The Lions win on Sunday and we’re probably talking about how much improvement the offense showed from Week 1 to Week 2 — Matthew Stafford threw for 347 yards and three TDs, the run game looked viable, the line held up fairly well. Instead, a 30-27 loss to the 49ers shone the spotlight back on missed opportunities. The Lions had plenty of those in San Francisco.



Not surprisingly, Detroit’s players and coaches chalked up those errors to a lack of communication, rather than anything fundamentally wrong with the offensive scheme.



“It’s always been about us in these games,” Marvin Jones said. “And we tip our hats off to the teams we play, but we’ve had a lot of mistakes that we need to fix. As soon as we fix those mistakes we can start getting on the right track.”



Clichéd, expected speak. What if the Lions are right, though? What if the main thing holding the offense back from an even bigger showing...