### DETROIT
**Week 9 result:** Minnesota 27, Detroit 24
**Offensive rank:** 11th (350.8)
**Scoring offense:** 3rd (29.9)
**Defensive rank:** 8th (294.8)
**Scoring defense:** 13th (22.3)
**Remaining strength of schedule:** 7th, .541
at Washington (3-6), at Philadelphia (6-2), vs. New York Giants (2-7), vs. Green Bay (5-2-1), vs. Dallas (3-4-1), at Los Angeles Rams (6-2), vs. Pittsburgh (5-3), at Minnesota (4-4), at Chicago (5-3).
**Quotable:** "Credit those guys over there, man. They had a good plan, came in, they executed, made the plays they needed to and that's a credit to that team," Lions head coach Dan Campbell said after Sunday's loss. "As far as us, we did everything we needed to do to lose that game. We made every critical error you needed to at the right time to lose it. Perfect storm.
"When you don't play well in all three phases, that falls on the head coach. That's me. I did not have them ready coming out of a bye. We made too many critical errors, man. Some of our discipline, the penalties caught up to us. Man, there were some things we were out of sync. We never looked comfortable. We just didn't make enough plays. We had multiple opportunities to set ourselves up to have a chance to win that game and we made none of them."
**Twentyman:** Like Green Bay, Detroit didn't play well and made critical errors in all three phases Sunday. That led to their first loss at home this season and drops them to 1-2 in the NFC North.
Offensively, Detroit looks a little out of sync and now they have injuries upfront along the offensive line they must navigate through. Will they make any adds at the trade deadline? Detroit has a chance to get back to their winning ways Sunday in Washington against a Commanders team on a short week without a couple of their starters after quarterback Jayden Daniels (elbow) and cornerback Marshon Lattimore (ACL) suffered injuries in their loss Monday night to Seattle. Detroit's got to clean up some of their protection issues and penalty problems that surfaced Sunday against the Vikings.
**Next up:** at Washington (3-6), Sun., Nov. 9, 4:25 p.m.