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Packers vs. Lions score, live updates: NFC North titans go head to head with division positioning on the line

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Packers vs. Lions score, live updates: NFC North titans go head to head with division positioning on the line

December in the NFL means playoff clinching time — although usually not this early — but with Buffalo and Kansas City already on the postseason bracket for this year in the AFC, it’s time the NFC got in on the action. Enter two of the league’s best teams for a massive new chapter in their rivalry, as the little brother in this series over the past several decades looks to be the first NFC team to punch its ticket to extended January football.

The 11-1 Detroit Lions can earn a playoff berth Thursday night at home against the 9-3 Green Bay Packers, who are well positioned to become a playoff team in their own right in the coming weeks. These two were last seen on the same field in Week 9 in Green Bay — a 24-14 Lions win. Jared Goff was very efficient that day, going 18-for-22 for 145 yards and a touchdown pass. Green Bay’s offense gained more than 400 yards in that game, but went just 3-for-12 on third downs and committed 10 penalties in the loss.

That victory was win No. 6 on Detroit’s current 10-game winning streak, which is tied for the longest in franchise history. Back in 1934, the Lions also won 10 straight games before the streak ended at home … in a loss to the Green Bay Packers.

Live4 updates

  • Lions wearing Brian Branch t-shirts during warm-ups

    When the Packers and Lions last played in Week 9, Detroit safety Brian Branch was ejected for a head-to-head hit and endeared himself to Green Bay and NFL fans by giving the double-bird to fans as he left the game.

    Branch’s teammates appear to be using that as motivation going into this Week 14 matchup, putting the infamous image of that gesture on t-shirts.

  • Aidan Hutchinson has ditched his crutches, now running in a pool

    The Lions have 13 defensive players on injured reserve, which is why they’ve added players like David Long, Kwon Alexander and Jamal Adams in recent weeks. But Aidan Hutchinson is aiming to come back by the end of the season, according to Prime Video’s Albert Breer.

    It would take the Lions making it to the Super Bowl. But Hutchinson is already running in a pool and walking without crutches.

  • Flavor Flav at Ford Field

    Wearing a Jameson Williams jersey under his signature clock:

  • Packers, Lions inactives for Week 14 TNF matchup

    Jaire Alexander, Edgerrin Cooper and Romeo Doubs are once again inactive for Green Bay:

    Taylor Decker among the notable inactives for Detroit, in addition to three defensive linemen.

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