Detroit Lions 2016 Game-by-Game Predictions from the Opposing View
By Zac Snyder
A look at how fans of Detroit Lions opponents see the Lions’ 2016 season playing out with game-by-game predictions for each game of the regular season.
Going back to the release of the NFL schedule in the spring, people love going through their team’s slate and marking individual games as wins or losses to predict how the team will fare that season.
It’s the schedule game. You play it, I play it, and I had people who cover the teams on the Lions’ schedule play it. I ran a series of posts last month checking in on each team on the Detroit Lions‘ schedule with a Q&A between myself and other FanSided writers who cover teams the Lions will play in 2016.
To end each Q&A, I ask respondents to label their team’s game against the Lions as a win, loss or toss up. For games marked as a toss up, I assigned half a win and half a loss to the Lions’ record and marked down wins and losses as such.
I went through the same process before last season and the response was decidedly against the 6-10 record the opposing view came out with. At the time, fans and media members alike were largely thinking the Lions would follow up their 11-5 2014 regular season with something like a 9-7 or 10-6 season.
The opposing view turned out to be much more prescient after it took a hot second half to get the Lions to 7-9. You might want to keep that in mind before your Lions blood starts to boil reading what follows.
Additionally, formatting a season prediction this way is sure to produce pessimistic results. But as last year’s edition showed us, it might no be so bad for setting a lower limit on what might happen during the season.
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