You’ve probably known for several months now that the Detroit Lions’ schedule is one of the easiest in the NFL for the 2022 season. We’ve known their opponents since the end of the 2021 regular season, and since then, we’ve seen what appears to be a pretty breezy schedule. Using 2021 records, this schedule is the fifth-easiest among all NFL teams, with an average opponent winning percentage of .467.
However, using last year’s record is considered a pretty lazy and useless way to measure the strength of schedule. There is a lot of year-to-year variance in the NFL, and this offseason, especially, was transformative for a lot of teams.