{"id":893193,"date":"2026-09-15T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893193\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:20:11","slug":"nfl-week-2-power-rankings-detroit-lions-defensive-concerns-remain-despite-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893193\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 2 power rankings: Detroit Lions\u2019 defensive concerns remain despite win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The Lions almost blew a 21-0 lead. They held on when they forced an incompletion on a 2-point conversion in overtime. Detroit\u2019s defense had played very well in building that lead, then let the Saints back in the game. Lions head coach Dan Campbell blamed the offense\u2019s inefficiency for the lead slipping away. \u201cI\u2019m like, man, we\u2019ve got to be more efficient on offense,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe kind of spit and sputtered there and then they \u2026 had some tempo going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The Lions face a very tough Week 2 game against the Bills, who will host their first regular-season game in their new stadium Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions almost blew a 21-0 lead. They held on when they forced an incompletion on a 2-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,371406,134976,593,9519,85],"class_list":["post-893193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-detroit-lions-analysis","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}