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The lions should have simply asked the league to predict the future when making the schedule, so that the lions would never play any bad teams.

Didn't Lions finish 3rd in their division last season? So of course their 3 random games will be against bad teams. Not sure if they've played those teams yet.

If Kelce and Chris Jones played in week one they would be 7-3 and 0-3 with teams over.500…no way they win at Arrowhead.

What are some of the mid teams like? I know the vikings are 3-2 against teams with a .500 or above record, but I’m curious about everyone else around our stratosphereu

Last season…. Eagles had an easy schedule and the narrative was that they didn’t face anyone good.

This season… Eagles have an extremely tough schedule and have already beaten the 7-3 Chiefs, 7-3 Dolphins and the 7-3 Cowboys all within this past month and the narrative is that they are just lucky wins.

Go figure 🤷🏻‍♂️

I dunno, I'm more and more thinking that a good team is one that successfully beats the teams it should beat, and doesn't randomly crap the bed at times.

Given the relative parity of the league, a team consistently winning teams against "bad" teams is still plenty impressive.

Heck man, even the Jets have 2 wins

I mean, we're a coin flip or better reffing away from 2-1. All I'm really seeing is that our schedule has been easy, which no Lions fan would disagree with. We can talk again after our matchup with the Vikings and Cowboys. For now there's not enough information to make a judgement call.

Sometimes you just get lucky.

But even though I absolutely snort lines of Kool-aid, I know that the Lions aren't quite a Super Bowl team yet. They're better than they have been in fucking ages, but they still have some work to do.

You can only play who is on your schedule. These things aren't fluid. I've never understood why people get uppity over SoS. Either you win, or you don't. And the Lions are doing more winning than losing right now. Their fans have the right to be excited.

It should still get them to the playoffs. That’s still a huge win regardless of how they got there

Blog boys are salivating at this post - it’s gonna be a topic on every podcast now

I just want say the first 5 weeks in the NFL is teams trying figure out their teams and get people in positions. After week 10 you know the good teams and great teams. So any team in first 5 weeks losses and win don’t count.

Weird thing is that most of the teams they did beat had winning records at the point they played Detroit

This ranking perfectly summarizes the current top 4

Lions are a good team.

Lions are also overrated and benefitted an awful lot from being in the NFC, which is a joke of a conference.

Both things can be true

I don’t think the Lions are real contenders, but using a 3 game sample size where they won 1 of the games is dumb

Dolphins still don't have a win over a winning team and their win over the 5-5 Raiders wasn't tough win

I still have no idea how they keep losing to the Seahawks

Are we gonna have a bird bowl in the super bowl this year? A midatlantic one at that?

How many divisional games have the Lions played so far?

I’m just happy we finally winning the games we supposed to win the old lions couldn’t beat bad or good teams 😭

Maybe let's wait til we have a larger sample size than 3

The CFL champion Montreal Alouettes were winless against teams with a winning record and undefeated against teams with a losing record, until the playoffs when they beat everyone to win the Grey Cup. Make of that what you will.

It's a good point, but can't control your schedule. An interesting point to is that the more you win, the more losses the teams you play have and the weaker your past strength of schedule. Conversely, the more you lose, the stronger your strength of schedule is.

Almost like teams with winning records don't have many losses

There is more parity this year than usual and no clear cut dominant team. Every contender has it's issues. Even Philly at 9-1 hasn't beat any team by more than 14 pts. I think the 2022 Eagles beat this year's version. Long story short any given Sunday and the playoffs are gonna be wild this year. Lions are legit, Dallas is legit, SF is legit... Same with Cleveland, Jacksonville, Houston etc in the AFC.

When we beat the Chargers, they were .500.

When we beat the Bucs, they were 3-1.

When we beat the Falcons they were 2-0

When we beat the Packers they were 2-1.

I despise this stat

According to ESPN the only fraud team on the list is the Eagles

The team with only 1 win this year (1-9), has more wins against teams with winning record than the Dolphins and Cowboys lol.