Another Week, Another Loss for the Lions
The Detroit Lions entered week 8 of the NFL season with a winless record and were facing the 5-2 Washington Redskins. Going into the game, Detroit was watching their hopes at a possible playoff spot almost officially die if they could not find a win this week. After the first half of the game the Lions were in good shape leading the Redskins 10-6 and were looking to hold off Washington in the second half. However after a turn of events, the Redskins found themselves in front 16-10 after the 3rd quarter of play. In the final quarter of play, Detroit made an attempt to regain the lead but it wasn’t enough. The Lions fell to the Redskins by the final score of 25-17.

With another loss, the Lions find themselves almost completely out of the playoff picture with a 0-7 record. However, the Lions are not the only team with such misfortunes, the Cincinnati Bengals lost again this week pushing their season record to 0-8. Both of these two winless teams sill search for answers in the coming weeks and try to muster up a miracle and make the wild card playoff spot.