Which NFC North Team Should Concern Lions?

Evaluating which NFC North team should concern Detroit Lions most in 2024.

Transcript

00:00 In the 2024 NFL season, who should the Detroit Lions have to worry about the most?

00:06 Here today to analyze that topic is SIL Lions senior writer Vito Circo.

00:10 Vito, who in the NFC North division concerns you the most as they get ready to face against

00:15 the Detroit Lions?

00:16 Well, Kim, I don't love the Green Bay Packers by any stretch of the imagination, but I do

00:20 love myself some Jordan Love right now.

00:22 He was really good down the stretch in the 2023 campaign.

00:26 He looks stellar even in the playoffs to a certain extent until that very last pass

00:31 against the 49ers when they blew that divisional round game against the Niners.

00:35 That's a game the Packers should have won.

00:36 Two straight weeks where you can say the 49ers should have lost to the Green Bay Packers

00:40 in the divisional round and then to our Detroit Lions, you could argue very easily too, in

00:44 the NFC title game.

00:46 And Love was key to the Packers run all throughout the 2023 NFL season.

00:51 Led them to a 9-8 record, to a pretty efficient season offensively.

00:55 Overall wise, when you evaluate the Packers as a team, while they finished in second place,

01:00 they were a top 10 defense.

01:02 They have some really good defenders too in Rashawn Gary, Kenny Clark, Preston Smith,

01:06 a stubborn linebacker, and Quade Walker.

01:09 All these guys are relatively young too.

01:11 Quade Walker, a tackling machine, north of 100 total tackles a season ago with the Packers

01:15 as well.

01:16 Rashawn Gary, a sack master at this point.

01:19 Preston Smith, very good at getting after the QB as well.

01:22 So numerous, like all pro or at least pro-bowl caliber defenders the Packers have.

01:27 And that's why I fear them.

01:28 Going into the 2024 season and looking at the Lions and where they stand after winning

01:32 the division a season ago, Cam, I think they have to fear the Packers the most.

01:37 So I think Green Bay is the biggest threat to the Lions for repeating as NFC North division

01:43 champs.

01:44 And once again, it's not just because of Jordan Love, who I think could be really, really

01:49 good once again in 2024, but it's about the Packers roster as a whole and especially that

01:55 very strong defense that they do possess.

01:59 The pick is in.

02:00 Vito is most worried about the Green Bay Packers against the Detroit Lions next season.

02:04 Vito, thanks for all the insight.

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