I wanted to watch a movie with my wife and I suggested, “A Dog’s Purpose.”

“I don’t want to watch a dog die 19 times,” she said.

Then it dawned on me: That’s the essence of what it’s like for Detroit Lions' fans.

You are forced to watch them die every year, right in front of your eyes.

Over and over.

Like it's some awful torture test.

And now, just two games into a new season, this team is already dead. That’s the curse of being 0-2.

The worst part of this team is the lack of hope, not just for this season but for the future.

The only thing you can count on from this organization is disappointment in the end.

The idea was to bring in the Patriot Way — general manager Bob Quinn and coach Matt Patricia.

But the Lions didn’t get Bill Belichick. The Lions didn’t get Tom Brady.

No, Belichick and Brady will be here on Sunday night and I have no doubt they will send this team to 0-3.

Instead, the Lions got two other guys from New England, who have made things worse.

This is not crisp football. In fact, the problems that stretch across the entire team might be the most disappointing part of this winless start.

This is not smart football.

It’s certainly not disciplined.

It is across the board failure — bad offense, bad defense and bad special teams.

That’s impressive. That's like hitting the Lions trifecta of ineptitude over the last half-century or so.

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“Well, I think it’s going to be the same for us every week,” Patricia said Monday afternoon. “Like I mentioned before, we’re a team of blue collar — we’re a blue-collar team that’s going to go to work every single day and try to get better. So, for us, it’s week-by-week, that’s the way we have to look at it. I can’t predict the future, I can’t tell you what’s going to happen two months from now. But, what we have to do right now is fix the mistakes that we made yesterday and get ready to play another game this week.”

I only believe the first part of that quote: It’s going to be the same for us every week.

Yes, we have seen this before.

That’s the scary thing.

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Instead of making progress, this team has gone backward, and an 0-5 start seems more than possible, it seems inevitable.

The Lions look further away from contending right now than they did at the end of last season.

That’s what the other Patriots boys have done so far.

The most discouraging part of this mess against San Francisco was the lack of discipline and the penalties that seemed to bring back every big play.

No. Wait.

The most discouraging thing is the offense, which looks like a bunch of players who are trying to learn a new offense.

Even though, you know, they are not.

Now remember, they kept offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter. They kept most of the same skilled players and even added a lineman and two new running backs.

But it felt like every time I looked up on Sunday, Matthew Stafford was missing another wide open receiver.

And when he needed to make plays, in the final drive, he couldn’t do it.

Stafford's regression

Why do all the great performances seem to come from other teams?

Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes has thrown 10 TD passes in two games. And Tampa Bay has found "Fitzmagic," as quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has smiled his way to a couple of 400-yard passing games.

Meanwhile, the Lions have Stafford, who has lost his touch on the deep ball. He was overthrowing receivers in San Francisco like a kid with a rocket arm who just wants to show it off.

Stafford had four interceptions in the season opener and lost a fumble on Sunday.

It’s like he’s regressing before our eyes.

“We just have to continue to work on it,” wide receiver Marvin Jones Jr. said after Sunday's game.

They have to work on a lot of things, in every phase of the game.

It's like these coaches have simply broken the special teams unit – the Lions gave up another long return on Sunday.

Once again, the Lions gave up a long run — the run defense has been pathetic.

“I hate looking at the stats and seeing they ran for 100 and something yards, almost 200-yards,” Lions linebacker Devon Kennard said Sunday.

After losing in San Francisco, the Lions decided to stay over an extra night on the west coast.

They said it was about getting a night of sleep.

But how could any of these players slept after this game?

Maybe LeGarrette Blount shoved the wrong player. Maybe he needs to walk around the Lions' locker room and just start shoving his teammates, hoping to get them to snap out of a half-century of failure.

It's not all bad

To be fair, if you want to plug your nose and put on rose-colored glasses, you can find small signs of improvement.

The offensive line looks better.

Wide receiver Kenny Golladay looks like the real deal, and maybe even better than that, after gaining 80 or more yards in three consecutive games, going back to last season.

They had six sacks on Sunday.

And Kerryon Johnson has fascinating potential, averaging 4.6 yards per carry.

But he has just 13 carries all season — 13!

However, those small signs do not mask the truth. This team is terrible.

Maybe that’s not surprising. This team looked bad in the preseason, pathetic in the opener and made too many mistakes losing against San Francisco in a game that looked all too familiar and felt like a typical, rip-your-heart out Lions' torture test.

That’s the sad thing for Lions' fans.

I feel for you.

You deserve better. Generations of you.

Your hearts have been broken countless times.

But it’s time to wise up. This season is done. Better to know that now.

It seems to me, the real suckers are the ones who keep watching the same old movie and think that dog will eventually live.

Follow Jeff Seidel on Twitter @seideljeff.