Lions End Historic Run of Lambeau Futility

That score cut the Lions’ lead down to 12-10 with six minutes left in the game. No more questions or jokes. The team ends the season with the Rams, Saints, 49ers and Bears. “The whole family, which is good”.

It meant a lot to people within the organization, whose future with the team is somewhat cloudy given the ongoing nationwide search for new leadership.

“It might be, so you have to continue just fighting through”. Perhaps the bye week helped cure a few of the Lions’ problems, and in a lost season they’ll have extra motivation to hurt Green Bay’s playoff odds, but they have a large hill to climb as 11-point underdogs. “They probably deserve this one more than we did”.

The Lions are now 2-7 and have three straight games at home.

Rodgers, under a heavy rush, threw to Randall Cobb for a first down at the Lions 46. How else to explain how the Packers managed just 16 points against the lowly Lions, who came into the game with just one victory and the NFL’s 26th-ranked defense? But Matt Prater’s second missed point after attempt and Calvin (Megatron) Johnson’s failure to secure the ball on an onside kick gave Green Bay a second chance previously reserved for Lazarus.

Mason Crosby’s 52-yard field goal attempt was blocked.

“Big picture, I am concerned for them”, analyst Kurt Warner said Sunday morning on NFL Network. “I jumped too early, didn’t pull it in”.

“We dropped one today that we felt we had a very good opportunity to win this game”, coach Mike McCarthy said.

Thanks to a pair of missed extra points by the Lions, the Packers had a chance to tie late.

A sluggish game filled with three-and-outs turned into a thriller in the fourth quarter.

Lance Moore’s 4-yard touchdown reception increased Detroit’s lead to 18-10, and the Lions held off the Packers following Perillo’s score. This is a really unusual thing to say as anyone who has been watching football over the last ten years knows that Aaron Rodgers is Mr. Consistent, but he really has looked out of sorts this season without his deep threat. Lawson was matched up with Davante Adams nearly exclusively. When defensive linemen Nick Fairley also left, it created a gap that not many players could plug up.

The Vikings won in Oakland and are 7-2, a full game ahead of the Packers in the division. Maybe, just maybe, the only real issue was playing consecutive undefeated teams on the road.

Aaron Rodgers was pedestrian. A dome over Lambeau Field? James Starks picked up a first-down on a short run and Rodgers found Richard Rodgers for a gain of 21, but once again Green Bay couldn’t pick up a third down conversion across midfield, as Rodgers’ pass to Jared Abbrederis was tipped and fell incomplete.