the NFL started doing that six seven years ago where they would take two of the six Thanksgiving teams and their game against each other Falls exactly one week after Thanksgiving it had been Dallas involved right in that Thursday night game and sorry Jerry the Lin said they had enough this year we got we got enough of how about them Cowboys we want to see some Detroit Lions in prime time on Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers the lions are only favored by three and a half points which tells you how good the Packers are
because You' think at home Lions 11 and one you think it would be a little bit more of a margin than that but the Packers are capable of keeping it close it's all the more reason to to just pray that you don't have to have a repeat of this game in the divisional round of the playoffs or the NFC champion yeah no it it's it's it's got It's got super Stars everywhere right you got two quarterbacks that are capable of a lot and I should have explained this earlier and Pete got in my ear and
thank you Pete is right I mean Jordan love was banged up too right so he's he's only had a few weeks here of going wait I'm totally healthy I'm totally myself and when he was playing this Detroit game this was a week where I don't think he practiced all week and then he played and we talked about that a lot of the time he's not the kind of guy that can do that right he needs the Reps obviously and being a young guy that hasn't had a ton of experience I get that some guys are
like that but you see here I mean the the damn guy is capable of making eye popping throws and another guy just like Jared gof where they're not looking to run or do anything he wants to stand in the pocket and deliver it down the field for Big Time throws Big Time plays and that's why they're they're fun to watch uh but but yeah Jordan love I'm hoping he gets on a a hot streak here and gets going cuz he'll make things interesting on the NFC between these two teams and what they do and of
course come playoff time if he's hitting on all cylinders uh man it' be awesome to have Philly Detroit and the Packers all be kind of heavyweight contenders where you go they can win the Super Bowl and they're going to have to play each other in the playoffs here we were talking earlier about avoiding the Packers if possible trying to get the Packers and the Eagles to play each other sooner than later and and you think about how this is playing out on the seating you the lower the seed like if the Eagles are the two
seed the lions are the one seed and I doubt that there's a way that the Packers fall all the way to the seven seed but that would be the best possible outcome for the Lions to have the Packers fall behind the commanders and force the Packers to go to Philadelphia right out of the gates oh yeah knock out one of those two teams right out of the gates cuz then maybe you get lucky and the next week the other team gets knocked out and you don't have to face either the Eagles or the Packers in
the divisional round or the conference Championship yeah I I I hear you there I mean that that would be ideal for Detroit look how topheavy look how top heavy the left column is it's incredible it's incredible we're going to have a year all three Wild Card teams are better than two of the division winners no we're we're in a and we're in a way where I know this is like a pet peave yours and some other people out there but we're in a year here where it could be a 14 and3 or 13-4 Minnesota and
Green Bay teams on the road versus Seattle and Atlanta who are 500 or you know 9 and8 or 8- n i mean it really could be that it could be that this year and that's going to make people mad and I know there's going to be the conversation about oh if you win your division should you get a home playoff game and all that and I get it uh but yeah this is going to have I think maybe some odd looks as far as record matchups come that first Wild Card week weekend when you go
wait that teams at home and they're 8- n or n and8 versus the team that has a HomeField Advantage type of record yeah it won't look right we're g we could going to potentially have two in the NFC of those not one every once in a while there's one and people are like oh they they have to change this rule this year there could be two and Pete makes a good point if the Packers do fall to seven and go to Philly and beat the Eagles then the Packers would go to Detroit for the divisional
round because be the low SE but if the Eagles would knock out the Packers and then somebody gets the Eagles next week that's how the the Lions avoid playing either team in the conference Championship game or in the divisional round so uh yeah and they're never going to change that rule that's the thing I I've I've been upset about it in the past and argued about it but someone explained it to me at some point the owners are never going to make that go away because they all benefit individually from the one out of four
possibility in every given year of hosting a playoff yeah sure small division all you have to do is win the division and you host a playoff game there's more money in hosting a playoff game you don't have to be great you can be nine and eight you can be eight- n hell maybe you could be seven- 10 and host a playoff game that's the thing that will keep it from Ever Changing yeah no it probably it probably won't ever change and I I I really in my heart I don't think it should yeah this weird
this year is kind of a uh a weird year you know an asteris type of year that you put next to it and go that but but you know I I do think you should be rewarded for winning your Division and having that home game I I I I like it the way it is it's a great system so uh but yeah it's not perfect and this is this is going to be a year that's going to kind of expose that it definitely is but we've seen plenty of teams it doesn't matter whe I mean
again we just we just saw it last year you don't have to have the first round buy or any of that or anything like that you could go to the Super Bowl we see it more now than ever I feel like as far as teams that are wild card teams that go to the the Super Bowl win the Super Bowl might not be happening as much as we saw or as much as we saw earlier in the 2010s and all that but still very very real possibility and we saw the the Chiefs play the Wild
Card Weekend last year and host the Dolphins and then go on their run so uh we'll see it's it's going to be a good interesting race in the NFC and Detroit and Green Bay are going to continue to lead that charge and uh there's just a lot of good players on both sides of the football in this matchup two things though first of all there is a certain arbitrary element to this idea that you're assigned to a division and you could be a Powerhouse but if there's another team in the division that's more of a
Powerhouse it doesn't matter if you're better than every other team in the conference from the other three divisions you're stuck behind this Powerhouse the Packers at nine and three would be leading two other divisions the Vikings would be leading two other divisions and again the commanders would be leading two other divisions so there is an element of just kind of like random and you're stuck and these are the divisions you're assigned to and you're but but that's part of the the Intrigue of being in a division right you constantly have to battle with your division
Rivals and you have to overcome them and you play them six total times over the course of a year the other thing I wanted to say you gave me a flashback yeah to the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond when Raymond goes on TV for the first time and then afterward Deborah is going over all the words he's gotten wrong and one of them was asterisk yeah Aster asteris as Aster not asterisk but asteris yes sorry yes yeah I know I didn't come out clean I knew I knew that that challenge flag might have been thrown
and we might have to go to video review on that word there so yeah sorry about that doesn't flow off my tongue easily that one yeah there were a few others I can't remember what they were but uh he he uh well thank you write them down next time keep track come on hurry up you know come on no no not from you from the from the the show the show kind of a they they gave they they like complimented him and ended up being a disaster and then I think he went back and it
was even worse I can't remember I probably need to watch again I think it's on peacock I think it is on peacock as are we hi it's Mike Florio thanks for watching PFT on YouTube hit subscribe for the latest news and Analysis from pro football talk
