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Yeah, for sure. Just being lazy. They finally looked like a reasonable team Monday night. Geeeeezzz.
so, Lions get beat by the Patriots 2 weeks ago by a 29-0 score. God, the utter misery of being a Lions fan !!!
The Bills play the Lions almost every year either in the regular season or (usually) in the preseason. This tradition goes back many years because Ralph Wilson, the original Bills owner is a Detroit native who had a competitive friendship with the Lions owner (one of the Ford guys?). So they could have bragging rights on who won the annual preseason game. The cities themselves are also very close geographically.
This year the Bills play the Lions in the early Thanksgiving game.
Every team has its years of misery. Some longer and more miserable than others.
In 65 years they have had only 1 --- ONE !! - Playoff victory. 65 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Granted they rarely make the playoffs..............
65 years is not 'years of misery'. This is shear punishment - almost war crimes - by the NFL Gods.
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Detroit Lions racked up points faster than 29 other teams during their first five games of the season. They still won just one of those games because of a defense that was tracking to become the worst ever. But hey, at least they were lighting up the scoreboard. Right? All they had to do was figure out how to get some stops. Right? And then they might finally turn the corner. Right? Right? Bueller?
Lions fans know better. They’ve watched this very sad organization play the most frustrating game of Whac-A-Mole for the last, oh, seven decades or so. Fix one problem, and another pops up. Knock that out, and two more take its place. ‘round and ‘round we go for a few generations or so, without interruption and without fail, a brutal anomaly in a league built for parity.
Well, they took another whack at their defense on Sunday in Dallas, and hey! Jeff Okudah racked up 15 tackles in the best game of his professional life! First-round pick Aidan Hutchinson beat two offensive linemen for sacks! Second-round pick Josh Paschal was a huge difference-maker in his NFL debut! Third-round pick Kerby Joseph forced a fumble! Something just one rookie safety had done for them in nearly three decades!
Put it all together, and the league’s worst defense strung together their best four quarters in, gosh, it’s been so long since they’ve looked like that it’s hard to remember. Credit to the coaching staff for a fabulous game plan against a Cowboys offense that just got back Dak Prescott.
They also lost, 24-6.
Because if it’s not one thing, then it’s another and another and another and and and ...
... and it’s frustrating.
“Look, I’m frustrated,” head coach Dan Campbell said. “I’m frustrated because we’re losing. I’m frustrated for losing just like I was last year, just like I am any time (we lose), just like I was at New Orleans when we lost a game. You don’t like to lose games, you know? But I’m not down, and I’m not losing confidence. I’m not going to go hide in the corner. That’s not what I’m about. You change a couple of things, man, you take care of the football, you game plan the way you should, and all of the sudden you’re winning, you know?”
Oh, we know. If [fill in the blank] weren’t hurt, you’d be winning. If it weren’t for [fill in the blank], then [fill in the blank]. Maybe next week. See you next year. The next decade will be the one. ‘round and ‘round we go.
It’s always something. On Sunday, it was five turnovers. Almost no one is winning like that, and surely not a team as flawed as this.
“That’s too devasting,” Campbell said. “We’re not in a position to overcome those.”
Well if that’s the case, Jared Goff is already on the clock.
He racked up four more turnovers on Sunday, including a back-breaking interception on the third play of the second half. The Lions had just returned to the locker room emboldened by a defense that allowed just a single field goal. Then facing a second-and-short just seconds into the second half, Goff threw a risky ball into double-coverage. He was aiming for Josh Reynolds’ back shoulder, but came up way short. Trevon Diggs picked it off while falling to the ground, a play that was confirmed by a league review no matter what CBS bizarrely tries to tell you.
“Yeah, can’t do it,” Goff said. “Defense played their tails off today and gave us a great chance to win that game. And we didn’t do our part offensively.”
No kidding. Of course, they didn’t do their parts offensively in a 29-0 shutout loss against New England in their last game either. That’s six points in two weeks -- matching Goff’s number of turnovers over that stretch, by the way. He now has nine of them in six games this season.
“If you can’t hold onto the football,” Campbell said, “you can’t play for us.”
See where this is going?
Listen, when you’re this bad for this long, it’s never just one thing. Whatever ails the Lions runs much deeper than any single player. Goff didn’t even have the worst turnover in Dallas, an honor that goes instead to Jamaal Williams, a sixth-year running back who had never lost a fumble in his professional life -- until he was about 6 inches from giving Detroit a fourth-quarter lead in Dallas.
If it’s not one thing, it’s always another.
For a team now trending toward a fifth straight last-place finish -- a record even for them -- Jared Goff isn’t even their biggest issue. He showed something down the stretch last year, then led the Lions to the most points in the league in the first month of this season. Give that man a clean pocket and a few weapons, and he’ll do some good things for you. You can do worse than Jared Goff in this league.
The reality, of course, is you can obviously do far better too. This is the NFL, after all, where pockets aren’t always clean and injuries can wipe out anyone. Or in the Lions’ case, everyone. D’Andre Swift and DJ Chark haven’t played in weeks, while Jameson Williams hasn’t played at all. Amon-Ra St. Brown just turned in the two worst games of his career because of a high ankle sprain and brain injury. That has made things so hard for Goff, no question about that.
There’s also no question Goff has struggled to elevate the offense in times like these. That goes back to his days in Los Angeles, and they’ve become true here too. The best teams almost always have a plus player at quarterback these days, someone who makes others better, who can impose his will on a game, who can win even when everything is hitting the fan. Goff has a lot going for him, but he isn’t any of that.
Now the Lions have scored six points in their last two games and lost four straight overall, dropping them to 1-5 on the season -- the worst record in the entire league. And if you’re still reading by now, well, that means you are a Lions fan or masochist. Either way, you know what that means. The Lions currently hold the No. 1 overall pick in next year’s draft.
There’s a lot of football to be played, which means there are a lot of opportunities for Goff to convince the Lions they already have their quarterback. Maybe he’ll do that too. But at this rate, he’s not. And at this rate, the Lions are going to hold a very high draft pick. They also hold the Rams’ first-round pick because of the Matthew Stafford trade, so even if they were to win a few games in the back half of the season, they’ll still have enough ammunition to move wherever they need to be for whatever quarterback they want, whether that’s C.J. Stroud or Bryce Young or someone else.
Jared Goff has 11 games to prove they already have the guy they want.
But through 23 games, he looks like he’ll eventually be whacked too.
‘round and ‘round we go.
And that one win required an All-Universe player, Barry Sanders, on the team to accomplish that. They finally part with Matthew Stafford; and so what does he do?
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GO BILLS!
GO BILLS!
Giants and Jets were brought down to earth today. Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes. How’d your team do?
I had a great Sunday. My team assured me of that Thursday night.
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Bucs BAD, Dolphins GOOD!
Niners killed the Rams today and McCaffery was number one player, Jimmy G had maybe his best game ever. This week we have a Bye, than a home game with Chargers
Go Bills. Life is good when you can beat the Packers without really trying.
No kidding. I dozed off during the first half. Bills looked like they were out for a Sunday drive.
I hadn’t seen much of McCaffrey over the years, and didn’t realize he was such a dangerous passer in addition to all the other ways he can terrorize an opponent.
It's starting to look like beating the Packers or the Buccaneers isn't the accomplishment it used to be. Now the litmus test is beating the Bills or the Chiefs and possibly the Eagles if they are for real.
HA !! Its easy. We expect to lose. And we find some of THE MOST creative ways to do so. After 65 years, our pain threshold is very very high
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...or Rams.
Imbobman
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Congrats to the Bills. I thought the Packers played better than expected...at least they weren't down 40-0 at half.
Though to me the Bills were never threatened.
There were some lousy calls made by the refs in the game.
(Q. Walker being ejected for pushing that practice squad player who was standing out of bounds was probably deserved/dumb).... but the bad calls probably wouldn't have changed the outcome of the game.
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