The Lions' 2019 schedule is here, their draft class is in camp, the coaching staff is set and the base of the roster is much of what it will be for this season.

We broke down their schedule when it came out, but enough has changed with the draft that it seems appropriate to do it again. Some can. still change this summer, particularly once we see how new players look on the field.

But as things stand entering the summer, here are all 16 Lions games ranked from easiest to win to hardest.

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Vs. New York Giants (Week 8)

The schedule of a team that just finished in last place in its division tends to have few games that even feel like gimmes, and that's certainly the case this year. A midseason home game against the Giants after the bye week feels like the closest thing. New York went 5-11 in its first year under Pat Shurmur and then didn't exactly upgrade its product for 2019 after trading away Odell Beckham Jr. and Olivier Vernon and drafting a quarterback in Daniel Jones who isn't supposed to see the field this year. Add in the fact that Eli Manning is a year older and unless Saquon Barkley just runs wild, which he can do, this is a game that should work in Detroit's favor. It will hope the most interesting part of the day is Golden Tate's return to Ford Field.

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At Arizona Cardinals (Week 1)

Last year, we thought facing a rookie quarterback in his pro debut would be an easier task for the Lions, and Sam Darnold and the Jets were everything but that in a 31-point romping. It's a good reminder that no game is truly "easy" in the NFL. However, this one should be manageable. Kyler Murray is an electric talent who should be hard to game plan for, especially with no tape on him in Kliff Kingsbury's Air Raid offense. However, the team around him is just so far away. He'll be throwing largely to rookies and will be playing behind one of the worst offensive lines in the game. The defense won't be a strength with Patrick Peterson missing the game due to a suspension. A trip to Arizona can be a challenge in some ways, but it shouldn't be as much in Week 1 of a season. Given how the schedule will soon shape up, the Lions really need to win the season opener.

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At Washington Redskins (Week 12)

The Redskins looked like a possible playoff team before Alex Smith went down and injuries also caught up to the offensive line. This offseason brought a new quarterback in Dwayne Haskins as well as a star safety in Landon Collins and a talented edge rusher in Montez Sweat. The defense should be very good, but the offense is likely a work in progress with a rebuilt passing game. Home confines will help Washington, but the team with the far superior passing game should win most NFL games.

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Vs. Dallas Cowboys (Week 11)

The Lions have had their share of interesting finishes against the Cowboys, and those usually come on the road. Getting them at home should help this time. Detroit's run defense is immensely better with Damon "Snacks" Harrison in the middle than it was when Ezekiel Elliott ran for 152 yards on it last year. That performance ended in a game-winning kick from Dallas, so if Detroit can handle Elliott and make Dak Prescott beat it, it should have a good chance to win.

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At Oakland Raiders (Week 9)

This game is hard to peg because so much depends on how the Raiders improve with all their offseason changes. The same can be said for the Lions. Oakland was a bad team last year in Jon Gruden's first year, finishing 5-11, though that also came after trading Khalil Mack and Amari Cooper for draft picks. Three first-round selections brought in Clemson edge rusher Clelin Ferrell, Alabama running back Josh Jacobs and Mississippi State safety Jonathan Abram. A pre-draft trade netted Antonio Brown, the rare kind of talent who can replace Cooper. So it could go very well with new talent or the Brown-Derek Carr dynamic could struggle. I lean the ladder, but a midseason trip to Oakland is not the easiest either.

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Vs. Chicago Bears (Thanksgiving - Week 13)

The Thanksgiving game always gets a boost in Detroit's favor simply because of the setting. The Lions know this drill so well after doing it every year, and it forces an opponent to travel on a short week to play the early game of the day, all as injuries are taking a toll late in the season. Detroit almost won last year's matchup against Chicago, though Mitchell Trubisky didn't play. The Bears still have a really nice roster, but they stayed as healthy as just about any team last year, and that's bound to regress. If it does, this is the type of matchup that exposes it.

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Vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Week 15)

Some will see this as an easier game, given that Tampa Bay was not very good last year and didn't add that much talent in the offseason due to a tight salary cap. I think people are sleeping on the Buccaneers because of how Bruce Arians and his loaded coaching staff, which is the same group that came in and made the Cardinals an instant playoff contender. When you bear in mind that Arians had his last Cardinals team at 8-8 despite playing 15 games without David Johnson and seven more without Carson Palmer, and you can see the floor he brings a team. It still remains to be seen if any coach can really fix Jameis Winston, and this is a long trip late in the year for them, though it's in the same time zone. I just see the Bucs as a wildcard team this year, which will make them a challenge in most games.

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Vs. Green Bay Packers (Week 17)

The Packers went through a major facelift this offseason in switching playbooks under new coach Matt LeFleur and infusing their defense with pass rushers from Michigan's Rashan Gary to Preston Smith and Za'Darius Smith. It's all kind of hard to see how it will come together, but it feels safe to bet on Aaron Rodgers and a progression with the talent there. The Lions did beat Rodgers last year in Ford Field, though Mason Crosby contributed plenty to that. Both teams should be better this year and it should be another tight contest.

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Vs. Minnesota Vikings (Week 7)

The Vikings have started to have their way with the Lions, winning three straight, which is just what happens when one team is clearly better than the other and they know each other so well. Minnesota's defense continues to make life so difficult on Matthew Stafford, though Detroit will try to neutralize the pressure on him this year with a better running game. If Kerryon Johnson is healthy for this one, it could be a toss-up, but you could also see a game where Minnesota's wide receiver talent is just too much to handle. The Vikings should take a step forward with a second year of Kirk Cousins working with Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen, meaning Detroit will really have to playing well to get this done.

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At Denver Broncos (Week 16)

Here's yet another team with some talent and a new coaching staff, making predictions more difficult. Vic Fangio is finally getting his shot to run a team and he has all kinds of defensive talent ready for him. The offense is more of a mystery, and if Joe Flacco is leading it, odds are it won't be all that good. Denver is a tough road trip late in the year, with altitude presenting something teams haven't seen before. That seems problematic for a dome team. This will be a good test of where Detroit's toughness and adaptability has come late in Patricia's second season.

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Vs. Los Angeles Chargers (Week 2)

It's usually nice to get a West Coast team in a 1 p.m. Eastern Time slot until that opponent is a team so used to exactly that setting. The Chargers delivered time and again on the road last year, perhaps because their home games also feel like road games. The Chargers get overshadowed in their own division by the Chiefs and in their own city by the Rams, but after a 12-4 season that included a road playoff win, this is quietly one of the best rosters in the NFL. The home game and start time should help Detroit some, but it's hard to see the roster catching up in Week 2 to what Philip Rivers' offense and Joey Bosa's defense have had rolling since last year began.

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At Green Bay Packers (Week 5)

Trips to Lambeau are never easy unless they come against DeShone Kizer or Brett Hundley at quarterback. That's always possible again, but we're not betting on it now. Rodgers in a full game at home in an offense that actually fits him with a more talented defense makes for a much tougher game than Detroit has seen in recent years. There's some unknown with this Packers team, of course, but they seem more likely to be really good than bad this year. That's not a team I want to play at Lambeau Field.

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At Chicago Bears (Week 10)

One of the worst Lions games from last season was that road trip to Chicago, where the Bears just looked more athletic and better coached in almost every area and played right to the colder, windy environment they're able to cultivate later in the season there. This setting is nearly identical. Chicago should be worse this year and Detroit should be better, so a blowout shouldn't be in the cards, but Detroit will definitely be an underdog in this one.

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At Minnesota Vikings (Week 14)

The new Vikings stadium is starting to feel like one of the harder places to go and win with how outrageously loud it gets in that dome setting. Add in the fact that Minnesota is so good in so many areas and it should get back to being one of the best home teams in the NFL this year. The saving grace for the Lions will be that the weakness in Minnesota comes on the offensive line, whereas Detroit's strength is Harrison, Trey Flowers and that defensive line. I think they'll keep it close and low-scoring for that reason, but it should take a bad Cousins game for the Vikings to lose. That is possible.

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Vs. Kansas City Chiefs (Week 4)

The Lions play a few games that are just hard to handle on a talent level so early in the season. Hosting Patrick Mahomes in a dome would be one of those. Patricia will surely use the half-rush techniques the Patriots do against Mahomes to try to keep him contained, but those only worked for a half for New England and then Mahomes begins to pick his spots. He'll challenge everything about a new-look Lions secondary that should have a second-year player at free safety and a No. 2 cornerback who is a major wildcard to start the year. Kansas City's defense is in transition to the 4-3, and so a big home game out of Stafford and the passing attack could keep this close, but the Chiefs are just better and more established in too many areas right now.

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At Philadelphia Eagles (Week 3)

With every game so far, you could visualize a path to victory for the Lions either because they are at home or have a major advantage in a key area of personnel. This is the game where it's hardest to do so. The Eagles found themselves late last year after the Super Bowl hangover and wound up an Alshon Jeffery drop away from another NFC Championship Game. The personnel has changed some since that championship run, but it's hard to forget what Jeffery, Zach Ertz and the Eagles offensive line did to Patricia's scheme in a Super Bowl where they racked up 41 points. Add in Philadelphia's crowd and another early-season matchup and this would be a major upset if the Lions could pull it off.