McKinney’s Bold Claim: Packers Safety Says He’s Not Worried About Lions’ Top Star
A few weeks back Green Bay Packers safety Xavier McKinney talked about how he doesn’t respect the Detroit Lions for running up the score on teams. This was of course taken as a shot at the Lions and Detroit would want to put it up on their bulletin board and let that fuel them.
It must have worked because the Lions went to Lambeau and won during a downpour in Green Bay. You have to wonder what happens on Thursday night now that McKinney has once again given the Lions some bulletin board material. Only this time he may have given it to the one guy that’s seemingly obsessed with proving people wrong.
McKinney was asked about Lions’ All-Pro receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown wearing a “Green Bay Sucks” hoodie to Lambeau back in Week 9 and instead of saying that didn’t bother him, he instead said.
“I ain’t worried about him. we not worried about him.”
Should the Packers be worried about him? I think they definitely have reasons to be. St. Brown has been playing pretty well this season. Even though the box score stats don’t tell you that, he’s been just as dangerous as ever. The Lions are just spreading the ball around more than ever.
The big thing is that he’s hot as of late. He’s been targeted 21 times since Week 8 and he’s caught 18 of those balls. When Goff throws it his way, he’s going to catch way more than he doesn’t. We’ll see how he does against this Packers defense the second time around with a little fuel.
