The Detroit Lions are attempting to make a major overhaul in a short period of time. A feat that isn’t easy for even the best of teams to pull off.
They are attempting to re-tool, re-build or even revitalize a franchise that has spent the last two seasons going in reverse at full speed. Yet despite that ‘about-face’ the plans are to make next seasons model a contender.
Outside of fairy tales, how do you turn a Pinto into a Ferrari? How do you make a sputtering franchise without a motor, fit to enter the Indy 500?