When a season goes astray like the Detroit Lions’ 2018 campaign, the solution for a quick turnaround is never easy. While the temptation is to find a scapegoat and put all of the problems on their shoulders, the truth is 5-10 seasons are caused by many factors. No one player, coach, design, locker room culture, punctuality problem or injury is solely to blame for failure in the end. And if we’re being completely honest, sometimes a team’s record isn’t very indicative of how a team performed. It’s just one stat—and one with a small sample size—that measures performance.
Friday open thread: What was the biggest disappointment from the Lions in 2018?
