Excitement surrounding the Detroit Lions as the 2023 season begins is higher than it’s been in a very long time. The team’s strong finish in 2022, roster upgrades at several spots and impressive football culture cultivated by head coach Dan Campbell have the Lions favored to win their first-ever NFC North division title.
I’m a believer in the hope. I’m a believer in the Lions winning the division and perhaps even a playoff game (or two). But I’m also a longtime Lions fan who has seen promising offseason expectations crash and burn egregiously.
One of the ways to cope with and ultimately conquer fear is to acknowledge the validity of the root. Identify what is plausibly worrisome (clowns) and what is a completely irrational fear (mine is a very strange but very real fear of centrifuges).
In that spirit, here are my biggest fears surrounding the 2023 Detroit Lions. We’ll see which become potential sinkholes (another big fear of mine) and which are ghosts that are really just silly dust bunnies in the breeze.