{"id":181644,"date":"2025-10-01T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181644\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:58:07","slug":"nfl-week-5-power-rankings-lions-comfortably-a-top-3-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181644\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 5 power rankings: Lions comfortably a top 3 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">This is the same team it\u2019s been for the last three seasons\u2014an indomitable force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Vultures were circling after the Lions\u2019 Week 1 loss to Green Bay, but now that we\u2019re a month into the season, it\u2019s clear that reports of Detroit\u2019s demise were premature. In reality, the Lions have been nearly as efficient offensively as they\u2019ve been since 2022. Jared Goff isn\u2019t taking many sacks and he has done an excellent job at keeping this offense on schedule. And despite playing against several quality defenses, Detroit is the highest-scoring offense in the league through four games, and is one of the three best teams in the league right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the same team it\u2019s been for the last three seasons\u2014an indomitable force. Vultures were circling after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,91858,514,11377,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-181644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-detroit-lions-analysis","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}