Detroit Lions Target Super Bowl Run as NFC's Top Seed

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00:00Saturday night in the Motor City, the one seed for the first

00:03time in franchise history. That is the Detroit Lions at this

00:08time, last season, when the Lions got ready to host their

00:11first playoff game in the Motor City, Detroit had just won its

00:14first divisional championship of the National Football League in

00:18three decades, thus hosting its first NFL playoff game in 30

00:22years, hoping for its first postseason victory in 32 seasons.

00:27The Lions did exactly that. Now Detroit is hoping for even more

00:32history in the 2024 NFL campaign now in the calendar year of

00:372025 as a nine and a half point favorite against the Washington

00:41commanders in the divisional round. With the highest total we

00:45will have this weekend and maybe for the entirety of the NFL

00:48postseason at 55 and a half. The Lions DRS are two wins away from

00:54going to a point no other Lions team has a Super Bowl. Detroit

00:58has won NFL championships way back in the late 1950s before

01:03the merger before the Super Bowl era that began in 1967. Detroit

01:07has never won a Lombardi trophy, yet never even played in a

01:13Super Bowl. The Lions are close to doing just that and expected

01:17Donnie to be only one win away in an NFC championship game in

01:21the Motor City exactly one weekend from now as they are the

01:25largest favorites of the division around laying nine and a

01:28half points in that is the one big question. Are the Lions

01:33laying too many points on divisional weekend?

01:36I don't know. I'm gonna say right now. I don't think so. But

01:39also understand this like if we could just like to get into a

01:42time capsule band and go to another week, which will be next

01:44weekend and take a look at the capabilities of what the AFC and

01:47NFC championship games might be like the Eagles and the Lions

01:51and let's just say Kansas City and or Buffalo and Baltimore. My

01:55goodness, we're gonna have a sensation again. Now, we'll wait

01:57for that. These games are gonna be fantastic. But if you are

02:00looking, I say this, some people out there, if you're looking at

02:02you know what you drive down the field, you just pick up points

02:05in a game that this isn't your game, because they're not

02:07kicking field goals. Neither team. They're both sensational

02:10for town and ultra aggressive on both sides. You just saw that on

02:14Sunday Night Football. I believe what did Washington not they

02:16went for it on two fourth down plays and didn't even get it.

02:18And so they're not winning that football game. Because yeah,

02:20touchdowns matter. And that's going to be one of the keys.

02:23Because you look at the 55 and a half. It's crazy high it is. But

02:27if I'm going to tell you that we're not getting three points,

02:30like fourth and two at the eight yard line going in, hey, it's a

02:33playoff game. We're young, we're on the road. Washington's going

02:36for it just the same way they did against Tampa Bay early in

02:38that game when they could have just gotten points to even that

02:41one up. So that adds into the 55 and a half where you're trading

02:44three points for seven, which is a four point difference. I'm

02:46granted if you continually stop them, it's great for the under

02:49but when teams are aggressive with weapons that usually helps

02:51you out. Understand this to these two teams here both been

02:55in the top 10 of possession time in a football game. We just saw

02:59multiple weeks now for Washington 1011 1213 14 play

03:03drives. Baker Mayfield through what 18 passes in that game, not

03:07because they were doing a ground in pound. He threw 18 times

03:09because they never had the football. It felt like that's

03:12the key to try to holding Detroit off the field. And when

03:14you have a quarterback as talented as Jane and Daniels, not

03:17even talking about his passing game bad, but his running game,

03:20every third and three third and four turns into a first down or

03:23he gets close enough for you to go for a fourth down. That's the

03:26electricity that he provides. So I do think we have long extended

03:29drives. And the other thing to looking at Jade and Daniels in

03:32this game, I believe it's outside of the Dallas game. We

03:35played only less than a half at that point. Multiple touchdown

03:38passes are his thing. And if you're looking at not kicking

03:41field goals spent in this game, and you have to score

03:43touchdowns, it's going to be on his arm. And if we're figuring

03:47that they're going to lose this football game, I mean, they're

03:48close to double digits here, they're going to be throwing the

03:51entire way. So early in the week, and maybe even on Moneyline

03:54today, we might be locking in a Jade and Daniels over one and a

03:57half touchdown pass. Look at plus money on the fan blue

03:59sports book, because we're not kicking field goals, we're only

04:02scoring touchdowns.

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