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Free Press writers Jeff Seidel, Dave Birkett dissect the Lions' 27-24 win over the Eagles, and wonder if there's more upside to come, Sept. 22, 2019. Dave Birkett and Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press

PHILADELPHIA — Let’s start with a vocabulary lesson, Detroit Lions fans.

We are going to use a word that might be confusing to you. Something you often haven’t heard around this team, not for the last half-century or so.

“We’re resilient,” Lions receiver Marvin Jones Jr. said Sunday afternoon, after a 27-24 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.