The Packers fell to the Carolina Panthers 37-29.
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“He’s running well, but they’re blocking well”, Lions defensive coordinator Teryl Austin said.
The Detroit Lions (4-7) are coming from a 45-14 win over the Philadelphia Eagles last week. He caught four passes for 57 yards.
Lacy’s success against the Lions since he entered the league as a second-round draft pick in 2013 has mirrored the Packers’. The Packers averaged 29.0 points against everyone else during that stretch.
Two weeks ago, after the Packers lost to the Lions and Rodgers got hit hard by Ziggy Ansah, Rodgers showed up on the injury report with a shoulder injury.
Which begs the question: Why have the Lions been able to neutralize Rodgers and the Packers under Austin?
For better or worse, the players the Green Bay Packers are lining up to catch Aaron Rodgers’ passes are the ones in their locker room right now. However, Porter’s familiarity with Pace and Fox paid off. Even though Porter battled hamstring injuries most of the preseason and early in the regular season, the club kept him around.
But in the rematch, they gained 61 yards rushing on their first drive alone, and finished with 152 for the game. The Green Bay Packers ground game is averaging 115.7 yards per contest, and Eddie Lacy leads the way with 513 yards and two touchdowns.
“Anytime there’s a fundamental that is not performed, at practice you obviously heighten the emphasis for it”, McCarthy said, via ESPN.com.
The fact that Thursday night’s victory over Green Bay happened in front of a national audience on Thanksgiving night definitely made the victory even sweeter. He required a career-high 61 pass attempts just to accumilate 333 yards, and his passer rating was a measly 83.6.
“And the games that are close always come down to the details, and when I’m minus-2 in a football game, I’m never going to be happy about that, because I know how much time we put in to taking the ball away and taking care of it”, McCarthy said. “So you’ve got to make sure you stop the run game”. When the Packers lost Jordy Nelson, the thought was it would hurt but they could make up for it like they usually would, but they are struggling to get any receiver to step up.
If Quin’s take is true – and there’s nothing in the numbers to suggest it isn’t – the Lions could be in good shape for Thursday night’s showdown at Ford Field.
Start: Green Bay Defense/Special Teams. No, I’m not saying the Bears are a better team, but I am saying they should of won a lot of games they ended up losing.
Quin gave credit for the improving run defense to the offense, which has begun sustaining drives since Jim Bob Cooter replaced Joe Lombardi. “That’s cut and dry, and that’s a staple of how we play here”, McCarthy said.
At least the Packers’ run game has returned from the witness protection program – or fat camp – we’re not sure.
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The Bears offense wasn’t too impressive in their own right, with less than 300 total yards, but saving themselves by not turning the ball over. We break up offense and defense, we break up into position groups, but there wasn’t anything resembling what he talked about, from what I heard. “Like, when you can do stuff like that, the less you’re out there on defense, the less they have the chance to get yards”.
