PACKERS at LIONS
8:15 p.m., Lions by 3 ½, 51 ½
HANK’S HONEYS: The opening line has been wager down a degree, owing to all of the Lions’ accidents in any respect three defensive ranges in addition to recency bias from Thanksgiving when the Bears bumbled their means out of a possible upset in Motown and the Packers whomped the Dolphins. Because the first matchup, received by the Lions at wet Lambeau after leaping out to a 24-3 lead, the Packers have been hitting their stride behind a more healthy Jordan Love and the Lions only a tad much less spectacular. The hook continues to be in play, and loads of betters appear to be biting on it. Nonetheless, one mini-blip in opposition to the Bears isn’t sufficient cause to leap off the Detroit practice and stand in entrance of it. The Packers have accidents of their very own, and whereas Josh Jacobs has been a human bowling ball, the Lions protection, in contrast to Miami’s, has been top-of-the-line tackling items within the NFL. Inexperienced Bay’s run protection is much less spectacular in opposition to outdoors runs, one thing the Gibbs-Montgomery tandem (172 yards within the first assembly) can exploit. We determined just a few weeks in the past to remain on the Lions ATS for the remainder of the season and after rewarding their backers seemingly each week, we don’t see Dan Campbell’s staff failing to cowl two straight weeks at residence in opposition to a divisional rival. As for the whole, we will see each groups counting on their operating video games to maintain this one below.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: Lions and the below.
