ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions (7-5) are well aware that their margin of error is “very small” through the season’s final five games.

It’s a hole they’ve dug themselves, losing three of their last seven games, sitting third in the division and on the outside of the NFC playoff picture. Detroit’s loss to the Green Bay Packers was a crushing blow. By getting swept by the Packers, the path to the three-peat in the NFC North is essentially non-existent, while the window to even making the playoffs is murky and closing.

“So, of course, we’ve got to find a way to win, and we want to win,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said on Sunday. “And I think, I go back to this, we just lost one. We’ve got to find a way to win this next one in front of us. And yeah, I mean, time’s running out.

“It’s all about

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