Lions vs. Packers Preview: High Stakes NFC North Showdown

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00:00We continue our preview with some best bets for Thursday night football in the Motor City.

00:08It's the Lions and the Packers in a monumental divisional duel within the NFC North.

00:14Not just the division, but it's ramifications for the conference as a whole.

00:19Let's start with the game.

00:20DRS Detroit favored by three and a half points.

00:23Total stands at 51 and a half.

00:26We are expecting a great football game.

00:29It is not a short week for either, both playing on Thanksgiving.

00:34Do you believe that based on the numbers, a close, competitive, and high-scoring affair

00:39will be what we actually see tonight in Detroit?

00:42I do.

00:43I really do.

00:44Because when you look at, well, 51 and a half is a decent number in the NFL.

00:47It's a divisional game.

00:48Sometimes you downgrade those total environments, but also we have to look at the optimistic

00:52sides of why you can get this.

00:54You have firepower on both sides, two electric quarterbacks, two great running teams on each

00:59side.

01:00One, as you said, that does it, which is Jacobs on one side.

01:02Then the other side, you have the double-headers out there with Gibbs and also Montgomery.

01:07And you have the environment, which is going to be in a dome, not windy and rainy.

01:10If Detroit wasn't a dome stadium tonight in Detroit, who knows?

01:13Freezing cold temperatures, wind coming in, maybe some precipitation in the forecast.

01:17It's a perfect track here where the two teams are rested.

01:19They know each other, and they also know what's at stake.

01:22And keep in mind, Dan Campbell, fourth and one, fourth and twos, we're going for it,

01:26which as we always say, is the best thing for your totals.

01:28You're at the 50-yard line at fourth and three, they go for it.

01:31You win either way.

01:32They get the first down.

01:33Austin, they don't get the first down.

01:34It goes the opposite direction.

01:36So I like the aggressiveness out of these football teams.

01:38I don't think either one, Ben, is going to be timid tonight with how big the stakes are.

01:43All the players we need are out there to get points here, particularly Jamison Williams,

01:46who missed that last game.

01:47Back in this game, top corner back down.

01:49It's a dome.

01:50We should get some points tonight.

01:51I'm excited for it.