Lions Turn the Ball Over Six Times in 20-6 Loss to 49ers
by Sean Yuille on Dec 27, 2009 7:26 PM EST
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PrintSan Francisco cruised to a 20-6 win over the Lions today by forcing 6 turnovers and keeping the Lions' offense out of the end zone. It became painfully obvious during the course of the game why Drew Stanton has waited this long to start his first ever game in the NFL, because he was not good. The entire offense was bad, but Stanton looked out of place on many plays, making either bad reads or just terrible throws. That's not to say that the team is any better with Daunte Culpepper, but man, Stanton really played poorly today, turning the ball over 4 times himself.
Early on the Lions looked good and Stanton led the offense down the field for eight minutes on the opening drive of the game. Detroit only managed to get a field goal out of it, but it was a good drive nonetheless. That was about it for the offense, though. Turnovers either put the defense in a bad spot or derailed promising drives, though San Francisco only led 6-3 at halftime thanks to the defense's relatively good play and a blocked field goal.
Like we have seen many times this season, the defense struggled on a couple drives in the second half and the offense completely disappeared. Drew Stanton was eventually replaced by Daunte Culpepper, who led the Lions to a field goal and nothing else. It was just a really disappointing game overall, especially for the offense (as good as Calvin Johnson played, he still made some bad plays, fumbling the ball twice) and the 49ers went on to win 20-6.
The Lions' final game of the season is next week against Chicago. Probably the thing most fans will be keeping an eye on, though, is what the St. Louis Rams do against the 49ers. Both Tampa Bay and Cleveland won today, meaning the Lions are basically guaranteed to have the first, second, or third pick of the draft regardless of whether they win or lose against the Bears. There are only two teams with three wins, the Buccaneers and Chiefs, and it's highly unlikely that Tampa Bay's strength of schedule will drop below Detroit's. Kansas City has a tougher schedule than Detroit currently, but only by a couple games. That leaves the Rams with one win and Detroit with two. As a result, a Lions win over Chicago will only really have a big effect on the draft lineup if St. Louis beats San Francisco. As Tampa Bay showed against New Orleans, upsets can happen, but the Rams looked pretty bad today against Arizona. Basically, the Lions are currently in position to have the second pick of the draft unless the Rams win next week, and since that doesn't exactly seem all that likely, it would be great if the team could end the season by upsetting Jay Cutler and the Bears.
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Forgot about them... whoops
Will update the story in a minute.
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Another disappointing loss
I have to hand it to the Defense which kept us in the game for the most part. Ernie Sims, Jason Hunter, Anthony Henry, DeAndre Levy and the Missle really stand out. We’re still not able to create turnovers but all in all they played well.
Now on to the putrid offense. Horrible, deplorable, disgusting, etc. 6 turnovers is a mockery and CJ had 2 fumbles!!! Stanton just plain missed throws wildly and CPep was his usual boring, checkdown self. The O-Line opened no holes, Gos got beat repeatedly and Raiola was running around looking befuddled on more than one occasion.
I hope we beat the Bears next week but I don’t see it happening. Our QB situation is deplorable and I don’t see any chance for us to win next week. With that I hope we win because I hate Cutler but in reality even the Bears, at least on paper, look so much superior. At least their QB can complete routine passes.
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The Defence was a bright spot
The Defensive Line was strong, Hunter, Avril, Hill were all very good. Levy and Delmas also stood out. Offensively, things weren’t so nice. CJ played ok, getting more involved and all but those fumbles were annoying. Stanton was terrible at times and Morris didn’t run as well this week.
Still, it’s nice to know we pretty much have the 2nd pick wrapped up. Gives us some nice choices in April.
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
Stanton
I can’t believe they wasted a second round pick on him. the offensive line sucks. I don’t think morris was the problem.
Isn't that the story of the 8 year Reign of Terror?
Morris kinda had the same problem as Smith, bad blocking and not enough speed to make it work.
PIZZA?!?
by Transplanted on Dec 27, 2009 10:13 PM EST up reply actions
Happy Sparty?
I guess the coaches were right.
I am sure Schwartz is saying to himself, “See what i mean?!?!” to all of those who thought that Stanton was being suppressed. (I was in the category at one time myself too).
Oh well.
I guess we have to use one of our draft picks on a QB for sure now. Not like we are getting any help from Duante or Drew.
And of course, the O-line is/was horrible as well. They didnt help either.
Gos is garbage and so is Dominic. The only lineman i would keep would be Peterman and Gandy, and that would just be for depth. We need to draft an entire new O-line! Is that possible AND get Suh and a RB??
I’m pissed! TB won, so we could have won this game and still kept our 2nd pick. It was winnable.
No
KC has a tougher schedule as of now.
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by Sean Yuille on Dec 28, 2009 12:39 AM EST up reply actions
I have it updated (I was gonna wait until the MNF game to post anything but it actually doesn't matter...
…since both teams are on STL’s and DET’s schedule but not on the other teams’. This is what it will look like after tonight.
Rams (126-114)
Lions (124-116)
Chiefs (125-115)
Bucs (134-106)
It’s definitely getting closer. Depending on what happens next week, theoretically the Lions could end up with the toughest schedule I suppose.
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by Sean Yuille on Dec 28, 2009 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
Pissed at this point in the season?
Besides the turnovers, I thought Drew still looked better than Culpepper. He moved the offense.
What I saw was inexperience… plain and simple. Drew finally has some tape to work on his game… not scrub time.
Stanton will be fine on this roster and is a keeper in my opinion. the players rally around him and he IS a playmaker.
He just needs more experience.
OL
They looked horrible. In some blog I found Stanton compared to Stafford … lol
Quite good defense, limiting Gore under 75 yards is a pretty good job, and also pass defense was pretty decent, except in two plays.
Draft Suh and a pair of skilled DBs, and start fixing defense, a backup QB can be found on free agency
Give Drew A Break~
Damn, he sits out for nearly 3 years (yeah, he’s been injured alot) but they have never started the guy until yesterday… never let him work out with the starters until last week… Hey, I did’nt like some of the throws either, but I know that Drew Stanton is better than today showed! Hell, Stafford has been rough and thrown interceptions all season long and he’s the number one pick and has started since day one! and ol’ Culpepper, I wont even go there! Everybody is too down on the guy who just got his first start this week…
Take a breath everybody, it is a team sport and no quarterback can win – or lose – alone.
Ha Ha Ha
Not again Detroit, how much more pathetic can you look ??? Evidently people in this forum like to be disappointed, let down, and dumped on, because the Lions are owned be an egotistical moron. I think all of you need to get a real hobby and move on in life, because rooting for the lions is for losers.
Oh yea, I forgot about the lions mantra “wait until next year” . The lions are not any better than last year. Sure they got 2 wins this year, but barely. They were flukes as well.
Give up people here in Pride of Detroit, you are foolish to root for them, there isn’t any pride left !!!
Please
tell us you didn’t join POD today just to come on here and tell us the Lions suck. Because you probably could have saved yourself the ten minutes if that is the case.
Stanton was awful, beyond awful. Missing a 5 yard route by 3 ft over the RB’s head. Gosdar played terrible, but Backus played very well if you go back and watch just him. The D played respectable at least. Avril and Hunter got a lot of pressure off the ends and Sammie Hill may have played his best game of the season getting some real penetration in the middle on the run and pass downs. The Linebackers played well, it just blows that we have had to look towards next year starting about 7 weeks ago.
Wow the troll is back with another name
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by Sean Yuille on Dec 28, 2009 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
Why don't you come up with something original
Please. We’ve heard this all before – the entire decade as a matter of fact. Come up with something that hasn’t been written or joked about before by every dipshit commentator, sports host, TV personality, etc. Then, maybe I will read your nonsense until then stop ripping off everyone else and come up with an original thought please.
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Hahahah
perfect!! LOL
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What those above me all said
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
by Hyperion Ecta on Dec 28, 2009 3:18 PM EST up reply actions
I'd like to see Drew Start again this week....
Despite his poor performance, I think it would be wise to give Drew another go.
Why? Because he should be allowed to learn from his mistakes…. the poor throws, the poor reads, the excitability of the game getting to him. Stafford wasn’t benched because of his 5 INT game, was he? Culpepper wasn’t benched after the GB shellacking was he?
Give him a half of football to prove he can do it…. because we all know, Culpepper cannot…lol.
Here’s an article with a few other points….
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-CLF
lol... this sums it up....
The Lions never win when Culpepper is on the field. Never. He went 9-0 against them as a starter for the Vikings. He’s 0-8 for them as a starter. He’s not coming back next year.
Nice post CLF
BTW don’t you have any pics for the troll who is dissing the Lions??
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i agree 100% but the FO has made it clear they dont give 2 shits what people out side think
at least they say that..
Agreed
I don’t want to see Culpepper again. Might as well throw Drew out there and give him another shot after he gained more experience.
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Yep
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
by Hyperion Ecta on Dec 28, 2009 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
As a Niner Fan
I find the calm approach to your game recap surprising, given the pain Lions fans have had to endure. I now feel so calm I can barely type. This writing is deceptively…relaxing.
CUIDADO: Estoy Borracho!
lol....
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
by Hyperion Ecta on Dec 29, 2009 4:55 PM EST up reply actions
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