Jordan Love matches career high with 4 TD passes vs. Lions

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DETROIT — Jordan Love converted a pair of fourth downs with touchdown passes in the first half and finished with a career-high four touchdowns to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 31-24 victory over the Detroit Lions on Thursday.

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The Packers (8-3-1) won the season series and earned a potential tiebreaker in the NFC North and are in second place in the division behind Chicago (8-3), which plays Philadelphia on Friday.

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The two-time defending division champion Lions (7-5) entered the game out of the playoffs but then fell back into the hunt with their third loss in five games.

Detroit turned the ball over on downs early in the second half and early in the fourth quarter.

Two plays after Jameer Gibbs was stopped for a loss just inside Green Bay territory on fourth down, Love threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to Christian Watson to give Green Bay a 24-14 lead early in the third.

The Lions made it fourth-and-3 from the Packers' 21, trailing by 10 points, with Jameson Williams throwing a pass.

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Detroit's defense responded with a stop and the offense reached the Green Bay 4 before a Micah Parsons sack forced coach Dan Campbell to settle for a field goal and a 31–24 deficit with 2:59 left.

Parsons finished with 2 1/2 sacks.

On the ensuing possession, Love completed a third-and-5 on an 8-yard pass to Watson and a fourth-and-3 on a 16-yard pass to Dontaivion Weeks to seal the win.

Love was 18 of 30 for 234 yards with a 22-yard pass to Weeks and a 2-yard pass to Dubs for touchdowns on fourth down in the second quarter. In the third, he threw a long touchdown to Watson and a 1-yard throw to Weeks, the second-most scores of the game and season by a receiver.

Jared Goff was 20 of 26 for 256 yards with two touchdowns, a 22-yard pass to Williams late in the first half and a 17-yard pass to rookie Isaac TeSlaa in the third quarter.

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COWBOYS 31, CHIEFS 28

Dak Prescott threw two touchdowns, Malik Davis ran 43 yards for a score and Dallas overcame two fourth-down throws by Patrick Mahomes in a victory over Kansas City on Thanksgiving Day in Arlington, Texas.

CeeDee Lamb scored Dallas' first touchdown and finished with 112 yards on seven catches four days after drops plagued the star receiver in a win over defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia.

The Cowboys (6-5-1) completed their sweep of last season's Super Bowl teams in the final two games with their third straight win, sending the defending AFC champion Chiefs (6-6) back to .500 in a matchup of playoff-chasing teams.

Mahomes threw four touchdowns in his first professional game at the Cowboys' home, where he played three times at Texas Tech, close to his East Texas roots.

Travis Kelce caught Mahomes' first fourth-down throw for 2 yards, and Rushie Rice's second scoring catch came on fourth-and-3 early in the fourth quarter.

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