ALLEN PARK, Mich. – They’ve sat in their locker room the past three Sundays now, mostly silent, highly annoyed. The results were all the same: loss, loss, loss for the Detroit Lions – an increasingly familiar theme throughout the month of October.
They haven’t been bad losses – at least not in the way teams would categorize bad losses to inferior opponents. No, the four losses the Lions have this season – including the three straight they closed October with – have all come against teams that might be in the playoffs this season.
But they’ve been losses nonetheless, and that’s an issue for a Detroit team that started the season looking like a potential NFC contender.