lordstanley

Eagles was the only one I cared about. Packers are irrelevant unless the Lions finish with a 4-game losing streak, in which GB would be the least of our problems - sucks about Geno Smith because the Seahawks play Minnesota next week. The Lions’ path to the Super Bowl has narrowed and without Davis and McNeil I no longer consider them Super Bowl favourites. But not impossible. A 5-game winning streak will make it to the Super Bowl. Even with the weakened defense, the Lions are more than capable of beating Chicago and SF on the road, but not to be taken lightly. Do that and who knows, maybe the Lions catch a break and Minnesota loses to one of Chicago/Seattle/GB and Philly loses to one of Washington/Dallas. Not counting on it but possible. Then the Lions are the #1 seed even before the Minnesota and are two home wins away from making the Super Bowl. Even with a weakened defense those two home playoff games would be coin flips at worse, so hope still exists.

Didn’t some half-joke that if we were able to beat Chicago and Minnesota then we should rest everyone against Buffalo? Because the Lions could afford a loss to a non-conference opponent and getting healthy was more important? That would have been madness. But …

Host of Lions’ radio post-game show said pretty much the same thing. So if you sound crazy so does he. You don’t sound crazy.

The Davis and McNeil injuries depress me more than the loss. I was hoping that Green Bay was the nadir with respect to depletion and that the defensive personnel would only get better week by week as players returned.

They got it. And it wasn’t.

Yeah, why not. If you fire it at a guy dodgeball, it either bounces off the guy and back to you, or if he is able to duck out or the way the defense gets the ball another 10 yards or so further back

That’s about as much as you can expect from an onside kick. Loose ball, no flags, scrum, wait for refs’ call. Wouldn’t that have been wild.

3 plays to victory: recover onside kick. Sideline pass to pick up 10 yards. Catch Hail Mary.

You need to start throwing near the end zone.

Should have called a timeout. No timeout on offense will save you 40 seconds.

Ballgame.

Need to find a way to get the ball back with 5 minutes to go.

Not high, but better than 3%.

The Lions could have afforded giving up a 5-minute FG drive, scoring a TD in 4 minutes, then getting a stop, then going on a TD drive down 6. Risks are fine if the odds are in your favour or close. You don’t try a 3% play with 12 minute to go.

So dumb.

C’mon, too early for an onside kick.

12:00 is a minute to spare!

Need a TD by around the 11:00 mark.

Long pass attempt on 3rd down was the Lions’ chance for a quick stop. But no. The Lions won’t win this unless they get some help from the Bills in this 4th quarter.

Happy to see that holding call actually. But what is going on with our receivers’ hands today?

Go Steelers! Go Bears (until next week)!

Lions need a 4-TD 2nd half just to have a shot. And even that might not be enough.

Allen failed to eat up much clock on that drive. 28-14.

Unfortunately I don’t think that’s the case. The Lions win 15-2 tiebreakers against the Eagles but not necessarily all 14-3 tiebreakers. A Lions win today would put them at 13-1 (9-1 conf) and an Eagles loss would put them at 11-3 (8-2 conf). Each finish with 3 games against conference opponents. If the Lions finish 1-2 and the Eagles finish 3-0, both would be at 14-3 and the Eagles would win the conference tiebreaker 11-2 to 10-3.