The Lions have a bye this week. Who would you want them to play in the divisional round, NFC Championship or ... gulp ... the Super Bowl?

Lions fans are irked with me. I mean irked, as in mildly annoyed, as in might not want to buy me an ice cream sundae, or let me merge into a busy line of traffic. I don’t think they hate me. Detroit football fans don’t seethe like that.

The Detroit Lions are the team to beat in the NFC, but this conference's wild-card teams put up more fight than their AFC counterparts.

The Detroit Lions' 31-9 win over the Minnesota Vikings in the final game of the 2024 regular season had a playoff vibe to it. The spoils for the Lions (15-2) were the No. 1 seed in the NFC and home-field advantage throughout,

The Lions enter the playoffs as the betting favorite to win Super Bowl LIX and a big favorite to win the NFC Championship

It sure was far from the easiest path taken. Nevertheless, after 18 long, strenuous weeks, the Detroit Lions finally captured what was rightfully theirs: the NFC North division crown.

The Lions and Chiefs are in a tier of their own odds-wise, thanks to their 15-win seasons and accordant first-round byes. But both have nagging concerns that, if you squint hard enough, begin to look a lot like vulnerabilities. Will any of their potential opponents through the postseason be able to capitalize on those vulnerabilities?

In a dream season, Dan Campbell’s Detroit Lions are trying to make history and restore the Motor City to ultimate football glory. West of the Mississippi, Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs are trying to achieve something no one ever has in the NFL’s modern era — a three-peat.

Super Bowl will be held at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Which teams are favored to play in it? Which team is the favorite to win it? Take a look at Super Bowl odds entering the NFL playoff schedule for every NFL team in the NFL postseason,