They have 139 PF vs 76PA with a 63pt differential. Which is the best in the league.
The Vikes are 4th in scoring offense w/29pts a game. Lions are 6th w/26.
The Vikes are 4th in points given up a game at 14.8. The Lions are 9th at 20.5.
Now if you look at yardage given up both the Lions and Vikes defense drop down into the 20’s. So both defenses give up yards but keep the points down.
The Vikes defense is 2nd against the run while the Lions is 4th.
The Vikes have the worst passing defense in the league while Detroit isn’t far behind at 30th.
When you look at the stats these two teams are closely matched and similarly built.
It sure loks that way right now. But it will even up once the division games start rolling around.
We need to go at least 4-2 in the division. There are no cupckes this year. Thankfully, No one else is putting together a great record in the NFC. Rooting for the Cheifs tonite agains the Saints.
After our Dallas game, we will play a well-rested 5-0 Vikings team. A chance to knock off our second undefeated team of the year, (3-0 seahawks).
And in the last game of the year, we will be coming off a cross- country Monday night game with the Niners to play the Vikings. Schedule-makers did us no favors there.
We need to at least split with them. Best chance might be two weeks from now.
Of course. We finally git gud and everyone else can’t take it.
Was hoping for a season or two of mid 2010’s AFCE.
You know,Pats good, other 3 crap.
Oh well. Gotta beat the good teams to be a great team.
Somehow it feels better thinking they will roast our division and then other good teams are SF and Philly. It just makes it seem easier.
Right now it feels like if they win the division they will be the 1 seed. But the second place team in the North could likely hold the 2nd best record which sucks.
The last 12 games are going to be fun. Half against the NFCN. It really had felt like this has all been pre-season and the bullets start flying against Dallas.
13 game season and it looks like they might need to go 10-3 to win the Division. And I am not positive 13-4 wins it right now. But 12-5 and they are a WC that much I am certain.
For now… wait until we smash the ball down their throats.
Their DBs are 35 years old that’ll eventually catch up.
No Aaron Jones will make the offense a lot more vanilla in the pass game …the screen game has been deadly for them so far this year.
Sam Darnold will regress. I mentioned in your other thread that you bumped that he would have gaudy #s but will also make huge bonehead plays that cost the team. He started doing that last week.
If you don’t like my 2016 Minny example then take the Vikings from 2022 when they were 10-2 and we smacked them around. They ended up getting bounce round 1 of playoffs.
Or 2023 Eagles they were what, 10-0 last yera then they got smacked around and collapsed bounced round 1 of playoffs.
Or the 2021 Cardinals they were 10-2 and we smacked them around too that year and the wheels fells off and they got bounced round 1.
The Lions have shown over the first 3 years of this regime that they improve as the season goes on, so I haven’t lost any faith in them. I expect it. Yet there are challenges ahead us. We’ll have to meet them rather than expect the Vikings to meltdown.
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