SBN Reacts NFL Fans are ingesting the Dan Campbell Kool-Aid

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It wasn’t that way back that the idea of being excessive on the Detroit Lions was one thing that ought to be dealt with by medical professionals. The Lions had been a joke, a laughing inventory. But now issues could have modified.

While the Lions are nonetheless a recreation beneath .500 on the season, they’ve gained 5 of the final six video games and sit only a recreation and a half out of the playoffs. They are profitable and getting loads of consideration within the course of.

Not solely are the Lions discovering success, they’re attention-grabbing. And in a a lot better means than Lions groups of the previous had been “interesting.” Head coach Dan Campbell is a caricature of a soccer man and it’s working. Jared Goff has gone from a quarterback bust to a reinvented success story.

Of course, the Lions are nonetheless a methods away from being a Super Bowl contender. For now, they sit amongst a bunch of peculiar groups getting consideration this 12 months. But based on the most recent SB Nation Reacts survey, the Lions stand above the remainder of their counterparts because the group most probably to succeed in a convention championship recreation.

The Lions greater than doubled the full votes of the subsequent group, the New York Jets, who’re above .500 and are solely a tiebreaker out of the playoffs.

This isn’t to say followers suppose the Lions will attain this season’s NFC Championship Game. But followers throughout the nation appear to suppose this group will proceed to enhance and develop. In the NFC North, that feels extraordinarily potential. The Packers are a rising query mark, the Bears are within the early stage of their very own rebuild, and even at 10-3 not even Las Vegas appears to belief the Vikings.

The Lions have an opportunity to proceed their scorching run this week in opposition to the aforementioned Jets. According to followers, the Lions will get that win. Here are the complete slate of Week 15 fan picks.

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