Summary
DETROIT, Michigan – The Green Bay Packers will certainly be grateful to have their quarterback Jordan Love on Thursday afternoon, for their matchup against the Detroit Lions this American Thanksgiving week.
Love had a good outing with 22 completed passes, 268 yards and three touchdown passes and the Packers (5-6) had the best by a score of 29-22 against the Lions (8-3).
Detroit suffers its first defeat in four games, while the Packers win a second consecutive game.
The Packers will also owe a lot of credit to their defense, which did a colossal job by causing six turnovers, in addition to scoring a touchdown thanks to Jonathan Owens.
Lions quarterback Jared Goff completed 29 passes for 332 yards and threw two touchdown passes, but he also had three fumbles against the Green Bay defense.
The Packers’ offensive touchdowns were scored by Jayden Reed, Tucker Kraft and Christian Watson. In the Lions camp, touchdowns were made by David Montgomery, Sam LaPorta and Josh Reynolds.
“It’s something we worked on this week that we believed was going to work,” said Love, who had to reassure head coach Matt LaFleur to stick with that plan when he had doubts. the morning before the meeting. We had confidence. »
The Packers started the game with style. On the first play of the game, Love completed a brilliant 63-yard pass to Christian Watson to put Green Bay in position to score points. Moments later, Love found Reed, who scored a 10-yard touchdown.
The Lions, however, made sure to offer a quick response to Green Bay. On the next offensive sequence, Goff spotted LaPorta for seven yards and the Lions closed the gap to 7-6, after a failed conversion by Riley Patterson.
The rest of the first quarter, however, was the Packers’ business. Love first connected with Kraft for a nine-yard touchdown pass, then the Green Bay defense forced a fumble that was returned 27 yards by Owens to make it 20-6.
It was finally through Montgomery that the Lions stopped the bleeding in the third quarter. The running back carried the ball six yards and avoided a few Packers tackles to cut the lead to 23-14 after a successful two-point conversion.
Watson allowed the Packers to regain a more comfortable 13-point lead before the end of the third quarter, thanks to a touchdown on a 16-yard pass from Love.
Detroit attempted to convert a fourth down five times, but succeeded only once; on his last attacking sequence of the match, which culminated with a major. Among their failures in fourth-down situations was the decision to fake punt from their 23 in the third quarter, when they trailed by nine points.
“It was obviously a crucial play in the game,” LaFleury said. It resulted in a touchdown. »
Reynolds scored a touchdown in the final minute of the fourth quarter to give the Lions hope.
The Lions then took an illegal formation penalty while attempting a short kick, putting the finishing touches on an afternoon that started off poorly for them. And it didn’t get much better after that, as they slowly turned into jokers.
“I didn’t have my players ready to go, it’s as simple as that,” Lions head coach Dan Campbell said.
The Packers will return to action against the Kansas City Chiefs next Sunday, while the Lions face the New Orleans Saints.
2023-11-23 23:43:50
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