Thanksgiving Odds – Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions

The Green Bay Packers want to avoid a fifth week without recording a win as they visit the Detroit Lions, this Thursday at 12:30 PM ET in the first game of the Thanksgiving matchups.

The Packers tied with the Viking last week 26-26 and haven’t won in four straight weeks.  Green Bay will go with Matt Flynn as their starting quarterback for the first time this season, after he threw 218 yards and one TD against Minnesota coming from the bench.

“I’ve been hitting the playbook hard and studying, and asking a lot of questions from Aaron, all the receivers, linemen — how they want things called, and how they want the operation to go,” Flynn said. “So I feel good.  You know, I’m light years ahead of where I would be three weeks into any other system obviously because of the time I spent here.”

Green Bay dropped 12 points as an average on offense since Aaron Rodgers went down; they used to put 30 points every week and now they barely get to 18.

The Lions are coming off two losses in a row for the first time in the entire season.  The loss against the Bucs caught them off guard on every level.

“I think we all need to remind ourselves, like we did yesterday, that the fact is that there’s five games remaining, and we’re in first place,” Detroit coach Jim Schwartz said Monday. “We need to conduct ourselves accordingly, and we can’t worry what happened last week, we can’t worry about what happened yesterday. We need to worry about what’s going to happen in the future. I like our team’s mindset.”

The Lions are 6 point favorites over the Packers in the NFL odds, and the game total was set at 50 points.