Detroit — We bemoan the relentless ugliness, rightly so. The Great Detroit Rebuild Chase is well under way, and in the next few months, the Lions, Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons all could “earn” top-three draft picks, a futility feat surely unprecedented in pro sports.
But instead of revisiting how they got here – poor management, ownership inattention, rotten contracts, rotten luck, inevitable player and roster deterioration – let’s figure out who’s likely to recover first. The answer will stagger you, until I explain it.