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Detroit Lions Week 5 report card: Big plays vs. Packers earn big grades

The Detroit Lions defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-23 on Sunday, and it was a fairly solid effort all around. Here’s how the individual units graded out in Week 5.

I know statistically this wasn’t one of Matthew Stafford’s best games, but aside from one overthrow to Golden Tate deep and a couple of errant throws on screen plays that were likely to fail anyways, I thought he was extremely good on Sunday.

Stafford was victimized by two penalties that erased huge plays. He also had a couple completions to Marvin Jones Jr.