Green Bay, Wis. — You could see this coming, and the Lions froze like a team that knew it was coming. You start with a feisty Aaron Rodgers in the Packers home opener, combine it with a battered Lions defense, and this is what you get.
The Lions essentially were beaten by halftime, beaten by a great quarterback dogged by silly talk of his alleged decline. It didn’t end up as a blowout on the scoreboard, to the Lions’ credit, which basically shows it didn’t have to start that way either.
The Lions fell to the Packers 34-27 Sunday after trailing 31-3 late in the first half.