The Detroit Lions have already overcome adversity to get to 11–1 on the season after Thanksgiving week. To this point, most of that adversity has been involuntary, injury related: They've lost Aidan Hutchinson and Marcus Davenport, with Alex Anzalone joining the group of hobbled defenders with a broken arm earlier this month.
But recently a self-inflicted wound threatened to compromise both the playbook and winning culture head coach Dan Campbell has been working tirelessly to implement in Detroit over the last few years.
