Packers Huddle

Detroit Lions @ Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers return home to take on the Detroit Lions for their third game at Lambeau Field in four weeks.

Including a 1994 playoff victory, the Packers are 28-5 against the Lions in the state of Wisconsin since 1992.
The Packers have 61 wins at home against Detroit, tied for the most home wins by one NFL team against another all-time (Chicago also has 61 wins versus the Lions).
This is the first time since Dec. 8, 1996 (10-3 Green Bay vs. 12-1 Denver), where both teams enter a game at Lambeau Field in Week 9 or later with a .750-plus winning percentage, per the Elias Sports Bureau.
The Packers have won three of the last five home games against the Lions.
Last season, each team won in the other's stadium.
The Packers lead the all-time regular-season series, 104-76-7 (.577), and have won both postseason contests the two clubs have played.
Green Bay's 104 regular-season wins over the Lions are the second most it has against any team (106 vs. Chicago).
The Lions and Packers share one of the league's streakiest series. One team has swept the season series in six of the last eight years. The clubs have split their meetings twice in that span (2021 and 2024).
The Packers swept the season series 11 times in the last 20 years.
Green Bay scored 42 points in the meeting at Lambeau in 2020, the most it had scored at home against the Lions since posting 45 in 2011. The Packers followed it up by scoring 35 in an 18-point victory at home in 2021.
Three of the last four contests between the teams at Lambeau Field have been decided by 14-plus points.
Dating back to 2019, Green Bay is 6-4 overall against the Lions.
It is the second straight season and the fourth time in the past five years that the first meeting between the two teams will take place in Green Bay.
This is the first of five NFC North games the Packers will play in their final nine contests. It is the first time since 2015 that five of the final nine games will be against the division.
Green Bay will be on the bye next week. It comes in Week 10 for the first time since 2012 and marks the fourth time in six seasons under Head Coach Matt LaFleur that the Packers' bye has been Week 10 or later.

THE PACKERS-LIONS SERIES

This is the 93rd consecutive season these two franchises have met, playing each other at least twice every season since 1932.
Green Bay's 104 regular-season wins over Detroit are the team's second-most wins over a single opponent, behind only the Packers' 106 wins over Chicago.
The Packers won 29 of the first 38 matchups in the series (1930-49) before the Lions reeled off 11 straight wins over a six-year span (1949-54).
NOTABLE CONNECTIONS

Packers head coach Matt LaFleur is from Mount Pleasant, Mich., and played quarterback at Western Michigan (1998-99) and Saginaw Valley State (2000-02)…LaFleur later became an offensive assistant at Saginaw Valley State (2003), a graduate assistant at Central Michigan (2004-05), and a QBs/WRs coach at Northern Michigan (2006)...Packers LB Eric Wilson is from Redford, Mich., and attended Lee M. Thurston High School…Packers DL Karl Brooks is from Lansing, Mich., and attended Lansing Sexton High School…Packers LB Rashan Gary (2016-18) played collegiate football at Michigan…Packers WR Jayden Reed began his collegiate career at Western Michigan (2018) and finished it at Michigan State (2020-22)…Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich played at Michigan (2002-05) and later was a strength and conditioning intern (2011) and a graduate assistant (2012-13) for the Wolverines...Packers LBs/running game coordinator Anthony Campanile coached linebackers at Michigan in 2019…Packers DL coach Jason Rebrovich was the defensive line/head of strength and conditioning for Ferris State (Big Rapids, Mich.) in 2005-06…Packers coaching assistant Myles White began his collegiate playing career at Michigan State in 2009…Packers CB Corey Ballentine played for Detroit during the 2021 season…Packers chief of staff Darryl Franklin spent three years as a graduate assistant at Central Michigan and was a player personnel intern with the Lions in 2008...Packers RBs coach Ben Sirmans coached at Michigan State for two seasons (2005-06)...Packers DBs coach Ryan Downard played collegiate football at Eastern Michigan (2007-10) while Lions defensive assistant Jim O'Neil was the safeties coach for the Eagles (2007-08)…Lions G Kevin Zeitler is from Waukesha, Wis., attended Wisconsin Lutheran High School in Milwaukee, Wis., and played collegiate football at Wisconsin (2008-11)…Lions TE Parker Hesse was born in La Crosse, Wis. …Lions QBs coach Mark Brunell was selected by the Packers in the fifth round (No. 118 overall) of the 1993 NFL Draft and spent the first two seasons of his career (1993-94) in Green Bay…Lions senior personnel executive John Dorsey spent 21 years as an executive with the Packers (1991-98, 2000-12) and also played in 76 games for the Packers from 1984-88…Lions head equipment manager Tim O'Neil spent six seasons as an equipment assistant in Green Bay (1995-2000)…LaFleur was the offensive coordinator for the Rams in 2017 when Lions QB Jared Goff was on the roster and when Lions executive V.P. and general manager Brad Holmes served as the Rams' director of college scouting…LaFleur was on the Titans' coaching staff with Lions run game coordinator/DL coach Terrell Williams in 2018…Lions head coach Dan Campbell, offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, special teams coordinator Dave Fipp and defensive assistant/OLBs coach David Corrao were on the Dolphins' coaching staff when Packers WRs coach Ryan Mahaffey was a fullback for the team in 2012…Johnson and Sirmans coached on the same side of the ball at Boston College from 2009-11…Johnson was a player at the University of North Carolina when Packers TEs coach John Dunn was on the Tar Heels' coaching staff in 2004-07…Jim O'Neil was the defensive coordinator for the 49ers in 2016 when Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and Packers assistant DL coach Vince Oghobaase were on San Francisco's defensive staff…Jim O'Neil was also the defensive coordinator for the Browns in 2014-15 when Hafley was the DBs coach, Downard was a defensive assistant and Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn was the assistant DBs coach for Cleveland…Jim O'Neil was on the Raiders' coaching staff in 2018-20 with Packers assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia, assistant special teams coach Byron Storer and passing game coordinator (defense) Derrick Ansley…O'Neil served as the Raiders' DBs coach in 2019-20 when Packers CB Keisean Nixon played for the team…Nixon was teammates with Lions CB Amik Robertson for the Raiders in 2020-21…Packers QBs coach Tom Clements (2019-20) and offensive QC coach Rob Grosso (2019-22) were on the Cardinals' coaching staff with Lions TEs coach Steve Heiden (2019-22)…Oghobaase was a player for Duke when Lions assistant head coach/RBs coach Scottie Montgomery was the WRs coach for the Blue Devils in 2006-09…Oghobaase was a graduate assistant at Ohio State (2013-15) when Lions T Taylor Decker and assistant QBs coach J.T. Barrett played for the Buckeyes…Lions assistant LBs coach Shaun Dion Hamilton was teammates with S Xavier McKinney and RB Josh Jacobs at Alabama…Packers DL T.J. Slaton and Lions DL James Houston were teammates at American Heritage High School in Plantation, Fla., and at Florida (2017-20).

JustJeff wrote:Packers 38
Lions 17

Pckfn23 wrote: Our offense needs to roll. Run to set up the pass unless they stack the box.

APB wrote: ↑

30 Oct 2024 22:47

Pckfn23 wrote: Our offense needs to roll. Run to set up the pass unless they stack the box.

Lets just hope we don’t need the guys in the OP gameday banner…

BF004 wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:25

NCF wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:48

BF004 wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:25

How can I spend a bunch of money and be wet, cold, hungover and uncomfortable..??

Pckfn23 wrote: ↑

30 Oct 2024 22:15

Interestingly Lions are tied for 9th worst rush defense by yards/carry.

Lions are a top 5 blitzing team. Packers are a bottom 5 blitzing team. By blitz percentage. Packers have an 11% hurry percentage, Lions a 10.6%, 6th and 7th in the league respectively. Pressure percentage is 26.7% for the Lions, 25% for the packers, 11th and 13th respectively.

We have the 2nd most missed tackles in the league.

Our offense needs to roll. Run to up the pass unless they stack the box.

BF004 wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 12:24

NCF wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:48

How can I spend a bunch of money and be wet, cold, hungover and uncomfortable..??

NCF wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:48

BF004 wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:25

How can I spend a bunch of money and be wet, cold, hungover and uncomfortable..??

go pak go wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:58

This was the game I had circled as our must win in 2024.

Incredibly disappointed how last week turned out with injuries as we are going into the game with a lot of studs either banged up or not playing at all.

RingoCStarrQB wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 20:18

go pak go wrote: ↑

31 Oct 2024 09:58

This was the game I had circled as our must win in 2024.

Incredibly disappointed how last week turned out with injuries as we are going into the game with a lot of studs either banged up or not playing at all.

Quit making excuses GPG. These are the games when the unsung heroes become heroes. Got a feelin' the 3 young guys on defense will make it all happen. And Willis shocks the NFL with an amazing array of QB rushes and downfield completions. All Day Long! And into the early evening.