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Will the Lions or the Packers come out on top?

Will the Lions or the Packers come out on top?

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In DetroitA shout out to Tim Twentyman, senior writer for the Lions team website, who provided a Stat of the Week that correlates the performance of the Lions running game today with what a quartet of Hall of Famers did 64 years ago. Lions running backs David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs, the league's best duo, each have 550 scrimmage yards and seven touchdowns. According to Twentyman, it is the first time since 1960 that a team has done this in seven games with two defensemen. Two teams achieved this in 1960: Cleveland with Jim Brown and Bobby Mitchell; and Green Bay with Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor.

In Chicagothe defense is a lot better inside 20 yards than it is from 52 yards at the end of games (See: Washington, Hail Mary, Week 8, d'oh!). Chicago leads the league in red zone defense, allowing touchdowns from inside the 20 just seven times on 19 chances (36.8%). Ironically, the Bears kept last week's game competitive because they limited the Commanders to four field goals in the red zone, including three drives that ended inside the 10-yard line.

In Green BayThe Packers rank sixth in the NFL in scoring (27.0 points per game) and are the only team in the league to score at least 24 points seven times this season. Green Bay's six-player active streak is tied for the longest with Baltimore. The only time the Packers didn't score 24 points was in Week 2, when they beat the Colts 16-10 with Malik Willis starting at quarterback 21 days after arriving from Tennessee via trade.

The Vikings' chances of winning diminished when Shane Steichen benched starting quarterback Anthony Richardson and the Vikings lost left tackle Christian Darrisaw. But the Vikings (5-2) are still a better team than the 4-4 Colts, who are playing at home in TJ Hockenson's return to prime time. Joe Flacco has seen it all, but he won't be able to escape everything the Vikings throw at him, while Brian Flores redeems himself after a 10-quarter wobble over the last three weeks. Vikings 27, Colts 21

The rest of the NFL would like to thank the 4-3 Bears' fourth-ranked scoring defense for last week's public announcement about how not to defend a game-ending Hail Mary or the play before the game-ending Hail Mary. This week they narrowly lost to Arizona (4-4) by a last-second field goal. Cardinals 24, Bears 22

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