The folks over at FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a> certainly think the Lions can accomplish this, as they\u2019ve set the opening betting line at Lions -5.5 points.<\/p>\nBoth teams are dealing with significant injuries, and while the Lions\u2019 holes in the secondary were exposed by Patrick Mahomes in Week 6, the Bucs have found a way to win behind the magic of Baker Mayfield.<\/p>\n
On offense, the Bucs have been playing without multiple starting wide receivers: Mike Evans has been out for a few weeks now, Chris Godwin missed the first month of the season with injury, returned for one game only to be injured again, and rookie Emeka Egbuka was injured in Week 6. Starting running back Bucky Irving missed last week\u2019s game, and the right side of their offensive line\u2014right tackle Luke Goedeke and right guard Cody Mauch\u2014is on injured reserve. On defense, starting defensive lineman Calijah Kancey is on injured reserve, while starting corner Zyon McCollum and his backup Benjamin Morrison missed Sunday\u2019s game, leaving them to turn to former-Lion Kindle Vildor.<\/p>\n
Yet, the Bucs have been riding high on the success of Mayfield, who has led the team to four last-minute come-from-behind victories. In Week 1, Mayfield drove the Bucs to a winning touchdown over the Falcons with just under a minute to play, then followed that up in Week 2 by leading the offense to a touchdown score against the Texans with just six seconds left. In Weeks 3 and 5, Mayfield got them in positions for walk-off field goals as time expired, against the Jets and Seahawks. They had a chance to pull off another comeback win in Week 4, but the Eagles\u2019 defense stood strong and forced a final-minute turnover on downs. And most recently, in Week 6, no comeback was needed for the Bucs as they took advantage of an injured 49ers team and led almost the entire game on their way to their fifth victory on the season.<\/p>\n
As for the Lions, they haven\u2019t lost two games in a row since Week 8 of 2022, and they\u2019ll likely be returning star defensive tackle Alim McNeill back to the active roster. Detroit is a resilient team that consistently bounces back from tough losses, and they\u2019ll have a chance to do it again in front of a national audience in Week 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions (4-2) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-1) will close out Week 7 with a \u201cMonday Night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2127,2128,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-detroit-lions-gambling-odds","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}