Detroit Lions: 10 Observations from Sunday’s loss to Green Bay

2. Aaron Rodgers is unbelievable …

I stated in my ’10 Observations’ last week that Stafford is an all-time great fourth quarter performer. Well, Aaron Rodgers displayed once again that he’s an all-time great in any quarter, quietly and ruthlessly shredding the Lions defense.

As usual, Rodgers put up great numbers on Sunday (26-33, 290 yd, 3 TD, 133.6 QB rating), but it was his management of the two drives to open up the second half that set him apart even further. Rodgers was able to not only disrupt Detroit’s defense (we knew that would happen), but through two methodical drives eating up twenty-six total plays, he rendered Stafford and the offense useless as well. A weak three-and-out from Detroit meant that Green Bay kept the ball for seventeen of the first eighteen minutes in the second half.

3. So much so that I needed to come up with a new metaphor while watching.

There’s that old myth (or maybe it’s not a myth, I’ve never tried it) about loan shark enforcers using bags of oranges to beat people senseless without leaving a mark. That’s the image that jumped into my head while Rodgers slowly and delicately walloped the defense into submission.

For seventeen minutes, it was a five yard run, eight yard pass, quick dump-off for seven. It was second-and-two, third-and-inches, a six yard scramble. Over and over and over, and there wasn’t a thing they could do to stop it.

There wasn’t anything fancy this time. No Hail Mary, no excruciating final possession, no 400 yard outburst. Rodgers beat the crap out of the Lions’ D with a sack of citruses this time, and was clearly loving every second of it.