Locally, it may seem like both Detroit Lions fans and analysts were a little let down by the team’s opening performance. They blew a 14-point second half lead, so that is certainly understandable in some fashion.

That said, beating an extremely motivated Los Angeles Rams team whose quarterback was absolutely cooking despite a decimated offensive line was impressive. And the national media seemed to grasp that in this week’s NFL power rankings round up. For most analysts, the Lions solidified their status as a top-three team, and anyone that had them outside of their top five corrected that error after watching them play on Sunday night.

Unsurprisingly, most of the praise came in the form of DAN CAMPBELL FOOTBALL happening in overtime, with Detroit’s run game looking unstoppable. Only a couple moved the Lions down a spot or two, but pretty much only had positive things to say.

Here’s a look at the Week 2 power rankings across the web:

MMQB: 2 (Last week: 2)

From Conor Orr:

How much of a flex was Dan Campbell’s team taking the overtime coin flip and absolutely jamming the ball down the Rams’ throats? The fact that Detroit can call on this physicality and ride it like a superpower during the more rigorous moments of the game should have put the league on notice. If that wasn’t scary enough, Jameson Williams is as good as advertised and is playing like he heard all the snide remarks while he rehabbed from a draft year torn ACL.

USA Today: 2 (Last week: 2)

From Nate Davis:

Did we mention this club might be unstoppable if WR Jameson Williams (5 catches for 121 yards and a TD in Sunday night’s win) consistently plays up to his ability? (Hint: We did.)

Yahoo Sports: 3 (Last week: 2)

From Frank Schwab:

There was a fourth-and-2 play early Sunday night in which the Lions ran it up the middle and got it. How many other teams would run up the middle in that situation? That’s what happens when you have what might be the NFL’s best offensive line. It was a precursor for overtime, when the Lions got the ball first and ran it on seven of eight plays to score the walk-off winner.

The Athletic: 5 (Last week: 2)

From Josh Kendall:

The Lions won the game with an eight-play, 70-yard touchdown drive in overtime. Seven of those plays were runs that covered 60 yards. It was Dan Campbell’s dream drive. This might be his dream team, too. Jared Goff was fine. David Montgomery had 91 rushing yards. Maybe most importantly, Jameson Williams had his first 100-yard receiving game, finishing with five catches for 121 yards.

The Ringer: 2 (Last week: 2)

From Diante Lee:

The eight-play game-winning drive in overtime perfectly captured what makes Detroit unique. The Lions offense changed gears in crunch time. They stopped looking for explosive plays in the passing game, opting to mash the Rams with seven runs that totaled 60 yards, culminating with a David Montgomery touchdown. Earlier in the game, Detroit gave us a glimpse of what receiver Jameson Williams’s combination of speed and route running adds to this offense, as he averaged an impressive 24.2 yards per reception. The threat of his field stretching alone will open the game up for tight end Sam LaPorta and slot receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown in the future.

The defense’s struggles in coverage in Week 1 made me consider moving the team out of the no. 2 spot, but I’ll wait to see its upcoming matchup with Tampa Bay before making any judgment on whether this secondary is in better shape than it was last season.

Sporting News: 3 (Last week: 3)

From Vinnie Iyer:

The Lions almost had a carbon copy tough test against the Rams at home like they did in the playoffs, but they once again dug deep and showed they can be resilient offensively and defensively — and work overtime if needed — under Dan Campbell.

The 33rd team: 3 (Last week: 3)

From Marcus Mosher:

The Detroit Lions got a gritty, tough win against the Rams on Sunday Night Football.

They held a 17-3 lead in the second half but needed overtime to take down Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford. Detroit is loaded with talent, and now it is finding ways to close out games they usually lose. That is a sign of a real contender.

NFL.com: 3 (Last week: 4)

From Eric Edholm:

The Lions won in a playoff-like atmosphere against a Rams team they barely put away in the playoffs eight months ago. It was not the explosive offensive performance we’ve come to expect from Detroit, but it was an impressive show of toughness and will nonetheless. I say it’s a good thing and a sign of relative growth that Jared Goff and Amon-Ra St. Brown can have the kinds of performances they did and the Lions can still win. The Jameson Williams breakout was a terrific development, and the run game closed it out. But that also doesn’t mean the secondary questions on defense have suddenly gone away. Matthew Stafford kinda gutted that group for stretches. First-round CB Terrion Arnold was up against it all night. The Lions are real, but they remain imperfect.

CBS Sports: 4 (Last week: 7)

[Editor’s Note: Prisco, who had the Packers #2 to start the year, dropped Green Bay all the way to 15th. lol.]

From Pete Prisco:

They nearly fretted away a lead against the Rams, but showed their physical toughness to win it in overtime. The pass defense has to tighten up a bit.

SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wis. – An early morning structure fire broke out in South Milwaukee on Tuesday, Sept. 10.

The South Milwaukee Fire Department responded to 1406 Marion Ave just after 12:30 a.m.

Upon arrival, fire units encountered a fire in the upper floor knee wall of a one-and-a-half story, single-family dwelling.

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All family members, including four adults and three children, were able to evacuate from the building. Fire crews found several unharmed pets that were removed from the home as well.

The fire was contained to the upper floor, with two unaccounted-for cats. The American Red Cross is assisting the family with their immediate needs.

No firefighters were injured.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

In the underground gallery of the Q.arma Building in northeast Minneapolis, there is a line of giant stubbed-out cigarettes, all of them glossy and hard ceramic.

Nearby are watercolor prints of Persian calligraphy featuring lyrics by female Iranian pop artists who worked in exile after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. In a back room, artist Shirin Ghoraishi places a virtual reality headset on visitors, chaperoning them through an ocean horizon that leads to a subway car.

This is the show, “So Far, So Close,” featuring Ghoraishi, Ziba Rajabi and Katayoun Amjadi. The artists were all born in Iran.

“We all have been living outside of Iran for years,” says Rajabi, who also curated the show. “This is an exhibition that explores the complicated experience of displacement from the motherland through themes of space, distance and memory by three Iranian female artists.”

The exhibition was funded by the Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective and the Minnesota Humanities Center. 

Rajabi’s works are the series of watercolor calligraphy. In her artist statement, Rajabi explains that in “the ‘80s and ‘90s, the Islamic regime banned pop music, and the only art and music allowed were war propaganda.”

The pop songs she references in her work come from Iranian artists whose work was smuggled into the country on tapes or VHS. For this show, she focuses on the music of Leila Forouhar, an Iranian woman who fled Iran in the 80s. 

“Her experience of exile was similar,” Rajabi says.

Ghoraishi created a VR experience about reality, dreams and memory and where these areas overlap. 

“The audience will see an ocean that is a representation of dreams and memories, which doesn’t mean they are true or not true,” Ghoraishi says. “Sometimes memory tricks us. We remember something that didn’t exist before.”

Ghoraishi ends the user experience by placing them in front of a full-length mirror in a dim room. 

“This final moment is a necessary reminder that as an immigrant, we are shaped by what we remember of our past and what we have had to forget,” Ghoraishi says. “The mirror reflects not only the self but the constant negotiation of one’s identity.”

Amjadi created the nine giant ceramic cigarettes. The rest of her installation includes silkscreen prints of cigarette packs as well as two actual cigarette packs encased in a clear box. “Two ordinary cigarette packs picked up from newsstands in Tehran and Jerusalem,” Amjadi wrote in her artist statement.

The brands are Bahman, the national cigarette of Iran, and Alia, a cigarette brand from Palestine that is sold in Israel.

Amjadi says her art investigates “how objects carry memory, and the objects that we collect, especially as souvenirs that we bring from one place to another, are signifiers of memory, nostalgia and also identity are embedded in them.”

Bahman, Amjadi explains, is Farsi for “snow avalanche” and is also the word for February, the month of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

“Bahman is the month of revolution, a 1979 revolution in Iran that, in a sense, caused the Iranian diaspora,” Amjadi says. “So me and my friends right here would not be here if that event would not have taken place.” 

Alia is the Arabic word for “exalted.” Amjadi says it also has the meaning of a return to the Holy Land for the Jewish people. (Aliyah means “ascent” in Hebrew and is used in Judaism to represent both the act of being called to read from the Hebrew Bible and the act of immigrating to Israel.)

“Which is a reverse diaspora but causes another diaspora, a Palestinian diaspora,” she says. “I’m interested in the desires and yearnings of one population for a homeland, for belonging to a place, and how it causes another group to be displaced, and the parities between these diasporas in a way.”

Gallery hours are 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays through Tuesdays. Visitors can do the virtual reality experience Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition will have a closing reception on Sept. 21.