Dan Campbell: Lions will play to win on Monday night, even if the outcome is irrelevant

If the Vikings lose on Sunday to the Packers, the Lions can seize the No. 1 seed with a Monday night win over the 49ers. If the Vikings win on Sunday, the Week 18 game between Minnesota and Detroit becomes a winner-take-all contest for home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.In other words, Monday night's game between the Lions and 49ers will be irrelevant to the final standings, if the Vikings prevail on Sunday.For some teams, that would create an interesting dilemma regarding whether to go all out or to rest starters. The Lions are not one of those teams."I'll make this easy for everybody, that way all the critics can jump out and start attacking, but that way you don't have to debate them anymore," Lions coach Dan Campbell told reporters on Wednesday. "We're bringing everything we got to this game and we are playing, I don't care what it looks like and where it's at and who's this, who's that. We're going out to play and win this game, out on the West Coast. So there you go."And there the season goes, possibly, if the Lions get stung one or two more times by the injury bug. Without naming names for fear of being accused of establishing a jinx, we know which players the...