GREEN BAY — It’s not as if the members of the Green Bay Packers defense didn’t know what to expect on Sunday. They just didn’t know why it worked so well.

With quarterback Bryce Young coming off an ankle injury that forced him to miss last week’s game and with the former No. 1 overall pick having been up-and-down this season, the Carolina Panthers arrived at Lambeau Field with a simple offensive game plan:

Run the ball, no matter how good the Packers defense had been statistically against it.

“We already knew their mindset was to come in and run the ball. All of their wins come off the run game being pretty good,” Packers middle linebacker Quay Walker said. "We just couldn't stop the run for some reason.”

No, no they could not. And as a result, the Panthers rode their running game — an

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