Packers vs. Lions: Green Bay Will Send Detroit Packing on Way to Perfect Season

The Green Bay Packers are going to dispatch the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day as they continue their pursuit of perfection during this 2011 NFL season.

Detroit is in the midst of reviving their football team but they won’t provide a very tough challenge for the best team in football who has yet to lose and very likely won’t during the regular season.

This Packers team is awfully similar to the 2007 New England Patriots that went 16-0 and finished 18-1, losing a heartbreaker in the Super Bowl to the New York Giants.

They have the best QB in the game, Aaron Rodgers, just as Tom Brady was during that ’07 season.

They have a veteran head coach with Super Bowl experience, Mike McCarthy, as the Patriots have in Bill Belichick.

They have a sturdy defense that bends but doesn’t break and creates enough opportunities to get the ball back to their offense just like the Patriots did.

There are just tons of similarities to draw between the teams and it would not surprise me in the least if the Packers joined them as the only teams to go 16-0 during the regular season.

They both benefit from rule changes in the NFL that benefit high-scoring dynamic offenses and protect quarterbacks.

I think these factors are going to make this feat more common than it once was as well.

I also don’t think we’ll be waiting 35 years between perfect regular seasons ever again as was the case with the 1972 Miami Dolphins having been the first and only team to do it until the ’07 Pats.

So let’s sit back, enjoy, eat some turkey and watch the Packers maul the Lions on this wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and continue inching their way towards a perfect season.

It’s not going to be such an uncommon occurrence in the future.