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Why Packers have fallen behind Lions in NFC North -- for now

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- One team showed the kind of football it might take to win the NFC North this season, and that team was not called the Green Bay Packers.

Fiery coach Dan Campbell and his Detroit Lions showed everyone at Lambeau Field on Thursday night what the home team could not -- especially in the first half when they hung a 27-3 lead on the Packers en route to a 34-17 victory.

Packers coach Matt LaFleur called that start “humiliating.”

And if that wasn’t enough to get his team's attention, he also said:

“We got our ass kicked.