You’d be forgiven if you felt like we are right back to where we started in early September. The Green Bay Packers are set to face the Detroit Lions on Thursday

Detroit Lions traditional Thanksgiving Day game at Ford Field includes Jahmyr Gibbs’ Spin Dash Combo plus holiday classics

Per The Athletic’s playoff simulator, the Lions are projected to finish 11-6 — finishing second in the NFC North to the Packers (11-5-1).

Thanksgiving is going down on Thursday, and it's one of those crazy times of year when the whole family gets together, and you have to worry about what you can talk about and what you can't.

Winning consistently in the NFL requires more than just a scheme or a nucleus of talent, and Detroit has become a master at figuring that out.

"Because that very easily a number of times could have gone the other way, and we all know it. But it didn’t, it didn’t. we made the plays we had to make.”

Welcome to November. Welcome to "Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff can't play in cold weather" season. It's every analyst's favorite time of year to just flat out tell a lie, and it's everyone else's favorite time to just believe it.

Detroit Lions linebacker is being criticized for not tackling Jameis Winston. Detroit Lions linebacker Derrick Barnes was actually very eager to talk about a trick play that resulted in New York Giants quarterback Jameis Winston evading his tackle and finding his way into the end zone.

The safe decision at that point would have been to kick a field goal, take a 30-24 lead, and force the Lions to score a touchdown to win the game. Kafka decided to go for it, and Jameis Winston threw incomplete to Theo Johnson, ending a 14-play, 86-yard drive with no points.