After the Green Bay Packers' 27-15 victory over the Detroit Lions, here are three issues that merit further examination:

Following their win over the Lions to move to 11-0, the Packers take their turn in the examination room. Kevin Seifert The San Francisco 49ers' loss Thursday night gave the Packers some breathing room in their race to clinch home-field advantage throughout the NFC portion of the playoffs. There is now a two-game difference between the teams with five games remaining, which tells us the Packers are closer to clinching but that it won't happen in Week 13. (Unless there is an insurmountable tiebreaker the Packers have already achieved that I'm not aware of.) The Packers won three playoff games on the road last season on the way to Super Bowl XLV, but I'm guessing there are few opponents who would like to travel to Lambeau Field in January. As quarterback Aaron Rodgers noted Thursday, the Packers haven't had a home playoff game since the 2007 NFC Championship Game. It seems to be a matter of time before that changes.

Contrary to what some NFC North blog readers believe, I am aware that Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was not the only player ejected from Sunday's game. I just didn't think the events surrounding special-teams player Pat Lee's dismissal warranted anything close to the coverage of Suh's departure. Lee was ejected after officials caught him retaliating with an open-fist punch/slap during a give-and-take with two Lions players in the first half. In the locker room, Lee said: "I released inside and one pulled me from the back and started holding me and from then I was fighting off. The whistle blew and I was still fighting off, and the ref didn’t do anything. He was just sitting there watching, and I just pushed off at the end, when I finally got loose, that’s when he threw the flag." The most interesting part of the episode is that neither Lee nor anyone on the Packers realized he has been ejected. Lee, in fact, lined up on the Packers' kickoff return team to open the second half before Lions coach Jim Schwartz called his presence to the attention of referee Terry McAulay.