This is another thing you need to stop doing. Stop talking in absolutes. "Quinn will do that". You say that as if it's a certainty. You do that with a lot of things. Like "the Lions will win at 'fill in the blank'" and a lot of the times it doesn't happen.
Try to be open minded and leave open the possibility that you're not always right. Often times you're not. Just some friendly advice there.
Friendly advice, don't make up what I said or didn't get right or wrong without checking the facts.
Lions will win it all if, they stay healthy. They did not for a lot of season on defense and at the end on offense. They made the right roster moves though and had depth (not DE or backup QB though). The depth got hurt at RB (Riddick) and RT (Robinson) and LB (Bostic, Bynes, Williams during the season). Slay and Ansah injuries and Staffords finger were pretty huge injuries plus Abdullah and Riddick combined. And don't get me started on the refs again. That is beyond anyones' control. The Lions should have stayed healthier, we deserve them to stay healthy and the be the heathiest team in the league for the next 10 years.
They had the capability to play better run defense and not drop 5 crucial balls. But on that particular day they didn't and on that day Seattle made 5 great catches too (3 one handed, Baldwin toe tap deep and Baldwin butt catch). If you replay the game again, the Lions might have made those routine catches (it doesn't mean our weapons suck). We'll never know now.
I said they would make the playoffs. They did. Many said they wouldn't. Defense was 13th in PPG. Had flaws but bend but don't break worked for playoffs when the offense struggled at points (20th) due to run game issues, some protection with a young line, Stafford finger injury at worst time, other key injuries and only six drives starting in opponent territory all year (tough sledding for offense).
Quinn will spend wisely. Please show me why you don't think he will spend wisely. It's basically a fact he will based on his one year history.
The Lions have the capability to spend to add talent. Some teams don't have that capability. Many do but some don't. Some teams don't have a good GM and won't spend wisely. Quinn should. And Lions have 8 draft picks to improve too. Getting key guys back healthy is big too. Every year the injury situation is different. We'll see what we have in store next year. But Quinn has a whole offseason, money and draft picks to even better deal with injuries (and they did a pretty good job in 2016, but some of the depth got hurt too). And again young guys should develop even more and they played. Decker, Robinson, Glasgow, Killebrew. Better play from them helps the team. Certain guys like Whitehead and Levy and Diggs could have much better seasons in 2017.
There are many reasons why the Lions will be "more improved" than other teams in 2017
