By Mark Halpern
On Thanksgiving, the Lions will Take on their division rival, the Green Bay Packers. The Lions, like the Cowboys, share an honor to play on Thanksgiving every year, and this year, the Lions are prepared to win.
While most people are basting and making various sides for a holiday, those who are football fans will be tuned in to what should be a good game and a Lions win. The Packers come into this game at 4-6, and the Lions lead that division with a Roar that can be heard all around the league. We usually, at this time, are already counting the Lions out, but they’re on the prowl and looking to be at 12-2 by Christmas, and there’s a chance that they will be. Jared Goff is running this offense like it has been playing together for multiple years when the team has been pieced together every year since the Goff/Stafford trade. The offense is putting up better than 400 yards a game, and while you expect most of it to be from the air, Jamhyr Gibbs and David Montgomery have a lot to say as they have been one of the most leather running back duos in the NFC. The run game causes teams to try to adjust because Goff can see a weakness in defense almost as well as Brady did. Goff has shown that he can audible out and change to a quick pass to any of his receivers if he is on the same page and vice versa. It will be a tough day for the Packers defense that will have to contain this offense, and we will see all those holes exposed tomorrow.
A Band-Aid is holding together the Green Bay Packers offense. Their running backs, Dillon and Jones, are both injured, the wide receivers are young and need more time to develop, and teams are noticing. In his first year, Jordan Love has shown some greatness but also some weakness. Give him a few years to get more experience and a better line to protect him, and we can revisit then. The Lion’s defense has to show up this weekend, as the last two have been nearly disastrous. This team averaged about four sacks a game and two or more turnovers. Over the last two weeks, they have only had two sacks and two turnovers. If the Lions’ defense keeps this up, it will put more pressure on the offense. If there was a game for the defense to go off and have a fantastic game, this is it.?Live in front of the whole country, and every analyst will be heard, so if you want to impress, do it here. Contain Jordan Love; you win this game flat out. The defense should be blitzing on every down to cause pressure on Love and be bold and bold and stack the box because they have no one to run the ball.
I expect to see Goff, Gibbs, Hutchinson, and Reynolds on T.V. with their turkey leg after a blowout 42-3 of the Packers.
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