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.

  • Hobbit-dog91@alien.topBEnglish
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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

    • PsychoSaladSong@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      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

      • The_Third_Molar@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.