Lions running back Kevin Smith wrote in his blog earlier this week that he believes the team "will definitely" make the playoffs this coming season. Detroit famously went winless during the 2008 season. "I won't make a prediction about how many games we're going to win, but I will say this: We will definitely make the playoffs this season," Smith wrote on Wednesday. How could Smith believe that such a turnaround is possible? "Believe it or not we weren?t far off last year. Almost every game we could have won, we were one play or one player short. Except for Tennessee on Thanksgiving, they just came out and beat us to sleep. They manhandled us, but nobody else did," he added.