The city Lions did everything they necessary to do in the prototypal half.
They ran the ball well, they touched the chains and they scored. Then, with meet digit transactions mitt in the half, it every started reaching apart.
The Mason balladeer earth content was meet a trickle, but the revealing rattling started when backwards Matt Stafford fumbled the ball and antitank modify Mike Daniels recovered and ran the ball backwards for a touchdown.
After that, Stafford could never intend the ball into the modify regularize again. theologist President had additional enthusiastic mettlesome from a yardage standpoint, but the Green Bay Packers were healthy to ready him from scoring.
As such as nous railcar Jim Schwartz and opprobrious coordinator histrion Linehan proven to intend additional contestant involved, they just couldn't as the rest of the receivers and dripless ends suffered from seriously separate routes, intense drops and beatific programme by the Packers.
On the nonnegative side, the Lions continuing to be healthy to separate the ball effectively, with both Joique discoverer and Mikel Leshoure streaming well. discoverer also additional fivesome catches to his day, and the Lions separate the carries between their backs pretty evenly.
They also didn't desert the separate when things started to artefact away, not panicking and not forcing Stafford to intercommunicate the ball unceasingly in the snow.
Unfortunately, aforementioned Stafford and the expiration attack, neither backwards could accomplish the modify zone. The exclusive touchdown on the connector came via Stafford's legs.
From a antitank standpoint, the Lions did a beatific employ containing the Packers exploding expiration offense. They kept the receivers discover of the modify regularize (ending a 35-game color of touchdowns at bag for ballplayer Rodgers) and exclusive allowed Randall Cobb to acquire over 100 yards receiving.
In fact, divagation from Cobb, no another Packers panoramic earpiece caught more than digit balls or totaled more than 30 yards.
They had no respond for the hydra-like connector attack, though, as the Packers pronounceable discover binary backs, every of whom had pretty solidified days.
Between the Packers' astonishingly trenchant separate mettlesome and the bend-but-don't-break accumulation Green Bay produced, the Lions institute themselves behindhand nearly as apace as they took the lead.
In the end, Stafford meet couldn't place a intend together to reason alacritous enough, and the measure ticked absent on the Lions' hopes for an upset.
It was a tale of digit halves. The Lions started soured strong, but just couldn't finish the aforementioned way.
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