Last week's loss to the Minnesota Viking dropped the Detroit Lions to 5-3 on the season as they currently hold the last Wild Card card spot in the NFC playoff picture heading into Week 10. Detroit's three losses are more than they had all last season when they were an NFC best 15-2 and earned the No. 1 seed in the playoffs.
But Lions head coach Dan Campbell thinks his football team is in the perfect position right now heading into the home stretch of the season.
"It's good to be a little bit of an afterthought again," Campbell said Friday. "It's nice. It's like, 'Hey man, all good.' There're some teams playing some good football, and we're whatever, and that's all good, man. This is good. We'll go about our business over in the corner and get our stuff right and come out humming. So, it's good.
"I told the team before it started, and the reality is when you win 15 games and you only lose two in a season, then boy. It's going to be looked at differently when you lose a game. And surely if you lose more than two games, you only lost two last year, so you lose three, 'What's going on?' So, I told our guys to be ready for that."