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Hi everybody! You may have seen this reel by Amik Robertson after the Green Bay Packers’ second easy victory of the season over the Detroit Lions.
It reminds me of something you occasionally see fans do when their team is an underdog, and leading against a favorite: Chanting “Overrated!” It’s a terrible troll in that it actually undermines your team (“the team we are beating isn’t good, actually”) and Amik is basically saying, “Look how bad I got torched by this terrible route.”
Now, he is also saying that Watson broke the rules by pushing off, but if you watch...
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As we do every week, we’re looking at how the Green Bay Packers’ passing game performed the previous week, so let’s fire up the analysis from the Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving Day loss.
Now that’s a pretty chart. Coming into this game, one of the questions was how much the Lions would blitz. The Lions blitzed Love on 43.5% of his dropbacks in Week 1, and he excelled against it, going 6/10 for 122 yards and 1 TD (+0.58 EPA per Dropback per NFL Pro). On the season, the Lions blitz 31.1%, the 10th highest rate in the league, but they...
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The Green Bay Packers won on Thanksgiving, toppling the Detroit Lions. That didn’t change their NFC playoff picture placement at all and they remain in sixth, but they could have moved up with a Chicago Bears loss on Friday. Instead, the Bears beat the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago is back in first place.
The Eagles fell from second to third in the overall NFC standings with the loss.
Detroit’s loss keeps them on the outside looking in of the NFC playoff picture. They are a game out of a wild card slot.
The Dallas Cowboys have played their way back...
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The Green Bay Packers announced on Friday that the team has re-signed kicker Lucas Havrisik to the team’s practice squad. The Packers waived Havrisik earlier this week to make room for bringing up receiver Will Sheppard to the 53-man roster ahead of the Detroit Lions game on Thanksgiving. Sheppard never played an offensive or special teams snap in the game, but was on hand for emergency work with Jayden Reed still on the injured reserve and both Matthew Golden and Savion Williams missing the game with injuries of their own.
At some point, Reed will get called up to the...
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If you look at the overall Team Stats for this game at Pro Football Reference, it tells an accurate story of this being an extremely close game. The difference? The Green Bay Packers were 3-for-3 when going for it on 4th down, while the Detroit Lions were 0-2. Today, we’re just going to take a quick look at those 3 converted 4th downs for the Packers’ offense.
After the Packers scored a field goal on the opening drive of the game, the Packers and Lions went punt-punt-punt on...
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Green Bay Packers fans would love nothing more on this Black Friday afternoon than to see their oldest rivals lose a big game. With the Packers set to host the Chicago Bears next Sunday in Week 14, a Bears loss today would set up a massive contest next week that would surely help define the balance of power in the division for the 2025 season’s home stretch.
Chicago has made a living by winning close games in ridiculous ways this season. In addition to having a negative point differential, the Bears have a whopping 6-1 record in games decided by...
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Green Bay Packers wide receiver Dontayvion Wicks has had some really good games over his up-and-down three-year NFL career. However, Thursday’s game against the Detroit Lions looked like his most complete performance as a pro, and signaled that he could become a true star at the position if he can build on that kind of game.
Wicks finished Green Bay’s Thanksgiving victory with six catches on seven targets for 94 yards and two scores. It was his first multi-score game since September of last season, but his most important play of the game came on a game-sealing fourth-down reception that...
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Another year, another Thanksgiving Day win for quarterback Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers. The team traveled to Detroit to face off against the Lions in their 23rd Thanksgiving matchup against the team, and 193rd overall meeting. The game was a close one, with both teams having nearly identical stats in all areas except for one key metric: 4th down conversions. The Packers were a perfect 3/3, while the Lions were 0/2. This proved to be the difference maker for the Packers, leading them to the 31-24 win, and putting the Lions at risk of missing the playoffs. Let’s...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Tom Silverstein is reporting that the Green Bay Packers’ working belief about defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt’s ankle injury is that he “suffered significant ligament damage in his left ankle.” As bad as a broken ankle would have been for Wyatt, ligament damage is much worse, considering how much quicker and successful broken bone returns are.
According to Silverstein, Wyatt is going to fly back with the Packers to Green Bay and then have an MRI to assess the damage to his ligaments. Unless there’s some miracle, it feels like Wyatt will have played his last game...
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The Green Bay Packers have swept the Detroit Lions, and finished the sweep in a nationally televised game in their own building. I’m consuming as much Lions cope as possible (please share when you find new cope), but it’s also worth looking internally at what the Packers did to earn this Week 13 win. So let’s go position-by-position for Green Bay and break down the team’s snap counts, noting any significant changes from recent weeks.
He’s him.
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Jordan Love is at his best on Thanksgiving Day.
Playing on the holiday for the third straight year — each year he has been the Green Bay Packers’ starting quarterback — Love delivered a third consecutive tremendous performance. Against the Detroit Lions on Thursday afternoon, Love threw for four touchdowns and completed a critical 4th-down pass after the two-minute warning to clinch a massive 31-24 victory for the Packers.
Love was on point all day long, leading the Packers to scores on all but two of their meaningful offensive drives in this game. He spread the ball around a bit,...
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The Green Bay Packers won on Thanksgiving, toppling the Detroit Lions. That doesn’t change their NFC playoff picture placement at all and they remain in sixth, but they are poised to move up this weekend. If the Chicago Bears lose to the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday, the Packers move into first place in the division.
Detroit’s loss keeps them on the outside looking in of the NFC playoff picture. They are a game out of a wild card slot.
1. Los Angeles Rams (9-2)
2. Philadelphia Eagles (8-3, 7-2 NFC)
3. Chicago Bears (8-3,...
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