I love the schedule release. You can really gin up the kool-aid, get really excited, and see a lot of winnable games; or you can shiver at the phantoms, imagining all the horrible ways the Detroit Lions could lose any number of very “winnable” games.
Regardless, a lot of gut reactions for what games are winnable come from the state of teams as they were last season; clearly, that’s never the case, and easy to forget the upward trajectory of many. Nevertheless, when you see the Lions starting the season out with two teams from the NFC (L)East and the Seattle Seahawks—now deprived of Russell Wilson—it’s hard not to get excited.