At this point in the NFL season Sam Martin Jersey , it’s still really hard to make sense of the league. Teams are still playing wildly inconsistent week-to-week and only a few have truly emerged as contenders or pretenders. This isn’t all that abnormal. Just ask Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who claims you don’t really even know your own team until halfway through the season. “Midseason to me is always about the time where I think you kind of know what you have,” Belichick said back in 2017. “September, I think we’re all trying to figure out a little bit. You go into the season thinking one thing and then after you play three or four games, a lot of time you’re not as good at some things as you thought you were or maybe you’re better at some other things than you might have thought you were. Maybe some guys are performing higher, some guys lower, whatever. It takes a little while to find that equilibrium.”The Lions certainly qualify for that identity crisis. Through five games, they’ve beaten Belichick’s Patriots and their division rival Packers, but also dropped games to the Jets Womens Jake Rudock Jersey , 49ers and Cowboys. They’re a game out of first place in the division but also all alone in last place. So this week, we asked fans to try and assess the team at their bye week—a tough task for even the people within the organization. Will this 2-3 Lions team make the postseason? You all answered with the proper indecision:It’s very easy to see both sides of the equation here. On the pro-playoffs side, you have the fact that the Lions have already beaten two very competitive teams. They are also playing in a division that has three other flawed teams. Each NFC North team has at least one bad loss on their resume and clear weakness on their roster. At this point, it truly feels like anyone’s division.On the other hand, the Lions’ defense is currently playing like one of the worst in the league, and just about every stat will corroborate that. They’re ranked 30th in DVOA, and they’ve also dropped a couple games they had no business losing if they’re going to truly be a contender. So who are these Lions and will they make the postseason this year? As Belichick noted, we probably won’t know for a couple of week, but expect some clarity soon DeShawn Shead Jersey White , because trouble is coming:Want to be a part of these weekly surveys? Join SB Nation’s FanPulse, a survey of fans across the NFL powered by SurveyMonkey. Each week, we send 32 polls to 100+ plugged in fans from each team. Lions fans, sign up HERE to join FanPulse. The Detroit Lions will not play another meaningful game in the 2018 season. Their 34-22 loss to the Chicago Bears put an end to any real hopes of even moderate success this year. Even if the Lions were to somehow win out with one of the toughest remaining schedules in the league, their ceiling is now just 10-6, which probably wouldn’t even be good enough for a trip to the postseason.So this week, the PODcast crew digests what happened on Sunday, but then turns their focus ahead. As a fan, how do you enjoy the next two months of football with no stakes attached? Is it okay to just go out and enjoy a day at the cider mill or something? If you are committed to watching Lions football Marvin Jones Jr Jersey White , how can you still enjoy the game with no expectations? We tackle it all on this week’s episode: This week on the PODcast:Things get a little loopy as Jeremy, Ryan and Chris join together for a midnight taping. The crew gets heated on the coaching, as the team has failed to show any sort of improvement, as promised.If 9-7 isn’t good enough with this talent, what the hell is this season? The offense is a mess, Matthew Stafford is regressing and it seems like the writing is on the wall for Jim Bob Cooter.We point out some individual performances of note, including “Snacks” eating again, Kerryon Johnson beasting on a hobbled leg and the horrible, horrible play of the secondary. #AudibleDongThere’s meaningless football ahead http://www.lionslockerroom.com/authentic-ricky-wagner-jersey , how does one enjoy it? Jeremy, Ryan and Chris all lay out different options for stakeless Sundays. Mailbag distracts the pain by naming the best Disney/Pixar movies, hating on “How I Met Your Mother” and snow cones, and eventually brings it back to Lions football, wondering what would have happened if the Lions had hired Matt Nagy over Matt Patricia.