NFL Week 14 Takeaways: Lions Clinch NFL Playoff Berth with Thrilling TNF Win
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It's Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season, and playoff races throughout the league remain in full blast.
The very first video game of the week included the most heated race in the league's finest department this year. The Green Bay Packers rolled into Ford Field attempting to end Detroit's 10-game winning streak and tighten up the race with the Lions in the NFC North.
If that video game was any indicator, it's going to be some type of week. The Lions and Packers traded punches throughout the contest before the home group kicked a last-second basket to make a three-point win.
Outside that face-off, Week 14 is rather light on huge matches outside Sunday night's face-off in between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs. There are numerous contests where competitors are handling tomato cans. If one of those competitors gets captured looking ahead– well, they do not call them trap video games for absolutely nothing.
The happenings of Week 14 will bring some more clearness to the playoff goes after around the NFL. Bleacher Report NFL experts Gary Davenport, Brad Gagnon, Kristopher Knox, Maurice Moton and Brent Sobleski are here to break down what everything ways, with the most significant takeaways from every video game and an upgraded outlook on who's in (and out) of the postseason as things stand.
Lions Have the NFC's Best Record, however They Aren't the NFC's Best Team
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Before we go any even more, let's make something clear: What the Detroit Lions have actually done this season is outstanding.
After downing the Green Bay Packers 34-31 on a last-second basket, they have actually won 11 directly. At 12-1, this is the most effective Detroit group at this moment in the routine season in the franchise's storied history.
By season's end, the 2024 Lions will all however definitely sport the very best routine season Detroit has actually ever had. Jared Goff might be the most underrated quarterback in football. The offense is filled. The O-line is stout.
This group might definitely advance to Super Bowl LIX, specifically with home-field benefit in the NFC playoffs. The Lions might win the Lombardi Trophy. The group has 100 percent purchased into Dan Campbell's aggressiveness and durability.
It would not be unexpected to see these Lions lose their very first playoff video game due to the fact that the defense is an authentic issue.
Yes, the Packers had less than 300 backyards of overall offense Thursday night. They likewise had a fistful of huge plays and scored 31 points. Which was on a night when Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love didn't play specifically well.
The front 7 in Detroit has actually been devitalized by injuries.
