The scenario is simple for the Green Bay Packers: win on Sunday night against the Detroit Lions, and Matt LaFleur’s team is going back to the playoffs.
Once 4-8, the Packers are now 8-8 and in a position to clinch the No. 7 seed with a win over the Lions during the NFL’s final regular season game of 2022.
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F | |
| DET (8-8) | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | |
| GB (8-8) | 6 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
The good news: the Packers turned a 46-yard pass interference penalty into the game’s first points. The bad news: the Packers gained all but one yard on three plays from the 5-yard line and had to settle for a short field goal. Allen Lazard drew the big penalty, while Christian Watson and Aaron Jones turned four total touches into 29 total yards.
The Lions turned a fourth-down stop of Allen Lazard into three points. The Packers allowed a catch to Amon-Ra St. Brown on the first play of the series but then stopped the Lions on three-straight plays to get the stop. It’s been a little bit of an uneven start for both teams.
The Packers drove 36 yards in eight plays and were knocking on the door of the red zone, but a sack on third down forced Mason Crosby to kick a long field goal. Aaron Rodgers is probably lucky he didn’t lose the football on the third-down sack by Aidan Hutchinson. Crosby got a chance on fourth down, and he sailed the 49-yarder through.
Crosby is now 3-for-3 to start the first half. The Packers got an explosive play by tight end Robert Tonyan (25-yard catch) on third down but once again stalled out via a third-down sack by Aidan Hutchinson, who is winning battles against right tackle Yosh Nijman.
We’ll take that, thank you!#DETvsGB | 📺 NBC pic.twitter.com/jOJN8UJVz4
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 9, 2023
The Packers drove into Lions territory for the fourth time in the first half but came up empty when Aaron Jones fumbled the ball away inside the red zone. Green Bay has just nine points despite moving the ball consistently through the first two quarters. For Jones, it’s his fifth fumble of the season.
Ugly end to the half. After the fumble, the Lions drove into Packers territory and got a big assist from Rasul Douglas, who was penalized for a personal foul to set up a short…
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