Week 10: Seriously, I don't want to talk about it

It was so abysmal. The Seattle Seahawks could have spotted the Lions 150 points, which I think they tried to do, and the Lions still would have lost.

This isn't even upsetting anymore. It's just depressing. We've seen it so many times before that the only emotion it inspires is apathy. A long empty sigh. "Here we go again."

The Lions were spotted 17 points in the first quarter. Then, everything went to Hell in a handbasket and Franchise Savior threw 4 more picks. I've said it before, the Lions are so putrid that they have to play with the pedal to the metal until at least 25 minutes after the final whistle.

Here's what I have taken from the Lions game:

1. The Franchise Savior is going to have a ton of growing pains. Let's see what his QB rating is in week 8 next year before we decide to throw him and his $72 million contract out on the trash heap.

2. I think this is the most obvious thing about this year's rendition of the "Bad News" Lions...this team expects to lose. Maybe not Stafford, Foot, Peterson, and CJ...but most if not all of the Lions go into every game expecting to not get a break and for somebody to miss a play or make a huge mistake. That is why it is so vitally important that players like Backus and Raiola and Sims and probably even Kevin Smith all need to go. They have all been "Lionized," infected with the Honolulu Blues. They all have to be tranquilized, bagged, clubbed and removed from the Lions locker room, because the Honolulu Blues is very, very contagious.

3. Louis Delmas may never turn out to be as good as so many scouts have predicted, but he's still worthy of a starting safety spot on most NFL teams. He's no Troy Polamalu, but he's not Marquand Manuel either. (Too bad he plays right next to Manuel.)

4. The Lions need to draft a new left guard. Manny Ramirez, Dan Loper, and Jon Jansen have all tried their hands at the position and all have played awful.

5. I'm really worried that, in the end, this season will be a microcosm of Stafford's entire career. Some good games, a lot of abysmal games, and an occasional great game. Harrington 2.0.

6. In two weeks the Lions are going to host the Cleveland Browns, loser will very likely get the #1 pick in the 2010 draft. The Lions will then, most likely have close to 25-30% of their cap space tied up in 3 players of a 53 man roster.

7. Brandon Pettigrew is going to be OK. Maybe even ProBowl worthy, someday.

8. Larry Foote better get out after this year or he'll spend the rest of his career battling to just get to a .250 winning percentage.

9. Julian Petersen is a great player the Lions will not be able to afford to keep. His salary jumps to 8 and 9 million dollars the next two seasons.

10. The Seahawks have hot cheerleaders....

I wish the Lions had Cheerleaders....

Then maybe there'd be something to look at at Ford Field while the Lions are playing. If you look hard enough you can always see at least one cheerleader on the sideline behind all the players or sometimes you get lucky enough for the players to get pushed out of bounds....or when the station comes back from the beer commercials.

But no, any time you're down at Ford Field, you're stuck watching the pitiful product on the field. It's like you've spent $75 for a football game and now you have to be punished for it. If I ever catch my son watching Lions' games, I'm going to stick him in a closet for a day with nothing but a feed of old Millen Era Lions home games....he'll never smoke again...what was I talking about?

Damn you, William Clay Ford!

3rd and 3 or less

The Lions faced 3 and 3 or less five times against Seattle. They were 1 or 2 rushing and 1 of 3 passing. So far the Leo's are 8 of 10 rushing, and 5 of 12 passing. 80% success rate running the ball on 3rd and 3 or less...41.6% success rate passing...I'm just saying...

The last of the inept

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-7) under their shiny new rookie QB, who they let sit the first half of the season, no matter how bad the starting QB's were playing, started his first game of the season against the Green Bay Packers. The same Packers who just a month ago kicked the Lions like an abused dog, 26-0. Josh Freeman beat those same Packers 38-28, giving the Lions the inside track on pulling another #1 overall draft pick. The Bucs were even wearing the old creamsicle uni's.

Next week the Lions play the "Devil in Purple" again.