When a team starts to consistently win a lot of games and make the playoffs, talk about a "Super Bowl window" or a general "window to win" easily follows. Coming off back-to-back division titles and a 15-win season in 2024, the Detroit Lions are ostensibly in their "Super Bowl window."
Not that general manager Brad Holmes buys into any of that kind of talk, as he reinforced in his season-ending press conference after the Lions' Divisional Round loss to the Washington Commanders.
"I think that we’ve done a good job of doing our best we can to avoid windows,” Holmes said. “And I understand that contracts come up when contracts come up and stuff happens, but we feel so good about our young core and young nucleus of players..... So, I just think that all of the pieces are in place that I don’t really feel walls closing in or a window and again, we kind of make an effort to avoid those kinds of things."
Head coach Dan Campbell, in his own season-ending press conference, made it clear he feels the same way.
There's a case for the Lions to cash in some chips for a big move or two this offseason in an effort to get over the hump in the playoffs. But that would go against an roster-building approach that has worked well to this point.
Early Super Bowl LX odds prove Lions' window is wide open
Courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook (odds subject to change, h/t to USA TODAY) here's a look at the early odds for who will win Super Bowl LX.
Philadelphia Eagles +600
Kansas City Chiefs +700
Baltimore Ravens +700
Buffalo Bills +700
Detroit Lions +900
San Francisco 49ers +1500
Cincinnati Bengals +1800
Washington Commanders +1900
Green Bay Packers +1900
Los Angeles Rams +2800
Los Angeles Chargers +2800
Houston Texans +3000
Tampa Bay Buccaneers +3500
Denver Broncos +3500
Minnesota Vikings +4000
Chicago Bears +4500
Dallas Cowboys +5500
Seattle Seahawks +6500
Pittsburgh Steelers +6500
Miami Dolphins +6500
Atlanta Falcons +6500
Arizona Cardinals +6500
New York Jets +8000
New England Patriots +8000
Las Vegas Raiders +9000
Jacksonville Jaguars +10000
Indianapolis Colts +11000
Carolina Panthers +12000
New York Giants +15000
New Orleans Saints +15000
Tennessee Titans +20000
Cleveland Browns +20000
The Lions are one of five teams with better than 10-1 odds (and better than 15-to-1 odds) to win Super Bowl LX, joining three of this year's conference championship game participants and the Baltimore Ravens.
Odds are what they are, the day after a Super Bowl looking toward who could win the next one. The Lions are in a "Super Bowl window", even if Holmes wants to dismiss that concept, but that window is still wide open.