The Green Bay Packers went toe-to-toe with arguably the most dominant team in the NFL on Thursday night, coming up short in a 34-31 loss to the Detroit Lions at Ford Field, but the outcome far from derails what could lie ahead for head coach Matt LaFleur’s team.
Even after falling to their bitter NFC North rivals, the Packers still maintain a 96% chance of making the playoffs, and might even get a third crack at the division-leading Lions in the postseason.
Packers safety, and potential NFL Defensive Player of The Year, Xavier McKinney is banking on it.
“We’ll be alright,” McKinney said, via ESPN. “We’ll probably see them again. I don’t think it’s a psychological thing. These two games, you watch these games and it’s right there now. It’s just little things. It’s not even they’re doing things to necessarily beat us. We’re beating ourselves. If you look at these two games that we played them, we had beaten ourselves. We just gotta do a better job with that.”
