ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- When the Detroit Lions schedule came out, most people -- players included -- parsed it to see when the home and road games were, when the division matchups were andwhen the week off was.
Punter Sam Martin looked at the schedule another way. And it might have made him one of the happiest Lions of all.
“How kicker-conducive it is,” Martin said of what he liked about the schedule. “Have 13 games in a dome. That’s the first thing specialists look at and no Chicago or Green Bay in December.