PAT CAPUTO: Validation? In The Bigger Picture, The Lions Must Do So Much More
The Lions win football games these days about as often as snowballs survive a fling into hell, pigs fly and somebody sells their house for more money than they paid for it.
The Lions' hot seat had reached epidemically warm proportions entering Sunday's encounter with the St. Louis Rams at Ford Field.
If the Lions couldn't beat the rebuilding Rams and their rookie quarterback Sam Bradford, who else are they going to beat?
So Sunday's 44-6 rout of the Rams was a step forward. Progress. The tangible kind.
Not the fraudulent, "Hey-we-were-almost-sort-of-in-the-game" kind. Or the, "If it hadn't been for our injuries" type.
And the Lions played well in every facet of football.
"I wish it didn't take so long," said Lions quarterback Shaun Hill. "Everybody scored. Offense, defense, special teams."
