It\u2019s time to put up or shut up now. The Detroit Lions\u2019 room for error is razor-thin, and while a loss doesn\u2019t eliminate them from playoff contention, it certainly makes it extremely difficult, considering they play one of the best teams in the NFC next week. The loss to the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving was rough, but it\u2019s time to turn the page and focus on the Dallas Cowboys now. Both teams are on the outside of the playoffs currently, and with the Lions on a downward trend recently, they host a Cowboys team on a three-game winning streak, still fighting for a divisional title and playoff hopes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re playing good football,\u201d said Lions head coach Dan Campbell. \u201cPlaying with a lot of confidence, man they\u2019ve beefed up that defense, it\u2019s a really good d-line. Those guys are active. (Matt) Eberflus has done a hell of a job, he\u2019s a good defensive coordinator, we know him obviously he was in this division, defense always played well. What (Brian Schottenheimer)\u2018s done offensively over there in (Dak) Prescott, those two receivers, they got a run game, o-line\u2019s rugged. It\u2019s a good team. This is a real good team playing at high level of confident football. Should be a good test for us man, we\u2019re pretty fired up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at our Pride of Detroit staff picks for the Lions in Week 14:<\/p>\n
For the rest of what the POD staff predicted for the NFL, our full Week 14 predictions: Moneyline, spread, and over\/under are coming later in the day.<\/p>\n
Now, it\u2019s your turn to have your voice heard. Share what you think the game score will be in the comment section at the bottom of the page and vote in the poll directly below. Do the Lions keep their playoff hopes alive, or could the Cowboys jump them in the standings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to put up or shut up now. The Detroit Lions\u2019 room for error is razor-thin, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,36251,37453,32631],"class_list":["post-76031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-detroit-lions-gambling-odds","tag-detroit-lions-opinion","tag-nfl-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}