It sounded like crazy talk last week when Glover Quin raised the possibility of the Detroit Lions making the playoffs.

And while it’s still not the most sane line of thinking, it does seem slightly more reasonable after the Lions beat the Arizona Cardinals, and the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington are all coming off Week 14 losses.

“I’ve seen (the playoff scenarios), obviously,” Quin said Wednesday. “I’m not blind. I’m not oblivious to the fact. I’m not dumb, either. I understand. I can look at their record and say this is kind of how it’s going to play out, so I kind of knew it even before everybody started making a big deal out of it I kind of saw it unfolding. But I think for us, none of that stuff matters if we don’t take care of our business.”

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The Lions, 5-8 entering Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills (4-9), have no room for error if they hope to make the postseason in Matt Patricia’s first season as head coach.

The Lions have a 2.2 percent chance of making the playoffs, according to the website MakeNFLPlayoffs.com, and their best bet of doing so entails them winning their final three games: at Buffalo this week, home against the Minnesota Vikings next week and at the Green Bay Packers in their season finale, and having Minnesota, Washington and Philadelphia all lose at least twice down the stretch.

“We’ve got to win out,” Quin said. “We’ve got to go in, prepare and get ready to beat Buffalo and we get that done, we’ll move on to the next one. But none of those scenarios, none of that stuff matters if we don’t take care of our business.”

Quin said Lions coach Matt Patricia has not talked about playoff scenarios, and he scoffed at the notion that players would knowingly tank in football.

“I mean, nobody goes out there and just tries to get beat up on,” Quin said. “If you’re going to tank in something, you tank in basketball or baseball where it’s not physical. You go out on the football field, tank and you’re going to get yourself hurt. So you better come ready to play. So as players we don’t think about that, we go out and try to win every game.”

Ziggy in 2019?

Patricia side-stepped a question Wednesday about whether he wants defensive end Ziggy Ansah to return to Detroit next season.

The Lions placed Ansah on injured reserve Tuesday because of a shoulder injury he suffered against the Cardinals. Ansah, fourth on the Lions’ all-time sack list, will be an unrestricted free agent when his contract expires in March.

“Ziggy’s been great for me,” Patricia said. “This year, we’ve worked really well together. I think I’ve grown as a coach, he’s grown as a player. I think that relationship has been great. It’s unfortunate, but injuries happen as far as that’s concerned and right now, our focus is just trying to get onto the Bills and get ready to go and make sure that we’re doing everything that we can to win this weekend. So, that’s really kind of just the short-term picture for us.”

Lunar toons

Luke Willson, the Lions’ resident conspiracy theorist, is siding with Stephen Curry’s latest opinion on this one.

Willson said Wednesday he believes America did land on the moon, a conversation that has generated plenty of debate since Curry appeared to say he did not believe in the lunar landing during a conversation with teammates on The Ringer’s “Winging It” podcast.

Curry insisted Wednesday he was joking on the podcast, and he does believe in the moon landing.

“Some events happened in my life and I’m going the other way with it, bro,” Willson said Wednesday. “I think I might actually believe in the moon landing.”

Asked what events happened, Willson said, “I met someone — I don’t want to drop any names, but I met someone who knows someone and one of those ordeals. I was like, ‘You know, I should probably re-evaluate my stance on that,’ and I now believe that people were on the moon.”

Willson, one of the most fun-loving players in the locker room, often jokes with reporters about various conspiracy theories. He said his initial hesitation in believing in the moon landing was that, “America likes to lie. Bay of Pigs, case in point. That’s all.”

Now, though, Willson said he’s sold that a moon walk occurred.

“I believe America landed on the moon,” he said. “You heard it out of the horse’s mouth.”

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