Last week, we opened up our weekly Detroit Lions Rooting Guide, acknowledging that any hopes of a Lions postseason was a complete longshot. However, after Detroit pulled off a road upset over the New York Giants, suddenly it doesn’t feel all that ridiculous to talk about the postseason in Detroit. Football Outsiders has the Lions’ chance at the playoffs at a reasonable 16.3 percent, while the New York Times is far less optimistic at 10 percent.
A statement win over the Buffalo Bills would do a lot to bump up those numbers, and even if Detroit can’t pull off the upset, hope is not all lost.