Week 1 2 – NFL Regular season
Date : Thursday 24th November 2011 / time :04:30 – 07:30PM ET
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Here we are at Anniversary 12 of NFL action, with three amateur appointed mid-week. On Thursday, November 24th, the Detroit Lions will be hosting the Green Bay Packers at 12:30PM at Ford Field. The Miami Dolphins and the Dallas Cowboys aswell play on Thursday, at 4:15PM at Cowboys Stadium, and the added Thanksgiving Day football bold we accept this anniversary is at the M&T Bank Stadium at 8:20PM amid the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens. Then, we accept our approved thirteen amateur appointed for the blow of the week, one on Monday.
The Packers are best appropriate now, entering Anniversary Twelve with ten wins so far. They accept not absent a individual bold back the division began. Detroit is aswell in the NFC North with the Green Bay Packers, but they accept seven wins and three losses, giving them the additional atom in the standings. Chicago is next followed by Minnesota at the bottom. Sign up now at the links on this page you’ll get admission to top superior video from your computer or mobile. Click on the banners to get started and you’ll be watching reside football from anywhere in the world.
Packers vs Lions ESPN News : For the endure decade, Detroit's anniversary Thanksgiving Day bold rarely accustomed abundant civic absorption as the disturbing Lions were abundantly irrelevant.
That is no best the case.
Adding to the excitement, the Green Bay Packers access in the Motor City as the NFL's abandoned best aggregation and the aboriginal best to play on Thanksgiving in about 50 years.
In one of the a lot of advancing amateur in Detroit in years, the Lions yield the acreage Thursday adjoin a Packers aggregation still anguish a bit from endure season's accident at Ford Field.
Over the accomplished three seasons, Detroit entered its nationally-televised Thanksgiving bold with a accumulated almanac of 4-27. The Lions accept absent seven beeline on the anniversary by an boilerplate of 22.9 credibility aback assault Green Bay 22-14 in 2003. The Packers accept contributed to two of the Lions' defeats during that skid, assault them 37-26 in 2007 and 34-12 in 2009.
Detroit is no best a pushover, however, accession at Thanksgiving at 7-3 for the aboriginal time aback 1993.
"From what it's been in the accomplished to now, it's different," said Detroit arresting lineman Corey Williams, who played for the Packers from 2004-07. "For us to be accomplishing as acceptable as we're accomplishing appropriate now, it's absolute exciting. Then we've got Green Bay advancing in -- the big, 10-0 Green Bay.
"It's traveling to be fun. It's traveling to be like a mini-Super Bowl, I think, atmosphere-wise."
The Packers access in Detroit benumbed a 16-game acceptable band including endure season's Super Bowl run, and could assure a playoff anchorage as anon as this weekend depending on added results. They are the aboriginal best aggregation to play on Thanksgiving aback 1962, if Detroit handed Green Bay its alone accident of a 13-1 championship season.
Although the Packers' almanac is perfect, their achievement in Sunday's 35-26 win over Tampa Bay larboard affluence of allowance for improvement.
Green Bay's aegis afresh struggled, acceptance 455 yards to a Tampa Bay aggregation that had averaged 292.0 in its antecedent three contests, and arch rusher James Starks larboard in the fourth division with a knee injury.
Packers drillmaster Mike McCarthy is ambiguous if Starks will acknowledgment with the abbreviate turnaround amid games. His absence could be a big draft for Green Bay, which relies heavily on the arena bold to abrasion down opponents late. Starks ranks additional in the NFL with 229 hasty yards in the fourth quarter.
McCarthy believes endure week's almost abutting alarm adjoin the Buccaneers will plan to his team's advantage.
"I anticipate it was abundant for us," he said. "Adversity is awesome. We're accepting accessible to play a big bold on civic TV on Thanksgiving, and affliction (offers) advantageous situations to apprentice from. Especially if you affected it."
Green Bay aswell was faced with some affliction in its endure cruise to Detroit, but was clumsy to prevail.
At Ford Acreage endure Dec. 12, the Lions agape Aaron Rodgers out of the bold abreast the end of the aboriginal bisected with a concussion. The Packers accomplished with 258 yards of breach in a 7-3 loss.
"We were in fact just watching that game, and we did not play well," Green Bay appropriate accouterment Bryan Bulaga said. "Didn't do annihilation well, really. It was just a ailing played game. That may be a nice way of putting it, too."
The Packers could afresh accept some agitation adjoin a Detroit aegis that ranks fifth in the NFL adjoin the canyon (192.8 yards per game) and is angry for eighth with 27 sacks.
"They've got as acceptable a foreground four as you're traveling to see and they circle some guys in who can play as well, so it's traveling to be important for us to ascendancy them if they're just hasty four," said Rodgers, who has a league-leading 31 touchdowns and just four interceptions.
Like the Packers, the Lions prevailed endure anniversary admitting a somewhat all-a-quiver performance.
Against Carolina on Sunday, Detroit angry the brawl over on its aboriginal three backing and trailed 24-7 in the additional division afore ambulatory for a 49-35 victory. The Lions became the aboriginal NFL aggregation to win three amateur in a division afterwards abaft by at atomic 17 points, but drillmaster Jim Schwartz knows they will not be as advantageous if they about-face the brawl over to the Packers, the NFL's accomplished scoring aggregation (35.5 credibility per game).
"Against Green Bay, you can't accomplish the mistakes we did," Schwartz said.
Matthew Stafford who had a four-interception achievement in a Anniversary 10 accident to Chicago, threw two added picks in the aboriginal division adjoin the Panthers but recovered to canyon for 335 yards and bout a career top with 5 touchdowns.
Stafford, who absent both amateur adjoin the Packers endure division with appropriate accept injuries, could be assertive for addition big bold adjoin a Green Bay canyon aegis that ranks 31st, acceptance 289.3 yards per game.
The Packers aswell accept to account Detroit's resurgent arena bold afterwards active aback Kevin Smith accomplished with career highs of 140 hasty yards and three touchdowns adjoin Carolina.
Green Bay will accept to accord with what will acceptable be a loud army at Ford Field, as Detroit admirers are conference for the Lions' aboriginal playoff anchorage aback 1999.
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