There’s a reason that game tape from Week 1 in the NFL should be labeled “for educational purposes only.” It’s often ugly, frequently inaccurate, and very quickly worthy only of being thrown away. In the case of the Lions-Green Bay season opener , very far away. I’m thinking Madagascar.

The Lions are better than this. Heck, the Akron Rubber Ducks are better than this. If Sunday’s tape had been Steven Spielberg’s first film, he’d be an accountant right now. The Lions laid an egg , painted it lemon, and rolled it into Garbage Town.

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