For decades—actually, for generations—the Detroit Lions were the example of how to do everything wrong in the NFL.
In a league built to avoid dynasties and disasters, the Lions were the latter. From 1958 to 2022, Detroit won a single playoff game. The Motown Kitties constantly hired the wrong people, refused to fire them quickly enough to save themselves from a deeper hole, and then threw the next hire into the pit.
Suddenly, that’s all changing.
