Early in the second quarter of Thursday’s opening game, the Packers faced fourth and three from the Lions’ 22. And Green Bay coach Matt LaFleur did his best “big onions” impersonation of Detroit coach Dan Campbell.

Not only did the Packers go for it, but they went for the end zone. The throw from quarterback Jordan Love to receiver Dontayvion Wicks was ruled a touchdown on the field .

During the automatic replay review (it was a scoring play), the first question was whether Wicks caught the ball while his right foot was still on the ground, because his next step (with his left) was in the end zone before the next one after that (with his right) was out of bounds.

Actually, since the ruling on the field was touchdown, the question was whether clear and obvious evidence existed that h

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