Packers troll Lions after they were shockingly eliminated from the NFL playoffs, leaving NFC North without a win in postseason

Posted by Admin January 21, 2025 NFL

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The Green Bay Packers continue to get familiar company this offseason.

And it certainly didn’t take long.

Just days after the Packers were eliminated from the playoffs last Sunday, the two other NFC North powerhouse teams were also bounced from the postseason.

First, it was the 14-win Minnesota Vikings in the wild-card round the next day, and then almost shockingly the 15-win Detroit Lions joined them this past weekend with a loss of their own.

The NFC North had the most teams in the playoffs of any division with three, the three teams totaled a combined 40 regular-season wins, and the Lions, who won the division on the final day of the regular season, were the top seed in the NFC with home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

None of that mattered in the playoffs. The result: Zero wins with the Packers, Vikings and Lions all losing their games by double digits. Vacation started earlier than all three envisioned.

The Lions were the oddsmakers favorite to win the Super Bowl and were a confident bunch. But Washington Commanders rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels had other ideas and pounced on the Lions, 45-31, in the divisional round Saturday night.

The Packers, who have had plenty of time on their hands since losing to the Philadelphia Eagles Jan. 12 in the wild-card round, were clearly watching.

“Somebody tell them boys in Detroit I got a extra room at the villa in Cabo,” cornerback and kickoff returner Keisean Nixon wrote on X Sunday night along with a laughing face emoji.

Xavier McKinney, meanwhile, appeared to have a dig at Lions safety Kerby Joseph.

“And like I said .. we not the SAME,” he wrote on X Saturday night after the Lions’ game.

McKinney made a similar comment a week earlier after the NFL’s All-Pro teams were announced. Both McKinney and Joseph were named first-team All-Pro safeties. There has been no love lost between the Packers and Joseph this season.

And in a since-deleted post on X, wide receiver Jayden Reed wrote: “Down goes Frazier.”

That, of course, is a reference to Howard Cosell’s famous call of boxer Joe Frazier getting taken down by George Foreman in a boxing match in 1973.

The Packers can’t talk much since they didn’t put up a fight in their playoff game, either, and ended the regular season with three straight losses.

And while they’re having a good laugh at the Lions’ expense, Detroit beat them twice in 2024 and the Packers are 1-6 in the last seven games against Dan Campbell’s team.