While the excitement of playoff football fills the hearts of those lucky fans who are watching their teams advance, the Detroit Lions and their followers are busy dreaming up ways to improve their roster and give themselves a chance to be in that position next year.
After a 9-7 finish in 2017 and barely missing the playoffs, fans were expecting new head coach Matt Patricia to fix the defense and build a running game to compliment what had been an explosive passing attack just one year earlier.
Instead the defense took the majority of the season, as well as a trade for Damon ‘Snacks’ Harrison, before they finally started to play well and offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter seemed to omit all the vertical passing plays that had been so effective last year from his playbook.