Lions followers imagine Detroit’s offense wants to arrange for shootout vs. Bills

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of followers throughout the NFL. Throughout the 12 months we ask questions of essentially the most plugged-in Detroit Lions followers and followers throughout the nation. Sign up right here to take part within the weekly emailed surveys.

In this week’s SB Nation Reacts surveys, we requested Lions followers two questions:

1. Are you assured the Lions are headed in the precise course? (weekly ballot)
2. How many factors will the Lions offense want to attain to beat the Bills?

After 4 consecutive weeks of touchdown at 99% confidence, the fan vote dipped to 91% forward of the Packers sport (I’m assuming some trolls from Green Bay have been flooding the vote), however after taking good care of enterprise in opposition to their division rivals, that quantity jumped again up to 98% this week.

As for our second query, we requested followers what number of factors the Lions would want to attain so as to beat the Bills, and after nailing the rating final week for the Packers sport, I used to be extremely anticipating how the vote would end up this time round.

With the Lions and Bills being the top-scoring offenses within the NFL (No. 1 and a pair of respectively) followers predict a shootout. The Lions common 32.5 factors scored per sport, whereas the Bills common 30.5 factors scored per sport. So what number of factors will the Lions want to attain? A whopping 87% of followers imagine they’ll must be near or above their season common.

Let’s check out a number of the explanations from the remark part, calmly edited for size and readability:

• Gomers Pyle: “We solely wanted 32 to beat Green Bay with out Alim and Reader and that was with the Coach/Offense giving the Packers 2 quick Red Zone fields… Lions don’t give two quick fields the Packers don’t rating 30… Lions have to dominate TOP once more on this sport and they’ll hold the payments beneath 30.”
• IsLionfan: “Bills are 10-3 and have scored LESS than 30 factors in solely 3 video games. They have scored 30 or extra factors in every of their final 7 video games, together with 42 within the loss to the Rams final week. […] The Lions offense must be very environment friendly, with no TOs and a excessive purple zone TD conversion price. Lions might have >35 factors to win this sport. Should be thrilling no matter occurs.”

Additionally, SB Nation additionally ran a nationwide survey asking who would cowl the Lions -1.5 unfold (it’s now again to Lions-2.5) set by the oldsters over at FanDuel Sportsbook, and the nationwide viewers continues to aspect with Detroit, with 63% of nationwide followers believing the Lions win and canopy.