The 1991-92 season marks the final time the Detroit Lions received a playoff recreation.
Not precisely a stat that Detroit followers love to listen to.
Nevertheless, the Lions are optimistic about what this season’s end result might be, particularly with the offensive line they've in place.
Taylor Decker, a seven-year veteran out of Ohio State, spoke with the Detroit Free Press in regards to the unit and why he thinks its expertise will equal success for Detroit this season.
"I'd say that is probably the most proficient line I have been part of, one hundred pc," Decker stated. "I am not essentially a expertise evaluator, however we have a bunch of men who're sensible, assured, athletic. I imply we are able to get out and run a bunch of men on the perimeter, or we are able to run downhill.
"Then one-on-one move blocking I am one hundred pc assured when you put 5 guys throughout from us, we're going to have the ability to maintain up ... and that opens up a variety of issues for ability place gamers."
Decker is placing some reward on an offense that ranked twenty fourth within the league over the past two seasons, averaging simply 21.3 factors per recreation in comparison with the league common of 23.9.
The Lions additionally ranked under the league common in the identical time span in rush yards per recreation (102.6, twenty fifth), move yards per recreation (233.4, sixteenth), web yards per recreation (336.0, twenty first) and third-down conversion proportion (37.8, twenty eighth).
As well as, over the previous two seasons, Detroit has had simply 98 drives that made it to the crimson zone, tied for twenty sixth within the NFL and effectively under the league common of 110.9.
Regardless of barely spending time within the crimson zone, the Lions nonetheless managed to show the ball over within the crimson zone seven instances, tied for ninth highest within the NFL over these two years.
Regardless, Lions coach Dan Campbell believes that their offensive line unit is ready to resolve a few of these issues.
"It is a good group, I do know that," Campbell informed the Free Press on Thursday. "They're working collectively. Frank (Ragnow) and Jonah (Jackson), (Penei) Sewell and Huge V (Halapoulivaati Vaitai), all of them. (Taylor) Decker.
"It is a veteran group, it is fairly robust, they're sensible, they work effectively collectively."
The Lions can even rely upon the veteran group to make sure their offense has extra time with the ball. Detroit which ranked twenty eighth within the NFL in time of possession final season (15:42), under the league common of 16:36.
Detroit can be only one 10 groups within the NFL to not have a 40-plus level recreation over the past two seasons. They ninth-most video games ending with 10 factors or much less, with 5 such video games over the past two seasons.
