Detroit Lions 2011 Schedule Announced

there is no way in HELL that is the Detroit Lions schedule. They aren’t allowed to play after 4:pm thats just the law!

Day of the Phonz !

Bring it on!!

and when we are starting to become a bandwagon team (and yes alot of people say that we are their 2nd favorite team) that the NFL helps by giving us this schedule. I don’t want to get ahead of my self but there is a strong strong strong possibility that we could go 13-3. FAce it the NFC North is scared of us and we could most likely sweep our division and other than Atlanta, New Orlean and San Diego and even New orleans goes through their shity streaks., those would be the hardest games. No New England and no Indy. Actually Atlanta is our hardest game.

Any ideas for a POD outing this year? Cheifs is interesting as is a possible cam matchup if Carolina takes him.

I’ll keep my predictions to myself though… ;o)

but yes! The Phonz is ready for the Broncos

Put rodgers out for good this time huh

Whats happening with the college bowl games that day? Are they going head to head? Or did the NCAA change? Oh Yeah the koolaid thought…an extra bye week and home field.

Lion’s fans NEED to get out to that MNF game vs. Chicago! As a season ticket holder, I can’t take another year of sitting in the stadium with half the seats filled with Bears fans! If we’re going to step into the spotlight, we MUST represent!!

before chicago and then carolina before GB on thanksgiving. I should finally be able to keep my turkey down.

Sept. 11 – at Tampa Bay Buccaneers – W. We did it once, we can do it again, right?
Sept. 18 – vs. Kansas City Chiefs- W. If this was at Arrowhead, I’d say L.
Sept. 25 – at Minnesota Vikings- W. Rookie QB or Joe Webb? Oh yea.
Oct. 2 – at Dallas Cowboys- W. They won by fluke this last year, won’t happen again.
Oct. 10 – vs. Chicago Bears- W. First game in the spotlight, let’s see if we’re ready for our close up… have to believe that we hate them enough and we’ll be “jacked” enough to beat them.
Oct. 16 – vs. San Francisco 49ers- W. Is this really happening?
Oct. 23 – vs. Atlanta Falcons- L. Nah.
Oct. 30 – at Denver Broncos- W. Tough place to play, but I think we’ll pull it out.
Nov. 6 – BYE- No f’ing way we’ll be 7-1 at the bye…Maybe we drop the Chicago game? Or San Fran (“trap” game)?
Nov. 13 – at Chicago Bears (1 p.m., FOX)- L. Split sounds right.
Nov. 20 – vs. Carolina Panthers- W. This could get ugly.
Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving) – vs. Green Bay Packers- W. I don’t know… can I say maybe?
Dec. 4 – at New Orleans Saints- L. Nope.
Dec. 11 – vs. Minnesota Vikings- W. Damn I love beating the Vikings.
Dec. 18 – at Oakland Raiders- W. Who plays QB for them? Gradkowski? Campbell? Draftee? We’ll see.
Dec. 24 – vs. San Diego Chargers- L. They’re talented, clawing for a playoff spot.
Jan. 1 – at Green Bay Packers- L- Lambeau curse continues.

So 11-5, playoffs…is this too optimistic? I’m assuming that we upgrade at LB enough to stop the run, because with KC, ATL, OAK on the table along with MIN, we’re going to have to. I feel like we’re going to be fine in the secondary for some reason, and we know if our key pieces stay healthy we’re going to light up the score board. I’ll have a better idea after some question marks are scratched off.

How does this effect our draft thoughts? How do we get into the second half with smiles on our faces? I see alot of big name de`s comeing at us early. Does that change anything so close to the draft?

We finally have something to talk about other than Mock Drafts. I was getting tired.

Does anyone know when regular season ticket come out?

I can the Lions getting off to a great start and the Falcons game being a National televised game. Stafford v. Ryan. Same with the Cow-bitches and Saints.

Seems to be alot of teams that like to run the ball. A few teams that will being using a new QB( ie FA signing) or a young QB. Things could play out into our favor.

This schedule pretty much maxes out at 9-7. I’m not happy about it, but that’s just what I see.

Psyched i get at least 4 games on television here this season… don’t get a lot of Detroit games on TV over here without sunday ticket. Love that they have both SF and OAK on the schedule this year. Lockout better not screw this up!

I think I will have to take a vacation day

Not Only Is The Schedule For 2011 Out… But So Are The Results!
 by KJSegall on Apr 19, 2011 11:33 PM EDT in Vikings

Vikings at Detroit: Vikings win, 17-7. Side note: Sydney Rice and Adrian Peterson team up at one point to play a game of hot-potato at the one-yard line, gamely giving the Lions’ secondary a chance to catch up for a second before Rice simply reaches the ball across the plane for the score. Also, rather that destroy Matthew Stafford… for another season… Brian Robison simply picks him up and carries him to the Lions’ sideline, at which point he then places him down, points his finger at him, and warns him to stay there. Stafford does so, but to his credit does not cry. (He does wet himself, however.)

so maybe he doesn’t know a whole lot!

I wrote about this on my blog, and here is what I thought:

As you can see, the Lions have a pretty tough schedule to say the least. Thirteen of the Lions sixteen opponents have either made the playoffs this year or the year before. The Lions will also play the teams representing the NFC in the NFC Championship games in both this years playoffs and the 2010 playoffs. If people thought that last years schedule was tough, well this years is tougher, especially the first three of the four games on the road.

I think the harder you look at the schedule and the opponents they will be facing, the more you realize that playoffs in 2011 won’t come easily for the Lions. I can only find one game where I can for sure say that the Lions should win. Every other teams seems to have talent to either outmatch or match the Lions. I guess we’ll find out how much this team has grown in 2011.

Week 1 Lions at Buccaneers: A team we beat on the road last year when their playoff hopes where on the line.

Week 2 Chiefs at Lions: Not only a home game but also playing the Chiefs coming off the Bills, we will be their first “real” game.

Week 3 Lions at Vikings: No Favre = No win for them.

Week 4 Lions at Cowboys: If you look at their schedule coming into this one they will probably be more beat up and road weary than we will be.

Week 5 Bears at Lions: Our revenge game.

Week 6 49ers at Lions: The first game where we will face challenges because of the schedule.

Week 7 Falcons at Lions: The Falcons may be flat after playing a USFL caliber team the week before (Panthers).

Week 8 Lions at Broncos: This one will be challenging in Mile High.

Week 9 Bye

Week 10 Lions at Bears: More revenge.

Week 11 Panthers at Lions: If the Lions are who we think they are, no worries here.

Week 12 Packers at Lions: Turkey Day, our day and considering that they travel to us that only gives them 2 real days to prep for us. Not to mention that every team in the league is going to be taking their best shot at them along the way.

Week 13 Lions at Saints: A tough game but we do have a mini bye after Turkey Day.

Week 14 Vikings at Lions: Nothing scary here.

Week 15 Lions at Raiders: They travel even more than we do prior to this game.

Week 16 Chargers at Lions: These guys will be tough, but they will be on less rest and probably be beat the hell up after playing the Ravens on Sunday night.

Week 17 Lions at Packers: Yeah we got hosed here but oh well, at this point the Packers should be pretty worn out from everyone in the league giving them their best game week in and week out.

I look at all of this and yeah sure, we might go 9-7, but that is still a big improvement. We could also easily go 11-5. Hell with some good luck on injuries for a change we could easily do that.

This schedule is sweet compared to the past several years. MNF hell yes! 4 pm games hell yes! SD chrismax eve, GB new yers hell yes! I’m drunk, go Lions!

it’s the NFL. Take a look at the Cardinals schedule( stat wise the weakest in football). Minus their divisional games, they have a pretty tough road ahead of them. We all have to face facts. We are no longer the Detroit Pussies. We can bring it to any team out there.

Who’s with me?

It’s sort of like doing Mock drafts in December, January, February, or March. LOL

Seriously, lets see what the draft, free agency, and training camp looks like before we start pencilling in wins and losses.

Half of the games we have are against teams with ten or more wins in 2010, and two games with 8 and 8 teams. This is a typical NFL schedule to me. No such thing as an easy game and we better upgrade our players and our play if we want to get to the playoffs!

The first game against the Vikes we won’t have to face the Williams boys who will be on suspension. And its the road game! Any advantage on the road is a plus. GOOOO LIONS!

Don’t even know how the teams are shaping up right now. I think a winning season is doable though.

Hard to tell so early. We will get a better Idea on some of these teams after the draft and free agency. One thing I keep thinking is how much this shortened offseason is hurting teams like the Vikings who are in the market for a quarterback. They won’t have as much time to practice and learn the playbook/team etc.