Why the Lions can win the BYE...

The most important thing to come out of the BYE will be the health of The Franchize. The fact that he'll be starting at home against Washington on Halloween day...will lead to a painful amount of Lions/Costumes stories...It will really be disgusting. "Were these the real Lions or were they in disguise?" That kind of crap, that is way too easy and frankly stomach turning.

A full Arsenal for Stafford

But that's a side note...what's important is that he'll be taking every practice snap for the next two weeks and will be throwing to a full complement of receivers. Burleson, Megatron, Scheffler, and Pettigrew--all healthy, all will be playing. Jahvid Best, Kevin Smith, and Jerome Felton--all completely healthy.

The offense that the Martin Mayhew and Jim Schwartz and Scott Linehan drew up in the off season will be on the field on Halloween...at least for the first snap. After that, who knows.

Will the machine click and pop like it is supposed to? We can only hope, but what will be certain, they won't have any excuses for the offense left.

DeAndre Levy will be back

Levy has been missing since the middle of training camp. The man written in as the starting middle linebacker since the end of last season has only played a handful of snaps all season. He has come out and said that he will be back after the bye against Washington. We can only hope...what's more we can only hope that he is what we hope...if that makes any sense.

Levy is currently nothing but aspirations. The Lions hope he can be what they think he is. We haven't seen anything to say if those hopes are based in any kind of foundation either way yet.

The Lions also signed former first round pick and star Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter this week. Carpenter has been tossed in the garbage by three different NFL teams...we'll see if he has anything in the tank as Zach Follet will most likely still be sidelined from that nasty hit he took last Sunday, which left him in a New Jersey hospital after the game.

Special Teams!

Stefan Logan appears to be the second coming of the smurfs. He is a tiny man who is very good at getting lost on kickoff and punt returns. He is one of the big reasons the special teams are actually turning into a positive this season, where as in the past they were largely ignored.

If only we could block a punt one of these days.

The Pride

The Ford's could win the BYE if they came out positively in favor of the home town ladies who are trying to push the organization into getting a full time pep squad. Cheers to you, ladies!