6 winners, 2 losers for the Lions from the Week 9 win over the Packers

The Detroit Lions took control of the NFC North at the halfway point of the season with a 24-14 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. They played a very clean game despite rain and windy conditions at Lambeau Field, while the Packers made a lot of mistakes that cost them.

Let's get right to it with our winners and losers for the Lions from their big Week 9 win over the Packers.

Winner: Jared Goff

Goff took the "he's an indoor cat" narrative and threw it out the window on Sunday. His numbers weren't massive (145 yards, one touchdown), but he was efficient (18-for-22), clutch and played clean football in the adverse conditions. It was what he had to do if the Lions were going to win, and he got it done.

Winner: Kerby Joseph

It was an awful decision by Jordan Love, but Joseph's nose for the ball was shown again with a pick-six late in the second quarter. It was a momentum-grabbing play, giving the Lions a 17-3 lead going into halftime.

Joseph now has six interceptions this season, as he pushed toward his first career Pro Bowl and asserts himself as one of the best safeties in the NFL.

Loser: Pass Rush

Za'Darius Smith can't arrive soon enough. The Lions pass rush once again lacked juice on Sunday, never sacking Love and only hitting him twice according to the box score. Josh Paschal and Mehki Wingo may be back next week, but the pass rush showing since Aidan Hutchinson went down has not been cutting it and Smith will be a welcome addition if Sunday's report proves true.

Winner: Amon-Ra St, Brown

St. Brown arrived at Lambeau wearing a "Green Bay Sucks" sweatshirt, and he backed it up with seven catches (on seven targets) for 56 yards and a touchdown in the game.

St. Brown capped off the touchdown with a fantastic celebration.

Winners: David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs

The weather forecast lined Sunday's game up to be a Montgomery-Gibbs game, or should I say a "Sonic and Knuckles game. In any case, the best running back tandem in the league combined for 139 yards on 28 carries with a touchdown by Gibbs that gave the Lions a 24-3 lead and put the game out of reach early in the second half. Montgomery also had three catches, and Gibbs had one.

Winner: Jack Campbell

Campbell had a team-high and single-game career-high 13 tackles against the Packers, with many noticeable plays among them. It was his best game this season (not that he's been bad this season) as he appeared to be very comfortable in the bad conditions-as could be expected from an Iowa native.

Loser: Brian Branch

Branch is normally a smart, savvy player, and it shows in the impact plays he makes for the Lions' defense. On Sunday, while it can be debated whether it was worthy of him being ejected, he delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit to Packers wide receiver Bo Melton. It's not the first time he's done that this season (his helmet-to-helmet hit on Arizona Cardinals tight end Trey McBride in Week 3 put him and McBride in concussion protocol).

Then Branch made it worse by losing his composure after he was ejected, as he was seen and captured giving double-middle fingers to the Packers' sideline. He added an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to his unnecessary roughness foul, which on its own took him out of the game via the ejection.

Branch has to clean up his helmet-to-helmet contact, lest he build a history and get docked a lot of fine money over the course of his career. Apart from that, he can't lose his composure like he did after he was ejected and make a bad thing even worse.