Last week, the Detroit Lions got the worst possible outcome in literally every single Week 4 game, including their gut-punching loss to the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n
This week is already off to a better start, as the Cowboys losing to the previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers was certainly the preferred outcome on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
But what other outcomes will benefit the Lions this week? Let\u2019s take a look in our Week 5 Detroit Lions rooting guide.<\/p>\n
London Game \u2014 Eagles (2-2) vs. Jaguars (3-1<\/p>\n
This game will mostly be over by the time this article is published, so hopefully the Jaguars (an AFC team) beat the tumultuous Eagles.<\/p>\n
Bears (3-1) at Packers (2-2)<\/p>\n
Root for: Uhh.. Packers, I guess?<\/p>\n
Personally, I think Chicago is the best team in the division, so let\u2019s give them as many losses as possible. I think the Packers are the worst team in the division, but they\u2019re generally a well-run organization, so it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if they turned things around\u2014especially after making some moves on the offensive line. Still, don\u2019t root for the Packers, just root against the Bears.<\/p>\n
Vikings (4-0) at Saints (1-3)<\/p>\n
Easy one. The Lions are already two games behind the Vikings in the division. A loss gives the Lions an opportunity to come within one of first place.<\/p>\n
Giants (3-1) at Commanders (1-3)<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not particularly afraid of any team in the NFC East right now, but may as well hand an L to the current division leader.<\/p>\n
49ers (4-0) at Seahawks (3-1)<\/p>\n
This is another toss up. One of these teams is going to be a heavy player in the NFC Wild Card race, so it benefits Detroit for them to beat up on each other as much as possible. You could certainly make the argument for the 49ers to just run away with the division and sweep everyone else in the NFC West, so if that\u2019s your reasoning, go with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cSunday Night Football\u201d<\/p>\n
Ravens (3-1) at Falcons (2-2)<\/p>\n
The Falcons suddenly have life after a dreadful start to the season. Coming off back-to-back blowout wins, they could be surprise playoff contenders. If the Ravens beat them, however, it\u2019ll deflate that balloon a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cMonday Night Football\u201d<\/p>\n
Bills (3-1) at Rams (2-2)<\/p>\n
A Buffalo win both makes the Lions\u2019 loss to them look more reasonable and sinks the \u201csuperteam\u201d Rams to a losing record through five games\u2014and they\u2019re lucky they aren\u2019t already 1-3 after a fortunate fourth quarter comeback last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, the Detroit Lions got the worst possible outcome in literally every single Week 4 game, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1024759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,449,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":["post-1024758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroit-lions-analysis","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117423090164767189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}