It might seem obvious that teams with high third down conversion rates are going to have a lot of success, and vice versa. For the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, however, there is a particularly great disparity between the two teams in having success on third downs.
It was just a few games ago that an announcer informed us that the Packers were leading the lead in third down conversions. That came as a surprise to me, but it has indeed been one of the team’s strengths, until recently.
On the year, the Packers have converted 39 of 92 third down plays, for a success percentage of 42.