Lions' Stupid Mistakes Cost Them In 24-10 Loss To Vikings

All of this drooling and fawning over the fact the Hill was such a winner, just a great pick up, he knows exactly where to go with the ball…..BULLSHIT!!!!!!!,……The guy is nothing more then a barely average career back up and makes as poor a decision as to were to go with the ball as any other scrub backup.

Stafford can’t come back soon enough. Hill’s kept us in games, which is great, but he’s not Stafford.

If this is going to be another 0 -16 or 2-14 season that the fans have to endure. Why not give Stanton a start just to see what is there. I mean Green Bay is a guaranteed loss so if the season is going to basically be over with a 0-4 start. Lets see Stanton….

This one was a hard one to watch because the game was a lot closer than the score indicated. Stefan Logan’s fumble completely changed the momentum and entire game. And we would have still tied it up had Hill not thrown two picks in the end zone at the end of the game. Chris Houston and C.C. Brown with that blown coverage for the Harvin TD. And a couple of missed tackles on the 80 yard run by AP. Five big, costly plays that made the scoreboard more lopsided than it should have been.

I like the grit and heart the team is showing but one has to wonder how long the team will keep that up. I certainly hope all season. I hope KVB keeps that motor going and does indeed refuse to be Lionized.

I guess you could add the meek call to go for the field goal at the end of the first half to my list of gripes too. And Mr. Automatic missed the 44 yard kick too, that hurt, at the time it would have put us ahead on the score board. So many failures on so many levels there are only a few positives to take from this game.

Derrick Williams actually made some plays, that was encouraging.

The defensive line continues to look good for the most part.

The linebackers seem to be slowly improving, Levy being in there helped a lot, Peterson seemed to pass the eyeball test, and Palmer played OK for a depth guy.

Anyone in the secondary not named Delmas or Smith is suspect. But hey Alphonso had a nice game. He actually caught the interception! And came up and made some nice open field tackles on AP. Wade had an up and down game so I am not writing him completely off yet. I have however written off C. C. Brown and Chris Houston. Oh Spievey had a nice play to force that fumble from Gerhart too.

Game fell apart quick. I can’t defend Hill anymore. Not that I think Stanton would be any better. Truth is were just screwed until Matt comes back. Pick what ever back up you want still get lack of leadership, poor decision making and small arm. The only thing that came out of this game that was good. Was derrick williams shutting some mouths.

No way the front four is able to keep the morale and fire in their bellies when the losses start piling up…. Then we are done.

All the hype and hope in the beginning, and things just keep going horribly wrong.

for another draft so we can put 10 points up on the board.

we run the clock the best give our D a Break and we move the ball which is surprising… we say that we need to run to open calvin but just pretending like we want to go deep everytime opens up the dink a dunk that can break off into big gainers.

It will take pressure off the entire team and light a fire under their asses. If not, well you already witnessed what has happened and will continue to happen. Sorry ass Shaun Hill pisses me off! Linehan is a vanilla mediocre coordinator and needs to go after this season. I could’ve called a better game than the last 3 weeks!

 - I don’t know what to think of Hill. You look at his stat line and see that he outperformed Favre (They were both pretty similar, but Hill has a slightly better QB rating), but much of his passes were short dump offs or short routes to the TE. He rarely looked for CJ. His two picks were pretty disheartening, although his last pick was a deflection. We need Stafford back.

 - The running game without Best was pretty much non-existent. Felton has a decent run taken away by a penalty, and Logan had a good run. But that was it. Losing Best was a big issue for the game, and I wonder if things would’ve been different if he was in the game on those last two drives.

 - Receivers didn’t stand out. CJ needs more ball, and in better positions. Grew and Schef were solid, but not perfect.

 - I was happy with the offensive line. They allowed only one sack, although the run blocking was kinda poor.

 - Defensive line played hard, but couldn’t bring home the bacon. Only 1 sack I think, but consistent pressure. Had 1 sack-fumble taken from them by a penalty. Did an OK job against Peterson.

 - Linebackers didn’t stand out much either. Levy missed a bad tackle on Peterson, but he’s coming back from injury so I’ll give him some slack. Thought Palmer did an OK job while filling in for Zack.

 - Minus the horrible blown coverage on Harvin, I think the secondary did it’s best job this season. We had 1 pick, plus another stolen from us. Coverage was decent for the most part.

I tend to think that this game was about not getting the run of the green. Bad penalties kept us from building momentum. And don’t forget our compulsory quota of bad plays. I believe we were closer than the scoreboard indicates, but I also believe that the Vikings weren’t on their game. We’ll see what happens against Green Bay, but I don’t expect much different.

is going to destroy us. I’ve been optimistic the first 3 weeks, but we stand no hope. We will lose 48-20. And that’s just because the Packers go into prevent in the 2nd half.

10 straight years of pee wee football that is played by the Detroit Lions. I bet you the Michigan Wolverines could beat them. Robinson would like like Mike Vick against them. This is pathetic!

Everyone knew we were rebuilding, and that we were still a year or two from being consistently competetive. You cna see the improvements in the lions and now almost quarter the way into the season and everybody’s head is on the block. bunch of negative nancies we’re two years removed from fat head wrecking this team beyond belief.

I suggest whiskey or vodka to help you along the way. Once enough memory cells have been killed you will no longer care about the losses so much and probably be happy that we get some completions and first downs and whatnot. Plus hey we got this really cool defensive lineman that has red contacts n shit.

On that note I am going to go eat some dinner, find a bottle of whiskey, and go pwn me some Viqueens on Madden until my hands are either to sore or uncoordinated to work anymore.

I still see that happening. Just got to accept the fact. That this offense was designed for a strong armed Stafford. Not a slow pitch softball quarterback like Hill.

The only thing I can take from this game is this. Our young players look good. And are getting better. Suh looks like the begining stages of a monster. Best, if we could just get the ball downfield at some point. It would open things up underneath for him. Lo Jack looks like a good future replacement for KVB. Sammie Lee has been very good. Levy and Delmas are going to be household names. Just got to find some secondary help somewhere. I have a hard time understanding what C.C. is doing out there.

1. Death
2. Taxes
3. Detroit Lions losing

they ran one more play with no timeout and came up short of the endzone instead of taking the points… If schwartz would of went for it, completed it, and time runs out he would of been crucified. Im just saying, he didnt take the points last week but he chose to take em this week. to make it a 7 point game, we had two picks in the endzone which would of tied it up.

Everyone seems to forget that our franchise QB is out… I have no doubt that if he was playing we’d be at least 2-1 right now, and is the reason why I’m still nowhere near as negative as a lot of POD’ers. If the Colts lost Peyton Manning, how good would they be? Obviously Staff is no Peyton Manning, but the QB is the most important player on a football team, and we shouldn’t underestimate the effect losing Staff has had in the win/loss column.

Believe me guys, we’re really not in as bad of shape as a lot of you are making it out to be. Yes, it’s frustrating to lose yet another game due to mistakes, but we’re one of the youngest teams in the league, and we’ve been dealing with a shit ton of injuries. Let’s all calm down.

1. MAYBE a 3 win season, but i wouldnt be surprised with 1 win.
2. Linehan is a Millen plant.
3. God doesnt hate Detroit and the Lions, but He uses them both for his entertainment.
4. Anybody that is halfway decent that starts on this team, will be hurt and sit out at least 2 games.
5. This team is cursed!

Even though i didnt expect us to beat Philly, or Minn, the Lions should be 3-0 right now.
Stupid mistakes, stupid play calling by Linehan AND Schwartz have made this team 0-3. We need some changes, and now. But i know its not going to happen. I am no longer an optimist. I now expect the following:

1. Never have more than a 7 point lead.
2. Never lead at halftime.
3. Expect Suh, Delmas, KVB, Best, Stafford, Pettigrew and CJ to be out for at least 2 games this season (if it has already happened, add two more games on to it.)
4. My stream connection to look like crap! But when i look at other teams its like watching HD with no interruptions.
5. Linehan to continue to suck and STILL keep his job next year.
6. The Lions to draft number 3 overall next year.
7. Schwartz to continue to coach like we are winning by 14 points with 30 seconds left on the clock

And the few bright spots:
1. Suh to make the pro bowl
2. Best to get honorable mention for OROY (injuries and the fact that he plays for Detroit will keep him out. )

I’m not completely throwing in the towel just yet, but i got it handy.

1. Excluding the completely inexcusable muffed punt Logan is quick and makes some nice moves returning punts and kick-offs. He actually seems like a threat out there.

2. The offensive play calling was quite a bit better this week, which I think speaks more to how bad it was the first 2 weeks rather than how good it was this week. Running it up the middle for 2 yards is much better than running to the outside for -5 yards.

3. D-Line is awesome. They are very fun to watch every play.

4. This team is not getting run off the field in the first half like the last couple years. They’ve had decent chances and have been close in all 3 games. Next week will be a huge test though to see if they can hang with what some believe may be the best team in football.

I’ve actually enjoyed watching this team, which may have something to do with me not getting too wrapped up in the team the last few seasons like some of you guys do.

My biggest gripe is the NFL is set up for parity. The whole league is designed for most teams to be 8-8, a few to be 10-6, a few to be 6-10. We have witnessed bad teams have an occasional good season or two….except us. In order to be this bad for this long, you have to actually put effort into being bad. Detroit is not the only team with inept management. How have these other teams gone from bad to respectable? How is it that we have gone from bad to laughable? We are cursed.

We suck

I’m going to take a nap and have another nightmare. Wake me up on draft day!