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meet on Monday night for the first time since week 17 of last season. That game was dominated by the Lions all day Blake Martinez Jersey , where they won handily 31-0 over a struggling Packers team. This Monday will be their 180th meeting in their storied history. The Pack leads 100 to 72, however the Lions have won the last 4. Both teams come into week six with one loss each, and in first and second place respectively in the NFL North. The most notable name on the injury report is Davante Adams. Adams will miss his second game in a row with a toe injury that sidelined him during the Eagles game. Adams said he is dealing with a ton of pain from the injury and the timetable for his return is uncertain right now. This means that Geronimo Allison and Marquez Valdes-Scantling will start for the second week in a row with Jake Kumerow playing in 3 wide receiver sets. Corey Linsley has cleared the concussion protocol after exiting the game in Dallas last week, and has stated that he will be ready to go for Monday night. This is good news for Aaron Rodgers who has seen good protection from his line this season. The Lions defensive line has had success this year getting to the quarterback and Linsley starting will make the offensive line’s job a little bit easier. Jamaal Williams is suiting up, but how much he will see the field is unknown. As for the defense, Darnell Savage has been dealing with an ankle injury he suffered against the Cowboys, and will not play Monday. The team has stated that his injury does not appear to be serious. Tony Brown is listed as doubtful. The Lions will be without former Packer Mike Daniels due to a foot injury, which means he will miss his Green Bay homecoming. In the secondary, Amani Oruwariye has been ruled out, and Darius Slay is listed as questionable. Darius Slay not playing would be big for a Packers wide receiving core trying to find some rhythm without Davante Adams. On offense Jake Ryan Jersey , Danny Amendola and T.J Hockenson are both listed as questionable.Packers Injury ReportOutWR Davante Adams (toe)S Darnell Savage Jr. (ankle)TE Robert Tonyan (hip)DoubtfulCB Tony Brown (hamstring)Lions Injury ReportOutDT Mike Daniels (foot)CB Amani Oruwariye (knee)QuestionableWR Danny Amendola (chest)DB Quandre Diggs (hamstring)DL Da’Shawn Hand (elbow)TE T.J Hockenson (concussion)CB Darius Slay (hamstring)DT A’Shawn Robinson (knee) To paraphrase Desi Arnez, somebody in the Green Bay Packers’ locker room has some ‘splainin’ to do. That was the message that quarterback Aaron Rodgers delivered on Sunday after the Packers’ listless 26-11 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. Rodgers, the longest-tenured member of the roster and its unquestioned leader, took his teammates to task following that game in one of the ways he has found most effective: by making vague but meaningful statements to the media in an interview or press conference.To start his presser, Rodgers tried to address the team’s lackluster performance, speculating on a few possible explanations. “I don’t think it was complacency at all, you know,” he said. “Whether it was the trip, not everybody taking care of themselves the right way over the two days, or we were just tired Davante Adams Jersey , or the differences in temperature. But those are just excuses and the fact is that we weren’t locked in from the start.”There’s a bit of an allusion to a problem with preparation in that quote, but Rodgers came back to that idea a few minutes later. There’s no other way to interpret this comment other than as a message to someone or a few someones: “Just talking about the offensive side of the ball, we’ve got to be honest with our routine and the decisions we made in the last 48 hours and make sure that our head is in the right place the next time we come on a big road trip, which will just be in three weeks.”Ouch.There are any number of circumstances that could have led to these comments from Rodgers, but it’s not hard to think about the atmosphere in LA being tempting for the numerous young players on the Packers’ offense. This seems to be Rodgers’ way of publicly calling out players who were not preparing for the game responsibly without naming names.Rodgers has done this sort of thing before, most recently calling out his young receiver group for a “piss poor” effort early in training camp last year. His teammates responded after that, with Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Equanimeous St. Brown stepping up into big roles as rookies, but whoever was the target of these comments will certainly need to do the same when the Packers head back to California to play the San Francisco 49ers in week 12 following their bye.The Packers had rarely left Green Bay this season, playing five of their first seven regular-season games on the road. The three road games prior to the Chargers games were all wins, but they were all to destinations within the Central Time Zone: Chicago Corey Linsley Jersey , Dallas, and Kansas City. Those make for quick trips, with the flight out happening on Saturday. For this game, however, head coach Matt LaFleur elected to fly his team out on Friday instead, giving them all of Saturday in the LA area.LaFleur was unhappy about his team’s energy level as well, but he took the blame on himself. At halftime of the game, he told CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson that he thought that the team’s arrival in Los Angeles on Friday was “too late” and that his team was tired in the first half. But Rodgers’ comments suggest a different issue at the forefront of his mind, one that stems from what the team did once they arrived in California. This is purely speculation, but it is possible that the LA nightlife could have played a factor over the weekend. Except on this Sunday afternoon Nick Perry Jersey , there was no Max McGee coming to save the Packers. In Super Bowl I, held in the LA Coliseum, McGee famously played with a brutal hangover after a night of partying found him back in the team hotel early on the morning of the game. A reserve wide receiver, McGee was called into action when Boyd Dowler was injured on the first series and delivered a 138-yard, two-touchdown game.Did anything similar to McGee’s night on the down take place for any members of the 2019 Packers this weekend? Fans and media alike probably will never know. But if it did, Rodgers seems determined to see to it that it never happens again on his watch.