There's an air-show on NBC this Sunday night in case you guys haven't heard already.

At least that's what it's shaping up to be. Aaron Rodgers leads the Packers into Detroit to complete their quest of running the table - winners of five straight, looking to make it six against the Lions. If all goes well, it'll be Green Bay's fifth NFC North crown in the last six seasons and will set then up with a Wild Card meeting at Lambeau Field with the Giants.

While Rodgers has thrown for over 300 yards in three of his last six meetings with the Lions at Ford Field, those three attacks on the Lions' secondary came in 2008, 2009, and 2011 respectively - his first three career road meetings with the Lions. He suffered a concussion in the 2010 meeting and was removed from the game in favour of relief quarterback Matt Flynn.

An aerial assault on both sides is precisely what we may be looking at in the season finale, with Lions' premier cornerback Darius Slay likely to miss the game - he's questionable on the team's injury report with an incessant hamstring injury. For the Packers, a shaky secondary has been the one protruding reason as to why they began the season 4-6 in the first place. Any back-end of a defense that gives up an onslaught of passing yardage to the likes of Matt Barkley has major leaks that may burst through the roof at any given moment.

The hope is that burst won't come when the Packers need their ceiling to hold up the most.

To compensate, they're tied for third in team interceptions this season with 16, exactly the amount they had last season, only now with one game left to play. To compensate even further, cornerbacks coach Joe Whitt Jr. and safeties coach Darren Perry clearly have their respective groups under control and seem to have the proper guidance that can engineer a run with their arsenal. Since taking over in 2009, Whitt and Perry have helped the Packers rank in the top 10 of team interceptions every year except 2013.

Keeping up with their late-season trend of forcing turnovers may be one way that can seal the victory. A way that won't is resorting to a running game.

With the electric Ty Montgomery who has made himself known via his performance as the Packers' starting running back, straying from pounding the rock with the duo of him and Christine Michael may actually be beneficial. If history means much, it can be very beneficial.

The Packers are 5-3 in Detroit since 2008, losing two of those three with Rodgers being knocked out of the game in 2010, and with Flynn under center in 2013 while Rodgers was out with a collarbone injury. In those eight games, the Packers haven't had a rusher eclipse 74 yards. The team's leading rusher in those games have averaged 40.2 yards per game, including gaining 16, 38 and 27 yards in the last three meetings.

A silver lining that may work in favor of an opposing argument - the Lions are ranked 17th in rushing defense this season.

In their limited showcase against the Vikings last week, Montgomery and Michael followed up their breakout performance the week prior with a combined 13 carries for a sub-optimal 27 yards. They averaged 1.8 yards per carry against a 15th-ranked rushing defense.

Unless forming an insurmountable lead by the third quarter, the running game may be a rarity in itself regardless. The absence of Slay means Rodgers will look to further exposed a weakened Lions' secondary en route to hosting a home game in the playoffs.