W, Detroit Lions 16 - Chicago Bears 7
Is the defense coming around? Will the team lay another egg on the road? Will the miraculous first half run continue. Another cool thing about being a fan is when your team is the talk of sports talk radio. Usually the Lions are chatted up in the pre-season (like the Arizona Cardinals as teams to watch that never seem to pan out) and the talk ceases three weeks into the season. Nice to hear Lions talk on national shows on my morning drive, I must admit.
After for interceptions and a road win almost at the midway point of the first half (is that the best in start in team history?), I started daydreaming of the possibilities or Detroit's formula for success...
I've mashed up a number of things I've seen or hear that would mean playoffs for this team:
- Win each month (Dennis Green) - Sept. 3-1, Oct. 3-1;
- Win the majority of your intra-division play, winning one or ideally two season series - won the Chicago series and have one win against Minnesota (3-0);
- Win or split your out of conference match-ups
(1-0 vs AFC West); and - Win or split your inter-conference match-ups
(1-2 vs NFC non-conference Phil, Wash and Tampa)