It’s Week 15 of the Power Rankings and we come to you with a heavy heart. As I’ve said a few places, the Detroit Lions, for the majority of this season, were the best team I’ve ever seen in person as a professional writing about the NFL. My timeframe stretches from 2010 until now which, while truncated, encompasses a good sample size of dynastic teams, electric flash-in-the-pan teams and other groups we thought would change the NFL (but did not).
Detroit was different in every conceivable way and appeared to be built with a depth that I saw as infallible at the start of the season. Only a sinister and cruel stretch of injuries could possibly upend this team.
