GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Jim Caldwell gathered his Detroit Lions before their game Sunday in Green Bay, a place where the franchise had not won for two decades, and kept his message succinct.
It’s a message that could have been imparted to the singular task of beating the Green Bay Packers, something the Lions had not done in Wisconsin since 1991, or the general thought of salvaging the team’s season as a whole -- Detroit entered Sunday with the NFL’s worst record at 1-7.
The message: “Why not us?”
“Coach Caldwell said it best and said it real, real, real simple,” Lions wide receiver Golden Tate said.