Rams Beat Lions 17-10 Thanks to Late Steven Jackson Touchdown

our offense is physically painful to watch. The seahawks looked like garbage today against the ‘boys. I’m going to keep coming back and i’m afraid the lions are going to keep dishing out the punishment (to their fans, not to opponents).

but could we drop anymore balls that were catchable??????

wow…those other wr’s look like they are only used to seeing five or six balls…can’t handle the ball at all.

WE NEED CALVIN BACK!!!!!!!!!

Although I was happy we gave up the quick TD once they got past the 20 yard line. If we would have tried to stop him and make them kick a FG, it would have left us with about 20-30 seconds left. Instead we had a 1:38.

Too bad I forgot how bad our passing game is without CJ.

i don’t know what to say…

Why do we keep coming back every week just to see the same thing happen every week. I love the lions and i am going to keep coming back but i can tell myself why. We dont just need Calvin back we need a whole new group of receivers.

it feels like someone has ripped out my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears… then another guy walks in and is hitting my soul in the crotch with a frozen sledgehammer… then someone else punches me in the grief bone and i’m crying but no one can hear me cuz i’m terribly terribly alone (special thanks to Michael Scott)

I only got to see the 1st half (had to go to work) and damn our recievers and TE couldn’t catch a cold let alone a ball, I ffel that if they had caught those passes, we would have won this game… I mean it, Staff played well today. his poor stats are a reflection of many dropped passes. I thought we ran ok and our defense wasnt tooooo aweful (however aside from SJ the Rams O is damn shameful).

I guess I dont get it, a few weeks ago northcut and BJ were catching those passes. just a shame.

…….he had 9 passes dropped……At least 6 of those were catchable, including the Int…….That being said I thought the Defense played tough……..Just need Calvin back and that will get the other WRs single coverage……Hope that helps them out some

I’m not sure about my fellow fans here, I know I work my ass off to get paid. One player, Zack Follett, should cash his check this week. Everyone else, top to bottom, should donate their pay to charity. I’d be embarrassed after that " performance ". Frankly, I’m tired of hearing how well this team prepares, because, it’s evident , they don’t. I know we lack physically, but, come on, how about some mental toughness…

…the Lions are cellar dwellars once again. You guys can spin it anyway you want to. You can make every excuse in the books. No matter which way you look at this one, the Lions are full on back to the bottom of the NFL. Whatever progress had taken place since last season was wiped out in an instant once that clock ran 00:00 and the Rams had the lead.
I’m not saying this because I’m bitter, I’m not even saying this out of frustration, I’m simply stating this as fact: “The Lions are once again the worst team in the NFL”. Congrats boys, you suck again!!!

is that we may be picking in the top 5 again next year…..getting handcuffed with that huge of a salary for one player again is going to be tough to swallow. Maybe we can trade out of it, but I highly doubt it

….. i had a better time at my girlfriends dance recital…..

It was pretty bad, on the whole. But, I’m an optimistic dude, so I’ll try to find some bright spots.
Firstly, Follet’s hit, that was just awesome.
Second, Delmas performance, apart from the horrid penalty before the Rams TD, was quite good, he was making hits all over the place.
Third, Running game wasn’t terrible, Mo Morris done a pretty good job of running the ball in Smith’s absence.
The rest was pretty poor, the drops were atrocious, we didn’t do a good enough job rushing, we didn’t do a good enough job covering and we couldn’t win the game, that’s it.

Now that we got that out of the way, I can think to the next game. But, not I’m going in with a totally new mindset. Instead of thinking we are a below average team on the way up, I’m thinking we are a very poor team where every little positive should be celebrated, as sad as that may be. I’ll be hoping for upsets every game and hoping for the best in the future, because that’s what Lions fans do best…wait.

Some questions to those that did;

1. We rushed over thirty times for 127 yards, but it seems like KSmith is not getting it done [less than 3 YPC]. Any thoughts why?
IMO he has not been running well since his injury.

2. Staff’s completion % was less than 50%. I heard about the numerous drops, but is he just not putting the ball in a good place or throwing too hard?

I listened to the first Detroit drive which sounded good until they got around midfield, then turned into a comedy of errors; penalties and a big drop.

3. We had no sacks. Did we blitz very much or even pressure Bulger much? Bulger certainly did not cut us up, sounds like they just stayed very short.

Note: The Lions defence continues their streak of allowing a passer rating of over 100.
Josh Brown – 1 for 1 for 36 yards and a TD.

These last two games have been very frustrating to say the least. Nowhere to go but up.

For some reason I can’t “reply”, so I’ll just put my response on another post:

1) The Kevin Smith thing is really hard to pin down. Maybe I’m still just biased towards Kevin Smith, but the only thing I can come up with is that the Lions were actually starting to wear the Rams out in the running game and towards the end of the game holes had opened up for Morris. You’ll see that a lot even with premier running backs…20 rushes for 50yds then the next four rushes go for another 50yds.
2) Mixed bag. Stafford made about as many terrible throws as his receivers dropped passes. He looked extremely rusty at best.
3) Bulger actually did have quite a bit of pressure. He made just as many horrendous throws as Stafford as a result. They never brought him down, but he rushed a lot of his throws and had quite a few batted down as well. It was the run defense that sucked a goose egg out there.

The Rams are every bit as bad as I thought they were before the game. The Lions, unfortunately, were much worse than I could have believed and I’m afraid you may be wrong about “nowhere to go but up”. I have a terrible feeling that a loss this bad may just pile insult on top of injury, and this team may unravel completely before they get any better.

I watched the game and after we tied it up and Follet had that HUGE hit on special teams I was rocking, whoever was left at FF was rocking, POD was rocking and just like that this team deflated and, although the RMAS didn’t score, they effectively took the wind out of our sails, played the field position game knowing our anemic offense wouldn’t do anything and the rest was history.

Good teams, particularly ones at home, take advantage of that momentum. We just sort of died with penalties, poor tackling, etc. I was so let down (as always) that this team didn’t stand up – take charge – get a 3 and out and kept on rolling.

What a letdown, buzzkill, whatever you want to call it but that was a critical juncture in the game that we should have capitalized on and we didn’t…………………..so what else is new?