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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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In the fourth quarter of the Green Bay Packers’ Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions, on a Micah Parsons sack, Packers defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt went down with an ankle injury. It did not look good. I’m no doctor, but it sure looks like Wyatt’s ankle snapped under the weight of friendly fire from teammate […]
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It’s time for kickoff. Today, the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions play once again on Thanksgiving Day with NFC North positioning at stake. Both teams closely trail the 8-3 Chicago Bears in the division race, with the 7-3-1 Packers a half-game behind and the 7-4 Lions one game back. Should the Bears lose to […]
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Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar writes about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, we focus on Green Bay Packers running back Emanuel Wilson, who showed up like never before in Green Bay’s crucial win over the Minnesota Vikings last Sunday. There […]
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Yesterday, the Green Bay Packers ruled out receiver Savion Williams, defensive end Lukas Van Ness, and defensive tackle Karl Brooks, and listed receiver Matthew Golden, linebacker Quay Walker, cornerback Keisean Nixon, and cornerback Nate Hobbs as questionable against the Detroit Lions due to injuries. 90 minutes before kickoff on Thanksgiving, the Packers officially ruled out […]
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Fire up the oven for the turkey, get to mashing those potatoes, and prep the pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving Day is here, and that means a whole day of food, friends, family, and football. As usual, the NFL has three courses of football to entertain us throughout the day, starting with the Green Bay Packers, who […]
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Welcome to Thanksgiving Day, a holiday that the Green Bay Packers have started to make annual appearances on once again in recent years. Today, the Packers will play on Turkey Day for the third consecutive season as they take on their NFC North rivals, the Detroit Lions. The Packers last played in Detroit on Thanksgiving […]
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Thank you to Pride of Detroit’s Ryan Mathews, who stopped by to answer some questions about the Detroit Lions ahead of the team’s Thanksgiving matchup against the Green Bay Packers. If you want to read the sister article to this one, where Mathews asked me questions about the Packers, you can find that HERE. Obviously, […]
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The Detroit Lions are still a good team and may very well beat the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving, but last year, they were a true juggernaut, and now they’re not. They’re 7-4, and their Pythagorean record is also 7-4, and so this is exactly how good they really are. So, what happened? The various […]
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It’s not April Fools. This is actually happening. ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that three-time All-Pro center Frank Ragnow, who retired back in June, is coming out of retirement for the Detroit Lions. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport added that “he’s in shape and ready to roll sooner, rather than later.” Notably, the Lions’ current center, […]
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Wednesday was a busy day for the Green Bay Packers, who had their only full practice of the week, will travel to Detroit and made some alterations to their 53-man roster. First of all, let’s get into the injuries. Packers ruled out vs. Lions Earlier this week, Lions head coach Dan Campbell said that he […]
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Edgerrin Cooper was the most exciting man on the Packers’ defense in 2024. The Packers introduced him into the lineup slowly last season, but every glimpse was tantalizing. And when they finally turned him loose, he was everything fans — and defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley — could have hoped for. He was fast, aggressive and […]
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For the third time in his NFL career, Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love will get a chance to show a national audience what he’s capable of on Thanksgiving. This year, Love and the Packers once again face the Detroit Lions in Thursday’s early game. The early results on the holiday have been terrific for […]
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The Packers did something pretty rare the last time they faced the Lions: they managed to catch an NFL team completely off guard. The Lions were completely unprepared for the Packers’ defense in Week 1, and the Packers wreaked havoc on the Lions’ passing attack as a result. All they had to do to achieve […]
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Do you remember when the Green Bay Packers were 3-6 midway through the 2023 NFL season and fans started thinking ahead to the quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL Draft? Jordan Love’s first year as the starting quarterback of the franchise didn’t start out so well; after a 38-point explosion in Chicago to start the season, […]
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