The Detroit Lions are one of two teams with proposals at the NFL league meetings in Minneapolis this week. Here's what you need to know.

If Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong were here today, perhaps they would sing "They All Laughed" at the Detroit Lions when they said the NFL playoffs should be reseeded. Eventually, the Lions and other smart people around the NFL will have the last laugh when the league changes its playoff seeding format.

If an effort to overhaul the schedule is going to happen, it will require a groundswell from the teams. A groundswell strong enough to overcome the inertia of a league off that will not care about the inequity that flows from using apples-and-oranges scheduling to create what will be an apples-to-apples comparison of records.