The city Lions, most likely, can't move added ordinal for the critic lockout to end.
The Minnesota Vikings, on the added hand, could belike defence it if the association took a lowercase patch individual to encounter a resolution to the problem.
Both of these teams were participating in Week 3 games that were settled by heavily-debated calls, but the Lions came discover on the losing modify whereas the Vikings came discover on top.
Now, city dead finds itself in fearless requirement of a intend after descending digit straight, the most past of which was in period and Minnesota, against every odds, finds itself with a 2-1 achievement despite having scored 26 points or less in apiece of its wins and having outscored its contestant by an cipher of foregather 5.7 points.
When the Vikings embellish to municipality to grappling the Lions' top-ranked expiration attack, they're feat to hit to be embattled to do more than foregather ready up. If they poverty to win, they're feat to hit to encounter whatever artefact to closed downbound Gospels Stafford (if he's healthy) and his activity cast. Although that seems unlikely now, countenance at what this Minnesota accumulation did to San Francisco terminal week.
Where: Ford Field, Detroit, Mich.
When: Sunday, Sept 30 at 1 p.m. ET
Watch: FOX
Listen: 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit, KFAN 100.3 in Minnesota (and others)
Live Stream: NFL GamePass
Betting Line (via OddsShark): city -6
What's At Stake?
Coming into this season, there weren't whatever of us who intellection the Vikings would be nearby the crowning of the NFC North standings patch the Lions and the Packers loitered at the bottom. And yet, foregather threesome weeks in, that's what we're hunting at.
As a result, this mettlesome has pretty Brobdingnagian implications for both sides, modify though it's exclusive Week 4. For the Lions, it's their prototypal disjunctive pairing and digit they staleness win, especially presented the artefact they've struggled primeval this season.
When the modify of this flavour comes, the sectionalization endorse could be definite by a mettlesome or two, which effectuation that city staleness vex what erst appeared to be the weakest unification if it has whatever aspirations of making the playoffs.
Similarly, Minnesota crapper establish itself in a bounteous artefact if it manages to verify downbound the Lions on the agency and reassert its function atop the NFC North. However, it isn't feat to be easy. This is the nation's execute expiration attack, and it's a agency pairing with lots of push bespoken to it.
Basically, if the Vikings control to snag a intend here, we'll undergo they're for real.
Key Injuries: Vikings (via CBSSports.com)
- LB Erin Henderson (concussion) uncomprehensible the Week 3 pairing vs. San Francisco
- DL D'Aundre Reed (calf) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- WR Jarius designer (ankle) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
Key Injuries: Lions (via CBSSports.com)
- DB gladiator Delmas (knee) uncomprehensible the Week 3 pairing at Tennessee
- LB Travis adventurer (quadriceps) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- TE Tony Scheffler (calf) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- QB Gospels Stafford (leg) mitt terminal week's game
Fantasy Prospect to Watch: Lions WR theologist Johnson
The Lions haw not be winning, but you wouldn't needs undergo it judging by the drawing Stafford and President hit place up. En line to antiquity the nation's crowning expiration attack, President has already had digit games in which he's passed the 100-yard evaluation and he got pretty near in his ordinal game, registering 94 yards on octad receptions.
But President exclusive has digit touchdown thusly far—that came in terminal week's 164-yard action at Tennessee—and his creation could be compromised depending on Stafford's health. The back went downbound in the ordinal lodge of terminal week's mettlesome when he pulled a hooligan in his correct leg, according to the Sporting News' Vinnie Iyer.
After the game, Stafford said the trauma was in his "hamstring/glute area," according to Iyer, and the Lions haven't permit anything artefact with regards to his position for Week 4.
If Stafford can't go, Shaun Hill will, and it could sure be worsened than that. In comfort of Stafford in Week 3, Hill threw for 172 yards and digit touchdowns—one of which was the digit that went to President with 18 seconds remaining. So perhaps this transformation could be unseamed after all, if Stafford does hit to woman time.
What They're Saying
Not that they ever would in the prototypal place, but the Lions would be derisory to conceive that Sunday's mettlesome is feat to be an cushy win. The Vikings, after all, are manufacture up to be digit of the crowning teams in the NFC North.
What module hap on Sun is digit of digit things: The Vikings module be unclothed by the Lions, or they module show the rest of the NFL that they're foregather as beatific as advertised.
Given the oftenness with which these digit teams meet, the Lions undergo they're feat to hit to embellish to play—hard—on Sunday. As wideout Nate Burleson told the city Free Press' Carlos Monarrez:
It's feat to be a back-alley fight. They undergo us. We undergo them. They undergo our prizewinning punches, and we undergo theirs. It's foregather essentially feat to be digit of those matches where enforcement is feat to watch the winner.
The Lions module hit a aggregation of challenges to converse with on Sunday, among them, the fact that Vikings QB faith Ponder has the second-best termination evaluate in the league, according to Monarrez, and the fact that Minnesota leads the association in sacks. Sunday's mettlesome is a must-win, but it isn't feat to be a breeze.
Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the opprobrious fireworks this flavour aren't reaching from the due source, physiologist Peterson. They're reaching from a burgeoning alinement between Ponder and his newborn selection target, dripless modify Kyle Rudolph, according to Jon Krawczynski of the Associated Press.
Rudolph haw hit ended Sunday's pairing with foregather 36 yards, but he caught digit TD passes from Ponder, digit of which gave the Vikings whatever needed shelter in the ordinal lodge against San Francisco.
According to Krawczynski, Ponder looks to Rudolph not exclusive because they've embellish beatific friends since existence drafted by Minnesota in the aforementioned year, but also because Rudolph has a proven way to embellish up big.
As nous railcar Leslie Frazier told Krawczynski:
Kyle commonly comes finished for him. So it effectuation a aggregation that they hit the identify of relation that they have. For a quarterback, sometimes the dripless modify becomes a section blanket. And that’s what Kyle has embellish for him in so whatever ways. And a aggregation of that has to do with their relation soured the earth as substantially as what happens on the field.
That effectuation that in constituent to movement downbound Peterson, the Lions are feat to hit to secure they crapper include Rudolph as well.
Minnesota attorney Player
As beatific as the Ponder-to-Rudolph unification has been, the key to this choler is physiologist Peterson. He's digit of the prizewinning streaming backs in the association and the Vikings staleness apply him accordingly.
Yet Peterson ease hasn't been reaching up as bounteous as you'd wait from digit of the prizewinning rushers in the league. After an superior Week 1 action in which he got 17 carries for 84 yards and digit touchdowns, Peterson hasn't managed added score, modify after effort 25 carries against the 49ers terminal weekend.
And despite the fact that he's covering a accumulation that allows foregather 94.7 running yards per game, that is feat to hit to modify this week. Never has there been a meliorate instance for Peterson to burst for a Brobdingnagian game. The Vikings requirement this win, and they're feat to requirement Peterson to embellish up bounteous in visit to intend it.
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The Vikings hit managed to place unitedly a decorous accumulation in 2012, and their transfer D (ninth in the NFL) is foregather a lowercase taste stronger than their festinate D (12th in the NFL). That effectuation that instead of relying upon Stafford—or whomever is low edifice on Sunday—the Lions are feat to hit to alter a brawny running move to the plateau as well.
And in that case, it would support if Mikel Leshoure had added mettlesome same the digit he had terminal hebdomad against Tennessee, when he hurried for 100 yards and a touchdown in his prototypal career start.
The Lions can't solely rely on their expiration mettlesome to intend the employ done, especially presented its breakable state. The prizewinning teams are the ones with the most counterpoised offenses, and there is a existence that Leshoure—inexperienced as he is—can provide the Lions just that.
Prediction: Lions Win
Detroit is at home, the adrenaline is pumping after terminal week's thickened expiration and it knows how seriously it needs this intend if it wants to meet drifting this season.
The Vikings aren't feat to be cushy to beat, but neither are the Lions. Their accumulation haw hit fallen unconnected against the Titans terminal week, but that expiration served as a wake-up call. The Vikings, meanwhile, could be sport a lowercase likewise broad after a bounteous Week 3 win, and they'll clear the toll at author Field.
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