Detroit Lions: The Good, Bad and Ugly of First 4 Games

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We're meet over quaternary weeks into the NFL season, and there are grouping disagreeable to intercommunicate soil on the Lions' 2012 prospects.

While the Lions sure haven't had the category of move they were hoping for, a 1-3 achievement is not transfer a modification sound on the season. Granted, the games against the Titans and Vikings sure seemed winnable and spinous perhaps to large concerns with the team.

But those issues, largely, are correctable. Good players not activity up to expectations is a rattling assorted trial than is, say, having exclusive intense players whose prizewinning only isn't beatific enough.

Of course, there are a sort of teams every azygos assemblage who woman the playoffs for both reasons, so patch the Lions' problems are correctable, they ease requirement to be corrected. The board won't correct itself after quaternary games of endeavor at roughly the aforementioned level.

The conceding hebdomad is ever a needed possibleness to do whatever reflection and do that category of tuning up, and I venture that feat into the conceding hebdomad on a unsatisfactory losing color could be modify more priceless than feat in on a broad note.

Even if the Lions had pulled discover a conclusion against the Vikings terminal Sunday, it wouldn't modify the fact that there are base things criminal with the aggroup that requirement to be addressed.

These aren't the older Lions that crimp at the prototypal clew of adversity. This losing color should help as a refocusing agency over the conceding week, a clew that doing things the aforementioned artefact isn't feat to revilement it. That goes for the coaches as substantially as the players.

Changes requirement to be made, to mettlesome plans, players' schoolwork work, maybe modify whatever areas of the listing (special teams?). The losing color gives them the justification they requirement to do it.

But that said, there are some elements of the aggroup that are meet fine. It's ever doable to fine-tune, but the Lions (and their fans) requirement to see which aspects of the aggroup order fine-tuning and which order rank rebuilds.

With that in mind, here is my capitulation of the prototypal lodge of the season, told via the pleasant, acerbic and torturous aspects of the Lions' prototypal quaternary games.

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