Looking at the rest of the current top teams in the NFL and their records against teams that currently hold a winning record:

  • Eagles (9-1) are 4-0

  • Ravens (8-3) are 4-2

  • Chiefs (7-3) are 3-2

  • 49ers (7-3) are 3-2

  • Jaguars (7-3) are 1-3

  • Cowboys (7-3) are 0-2

  • Dolphins (7-3) are 0-3

Part of the Lions’s low record against winning teams is due to a weaker NFC North this season (although Vikings currently hold a winning record and Lions have yet to play them). But it still stands that the Lions have had a relatively weaker schedule this year, and have not defeated a team with a current winning record since Week 1.

This stands to change with upcoming games against the Vikings (6-5) and Cowboys (7-3), as well as possibly the Broncos and Saints (5-5) depending on how their records turn out.

  • Reasonable_Emu_2636@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    When we beat the Chargers, they were .500.

    When we beat the Bucs, they were 3-1.

    When we beat the Falcons they were 2-0

    When we beat the Packers they were 2-1.

    I despise this stat

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      1 year ago

      Despise the stat all you want. “ were” is the keyword. The body of work for these teams this season has them with a losing record.

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      1 year ago

      Dallas can beat anyone in the NFL. They are capable. Key word is capable. It all depends on which Dak shows up. It’s usually bad Dak against good teams. He struggles against physical defenses.

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    1 year ago

    These are always dumb. Team plays who is on the schedule.

    Playoffs are the real test anyways. Where everyone starts 0-0.

    Op tossing out the big ZZZzzz…

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    1 year ago

    they lost to the AFC leader, beat the last Super Bowl champion at home, and nearly won against a good Seahawks team pre-offensive implosion

    still a good team at 8-2

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    1 year ago

    We’ve beaten a couple of teams that had winning records at the time of the loss. We can’t help the fact that losing to the Lions breaks the mentally weak.

    We’ve also only had 2 division games, one of them being this past weekend, at this point, so the weak NFC north doesn’t really matter in this argument. For whatever reason, the league decided to back load our season with division games

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      1 year ago

      it really does feel like the NFL made the schedule extra weird this year.

      for example the broncos divisional games are raiders week 1 & 18, chiefs week 6 & 6, and chargers week 14 & 17. so that’s 2 opponents that we play multiple times in a very short span of time and then the raiders where it’s the longest span of time possible that we could play them in the regular season

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        We finished the season series against the Commies before even facing the Cowboys or Giants, and we will have played the Cowboys twice before playing the Giants Weeks 16 and 18.

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    1 year ago

    All i gotta say, last year when the eagles were killing an easy schedule no one said anything keep the same energy

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      1 year ago

      I mean we lost away to the Bills (when they were healthy and good) and away to the Eagles and Chiefs. Apart from the Bills we played well in the other two games. But as usual there’s no nuanced take when talking about this stat and the Phins.

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      And one of the main issues I have with this is that the Bills were just 5-5 the Chargers were just 4-4 the Broncos are currently 5-5. And we literally lost to the two best teams, the Eagles and KC in Europe. Like it’s cherry picked stats most of the time and most teams would have a losing record against winning teams

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      1 year ago

      As far as I’m concerned, you don’t really know who the teams with winning records are until the season is over.

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    1 year ago

    How many had a winning record when they played and went to .500 or lower after a loss?

    And what’s the margin of victory against teams with a losing record?

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    Shut it down guys. It’s Eagles/49ers, and Ravens/Chiefs in the CGs this year, no need to finish the season.

    Sorry Browns, you almost made it. But you are .500, against teams that are .500 and above. You just missed the cut; you played yourself.