Can a team really “start over” if things never got started to begin with? The Detroit Lions are in their 92nd season of professional football and though they won three championships in the 1950’s, the Super Bowl era has been as unkind as a shoe to a bug:
One playoff win.
One Lions playoff win...in the entire Super Bowl era.
In 1991, the Lions eviscerated the Dallas Cowboys by a 38-6 score in the divisional round of the playoffs, then became the eviscerated in the NFC Championship, losing 41-10 to the Washington pre-Football Team football team.