ALLEN PARK, Mich. — You have to learn to walk before you can run. But after that? That’s when you really have to watch your step.
And that’s something for the Lions to keep in mind, now that they’ve made their way out of the wilderness and back to respectability.
The next step is more of a leap, really, and it is fraught with danger, as we’ve seen over and over again in the NFL. Including here in Detroit about a decade ago, when the Lions’ last full-scale rebuild was undone by some faulty wiring and the front office forgetting that age-old axiom: Measure twice, cut once.
