The Detroit Free Press has a very funny and informative piece out on the beleaguered Lions and their march towards an 0-16 season.  It has the 6 explanations of how they are doing it.  Here is the best one…

3. Do Nothing Well

One reason it’s hard to go 0-16 is that even bad teams have a matchup advantage against somebody. Not the Lions!

They are 24th in the 32-team league in rushing yards per carry and 27th in passer rating. And those are their good stats.

The defense is allowing a league-worst 5.1 yards per carry. How bad is that? Well, Barry Sanders only averaged 5.0 yards per carry for his career.

So forget about forcing the opponent into third-and-long. The Lions can’t even force third down, period.

The Lions’ pass defense is actually worse than the worst-in-the-league rush defense, and if this sentence confuses you, you now know how their safeties feel. Lions’ opponents have a passer rating of 109.5. If a quarterback puts up a 109.5 rating for a season, he probably wins the MVP.

The Lions don’t have a single impact player on defense, and their only true impact guy on offense, Calvin Johnson, is hamstrung by mediocre quarterbacking, poor play-calling and constant attention from defenses.

How do you beat the Lions? However you’d like.

It is a really good article.  It also points out that from here on out every game for the Lions is against one with a winning record.  Click on over and check it out, here.