Pat Caputo: Lions Will Have To Win A lot Of Shootouts This Season

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The word "preseason" has become synonymous with "meaningless" in the National Football League.

And judging by the turnout — or the lack of it — Saturday at Ford Field (announced crowd of more than 36,000, but far fewer actually here), it's how this town has come to view it.

It was that 4-0 preseason in 2008 that got everybody so excited, followed by sixteen straight defeats in the regular season, don't you think?

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