As we do every week, we’re looking at how the Green Bay Packers’ passing game performed the previous week, so let’s fire up the analysis from the Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving Day loss.

Now that’s a pretty chart. Coming into this game, one of the questions was how much the Lions would blitz. The Lions blitzed Love on 43.5% of his dropbacks in Week 1, and he excelled against it, going 6/10 for 122 yards and 1 TD (+0.58 EPA per Dropback per NFL Pro). On the season, the Lions blitz 31.1%, the 10th highest rate in the league, but they are gameplan specific in terms of its usage. Some weeks, they’re blitzing on nearly 50% of dropbacks, while other games will see them much lower. They only blitzed Jake Browning on 11.1% of his dropbacks and Patrick Mahomes on 5.1% of his dropbacks. So, with what

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