Behind a stellar performance from Jordan Love, the Green Bay Packers beat the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving to improve to 8-3-1 on the season. 

Love, who is now 3-0 on Thanksgiving in his career, went 18-30 for 234 yards and four touchdowns against the Lions. He torched Detroit despite dealing with a left shoulder injury, which didn't shock Micah Parsons. 

"That's who he is," Parsons said. "He's going to show up. Injured, hurt, he's going to fight for his guys and play at the highest level. J-Love's the ultimate competitor. There's not too many quarterbacks that fight like him, through everything he's going through -- all the injuries. He just comes in and he works. It's starting to show off. The jump he's making this year is night and day."

Love is the first Packers QB with multiple touchdown passes on fourth down in the same game since at least 1978. In three Thanksgiving games as the starter, Love has completed 68% of his passes for 776 yards with nine touchdowns and no interceptions.

"This was a big win for where we want to go, win the division, playoffs," Parsons said. "That was a playoff game. We just have to stack these up."

Parsons had a monster game for the Packers as well against the Lions. The former Dallas Cowboys star had 2.5 sacks, four solo tackles, three tackles for loss and four QB hits, showing the entire NFL world by he's one of the greatest defensive players of all time. 

"He had a hell of a performance," Packers head coach Matt LaFleur said.

The Packers swept the Lions after getting swept by them last season. Everyone on the team was super pumped to play on Thanksgiving and show the world they are one of the best teams in the NFL. 

"It definitely brings a different vibe to it for sure, the energy out there," Packers WR Christian Watson said of playing on Thanksgiving. "I mean we bring our own energy most of the time and just go out there and play football.

"But these ones definitely have a little bit of boost to 'em, so it's definitely fun to play these Thanksgiving games for sure."

The Packers face the Chicago Bears next Sunday. The Bears enter their Black Friday game against the Philadelphia Eagles at 8-3. They are in first place in the NFC North, with the Packers hot on their tail.