It’s officially game week. Seven days from today, the Detroit Lions will host the Philadelphia Eagles to kick off the team’s 2022 regular season. It’s been a long wait—filled with even more Kool Aid drinking than this fanbase is typically accustomed to—but soon we will have actual football to watch and analyze.
Year 1 of the Dan Campbell/Brad Holmes era went about as expected. While the win/loss total was probably lower than most preseason predictions, there wasn’t much of a surprise about how the team looked. They fought hard under Campbell, but with an extremely young roster, there were plenty of mistakes along the way.