tight end Richard Rodgers caught 5 balls for 32 yards and a TD. And they start with quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the struggling offense.
Aaron Rodgers threw for 114 yards in 15 of 23 passes for the Packers to be tied at Halftime with the score of 3-3. “It’s that kind of prejudicial ideology that puts us in the position that we’re in today as a world”.
Calvin Johnson, who didnt practice on Friday, will play today at Green Bay.
Two completed passes later, Rodgers had them in field goal range and Crosby lined up a 52-yarder to hand the Lions defeat in the most Lions way imaginable. “I hate it. It kills me inside”.
A Packers squad with Rodgers under center hasn’t lost three games in a row since 2008. Maybe, just maybe, the only real issue was playing consecutive undefeated teams on the road. This one, however, was a major blow for Green Bay’s psyche. They’d punch it in a couple of plays later with a 2-yard Brandon Pettigrew touchdown from Matthew Stafford. After whiffing on the extra point, it was 9-3 Lions. This led coach Mike McCarthy to modify a plan he’d made in the off-season, when he decided that Tom Clements would be his play-caller and de facto offensive coordinator. We know this stretch in front of us is huge.
Ansah finished the game with two tackles and three quarterback hits.
“We knew we had an opportunity to come out here and play, and I’ll bet nobody gave us a chance”, Stafford said.
The media is ragging on them, the team is losing confidence, and the numbers don’t lie-things are not looking good in Detroit.
All of these points would be moot, however, if Prater hadn’t missed those critical extra points. Not that it mattered.
But the Packers were just as bad until the final few minutes. “We’ll enjoy this tonight, and then it will be back to work tomorrow just like after any game”. James Jones has been finding the endzone and he has six touchdowns this season. That cut the margin to 12-10 with 5:55 remaining.
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The first touchdown of the game was from the Lions with 13:33 to play in the third quarter. It certainly isn’t helping their cause that Eddie Lacy, the team’s star running back, was inactive with a groin injury.
