There was an argument to be made after last week for the Detroit Lions being the best team in the NFL.
That title was still going to the San Francisco 49ers in most polls, but the Lions had a case. Their only loss came to a pretty good Seattle Seahawks team in overtime. They'd looked pretty good in their wins, including one at the Kansas City Chiefs. With most good teams looking bad and some losing last week, the Lions had an impressive win at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This was the team Lions fans had waited generations for. Finally.
Detroit's offense had been consistently good before Sunday, which made the performance against the Ravens weird. Their first seven possessions ended with four punts, two turnovers on downs and an interception. They didn't score until the fourth quarter when it didn't really matter.
It was a horrible loss for the Bills, who barely beat the Giants and lost to the Patriots in back-to-back weeks. They're probably not a Super Bowl contender, and surely not if they continue to play like they have the past eight days. They should have known that Belichick is still capable of putting together a good gameplan. Belichick might not be as bad as everyone has been saying these past few weeks.The Atlanta Falcons are in good position in the NFC South.
At least there's some upside to starting O'Connell a second time when Garoppolo was out on Sunday. But Josh McDaniels went with the comfortable choice, oddly picking 38-year-old Hoyer to start Sunday against the Chicago Bears even though Hoyer's teams had lost 18 straight games in his starts dating back to 2016. There wasn't much reason to start Hoyer, though he did play for the Patriots once and McDaniels likes that.
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