Free Press sports writers Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez preview the Detroit Lions' game against the Arizona Cardinals. Carlos Monarrez and Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press
They’re realists, most of them. They’ve been around this game long enough to know the deal.
At 4-8, the Detroit Lions aren’t making the playoffs this year, and with this season down to its final four games, there’s not much they can do to change that.
Sure, Glover Quin noted the mathematics of it this week, that the Lions are still technically alive in the playoff hunt.