The Herd with Colin Cowherd

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a thought-provoking, opinionated, and topic-driven journey through the top sports stories of the day. Colin's unique...Full Bio

 

Why This NFL Doormat Could Shock the League and Make the Playoffs This Year

Colin Cowherd: “When you look at their schedule, Detroit may be the only team in this league I could talk myself into them winning 9 games or 4. They get a real break with their schedule. Seven games on their schedule they face a team with a fairly shaky quarterback situation where Jared Goff will get better protection and be a better quarterback than who they face. Washington, Seattle, Chicago, Jets, Giants, Carolina, Chicago… Those are young and mistake-prone quarterbacks like Carson Wentz. They’re going to have either a quarterback experience edge, home field edge, or consistency edge in nine games. Could they go 8-1 in those games? Absolutely. They were very competitive last year against good teams often, they just did have any depth and were terrible defensively. They didn’t have a pass rush, they were bad on the back end, and nobody gave up more late touchdowns it felt than Detroit. They are a very unique team in which you start looking at this schedule and if they stayed healthy with their offensive pieces you could see them winning 9 games. They were the most interesting ‘bad’ team in the league last year, and my guess is that they’re a 7-win team, but a friend of mine who gambles for a living thinks they’re going to beat Philadelphia in Week 1, and he thinks they could win 9 games and be a playoff team. A lot of people who do this for a living think the Lions could be the sleeper of the league. ” (Full Segment Above)

Watch Colin Cowherd explain why he thinks the Detroit Lions could be the surprise of the NFL this season, as head coach Dan Campbell’s feisty bunch are the focus of HBO’s latest season of Hard Knocks.

Check out the video above as Colin details why he thinks Vegas bettors are picking up on the Lions craze as the league’s most captivating sleeper team.

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