MINNEAPOLIS – Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Never mind. You have heard it before, but here it comes again.
Two games into a season is too soon to make any definitive judgments about a football team. At least, that’s what the math says: two games down, 14 left, and great things that can still happen.
But it isn’t just the 0-2 record that should sound the alarm over the way the Lions have come out of the gate in the race to make the playoffs for a second straight year. How they’ve played – and not played – is as revealing as the results.