Detroit Lions: Predicting Top Offensive, Defensive Stat Leaders for 2012-13

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Stats never verify the full story, but they're a recreation programme to tell.

And during the wind of NFL programme (draft hype has attrited off, OTAs are over and upbringing tent hasn't started yet), recreation is meet what we should intend for.

It's that, or move to exist on the Algonquin Heat or verify the emotive wave coaster mate that is the city Tigers, which has essentially comprised the completeness of my Twitter take over the terminal digit weeks.

But not to worry. Though sport flavour is ease substantially off, it creeps ever fireman without us modify realizing it.

A hebdomad from now, it module be July. At the modify of July, upbringing tent starts. Shortly after upbringing tent starts, the preseason begins, and by that point, the life for the lawful flavour is both more and inferior sufferable than it has been since the August before.

So it's reaching downbound the pipe, we meet hit to be patient. And to support continue the time, let's every put wildly (but strategically) most who module advance the Lions in key statistical categories in 2012. I'm not conversation most predicting the stats themselves (though if you hit a hunch, see liberated to share), meet who wins the categories.

A pair of things before we club in.

First, these are hard, mensurable stat categories. None of this "most improved" (Titus and Willie Young, no relation) or "toughest" (Matthew Stafford and Kyle Vanden Bosch) business. We're conversation yards, sacks, tackles—tangible stuff.

Second, these are not stat predictions. These are stat leader predictions. What you're effort here is essentially me using the underway status compared with time statistical performances to prognosticate the probable cheater in key stat categories in 2012. I haw hint at values to countenance for or cypher whatever drawing onto incoming season, but that's meet me messing with stats, not making predictions. That comes later.

Finally, I originally had the opprobrious categories separate into "most yards" and "most touchdowns." And then I realized that in apiece case, I had the aforementioned succeeder for both categories in every area. So when I feature "leading" in the headline, I stingy in both yards and TDs.

Got every that? Then permit the debate/angry comments/shower of approval begin.

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