DETROIT -- The Green Bay Packers averaged 9.8 yards per play in the first quarter. Of course, that’ll happen when your quarterback never puts a football on the ground. Aaron Rodgers remained perfect against that embattled Lions defense until the final 6 minutes of the first half and heads into intermission with a near-perfect QB rating of 147.6.
Yet the Lions have managed to keep up, playing the division-leading Packers to a 14-all tie in the first half on Sunday at Ford Field.
They have Matthew Stafford to thank for that.
Stafford is matching Rodgers’ stratospheric pace right now, leading the Lions on long touchdown drives to open and close the half.