In the game that ended week 2 of the NFL, the Green Bay Packers (1-1) hosted the Detroit Lions (0-2) at Lambeau Field. After a balanced first half, Cabeça de Queijo took off in the second half, making 21-0 and won the match by the final score of 35-17.
Aaron Rodgers, Mr Monday Night, took his eighth career victory in the final game of the round. And as usual, always after a performance below the average, he indoctrinates in the next match and today it was no different. The current MVP was perfect, 22/27 complete passes, an impressive 81.5% run, 255 yards and four touchdowns. His main weapon was running back Aaron Jones with 6 catches for 48 yards and three touchdowns plus 17 runs for another 67 yards and another run into the end zone. Davante Adams was the lead in the receiving yard with 121 in eight catches. And tight end Robert Tonyan had 3 catches for 52 yards and a touchdown. In defense, De’Vontre had 13 tackles, 10 solo, one pass saved and one intercept.
Jared Goff had a game of opposites, a great first half with two touchdown passes and a second half with a bizarre fumble at a critical moment in the game, an intercept and two turnovers on downs. He finished the game with 26 complete passes for 246 yards. TJ Hockenson was the Detroit team’s received yard lead with 8 for 66 yards and a touchdown. Quintez Cephus finished with half catches, 63 yards and also a trip to the endzone.
Detroit started with everything at Lambeau Field, right on the first drive of the game, Jared Goff already scored the first big play of the NFC North classic, 46-yard pass to Quintez Cephus who had a great separation against King and made the reception on the 20 line. A little later came the Michigan team’s touchdown, Goff on the shotgun, with no right option out of the pocket and sending a five-yard pass into the opposite corner of the end zone to Cephus, 7-0.
The Packers responded in kind with Aaron Jones running for a total of 30 yards into the campaign. On a 2nd&Goal, the running back received a pass from the right to the left of the line and ran for 4 yards with good blocks for an easy touchdown, draw at Wisconsin, 7-7.
After two punts each way, the Lions re-entering the end zone at the start of the second quarter, Goff did a great job of controlling the clock, he covered 61 yards in almost 5 minutes until he found TJ Hockenson in the corner of the end zone to turn the tables. in Green Bay, 14 to 7.
The Packers started the next campaign in a great field position thanks to the 41-yard return from Kylin Hill who was only stopped at the 44-yard line of the defense field. Aaron Jones dominated the drive and again received a touchdown pass from Rodgers, 14-14.
The Lions nearly entered the end zone for a third time at the end of the first half again with Cephus, but the wide receiver couldn’t get it under Green Bay secondary’s good marking. visitors ahead on the scoreboard, 17 to 14.
Aaron Rodgers came all the way in the third quarter and already knocking the Green Bay team out of the hole after suffering a sack by Michael Brockers for yardage, ‘Cheese Heads’ quarterback kept the campaign alive with a gorgeous deep pass to Davante Adams who was out in the game for the first down. He then sent a 22-yard laser down the middle to Robert Toyan for the 21-17 touchdown.
Lions rowed and rowed and rowed and died on the beach. In a promising campaign of more than 4 minutes, Goff leads his troops to the 25-yd-line, but suffered turnover on downs on fourth down after an incomplete pass to Cephus. Rodgers was unforgiving, first hitting another deep pass to Davante Adams for the first down. Then A Rod fired his namesake a third time in a short left pass that ran 11 yards to the promised land, 28-17.
In the closing seconds of the third quarter, Goff suffered a ridiculous fumble on the snap that was recovered by Krus Barnes on the 23rd line. The Cheese Heads were lethal again and Aaron Jones with a short one-yard run entered the end zone for the fourth time and first time with by land, 35 to 17.
After two punts, Jared Goff’s short right pass attempt towards Trinity Benson was intercepted by Devondre Campbell, luckily for the visiting team the defense forced the three and out. The visiting team committed another turnover on downs and Green Bay took the field to kneel three times to put an end to week 2 of the NFL.
