GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Detroit Lions beat the Green Bay Packers – and the Packers beat the Packers – in their big NFC North showdown on Sunday. After 3 soggy hours, the scoreboard showed the ...

Veteran Jim Zorn started in his place. To keep their playoff hopes alive, the Packers needed to beat Detroit and have both San Francisco and Washington lose. The Lions entered the game undefeated ...

The following year, the Packers did the same thing, beating Detroit and then losing to the Cowboys in the playoffs. The year after that, Green Bay beat Atlanta and San Francisco in a thrilling upset ...

Given they were in the vaunted NFC North alongside the No. 1 seed Detroit Lions (15-2 ... to the Vikings in Week 4. But the Packers were never able to beat the powerhouses of the NFC.

ESPN’s Rob Demovsky — one of the top insiders on the Packers beat — projected the team to make a four-year, $72 million offer with $24 million in guaranteed money to Sweat to secure him for ...