1. This one may not hurt as bad as the Megatron reversed touchdown or last week's 3 point loss...but it hurts a lot. This wasn't even a good Minnesota team. This is how bad the Lions are playing. They caught the Devil on a down day with no receivers and they lost by two touchdowns.
2. C. C. Brown is the worst defensive back I have seen in the last twenty years. He is making the memory of Bryant Westbrook--on one leg--a very fond one. If he isn't blatantly missing tackles, leaving receivers wide open or just looking shocked as a clubbed baby seal, I think he's probably spiking the gatorade for all the other players.
3. In fact, every opposing offensive coordinator that plays the Lions should be fired if they don't put up at least 50 points. The Lions secondary is so abysmally awful it is sickening. All any team has to do for the rest of the season is call three step drops and throw short passes. The Lions will never play up on anybody and they can't really even tackle anyway...which pretty much negates playing off the receivers anyway.
4. The Lions marched into the Devil's den and then promptly crapped themselves, rolled over and begged the demon to have his way with them. It was awful.
5. The Lions' secondary is so bad that I am beginning to question if even Louis Delmas is any good. You have to figure that if three out of the four guys are so abysmally disgustingly wretched, what makes you think the fourth guy isn't too.
6. I don't think the Lions have any linebackers either. Julian Petersen is a three time probowler who doesn't exactly look all that great. DeAndre Levy looks worse and nobody even knows the name of whoever is playing on the weak side...
7. Oh, the huge worry going into the season about Jahvid Best was could he stay healthy? We now know...well, he had to sit out pretty much the whole second half with a toe injury...a toe injury? And word on the street is he's had it all season and simply aggravated it at the end of the second quarter. A toe injury?
8. I am beginning to have doubts that the Lions will ever field a competent, let alone probowl, offensive line again in my lifetime. I really wish I could go back in time and somehow convince prior managements to not let go of guys like Lomas Brown, Kevin Glover, and Jeff Hartings.
9. To say that Jeff Backus and Dominic Raiola are no Lomas Brown and Kevin Glover is an understatement of epic proportions.
10. The Lions will get no respect from officials until they find a way to completely dominate a few games. Not just win, but win by several scores. Or in other words, they'll never get any respect from officials. The interception that was called back because of pass interference was simply atrocious. The Vikings receiver ran the Lions defender over and then cut in the opposite direction of Farve's pass. If anything, that should have been offensive pass interference.
11. The stupid quarterback hit to the head rule is a shame. The fact that players are getting called for brushing the quarterback's head, while he still has the ball in his hand makes absolutely no sense. In other words, the league is trying to outlaw players from smacking the ball out of the quarterback's hand. Seriously, when are they going to start putting a dress on the quarterback. Oh and while anybody who breathed too close to the Devil was called, our Scott Mitchell clone was smacked around like red headed step child.
12. The holding call on Dominic Raiola was a crime.
13. I really hate the NFL.
3rd and 3 or less...
In the NFL the average run goes for 4 yards, why teams think that it is imperative that they pass in this situation is a huge mystery to me. The Lions faced 3rd and 3 or less four times in Minnesota. They ran twice, converting once and they passed twice converting once. So far this season the Lions are 3 of 6 rushing and 2 of 3 passing. I maintain that as the season continues, these success rates will reverse themselves.
Where is the Fade Stop?
One of the great plays during the golden days of '90's Lions football, other than hand the ball to Barry and stand back and watch, was the fade stop. A quick pass to the corner of the end zone for a 6'2+ receiver (usually Herman Moore) thrown high enough to take advantage of much smaller corners.
Calvin Johnson is 6'5, I don't care if he's covered by three corners...they're all a lot smaller than he is. That play is there.
Item of note:
The Lions haven't blocked a punt since 2007...which is pretty amazing because I can't remember the Lions ever actually trying to block a punt in my lifetime. This is a special teams play that is usually better than a turnover. It is a show an aggressive team who wants to win...this is something the Lions never even try to do.
Wouldn't it be great if the Lions had cheerleaders?
There are a few great things about the Lions playing road games. One, you can always bet against them, you know they'll lose. Two, you don't have to worry about the game being blacked out. And three, there are always cheerleaders in the background. Take your focus off the game in between snaps and look beyond the players centered in the frame...there are almost always cheerleaders in the background.
Unfortunately, this week the Lions trek to the dreaded Lambeau field, a place they haven't won in this century. And the Packers are one of the very few Nazi organizations who outlaw the beloved cheer squad.
Tales of the inept...
Sadly, the Lions are leading the inept in the race to the Lions Super Bowl...the draft.
0-3 San Francisco Forty-Niners. The Niners were a team many picked to win a very, very weak NFC West. Instead the Niners laid a colossal egg against the Kansas City Chiefs who many thought should be fighting to be at the head of the inept list this year. The Chiefs, remarkably, are now 3-0. Who knew?
0-3 Carolina Panthers. The Panthers thought they had a quarterback, but they didn't. Mike Moore looked really bad in his first two games and has now been replaced with former Notre Dame QB rookie Jimmy Clausen. I'm pretty sure the Irish haven't produced a legitimate QB since Montana. The Panthers lost 20-7 to the Cincinnati Bengals.
0-3 Cleveland Browns. The Browns are in complete rebuilding mode. Which is why they're employing a stone age quarterback being backed up by a bronze age quarterback. Eric Mangini is in trouble. He'll probably be fired after this season. The Browns lost 24-17 to Baltimore, a respectable effort against a much superior team.
0-3 Buffalo Bills. The Bills have no quarterback, a bunch of running backs and a head coach that has failed so much in the NFL he was never on anybody's radar to get a head coaching job last year. It was a real shock to the NFL world when the Bills tapped Chan Gailey...but it is not a shock that they are playing this poorly. The Bills came back late to make the score look respectable, but they were pretty much crushed by the Patriots 38-30.
0-3 Detroit Lions. The race is on...
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