according to Eric Woodyard of ESPN.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s cool to be close at first, but you don\u2019t want to get comfortable with being close all the time.<\/p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s not what you want to be known for, especially when you know you\u2019ve got the guys, you\u2019ve got on this team. You want to finish it, so this is the year for us. The year of the reckoning and the year that we choose that we need to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans reacted to the statement on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne game at a time! Lions have a great roster, need to stay healthy Go beat the Packers & Bears. Last year Lions were 6-0 in the division and 15-2 Not worried about the playoffs now. Have to play great just to get there! Lets enjoy the whole season!\u201d one fan wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u201cGotta stop the tush push first buddy,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be interesting to see if this is the season the Lions finally get over the hump and defeat the demons of the past failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions are coming off arguably the best two-year stretch in franchise history. In 2023, the Lions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[597,146,113,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-226696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-david-montgomery","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114896181922538583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226696","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=226696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}