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2. Lions look to score first touchdown versus Vikings since 2017
The Vikings defense is playing lights out in 2019. They’ve yet to allow more than 21 points in a game and are surrendering only 15.5 points per contest, they are allowing a stingy 4.8 yards per play and they are second in the League in tackles for loss (34). You don’t have to tell the Lions how good the Vikings defense is, though, because Matthew Stafford and Co. failed to score a touchdown against the Vikings in 2018. Of the Lions 20 drives of consequence against the Vikings a season ago, 14 ended in punts or some kind of turnover and six resulted in field goals.
3. Stafford set to face Vikings in top form
Although Detroit failed to find the end zone against the Vikings in 2018, you can pardon this year’s Lions offense from failing much more confident as a group. With Darrell Bevell in his first year as offensive coordinator in Detroit, Stafford is having arguably his finest season. He’s having career-best seasons in passer rating (99.1), yards per attempt (8.0), air yards per attempt (7.0), yards per completion (13.1), sack percentage (5.5), touchdown percentage (5.2) and interception percentage (1.2). Stafford doesn’t have some of the gaudy box scores he had when Calvin Johnson was his main target, but his efficiency and overall play is improved.