If the Detroit Lions want to have a successful 2022 season, they will need their offense and defense to step up. However, will one side be better than the other?
In the three years running this question, the results have varied wildly. In 2019—the second year under head coach Matt Patricia—a majority of voters thought the defense would be the superior unit. Nothing really went right that season, as both the defense and Matthew Stafford-less offense sputtered. Had Stafford remained healthy all season, however, the offense would have won by a landslide.
The 2020 edition of the poll swung heavily in the opposite direction, with the offense getting a whopping 91 percent of the vote.