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(AP) — The Green Bay Packers were missing star quarterback Aaron Rodgers when they closed last season with a road loss to the Detroit Lions.When the Packers return to Detroit on Sunday, Rodgers could be without his top three receivers.Davante Adams injured a calf on Wednesday and did not practice on Thursday.Randall Cobb injured a hamstring last week, didn’t play on Sunday against Buffalo and hasn’t practiced this week.Geronimo Allison suffered a concussion last week and hasn’t practiced this week, either.“We got a little thin at practice,” coach Mike McCarthy said on Thursday morning.That’s one way to put it.Of the Packers’ 103 completed passes for 1,185 yards and seven touchdowns, 64 catches, 768 yards and six touchdowns have been made by Adams, Allison and Cobb.The receivers who potentially could be in the lineup on Sunday have a combined two catches for 41 yards and zero touchdowns.The next men up are rookies: fifth-round draft pick Marquez Valdes-Scantling, fourth-round pick J’Mon Moore and sixth-round pick Equanimeous St. Brown.“At some point in the season, your young players are going to play, and our receiver position is potentially in that situation,” McCarthy said.Valdes-Scantling played 20 snaps in the first three games and 54 on Sunday against Buffalo, when Cobb was inactive. He has the two receptions. Moore didn’t play on offense in the first three games before playing 11 snaps after Allison went down against Buffalo. St. Brown hasn’t played on offense.“They’re getting better,” Rodgers said. “You guys don’t see the practices, but J’Mon’s been making a lot plays in practice and improving and same with Eq. (Valdes-Scantling’s) been ahead of those guys for a while and getting more opportunities, as you saw last week with Cobby being out and him being first up.“But I told those guys before Week 1 Womens Zach Zenner Jersey , ‘You’re all going to get an opportunity at some point. When you step in, there’s an expectation you’re going to make the plays.’ So, we’ve got to keep improving in practice.”There’s time for one or more of the starters to get healthy. With their pedigrees, McCarthy would feel comfortable playing any of the three without any practice time.Still, there appears to be at least a decent chance that Green Bay will go into a key NFC North game without any of its top three receivers.“I think we’ve still got some progress to make before I think both sides would be comfortable,” Cobb said. “It’s a long season and we’re on Game 5, but at the same time, it’s a short season, and we’re on Game 5.“So, it’s trying to balance both of those. If something was to happen and I re-injure the same hamstring, it’s going to put me out for double the time. So, it’s trying to be smart on both sides of it, which I struggle with because I play through emotion.”Of the three rookies, Moore entered training camp as the front-runner to be the team’s No. 4 receiver.However, as Moore dropped passes throughout the summer, Valdes-Scantling’s consistency allowed him to jump to the top of the list.“I always prepare like I’m going to be the No. 1 receiver,” Valdes-Scantling said.“You just never know. This game is a contact sport where injuries are 100 percent bound to happen Kenny Golladay Jersey White , so you just never know when someone will go down, and you’ve got to prepare to play every position and every play.”Given the outlook at receiver, Rodgers might have to direct the passing game elsewhere. Tight end Jimmy Graham is fourth on the team with 16 receptions and running back Ty Montgomery, who started his career as a receiver, is fifth with 11.Notes: For the second consecutive week, Rodgers practiced on Thursday. He had limited participation last week but full this week … To bolster the receiver group, Green Bay signed DeAngelo Yancey to the practice squad. A fifth-round pick last year, he spent all of his rookie season on the practice squad. … CB Kevin King, who injured a groin in Week 2 vs. Minnesota and has missed the past two games, had full participation for the second consecutive day, but S Kentrell Brice was added to the report and was limited by an ankle injury.Detroit Lions vs. New England Patriots: Random Stats How did I get here? Way back when I used to be the managing editor of SideLion Report, I started writing these pieces called Random Stats. Really, it was all about me. The stats had no bearing on anything and still don’t. This was just me fulfilling my need to know useful information. Last season, I got to the point where finding all this useless information began to be tiresome to me. My thoughts at the time were that nobody was reading this piece, and I was putting a lot of time and energy into weekly pieces that a limited amount of people were reading. Considering the long hours of research involved and the limited interest, I decided it was time to retire Random Stats. But I found myself getting called back to it all summer. Some of my followers on Twitter would send out a #RandomStats when they saw something they deemed should be a random stat. I saw some readers asking why I retired it? I even saw some ask for it back. I realized that Random Stats has a small cult following, and for that reason Womens Kenny Golladay Jersey , I decided that even if five people read it, that’s still five people that look forward to it, and that’s still five people that want to know the same useless information I wanted to know. So I welcome you all back to Random Stats. If you’re new, get ready to learn some stuff you never asked to learn. Let’s jump right into this. The date was September 26, 1971. The the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory discovered three main belt asteroids, Rod Stewart told everyone about how he lost his virginity to an old lady, Walter Matthau captivated audiences in some movie called Kotch and the Lions played the Patriots for the first time ever. The Lions would win 34-7 on that day. They would even beat the Patriots in their second matchup by a score of 30-10.However, the Patriots would go on to win seven of the next nine matchups, and that brings us to this Sunday. As you can see, there’s not a lot of history between these two teams. They haven’t played each other since the 2014 season when the Lions lost to the Patriots 34-9. Previous to that, the Lions hadn’t played the Pats since Thanksgiving day 2010.The Lions have welcomed the Patriots into their building five times since 1976. They have only won two of those games. One was that first home matchup in 1976, and the other goes all the way back to 2000 when a pre-Alex Guerrero Tom Brady was just a little skinny guy that looked like Captain Steve Rogers. Oddly enough, the last time the Lions beat the Patriots the final score was 34-9. That’s the same score of the last time the Lions lost to the Patriots. If that doesn’t open up Pandora's Box and give the Lions 15 straight Super Bowls, than I don’t know what will. Let’s get to the questions.It’s not a good sign for Matt Patricia. The Hoodie’s record against these guys is 9-4. One of those wins comes from the guy that took the Colts job and then didn’t take the Colts job. Mr. “Is my hair sticking up out of this visor the right way?” himself: Josh McDaniels. The other three come from Eric Mangini, and, yes, the Browns won one of those games. Can MatPat be the next ex-coordinator to get himself of win over the man that’s probably his biological father? We’ll see soon enough. It’s not good http://www.lionslockerroom.com/authentic-dwayne-washington-jersey , Joey. It’s not good at all. Matthew Stafford has only played against the Patriots one time. But in that game, he went 18-46 for 264 yards and an interception. He completed just 39.1% of his passes. Let’s hope he doesn’t do this again.As for Brady, he’s not quite as dominant against the Lions as you’d think. He’s thrown for 1,211 yards, six touchdowns and three interceptions, completing 69 percent of his passes (nice!) for a passer rating of 98.4.As for college, Georgia and Michigan haven't played each other since 1965. So they have no stats against each other's school. Well if it isn’t my old pal Theodore form Bemidji. I was shocked by this one, and I think Teddy G knew the answer to this question before he asked it. From 1970 to 1979, the Lions and Patriots had the same exact record of 66-94. That’s some X-Files stuff right there. A wise man once said “forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.” I don’t know, man. I don’t have an answer for you. But at least that quote from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is still great right? Here, listen to this song and feel better.