Dan Campbell correctly noted after the Detroit Lions’ blowout of the Green Bay Packers last week that there truly is no quarter pole in the NFL season anymore.
“I’m not great at math,” Campbell said. “But it’s hard to quarter things now with 17 weeks.”
Indeed it is, so rather than wait till a quarter of the way through the Lions’ fifth regular season game Sunday against the Carolina Panthers, I figured I’d use this week’s power rankings to take stock of the NFC North.
The Lions are the best team in the division by a wide margin, even if their lead right now over the Packers is a single game.