It was bizarro week in the NFC North. The Lions were upset in a game where they were the heavy favorites over the Packers and Packers fans had to spend Monday Night Football twisting their brains into knots rooting for the Bears. 

Lions

The Lions succumbed to the Packers 29-22.

Game Notes

• Never go full pumpkin. Thanks to plenty of garbage time, Jared Goff's surface-level stats look fine for this game. He had 332 yards, 7.5 YPA, 2 touchdowns, and he also gave away the game for the Lions with three costly fumbles.
• The Lions' usual suspects, David Montgomery, Jahmyr Gibbs, the Sun God, Sam LaPorta and Jameson Williams, all had productive games, it just happened to all be in garbage time because of the turnovers and because the defense is now certified horrific. 
• Someone named Jerry Jacobs led the team in solo tackles with seven. Turns out he is a corner. Another corner, Brian Branch who is at least mans the slot, led the team in total tackles with 8. I don't know what has to happen for two corners to lead your team in tackles while your first-round pick linebacker had just three, but it ain't good. 
• The Lions D also failed to get much tangible pressure on Love and had no sacks on the day, In the first match-up between these two teams, the Lions pressured Love relentlessly and protected Goff all night, in this game the reverse was true. I don't know if we can commit to saying the Packers' trench groups are now superior to the Lions', but they certainly looked that way this week.  

Former Packers

• Technically Patrick Taylor is a former and current Packer. He had 3 carries for 11 yards which was somehow not the worst yards per carry by a Packers running back on the day. 

Next Week

The Lions look to get back on track against the Saints. 

Vikings & Bears

This game was probably the worst game to watch of the season and 

Game Notes

• Talk about QBs turning into pumpkins. Media favorite Josh Dobbs and nobody's favorite Justin Fields both regressed in this game. Dobbs had a good few weeks before the Vikings choked against the Broncos last week and he was just bad in this game. At one point he was 16/25 for 99 yards with four picks. You'd think, "Geeze what a terrible performance, it couldn't get any worse," but then right after that he threw a ball out of bounds when Jordan Addison was open for a sure touchdown by about 7 yards. Fields, who has been bad for most of his career, had seemingly broken out with a more open offense but he did not look great for most of this game. He finally hit DJ Moore for a big play on the last drive of the game to set up the game-winning field goal. Many eye doctors are reportedly booked through the end of December as football watchers en masse called in an appointment because of the blood streaming out of their eyes after watching these two quarterbacks for three hours.
• The Vikings proved in this game that you can throw four interceptions and still need just one touchdown drive to almost beat the Bears. The Vikings just don't have it. Any offense that makes you yearn for Kirk Cousins or that causes people to point out on Twitter that Brandon Powell (a journeyman wide receiver who has played for six teams in six season) is playing better than your first-round pick isn't going to get you far in the playoffs. 
• The Vikings' defense looked fine again. They had three sacks and forced three fumbles. It may not seem super impressive to hold the Bears to 12, but they are an NFL team and they just put up 26 on the Lions last week. 
• The Bears' defense probably played its best game of the season, they had four picks, eight total passes defensed, two sacks, and got the ball back to allow the final game-winning drive. 

Former Packers

• The Badgers Linebacker squad combined for just seven tackles this week, although TJ Edwards did have one of the four picks. 

Next Week

The Bears mercifully have a bye and the Vikings take on the Raiders.