While in recent weeks the Detroit Lions have broken the good kind of league records, Sunday’s embarrassing loss has led to breaking the bad kind of records.
The Ringer’s Rodger Sherman discovered that in Sunday’s 29-0 shutout loss to former Lions head coach Matt Patricia and the New England Patriots, the Lions broke a league record for the most failed fourth-down attempts without a conversion.
Detroit went for it six times without successfully converting — one of those leading to a fumble that the Patriots recovered for a touchdown.