FIRST DOWN: NEXT GAME UP

At this point last season, the Lions were 11-1 and very much in the conversation for a second straight NFC North title and the No. 1 overall seed in the playoffs.

A year later this Detroit Lions football team sits in a different spot following Thursday's 31-24 loss on Thanksgiving to the Green Bay Packers, a loss that dropped Detroit to 7-5 on the year.

The Lions are now behind both the Bears (8-3) and Packers (8-3-1) in the NFC North with just five games remaining. The Packers also now hold the tiebreaker with the Lions thanks to a season sweep of Detroit.

"We dug ourselves a little bit of a hole and that's the bottom line," Lions head coach Dan Campbell said Thursday after the loss. "We are in a little bit of a hole. But that's just what it is. There's nothin

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