NFL Power Rankings: Reviewing Week 13 Standings After Sunday’s Action

With every NFL team in action in Week 12, there was a lot of opportunity for movement in the standings and power rankings.

Several squads took advantage of favorable matchups this week, earning key wins toward their playoff push. Others will look back at this week as a missed opportunity and could be headed toward a tough end of the season.

There is still time to turn things around, but here is a look at the latest power rankings through Sunday’s Week 12 action.

Notable Movers Detroit Lions

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It doesn’t matter how you win, just that you win.

No team has learned this more than the Detroit Lions this season. They have trailed in the fourth quarter in all 11 games this year, but have somehow found a way to produce a 7-4 record.

Few of those wins were more important than the one on Thanksgiving Day, when two field goals in the final two minutes helped tie and eventually beat the Minnesota Vikings 16-13. All of a sudden, the squad is alone in first place in the NFC North.

Head coach Jim Caldwell explained the team’s ability to keep coming from behind, per Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com:

Our group plays loose and aggressive. That’s kind of how we try to keep it. You can’t play a ballgame uptight. They don’t get uptight, even at the end of ballgames. In tough situations that are fairly tough for the most part and can be a little bit uncomfortable, it does not bother them.

They’ve been in it. They find a way. They believe in one another, and they keep trying to find a way to win.

The latest victory came thanks to a Sam Bradford interception deep in his own territory, which lead to the game-winning Matt Prater field goal. However, all of these comebacks show it can’t be a fluke.

Detroit doesn’t run the ball consistently and has …

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