Green Bay is 6-1 in their last seven games

LIONS (4-8) AT PACKERS (8-4)

By Football Night in America’s Eliott Kalb

• Green Bay enters Sunday night 6-1 in their last seven games.
• The Lions have dropped four straight games, including the last three weeks at home.  In their home losses to the Packers, Texans, and Colts, the Lions have led in each of the games.  The Lions led at the two-minute warning of all three contests only to see the leads slip away in the final minutes or seconds.
• The Lions will look to beat the Packers on their own turf and end a 21-year winless drought at Lambeau Field.
• The two teams met at Ford Field three weeks ago for their fi rst matchup of the season. The Lions held a 20-14 lead aft er a Jason Hanson fi eld goal with 4:25 left in the game. Aaron Rodgers quickly responded with a six-play, 82-yard drive in 2:30 minutes that ended in a 22-yard touchdown pass to WR Randall Cobb. The Lions were unable to mount a comeback and lost by a 24-20 score despite 143 receiving yards and a touchdown from WR Calvin Johnson and two sacks by DT Nick Fairley.
• With their 23-14 win over the Vikings on Sunday at Lambeau Field, the Packers extended their franchise-record divisional winning streak to 10 games.
• Through 12 games of the 2012 season, Calvin Johnsonhas registered 86 catches for league-high 1,428 yards (16.6avg) and 5 touchdowns. Johnson’s 119.0 yards per game average has him on pace to register 1,904 yards on the season.
• Green Bay has a 12-1 mark (.923) against the Lions under Head Coach Mike McCarthy. Overall, the Packers have won 13 of the last 14 and 21 of the last 24 in the series.
• The Packers have won 21 straight games against the Lions in the state of Wisconsin (including a 1994 playoff game). The streak started with Green Bay’s win over the Lions at County Stadium in Milwaukee on Dec. 6, 1992.
• Green Bay’s 20-game regular-season home winning streak against Detroit is the longest in NFL history, ahead of Washington’s18-game home winning streak against the Lions (1939-present) and Pittsburgh’s 16-game streak versus the Cleveland Browns (1970-85).
• The Packers have won 18 of their last 19 regular-season games (.947) at Lambeau Field and 24 of their last 26 (.923) at home.
• The last time that Aaron Rodgers did not throw at least one TD pass at Lambeau Field came in just his second career start at home (vs. Dallas, Sept. 21, 2008).
• After Sunday’s 35-33 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, one Lions player told Yahoo Sports that Suh and others “don’t understand what it takes to win.”
• Lions Defensive tackles Nick Fairley and Corey Williams sat out practice Thursday with quad and knee injuries, respectively
• Are the Packers looking ahead a week?  It appears that the Pack are intending on bringing back their injured defensive stars next week versus the Bears?  McCarthy said he wanted both Woodson (collarbone) and Matthews (hamstring) to practice in pads on a limited basis because the team will not be in pads at all next week due to a rule that puts a limit on padded practices during the regular season.
• Undrafted rookie RT Don Barclay is expected to start for the Packers and will try to help pave the way for Ryan Grant and Alex Green.G.B. Running backs coach Alex Van Pelt has a pair of backs who have not carried the ball this season and his major concerns are ball security and blocking. Newly signed Ryan Grant began practicing Wednesday. The other back, 5-7, 203-pound DuJuan Harris, will probably make his debut in the offense.