While the Detroit Lions’ 1-4 start to the 2022 season has featured many classic hallmarks of the “Same Old Lions” trope — including (but not limited to) questionable coaching moves, crushing turnovers returned for scores and defenses with less stopping power than a Camaro with the brakelines cut — it has been a rarity in one thing: The record.
It’s only the sixth time in the past 25 seasons that the franchise has gone 1-4 in its first five games, but the first time since 2011. (Which means that, yes, it’s possible that the past decade has been a golden — or at least gold-plated — era of Lions football.