The Detroit Lions’ season opener against the Green Bay Packers was the kind of performance that would require an immediate parent-teacher conference. In some ways, that’s a good thing. Early intervention is important, and hopefully a wake-up call to kick off the season is exactly what the Lions need to fix what appear to be some major problems.

But in the meantime, we’re sending Roary home with an ugly-looking report card. Here are our grades from Detroit’s 27-13 loss to the Packers.

It’s hard to grade Jared Goff in a vacuum, considering he had no help from his offensive line or a running game. On a very basic level, he was mostly accurate, took what the defense gave him, and actually drove the offense down the field for four red zone trips, including three very patient drives of 13 or m

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