Lions finish preseason...but that's all we really know for certain

I think I'm taking it all back. Now, I know I have repeatedly said that the preseason is less than meaningless, but even with taking that into account, last night's victory over the hapless Buffalo Bills was downright scary.

OK, now I grant you that the secondary couldn't catch a cold or cover anybody for more than half a second, but the "pressure" from the defensive line has pretty much disappeared since the first game.

The Lions have only mustered sacks late in these preseason games with the bottom of the barrel scrubs. Suh, VandenBosch, and Corey Williams have yet to record a sack and Avril hasn't had one since the first game.

If you define "pressure" as maybe being somewhat remotely bothersome to a quarterback, then maybe the Lions have provided that, but real pressure results in sacks, incompletions, interceptions and fumbles. And the first squad hasn't provided any of that. This may be a strength of the Lions team, but it is apparently very easy to scheme around.

The Buffalo Bills and Cleveland Browns are really, really bad teams --Lions bad--and Detroit really made each of them look very respectable.

Unless Darrel Revis and Nmandi Asomugha both get inexplicably cut and end up in Honolulu Blue, the Leos will have big, big problems.

This "win" was particularly disturbing because the Bills have what many believe to be the worst offensive line in the NFL and the first unit couldn't register a sack.

My initial prediction of 7 wins and a sweep of the Bears both look very shaky right now.

I think the Lions are another draft and free agent period -- where Mayhew concentrates on the LB's and DB's as much as he concentrated on the DL this past year-- away from any kind of respectability.