{"id":30433,"date":"2025-08-13T23:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=30433"},"modified":"2025-08-13T23:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:23:45","slug":"breaking-news-detroit-lions-biggest-worry-couldnt-be-more-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=30433","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Detroit Lions&#8217; Biggest Worry Couldn&#8217;t Be More Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1638954487-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1638954487-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1638954487-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1638954487-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Detroit Lions' Biggest Worry Couldn't Be More Obvious\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Detroit Lions are heading into what will likely be the most important season for the franchise in a long time. Head coach Dan Campbell and company are coming off two stellar seasons filled with record-breaking wins and stats, but now, they\u2019re starting a new season without their long-term offensive and defensive coordinators.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Lions still deliver? That\u2019s a big question, and hopefully the team gets a good answer this season. The team came so close last season, but they lost to the Washington Commanders\u00a0in the\u00a0first postseason game, so they didn\u2019t make it to the big game. But, that\u2019s all in the past. Let\u2019s move forward.<\/p>\n<p>In a piece published on Wednesday, August 13, for ESPN, the publication\u2019s staff looks at each NFL team and predicts the win-loss record and X factor for each team. It\u2019s early to predict the entire season record, but they did their best based on ESPN\u2019s research and numbers. So, let\u2019s get into their prediction for the Detroit Lions, which is mixed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5453143\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=150,84 150w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=782,440 782w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=780,439 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=425,239 425w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1592920313-1.jpg?resize=267,150 267w\" alt=\"Detroit Lions' Biggest Worry Couldn't Be More Obvious\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5453143\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Detroit Lions and the Team\u2019s X Factor<\/h2>\n<p>In the piece, ESPN explains their methodology for determining the win-loss records and X factors for each team. \u201cTo look at the bigger picture and just how good \u2014 or bad \u2014 every team could be this season, we turned to our\u00a0ESPN Football Power Index (FPI),\u201d they explain. \u201cThe FPI projected win totals for every team based on 20,000 simulations of the entire season performed by our ESPN Research team, but to find a high and low, we picked out the middle 90% of those simulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Lions, the ceiling is 12-5, and the floor is 7-10. That\u2019s actually a pretty good prediction.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s the X factor for the Lions? It\u2019s so obvious what will make or break this team this season: the new coordinators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow fast will the Lions adjust to new coordinators Kelvin Sheppard and John Morton?\u201d asks Eric Woodyard. \u201cAfter a 15-win season in 2024, Detroit lost both coordinators \u2014 Aaron Glenn (Jets) and Ben Johnson (Bears) \u2014 to head coaching roles this offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodyard adds, \u201cNow, Sheppard, Detroit\u2019s leader on defense, and Morton, the offensive guru, are taking on key roles for a team with high expectations to reach Super Bowl LX. They both will be under the microscope, with Detroit playing a first-place schedule after winning its division.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Another Win-Loss Projection for the Detroit Lions<\/h2>\n<p>Bleacher Report has their own thoughts on how many games the Detroit Lions will win in the 2025-26 season. In a piece published following the draft, Moe Moton predicts a 9-8 record for the Bears. That\u2019s pretty brutal.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Moton states that the \u201cLions will take a bigger fall with their daunting road schedule in a competitive division. They will hover around .500 in 2025.\u201d That would be a difficult pill to swallow.<\/p>\n<p>It would certainly hurt the Lions if their difficult road schedule would cause them to lose that much on the road. But, there\u2019s a good chance the Detroit Lions will surprise everyone, as always, and somehow come out on top.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions have a lot of hope going into the new season, but they also have some concerns, and one is totally obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : Detroit Lions&#039; Biggest Worry Couldn&#039;t Be More Obvious - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=30433\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : Detroit Lions&#039; 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