Progress in the National Football League is oftentimes measured in wins and losses. It might seem reductive, it might seem myopic, and when people's livelihoods are on the line, it might seem a rudimentary way to determine how successful a given season was in the grand scheme of things.
But that’s the way of life in this league: winning is the cure-all, the elixir for any ails this game may cause.
Last year’s iteration of the Detroit Lions was a team at the ground floor. General manager Brad Holmes was put in charge of uprooting the personnel and making changes under the constraint of a shrunken cap.