Week 9’s matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions hardly needed any more stakes. These two teams have a long and storied history of not liking each other very much, for starters, and that’s before we even get to the playoff implications: Detroit enters at 6-1, Green Bay at 6-2, and the winner will put itself in the driver’s seat not just in the NFC North but in the race for the conference’s No. 1 overall seed. It’s the biggest game of the weekend, two of the best quarterbacks and best playcallers in the sport going head to head with historic Lambeau Field as a backdrop.
But despite all that, Packers safety Xavier McKinney felt like things weren’t quite ratcheted up enough. Just 48 hours before kick, McKinney was asked about what challenges the Lions offense presented. Instead of offering up some boilerplate compliments, he went straight at Detroit’s neck.
Xavier McKinney says Lions ‘try to embarrass people’
McKinney didn’t simply slight Ben Johnson, Jared Goff and the Lions offense. He questioned their very character, saying that “in my opinion, I think they try to embarrass people.”
“This organization and players we have here — they don’t take that lightly.”…