NFC Notes: Amon-Ra St. Brown, Josh Jacobs, Bears, Lions, Packers

Bears

  • Sports Illustratedโ€™s Albert Breer doesnโ€™t think itโ€™s over for Bears HC Matt Eberflus just yet but inspiring some confidence down the stretch will be important for him. 

Lions

Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown said they have already moved on from their big 52-6 win over the Jaguars in Week 11. 

โ€œRight now is not really the time to think about that,โ€ St. Brown said, via Jared Ramsey of the Detroit Free Press. โ€œRight now we are just in the thick of it. Weโ€™re in it one week at a time.โ€

Jared Goff mentioned they are always striving to reach โ€œperfectionโ€ and the entire team is aware of how much potential they have. 

โ€œWe know what our potential can be,โ€ Goff said. โ€œSo it becomes a waste if youโ€™re not trying to reach for perfection, strive for that. Itโ€™s really never attainable what you are going for but we got a group of guys that are so dang talented and are such hard workers and want that greatness.โ€

Goff added nothing has come easy for them and Detroit cannot afford to rest on their laurels. 

โ€œNone of this is easy,โ€ Goff said. โ€œI know we scored 52 but everything is extremely hard in this league. Weโ€™ve been playing well, weโ€™ve been doing a lot of good things on offense, but by no means would I ever characterize anything we are doing as easy or without effort. Itโ€™s a lot of hard work.โ€

Packers

The Packers had two drives stall out inside the Bearsโ€™ 10-yard line in Week 11. Packers RB Josh Jacobs said they need to be โ€œperfectโ€ when that close to the goal line. 

โ€œI feel like sometimes we pick the wrong time to, like, have a MA (missed assignment) and things like that,โ€ Jacobs said, via Matt Schneidman of The Athletic. โ€œWe might have a mishap here, and itโ€™s like, not in here. In the red zone, you gotta be perfect. Everybody gotta do they job and (then) some. In this league, itโ€™s always hard when you going against good teams, especially down there where the field gets tighter, so itโ€™s really just on us.โ€

Green Bay notably tried to convert 4th-and-goal from six yards out but fell short. Matt LaFleur explained they didnโ€™t have many possessions at that point of the game and were unsure how many more chances theyโ€™d have to score.  

โ€œThere werenโ€™t very many possessions,โ€ LaFleur said. โ€œYou just didnโ€™t know when you were going to get the ball back. You could put it like this because this is something you always kind of talk about after the fact: โ€˜Did we do the right thing?โ€™ I have long conversations with (assistant quarterbacks coach and game management specialist) Connor Lewis, and he was like, โ€˜Well, you can look at it like this: We can kick the field goal, get the 3 points. That would make it 19-17, and then they had the 50-yard drive.โ€™ โ€ฆ Who knows what happens if they get the ball at the 30 versus they get the ball at the minus-2-yard line, so who knows how it would have played out? I did check with our (staff about) the analytic deal, and I guess it was a difference of, like, 2 percent or 3 percent or something like that in favor of going for it, but thatโ€™s not why. I donโ€™t care about that at the end of the day. That doesnโ€™t matter to me. I was just curious, so itโ€™s basically a flip of a coin.โ€

Packers QB Jordan Love expressed confidence in their offenseโ€™s ability to get the job done. 

โ€œI think we had some (opportunities), and obviously I think we left a couple plays out there, but like I said, theyโ€™re very good in the red zone and third down,โ€ Love said. โ€œWe knew that coming into the game. Obviously, red zone, you want to put up more points. You want to finish a drive with touchdowns.โ€

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