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Posted: Nov 26th 2009 4:15PM ET by FanHouse Newswire (RSS feed)
Filed under: Lions, Packers

DETROIT (AP) --
Aaron Rodgers matched a career high with three touchdown passes and Green Bay beat the
Detroit Lions 34-12 on Thursday, giving the Packers three straight wins and improving their playoff prospects.
The Lions lost their sixth straight game on Thanksgiving, setting a franchise record, and had an emotional setback after their biggest comeback win since 1957.
Matthew Stafford, playing with a sore non-throwing shoulder, threw one touchdown pass and four interceptions in a rookie-like performance, after passing for five scores in Sunday's win over Cleveland. Detroit trailed the Browns by 21 before coming all the way back.
Posted: Nov 26th 2009 1:56PM ET by FanHouse Newswire (RSS feed)
Filed under: Packers

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) --
Charles Woodson wants to be known as more than a football player.
Donating $2 million to the new University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital gives him a chance to do that.
The school announced Woodson's gift on Thanksgiving before he played for the
Green Bay Packers against the
Detroit Lions. The money will support pediatric research by The Charles Woodson Clinical Research Fund in the $754-million, 1.1-million square foot hospital scheduled to open in 2012.
Posted: Nov 26th 2009 9:45AM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Packers, NFL Quarterbacks, NFL Predictions, NFL Analysis, NFL Notebook

As a man who lives and works in Green Bay, Wis.,
Aaron Rodgers knows. He's not blind or deaf. He sees the highlights, browses the web, listens to the talking heads. Like each and every one of his green-and-gold-clad neighbors, Rodgers is aware that the 2009
NFL season has been a turbulence-free cloud surf for
Brett Favre and the
Vikings and a brutal, muddy slog for his own
Packers. You could actually argue that nobody knows this better than Rodgers, since no one else in town has (presumably) been sacked 43 times this year.
But since this is a day on which we're supposed to appreciate all the good things we have in life and take a little break from dwelling on the bad, I hereby invite the good people of Green Bay to fry up some Thanksgiving cheese curds, sit back and watch their man Rodgers dismantle the
Detroit Lions. And as you watch, take a second to think to yourselves, "Hey, we could have it a lot worse."
Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 5:15PM ET by Bruce Ciskie (RSS feed)
Filed under: Packers, NFC North, NFL Injuries

With a 30-24 win over San Francisco Sunday at Lambeau Field, the
Green Bay Packers thrust themselves into the thick of the NFC playoff race. At 6-4, Green Bay kept pace with the
New York Giants, who also won, and jumped ahead of the team the
Giants beat (Atlanta).
However, it was a costly win for the Packers.
The defense may have suffered a couple of major blows with potentially serious knee injuries to outside linebacker
Aaron Kampman and cornerback
Al Harris.
Posted: Nov 16th 2009 2:32PM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Packers, NFL Analysis

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Nobody had to tell
Charles Woodson the Packers needed this game. The team didn't have to call any meetings or make any fiery pregame speeches about protecting houses and separating backs from walls. When they showed up for work Sunday morning, the Packers were 4-4 and reeling from an inexplicable loss to the Buccaneers the week before. The mission couldn't have been clearer if it had been tattooed on the insides of their eyelids.
"I don't think anything needed to be said, " Woodson said when it was all over. "But me, I believe in self-motivation."
So Woodson motivated himself into a frothing frenzy and completely took over Sunday's game. He blanketed Dallas tight end
Jason Witten. He forced fumbles, made a critical interception and basically made sure he was everywhere he needed to be -- even if that meant being everywhere at once. If there's one player who's the reason the Packers are 5-4 instead of 4-5, it's their still-hungry 33-year-old cornerback.
Posted: Nov 15th 2009 9:45PM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Cowboys, Packers, NFL Quarterbacks, NFL Analysis

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- You could smell this game as far away as Madison, and the part of it that stunk the worst was the
Dallas Cowboys offense. On an afternoon in which everybody -- the officials, the head coaches, the offensive lines...
everybody -- seemed to be conspiring to set the game of football back 40 years, it was the
Cowboys who came up the smallest, committing 10 penalties and converting just 3 of 12 third downs in a 17-7 loss to the
Packers at Lambeau Field.
"This was an impressive win for Green Bay," Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones said. "But it was unimpressive the way we didn't execute, especially early, when we still had a chance to get the game going the way we wanted it to go."
But the most disappointing part for the Cowboys was that, by losing this game, they blew a very real chance to get the
season going the way they wanted it to go.
Posted: Nov 13th 2009 11:00AM ET by Bruce Ciskie (RSS feed)
Filed under: Bengals, Colts, Cowboys, Packers, Patriots, Steelers, NFL Fans, NFL Live Blogging

For weeks, people have asked if the Cincinnati Bengals are for real. The team keeps responding by finding ways to win games, but the questions keep coming in. This week, they get a chance to sweep the defending Super Bowl champions. Green Bay was picked by many to be a playoff team this season, but they've limped their way to 4-4, got worked by a former teammate, and now face a virtual must-win against red-hot Dallas. Meanwhile, the Colts and Patriots are stealing the spotlight for another high-profile meeting.
We'll chat about all of this at 12 P.M. Eastern, and we invite you to join us after the jump!
Posted: Nov 13th 2009 10:00AM ET by JJ Cooper (RSS feed)
Filed under: 49ers, Chicago Bears, Packers, Panthers, Steelers, NFL Analysis
Every week FanHouse looks at some aspect of NFL line play for the weekly Between The Lines feature.Because of bye weeks, most teams are halfway through their season even as we're getting ready to watch Week 10. The halfway point seems like as good a time as any to roll out complete sacks allowed stats.
These stats were culled by watching each and every sack that has occurred in the NFL this season (with the exception of a couple of minutes of a
Redskins-
Chiefs game that was lost because of a broadcasting problem). In going back and watching every sack, I timed the time from the snap to the initial hit on the quarterback (then rewound it and timed it a couple of more times to confirm the time) and tried to assign blame to the person responsible for giving up the sack.
Posted: Nov 11th 2009 4:36PM ET by Tom Mantzouranis (RSS feed)
Filed under: Packers
Every week, NFL FanHouse hits the lowlights from Sunday's action, looking at those players who did the most to move their head coaches that much closer to returning to the Bed and Breakfast business.My colleague Tom Herrera sometimes talks about this generation of hyper-knowledgeable
NFL fans, thanks to the proliferation of
fantasy football and better exposure to all 32 teams. And yet there are still large amounts of people who underestimate, outside of your obvious game-changing and/or explosive plays, the impact of special teams on the final score.
So it goes.
For the second straight week, our focus is on a Florida team pulling out a win in which special teams made a large impact. Sometimes that impact was obvious, sometimes it wasn't. Yet it was a constant presence in one of the most embarrassing losses of the season, one which might have broken the camel's back in Green Bay.