Why the Lions could potentially go 9-7...and maybe the playoffs?
by DLions4Eva on Sep 6, 2010 2:31 PM EDT
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Most people in the NFL world can't fathom the Lions winning anymore than 5-6 games this season. After looking at
the schedule and deciding the outcome of each game, I've came to the conclusion that the Lions offense is good enough to win 5-6 games by themselves, but is it possible for the defense to win 3-4 themselves?
Detroit @ Chicago: The Bears offense has been revamped, and not necessarily in a good way. Mike Martz's scheme is a little chaotic and Jay Cutler doesn't exactly have a Brandon Marshall to throw to either. The defense is a supposed strength, but how much of one is the question. Lions offense lights the Bears up and Cutler, after getting sacked 4 times, throws 2 picks in the loss. LIONS 31 - BEARS 17
Philly @ Detroit: The Eagles have a new quarterback this season and he's looked good so far but you have to wonder how much they will miss Donovon McNabb. They have an array of weapons on both sides of the ball, but I think the Lions could match that offensive firepower. Unfortunately, the Lions secondary can't hang with Philly's recievers and Kolb lights them up for 3 TD's. PHILLY 28 - LIONS 20
Detroit @ Minnesota: This will be one for the ages. The Lions haven't won in Minnesota since 1997 and they haven't forgot that either. Stafford connects to Calvin Johnson twice for a TD and Brett Favre makes the Lions secondary look respectable by throwing a pick that is returned for a touchdown to lose the game for the Vikings. Their 1st loss to the Lions at home in 13 years. LIONS 24 - VIKINGS 20
Detroit @ Green Bay: This games starts out the exact way it ends; with Aaron Rodgers throwing a touchdown against the Lions suspect secondary. This game won't even be close, though Stafford and company has a decent game, it won't be enough to stop Rodgers from embarassing the Lions D. LIONS 17 - GREEN BAY 38
St. Louis @ Detroit: Detroit didn't forget the only game the Rams won last year was against them, and neither did Stafford. He throws 3 touchdown passes against the Rams weak secondary with Best running for over 150 yards and 2TDs of his own. This is the first Lions blowout since 2007. RAMS 20 - LIONS 35
Detroit @ New York Giants: Detroit won the last time they were in the meadowlands, but this is the NEW meadowlands and they don't have similar results. Manning makes the Lions look silly and Stafford has a 3 int game to make matters worse. LIONS 13 - GIANTS 31
Washington @ Detroit: Washington is still bitter after becoming the team to lose to the 0-16 Lions in 2009. Donovon McNabb makes sure to redeem them with his 3 TD performance and the Redskins win in a nailbiter. REDSKINS 23 - LIONS 20
New York Jets @ Detroit: The Lions have been ready to shut Rex Ryan up all week for talking smack about the Lions defense. Mark Sanchez proves once again why Detroit picked Stafford #1 overall and so does Stafford with an amazing performance at home. JETS 24- LIONS 30
Detroit @ Buffalo: Detroit had a bad first half in the preseason against the Bills and want to prove that it was just a fluke, which is exactly what it was. The Lions defensive line has 5 sacks against QB Trent Edwards and the Lions easily roll over the Bills on the road. LIONS 27 - BILLS 10
Detroit @ Dallas: This game is interesting because of the playoff implications entitiled here. The Cowboys are vying for a spot at either wildcard or division winner and the Lions give them one more reason to think they could make the Superbowl with Romo and those running backs destroying the Lions D. Cowboys D hurts the Lions offense too, making this a one sided game from the start. LIONS 17 - COWBOYS 28
New England @ Detroit: The one game that everybody thinks Detroit will lose. The Thanksgiving Day game is once again being talked about getting taken away from the Lions, so they respond by showing why it belongs in Detroit. Brady is picked off after being sacked three times and Stafford hears chants of "MVP! MVP! MVP!" PATRIOTS 19 - LIONS 24
Chicago @ Detroit: The Bears are very mad for getting whipped at home so they go into Ford Field with a major attitude. Peppers has his way with Backus and Cutler throws 3 TDs to steal a win away from the Lions at home. BEARS 30 - LIONS 23
Green Bay @ Detroit: The Lions got destroyed at Lambeu earlier in the season. The Lions offense is really humming and the defensive line looks dominant this time around. Aaron Rodgers still throws for 300 yards, but Stafford throws for more. They prove that they aren't getting pushed around by the division leaders again. PACKERS 24 - LIONS 31
Detroit @ Tampa Bay: This game was over before it started. Josh Freeman had no chance against the Lions defensive line and get's sacked 5 times and throws a couple picks to match. The Lions offense absolutely destroys Tampa on their turf. LIONS 38 - BUCS 14
Detroit @ Miami: After a strong showing the last couple weeks, the Lions offense cools down and Miami's wildcat offense confuses the Lions D enough to win pretty easily. Chad Henne has a career game and throws for 300+ yards, 2TDs and no picks in the win. LIONS 13 - DOLPHINS 27
Minnesota @ Detroit: The last game of the season. It's down to the wire for perhaps the last wildcard spot. If the Lions win and another team loses, then they are in. If Minnesota wins period they are in. Favre plays one heck of a game until the last drive when he throws it right to Louis Delmas on the Lions 10 yard line to seal the loss and another season where Favre blows the game for the Vikings. VIKINGS 23 - LIONS 27
The Lions won, but did the "other" team lose so they could get into the playoffs for the first time since 1999? I'll let the good folks of P.O.D decide the outcome of the season. Let me know what happens! I hope they surprise me!
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Lions put up 30 against the Jets?
Smoke another one buddy
Now
Now, I didnt say we couldnt win. Its possible that Dirty Sanchez gives us the game. But we are not gonna put up 30 on the Jets D.
Yeah I can see us putting up 30 on the Jets.
You forget that 14 points will come from interceptions :) So the offense really only needs to score 17 on their own to do that. ;)
Ndamukong Suh - Bringing 60's football back to Motown!
What about a Trifecta from KVB, Avril, and Suh
Trifecta – a sack, forced fumble and fumble recovery all in one play. I don’t know what they’ll call it when we take it to the house?
that’s another 21 points.
If you can't spell practise write, then dont repond!
what ever your taking
cut the dose lol. we will win games but playoffs..thats a reach.
I had a dream were the Lions let me sign a 1 day contract they let me practice with them running drills and catching passes from Matt…At the end of the day I was called into Mayhews office. I was told I had just been traded to seattle for a 5th round draft pick.
we beat the viks 2 greenbay pats and jets
but lose to redskins and miami what ever your smoking ill take a o LOL
I don't understand these posts
haha can you really try to predict the happenings of every single game? whatever. LMAO
I have a 9" personality
by Waitingfortheroar on Sep 6, 2010 3:42 PM EDT reply actions
The problem with making the playoffs is the competition.
If you buy into the Packers, Cowboys, Saints, and 49ers winning their divisions that still leaves us competing with the Vikings, Eagles, Redskins, Giants, Falcons, and Cardinals for a wild card spot and I just don’t see us beating all of them out, even if we can surpass the Bears.
The Falcons are pretty much a lock to be up there with the Saints, they have a very easy schedule and can easily go 12-4. That leaves us competing with an NFC East team for the last spot. Though I can see us beating out the Cardinals, and obviously if we are going for a wild card we would have to beat the Vikings out of it, the real problem lies in the NFC East. All four of those teams are still playoff contenders and the worst of their division will likely end up 8-8, they will beat up on each other some but the top two of them are still likely to be 12-4 on the division winner and 11-5 for even their third place team. I went through the whole NFL schedule after the 3rd preseason game and it is a believable scenario. That means we will most likely have to be 11-5 or 10-6 to even think playoffs this year, I think the days of 9-7 making the NFC playoffs are over. There are just too many really good teams, and too many really bad teams in the NFC to even out the wins and losses enough.
Ndamukong Suh - Bringing 60's football back to Motown!
It's just a guess guys
The Vikings won’t be as good this year and the Jets are overrated. We get sweeped by the NFC East though so it’s not like I’m smoking anything. Nobody knows how good any team will be this season.
I like the fact
ur drinking the lions koolaid, i am as well but I just dont think we go 9-7 more like 7-9 or poss. 8-8, The giants I think are not going to be that great so I think we can win there but greenbay will sweep us under the rug, they look like a superbowl team! bears I do think we can beat them ounce poss. 2wice but we deff. will not sweep the vikes we might win 1 but not 2wice. but glade to here lions fans happy for a change
No offense here guy, but....
do we really need another of these? There are sooooo many variables in the messy prediction world that it’s simply an exercise in futility. We really don’t know how good (or bad) we are, so how can we know how good or bad the teams on our schedule are?
Again, I’m not trying to be a jerk… just stating that one could make one of these “game by game predictions” for every combination of win-loss records just by tweaking the comments to their liking. As in…
Green Bay @ Detroit: The Lions got destroyed at Lambeau earlier in the season. The Lions offense is really humming and the defensive line looks dominant this time around. Aaron Rodgers gets taken out by Suh in the first quarter and this time they prove that they aren’t getting pushed around by the division leaders again. PACKERS 3 – LIONS 41
You can drum up any one of a billion scenarios to change the win-loss to either favor the Lions or the opponent. The fact is, these predictions take something very complex (like the thousands of variables between two teams in any given game) and reduce it to a few sentences to accommodate the record the poster wants to give the Lions. I could easily write one of these for a 9-win Lions team and a 3-win Lions team. It would be simple.
Again… sorry about the angst, Dlions4Eva. You are just the unfortunate soul that posted this same write-up for the 20th time… with a different outcome.
Heck if anything I would rather read an in depth prediction of just the next game on the schedule
To me Chicago is what is relevant right now, there are just way too many variables to accurately predict what will happen down the road, and yes I am guilty as charged of doing that very thing myself.
Ndamukong Suh - Bringing 50's football back to Motown!
+1
I feel the same way, Chicago should be the ONLY in the minds of the players, coaches and even the fans. Mayhew has the job to look out to better improve this team as a daily task and even though we as fans always like to criticize this or that and give our two cents on who we should pick up, at the end of the day, the game itself should be the only thing of any matter so predicting a game that is just six days away is one thing but going any further then that is a whole other thing.
prediction for bears game
Lions 41 and the Bears 17 Cutler throws 4 picks. Stafford throws 4 TD’s. Best runs 1 in and catches 1. CJ, Pettigrew and Nate all get 1 a piece. 2 FG’s by Hanson… The roar has been restored.
Bears score 1 FG. A end of halftime 50 yd bomb to Hester, Forte scores on a 15yd sweep
Lions fan for life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's me looking into the future at the Lions going to the Play-offs by 2011 and going to the Super Bowl in 2012!!!
I drink a lot of "spiked" blue kool-aid... Having no problem sharing cuz it sure is good!!!!
I think we win, but...
it’ll be close. I’m thinking something like 27-23. I think we are overconfident in our offense and not worried enough about our defense. Games early in the season favor defenses, because it takes a game or two for offenses to find cohesion and get their stride. And I think we forget that the Bears still have some good players on defense.
Our saving grace might be the lack of protection for Cutler, because our secondary will most likely allow him to move up and down the field at will. If we get pressure, it might just force him to check it down too frequently to be effective… or throw a bad pick. I also think we have some favorable matchups in the Bear’s secondary as well. Stafford, if protected, should have a good day.
Either way, I doubt we will put up more than 30 on the road. If we do… great, but I’m not counting it. Hey… just a good old fashioned road win would be nice. Haven’t seen one in a while. I don’t need them to score 50… just win, baby!
I just did a write up about the game, lol I followed my own advice :)
Ndamukong Suh - Bringing 50's football back to Motown!
How about this..
We Just talk about the week to week events.
then were to we discuss Kevin Smi.....never mind
I had a dream were the Lions let me sign a 1 day contract they let me practice with them running drills and catching passes from Matt…At the end of the day I was called into Mayhews office. I was told I had just been traded to seattle for a 5th round draft pick.
by The Profiler on Sep 7, 2010 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions
+1000
RIP Robyn Bailey 1961 - 2010. I love you mum.
by Hyperion Ecta on Sep 7, 2010 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions
+1
The thing about trying to predict our W/L record is that you cannot account for momentum. If we start the year off 0-2 for some unforseen reason, the season could very well spiral out of control since we do not currently have a winning mindset within the organization. On the flip side of this, if we start off 2-0 or even 3-0 all bets are off.
I dont think lack off talent is the reason why we have been AS bad as we have been. Although I agree we have had and still do have areas that definitely need to be addressed, so does every team. Our biggest thing to overcome is to develop a winning attitude and then beating teams like Min or GB is far from out of the question.
I agree about the momentum thing...
because we’ve been a victim of that. But don’t undersell just how bad the talent on this team has been. Worst 53-man roster in the history of the NFL two years ago… no question. The roster rot that this team has suffered over the past 4-5 years is not to be downplayed.
Trust me… Marinelli had the whole “winning attitude” thing down to a science. He sold it… Millen bought it, the players bought it and the fans bought it. The store shelves were empty. But all the attitude in the world is absolutely useless unless you have talent and that was the one thing Millen forgot to buy for this team. So yes… it was THAT bad.
agreed
I am by no way, shape, or form saying that we have had the talent of an actual NFL team for the last several teams. But at the same time it seems like we have accepted the role of being the league punching bag and we are out of games before the kickoff.
Obviously our big hole right now is the secondary and that definitely needs to be addressed in the coming years (if not this year by trade somehow). But that can be overcome with schemes and play design to somewhat limit the exposure of our weakness. In every other aspect of our team, I see quality (not phenominal) starters with lots of upside. But that means nothing if we go into games still wondering if we can even compete. The mindset within the players and organization needs to change desperately and so far I think it has. Hopefully it stays like that on gameday too is all im saying
Its ok the Bears secondary is banged up and pretty uninspiring too ;) Urlacher has also been nursing some injuries too.
I actually like our secondary better but we have to prove it before I can start saying that legitimately :)
Ndamukong Suh - Bringing 50's football back to Motown!
Forte is looking ok
But i am worried about Chester catching some dump offs or screens and breaking them.
1 slice, 1 beer, 5 more reps.
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