PACKERS 27, LIONS 13 | With dominating win over Lions, Packers confirm they're the team they already felt they were

GREEN BAY — Josh Jacobs bit his tongue. Jordan Love did, too.

The Green Bay Packers running back and quarterback, two of the team’s seven co-captains for the season, knew what their team’s 27-13 victory over the Detroit Lions — the two-time defending NFC North champions, the team that had come into Lambeau Field for three years running and taken it to the home squad — meant Sunday evening.

No, it didn’t give them a fast-pass to Super Bowl LX or even a significant leg up in the conference playoff race. With 16 more games to go, neither of them was about to make some bold proclamation about what their team was going to do this season.

But the gleams in each of their eyes were unmistakable. Because what they’d been a part of — a dominating victory over a rival that clearly had their number