There was a lot of good to take from this game, but there was also a ton of bad.
Green Bay pulls away from Detroit behind Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Jones
The Lions defense fell into the same vat that the Joker fell into in Batman
The Lions’ defense was defenseless against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. They forced exactly one punt all day and allowed Aaron Jones to get in the end zone four times on Monday night.
What’s worse is that the Lions’ defense was already thin coming into the game, they got even thinner during the game when rookie Ifeatu Melifonwu left the game with an injury. The Lions already have the youngest and most inexperienced secondary in the league, on Monday they had to move inexperienced players to different positions just to have guys out there. It’s bad.
But, it’s not as bad as the Lions’ linebacking corps. Every time you looked at Alex Anzalone or Jamie Collins they were out of breath behind a Packer as he crossed into the end zone. These guys are just incapable of coverage. It’s time to give Derrick Barnes the keys and let him work.
Jared Goff had a good game until it rained
The Lions had some miscues on Monday. It’s hard to firmly blame any of them on Jared Goff. The Lions’ new quarterback was pretty accurate all day long and made some pretty throws like this one to TJ Hockenson in the first half.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — — While celebrating one of his four touchdowns, Aaron Jones lost a necklace he wears with a little black football containing some of the ashes of his late father.
That was just about the only thing that went wrong for Jones and the Green Bay Packers against the Detroit Lions.
Jones caught three of Aaron Rodgers’ four TD passes and rushed for a fourth score, and the Packers had a welcome return to normal, dominating the second half in a 35-17 win over the division rival Lions on Monday night.
The Packers, who got thumped 38-3 by the New Orleans Saints in Week 1, looked more like the team that went 13-3 in each of coach Matt LaFleur’s first two seasons. Green Bay (1-1) won its ninth straight home opener.
Jones became the first Packers running back to catch three touchdown passes in a game since Andy Uram against the Chicago Cardinals in 1942. He had 17 carries for 67 yards and six catches for 48 yards.
As for the missing necklace, he was hopeful he’d see it again.
Jones’ father, Alvin Jones Sr., died on April 8.
“My dad’s always taught me as a man, it’s how you respond to adversity, how you respond is what makes a man really,” Jones said.
Rodgers went 22 of 27 for 255 yards and surpassed John Elway for 10th all-time in passing yards with 51,633. Rodgers has followed up each of the Packers’ last five regular-season losses by throwing four touchdown passes and no interceptions in his next game.
Detroit’s Jared Goff completed 13 of his first 14 passes but struggled the rest of the way as the Lions (0-2) blew a 17-14 halftime lead. Goff finished 26 of 36 for 246 yards. He connected on touchdown passes to Quintez Cephus and T.J. Hockenson but also threw an interception and lost a fumble.
Green Bay scored touchdowns on its first three second-half possessions to seize control.
“We just kind of kept shooting ourselves in the foot there,” Goff said.
The Packers faced third-and-12 on their opening series of the second half when Rodgers threw a 50-yard completion to Davante Adams, who ended the night with eight catches for 121 yards.
Lions rookie cornerback Ifeatu Melifonwu injured his thigh on the play, weakening a secondary that already lost cornerback Jeff Okudah to a ruptured Achilles tendon in Detroit’s season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
Rodgers capped that drive with a 22-yard touchdown pass to Robert Tonyan. Detroit’s next series ended when Goff threw an incompletion on fourth-and-1 from the Green Bay 25.
Rodgers threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Jones to extend the Packers’ lead to 28-17.
Green Bay’s Krys Barnes recovered Goff’s fumble at the Detroit 23 on the Lions’ next snap. Jones scored on a 1-yard run and that was that.
The Packers activated wide receiver Equanimeous St. Brown from the practice squad, giving him the chance to play against his younger brother. The Lions selected receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown out of Southern California in the fourth round of this year’s draft. Amon-Ra had the better stat line with three receptions for 18 yards, while Equanimeous had one catch for no gain.
IN MEMORIAM
The Packers wore a helmet decal to honor Ted Thompson, who worked as the team’s general manager from 2005-17 and died Jan. 20 at the age of 68. The Packers also honored Thompson during a halftime ceremony.
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