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Yes, once what seemed like a lock to win the NFC North for the first time now seems pretty shaky. Green Bay losing to the Giants last night definitely helped.

The Lions host the Broncos this week. The Broncos are on the upswing and Wilson is mobile enough in the pocket to give the Lions trouble. They always struggle with QBs with any kind of mobility.

They will get killed by Dallas in Dallas.

Then they have two games against the Vikings. The Vikings have struggle on offense of late, but their defense has been pretty legit.

The Lions defense has become the defense of the first half of last year. They get no pressure and can't cover anyone. As we've noted, they tried to re-vamp their secondary during the offseason, but lost Mosley and Gardner-Johnson to injury, so they are pretty much right back where they started.

They didn't do anything to address the pass rush, pretty much deciding to run it back with the same D-Line as last year. Losing James Huston has really hurt.

All that being said, the Lions are on offensive team and the last few weeks the offense has really let them down. They've turned the ball over a ton, have been forced to go for it fourth down too often and failed, and, as a result, they've really put the defense in a ton of bad positions - lots of short fields. They had that first quarter against the Saints, the last two drives against Chicago, but other than that they haven't really been all that great the last few games.

The offensive line hasn't played well at all and Goff has regressed. They have stopped doing anything well on offense. That's put a ton of pressure on their defense.

It's been deflating.