Honestly, this has all the makings of one of those stupid games where we appear to be wildly overmatched, walking wounded, and end up coming away with the win. I feel like there's been a lot of these games in recent memory tbh, where we've got some key injuries and are against a team who's already the favorite (even if we were healthy) and we end up playing them close and/or win. Come to think of it, it was 3 years ago today that we were 6-1 and playing the Cardinals who were 6-0. We had both Davante and Lazzard out and our pass catchers were A. Jones (7/51), Tonyan (3/49), Winfree (4/30), Deguara (2/20), Cobb (3/15), St Brown (2/12) and Amari Rodgers (1/7). We won off an INT from Rasul...who had just been picked up from the Cardinals practice squad ~3 weeks prior due to injuries to Ja and K. King. Made it happen!
In any case though it's a really tough situation, esp. with Love's health and the bye coming up. If my count's correct, a win would put us atop the NFC (or at worst tied for it, maybe?). Do you risk a less-than-100% Love to try and get that head-to-head over the Lions, or do you play it safe and sit him and let him get the 2+ weeks rest? At 6-2, we're fairly well-positioned in any case, so I think perhaps you'd err on the side of caution, but I don't know...a win without exacerbating injury would be huge mentally/momentum-wise.
