A few minutes later, the cameras showed him quickly running to the sideline\u2014he was ready to go back out!<\/a> This game was his audition for a starting job elsewhere next season, and he performed flawlessly. He\u2019s going to make the Miami Dolphins very happy next year. Willis finished the night completing 18 of 21 passes (85%!) for 288 yards, 1 TD, and a 134.6 rating. On the ground, he picked up another 60 yards and 2 TDs. A real \u201cMatt Flynn for 480 yards and 6 TDs against the Lions\u201d performance from Malik. I love him.<\/p>\nYou know what I don\u2019t love? Everything that happened on defense last night. As soon as the game started, I remember thinking \u201cOh, so this is how it\u2019s going to go\u201d, as Derrick Henry beat us to death with his legs. Guess what, dear reader: that\u2019s exactly how it ended up going for the rest of the game. Derrick Henry, who had been given the \u201cwashed\u201d label for much of this season, had 3 TDs. In the first half. He ended up finishing the game with 216 yards and 4 TDs on 36 carries. The 216 yards are a record at Lambeau Field for a visiting RB.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s just Derrick Henry! Tyler Huntley ran for an additional 60 yards on 8 carries. The team gave up 414 total yards of offense, and 307 of those yards were on the ground. If I\u2019m an NFC playoff team, I\u2019m watching this Packers game salivating at the thought of what my run game could do to their defense. We could very well see another Raheem Mostert-type performance against the Packers in January. But hey, look on the bright side: maybe it means no one will want to hire Jeff Hafley!<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know what he does here anymore, and that\u2019s all I have to say about that. With any luck, he\u2019ll be on a new team by August.<\/p>\n
Loser: Carrington Valentine<\/p>\n
There were multiple instances last night in which I found myself wondering if Carrington Valentine is actually a football player, and I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that the answer is no. Last night was full of missed tackles on guys like Zay Flowers, who weighs approximately 3 pounds soaking wet.<\/p>\n
At some point, Valentine was benched for Kamal Hadden. In a cruel twist of fate, both Hadden and Nate Hobbs went down with injuries which knocked them out of the game. Since it\u2019s against the rules to pull fans from the stands to come play DB (for like 10 minutes, honestly I don\u2019t see what the problem is), Valentine ended up back in. He, of course, proceeded to get stiff-armed straight to hell by Derrick Henry. After giving up a few more big plays, including this TD to Zay Flowers, the game was over, and we were all left wondering \u201cWhat is that smell?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lukas Van Ness seemed like the only player on defense who was in it until the end. He was applying pressure on Huntley throughout the night to force quick throws. He had a couple of great stops in the run game, including one on Huntley which made it 3rd and 8 (don\u2019t worry, they still scored on the next play\u2014it\u2019s right above this paragraph!) While the rest of the defensive performance left much to be desired, Van Ness was a small bright spot.<\/p>\n
THEY\u2019RE FALLIN\u2019 OFF. Nate Hobbs: Knee. Jordon Riley: Achilles. Kamal Hadden: \u201cWe will not be showing the replay\u201d. Zayne Anderson: Ankle. Dontayvion Wicks: Concussion. Malik Willis: Shoulder. Would anyone else like to join the club?<\/p>\n
The 9-6-1 Packers play their final game of the regular season in Minnesota next Sunday at a to-be-determined time. With both teams\u2019 postseason fates already decided, it\u2019s likely this game will be at noon local time. Since the Packers are locked into the 7th spot in the NFC, we\u2019ll probably see a ton of play from their backups, as the team will want to keep guys as healthy as possible for the playoffs (please).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night was certainly a football game, I\u2019ll tell you what. The Baltimore Ravens and Green Bay Packers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,781,41,345,52919,85466,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-635973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-general","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-analysis","13":"tag-green-bay-packers-scores-and-results","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}