The Green Bay Packers are trying to prevent their season from sliding into the abyss. The Detroit Lions seem to already be raising the white flag.
The good news for one of these teams -- barring an unlikely tie -- is that a losing streak will be broken when they face each other in Detroit on Sunday.
Green Bay (3-5), which is completing a three-game road swing, has dropped four straight. Detroit (1-6) occupies its usual spot at the bottom of the NFC North after losing five straight.
Trailing first-place Minnesota by 3 1/2 games, the Packers may have already dug themselves too deep of a hole to win the division.