This is a fact: The Lions are 5-4 and lead the NFC North with seven games left in the regular season.
This also is a fact: The Lions want to do everything in their power to ignore this fact. They don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to discuss scenarios that would lead to them winning their first division title since 1993. They want, almost literally, to turn a blind eye to whole enterprise of discussing the road to the playoffs.
“I’m going to stay nearsighted, shortsighted, tunnel vision,” coach Jim Caldwell said.