AFC West | NFC East | NFC South | NFC West The Lions aren’t just playing football. They’re having a lot of fun out there. Headstands-in-the-end-zone kind of fun. When head coach Dan Campbell talked about biting kneecaps in 2021,

Smith’s generated 26 pressures and five sacks this season. His 26 pressures are 17 more than Detroit’s next best active edge rusher Josh Paschal (9) and his five sacks are more than the team’s active sack leader defensive tackle Alim McNeill (2.5).

I went 5-11 this past week in my sports betting against the spread to drop my season mark to 56-64-3. The last month has been brutally bad. I was 9-7 straight up to raise that mark to 68-55-0, so that's not awful.

Week 10 gets off to a rousing start as the Bengals and Ravens renew acquaintances for the second time this season. Baltimore survived a wild 41-38 overtime thriller back in Week 5. Speaking of the AFC North, the division is slowly but surely starting to flex its muscles again.

Former Vikings and Packers Pro Bowl edge rusher Za'Darius Smith is headed to the third NFC North team of his career, as he's been traded from the Browns to the division-leading Lions in an unsurprising deal to kick off deadline day in the NFL. Detroit sent ...

This is about the NFC North — the current ruler of the NFL because all four teams are at least two games above .500.

The NFL playoff races are heating up. While the divisional races are sparse in the AFC, we’re seeing a few great ones in the NFC. The Washington Commanders and

If the Packers win, they leap the Lions in the NFC North and give the upstart Washington Commanders first in the conference. The jumbled Wild Card pictures in both conferences just continue to get more crowded. The Denver Broncos lost and the Los Angeles ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Chicago Bears center Coleman Shelton (65) and running back D’Andre Swift (4) leave the field after of an ...

The Lions are the team to beat in the NFC North and the NFC. They have won six straight games. Jared Goff has 11 touchdowns in his past five games. He hasn't had a pass intercepted. The DeAndre Hopkins trade (eight catches, 86 yards, two touchdowns vs Tampa Bay) is looking really good for the 8-0 Chiefs.

And when this one was over, after the Lions had survived all the elements — the rain, the wind, and even the NFL replay officials in New York — the forecast was remarkably clear: Detroit rules the NFC North now, no doubt about that. But once the storm ...