Ah it would have been true had I said "Oakland would defeat Lions, on virtue of them beating Arizona, who beat Detroit." However, no such statement was made. Detroit could beat Oakland, they could not. Detroit, however, is worse than Oakland for many reasons, one simplified, being that they've lost to bad teams, Arizona included. Detroit has had a 2-10 record despite boasting the 8th worst schedule (opponents' winning percentage is only .473). At least the Raiders' was .516 and Arizona's was .500.