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The Detroit Lions have made case for being the NFC North's best team

The Kansas City Chiefs prevailed Sunday afternoon at Ford Field, 34-30, in a game that would have made the late former Chief, Lion and PFFer Gunther Cunningham blush. The Detroit Lions were without their best defensive player in Darius Slay, but still managed to hold NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes without a completion over 20 yards in the air and to just two completions in 13 attempts when under pressure.

Two red-zone turnovers and a late touchdown drive ultimately did them in, but the end result should not obscure an underlying truth in the NFC North, as first said on the

PFF Forecast: The Lions are the division’s best team.