It’s a long season, and sometimes it’s longer for others than what it actually is. The NFL is a thousand timelines warping at once as fans and writers contemplate the vast difference between Sunday and the next, six days of inaction between—not to mention the speed at which a team must be praised or condemned for their entire season.
It’s easy to think the season is over next week in such a mindset, but there’s plenty of football to play, plenty of time to turn this around. Even for the Detroit Lions, feeling sorry is only so fleeting.