Sports Illustrated‘s Jonathan Jones has a very good point about the Lions, and a very good question. “[Detroit Lions head coach Jim] Caldwell has delivered two winning seasons in three years for the first time since 1995–97,” Jones wrote on Wednesday morning. But the question he followed that point with was telling: “Can Matt Stafford build on the best year of his career?” The answer, Jones wrote in his 32-team, 256-game prediction of how the NFL season will go, is no—at least not in terms of wins and losses. Jones, who admirably stuck to the schedule and predicted the result of each game rather than guesstimate a record or each team, projected Detroit to finish 9-7 for the second straight year.
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