SBN Reacts NFL Followers are ingesting the Dan Campbell Kool-Assist

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It wasn’t that way back that the idea of being excessive on the Detroit Lions was one thing that needs to be dealt with by medical professionals. The Lions have been a joke, a laughing inventory. However now issues might have modified.

Whereas the Lions are nonetheless a recreation underneath .500 on the season, they’ve received 5 of the final six video games and sit only a recreation and a half out of the playoffs. They’re profitable and getting loads of consideration within the course of.

Not solely are the Lions discovering success, they’re fascinating. And in a a lot better means than Lions groups of the previous have been “fascinating.” Head coach Dan Campbell is a caricature of a soccer man and it’s working. Jared Goff has gone from a quarterback bust to a reinvented success story.

After all, the Lions are nonetheless a methods away from being a Tremendous Bowl contender. For now, they sit amongst a gaggle of peculiar groups getting consideration this 12 months. However in line with the newest SB Nation Reacts survey, the Lions stand above the remainder of their counterparts because the crew probably to succeed in a convention championship recreation.

The Lions greater than doubled the entire votes of the subsequent crew, the New York Jets, who’re above .500 and are solely a tiebreaker out of the playoffs.

This isn’t to say followers assume the Lions will attain this season’s NFC Championship Recreation. However followers throughout the nation appear to assume this crew will proceed to enhance and develop. Within the NFC North, that feels extraordinarily potential. The Packers are a rising query mark, the Bears are within the early stage of their very own rebuild, and even at 10-3 not even Las Vegas appears to belief the Vikings.

The Lions have an opportunity to proceed their sizzling run this week in opposition to the aforementioned Jets. In accordance with followers, the Lions will get that win. Listed here are the total slate of Week 15 fan picks.

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