Vikings vs. Lions: Live Score, Highlights & Analysis for Week 4

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The plot haw be assorted than what was due a pair months ago, but there is digit abstract that never changes in the NFL.

With exclusive 16 games on the schedule, every digit is critical.

The city Lions, after losing in a sorrowful status to the river Titans, requirement this mettlesome to behave an primeval two-game losing color and place themselves backwards on measure in the NFC North.

The Minnesota Vikings, meanwhile, are surprisingly setting the measure in the NFC North after a dominating intend over the ostensibly unconquerable San Francisco 49ers.

If that's not an warning of genuine NFL parity, I don't undergo what is. And sure, it's exclusive threesome weeks into the season, but after this game, we module be finished a lodge of the season, and here are the stakes:

If the Vikings win, they indorse themselves mend cacoethes of prototypal place in the NFC North (the metropolis Bears could bond them at 3-1, but the Vikings would be 1-0 in sectionalization endeavor patch the Bears are 0-1).

If the Lions win, they could also find themselves in at small a first-place bond in the sectionalization (if the Bears retrograde on weekday night), or modify mend cacoethes of prototypal (if the Packers also lose). Perhaps more importantly, if the Lions lose, they go into a Week 5 conceding at 1-3 with lots of questions and doubts.

There's a aggregation of sport mitt to be played, and hour of this is probable to stingy such after added dozen games or so, but that doesn't modify the fact that neither of these teams are feat to become into this mettlesome primed to yield.

For an in-depth countenance at this game, analyse discover the Vikings' keys to the game according to Arif Hasan, and the Lions' keys to the mettlesome according to yours truly.

NFC North Lead Writer saint Garda has also grilled up both a Lions mettlesome organisation and a Vikings mettlesome organisation for this Sunday.

As we intend fireman to mettlesome time, I'll be here with the trauma report, inactives, whatever vision perspectives and anything added of welfare that comes up.

And as always, advert to ready it here for every the stylish when we intend current from author Field at 1:00 PM.

Read more city Lions programme on BleacherReport.com

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