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The lack of shooting is a big concern, it'll be hard to compete for a Championship if that's your Core 3. Holland has the best chance to be a Robin to Cade's Batman but he has a ways to go yet. Regardless, this team gets after it and is a pain to play against. I just don't know if I see a ton of offensive upside with this group, it's a struggle in a lot of 4th quarters going back to last year to score.

He can play, he'd be a backup center on most teams.

Yep that should be it. It'll have trouble scoring but establish a defensive identity and have Ivey leading the bench but that's highly unlikely to happen.

Two idiotic shots on the last possession. They really missed Beasley and Schroder in this one, Robinson looks decrepit and I never liked the Levert signing. Ivey needs to take a step forward this season because Cade has virtually no scoring help. Well maybe Holland but it's too early to tell what he is

I was way wrong about the defense. I need to put more faith in the Dan Campbell culture to get the most out of anybody, they did the same last year against Minnesota with an even more depleted group. The offense still has a lot of work to do which is crazy to say but Jamo and Monty outside of the Baltimore game haven't been utliized nearly enough, I also feel like Teslaa should be getting more looks. Kind of scary for the rest of the league that the offense hasn't clicked yet, the defense is depleted, and the Lions are still 5-2. The schedule is extremely tough but if anybody can navigate it, it's Dan Campbell's Lions.

That's the Weaver era for ya. Langdon has no attachment to these guys

Uhhh, that's not playcalling when Goff throws it right into the defenders hands and the kicker missing a FG.

Should be up by way more than 11 to say the least. This reminds me of the Raiders Monday Night football game a few years back, hope it's a similar outcome.

Who? I don't recall that player. There's a milk carton somewhere with Josh Pascal's name on it. As for tonight, it's hard to envision a win when you have guys off the street going against Evans, Egbuka etc. but we'll see.

It's for the better to not extend either. Ivey might never be the same after multiple leg injuries plus the question marks in his game already and Duren's major flaws are very apparent. He improved a bit last season but a guy who does nothing but dunk better be top notch defensively to compensate and he's not even average. There is something to be said for the chemistry he and Cade have developed in the pick and roll with being a lob threat and he does seem to fit the culture they're building but you don't give out big money to guys who just dunk and are culture fits so it appears that Langdon played this smartly.

Ivey averaged almost 18ppg last season and scored efficiently, it's not such a leap to think that he can boost that scoring to 20ppg. I'm not a big fan of the fit with Ivey alongside Cade but the 20ppg scorer could be right there in house, the defense is another story but the Pistons have plenty of guys that can defend to offset that deficiency.

The Baltimore win doesn't look as good only because Lamar got injured, that's still a SB contender with a healthy Lamar but, yes, they got their butts kicked by Green Bay and Kansas City in uncharacteristic Dan Campbell Lions fashion.

This game is going as expected, I had this down as a loss. The Lions are too banged up and there's just no way the Chiefs were going 2-4. The concerning thing to me is that the Lions got whipped up front by Green Bay and Kansas City, this is not something that would happen to Lions teams of the last two years multiple times. Schedule is relentless so they're going to have to bring a better game than this to navigate it going forward. If they lose next week to Tampa homefield is pretty much a wrap with them being 3 games behind those guys, need to win that game.

Same here, it's a likely loss with all the injuries and the Chiefs desperation plus you know Goodell doesn't want his new Golden Boy going 2-4 so look for some ref intervention tonight. All the odds are stacked against the Lions

They also play at the Rams, at Vikings and at the Bears in January when it will be cold. Home games aren't any picnic either. Tampa, Minnesota, Green Bay, Dallas and Pittsburgh. It's a hellacious schedule with injuries (like the one to Burrow) but they're good enough to overcome it, it's going to be a grind though.

What a ridiculous call against Anzalone, it's like the refs had a directive to gift a TD to the Bengals

Well, the offense was pretty poor today. The Browns inept offense created a lot of short fields for the offense and the Kalif punt return TD made the score look like a good offensive performance when it wasn't but it's a positive when the Lions play their C Game and still win by 24 points.

I've never seen a team name that represents the organization as much as Cleveland Browns. What a ****ty, stinky franchise. Just take this ugly W and run

There's no way the Lions will be favored at Philly, highly unlikely at Kansas City, Washington and the Rams, probably not at Minnesota either.

It's just one prominent poster really

Just looking back, this really should have been a blowout. The Lions controlled a lot of the play (they were pretty much doubling the Ravens in yards before the final Stat Padfordering drive), they dropped a few INTs and the refs were atrocious with the "behind the line of scrimmage" throw to Gibbs that killed the 2nd drive of the game, the phantom Branch personal foul that essentially gifted the Ravens a FG to make it 28-24, oh right the FG that wasn't actually good. Amazing that they essentially beat the Ravens by multiple scores with all of that stacked against them. Now the schedule doesn't look as daunting as it once did. The Bengals without Burrow and the Chiefs are a bit beat up and just not what they used to be. These will still be tough games and the Lions can win against anybody anyway but the first half schedule doesn't look as tough as it appeared to be a few weeks ago.

I don't care what the final score said, the Lions dominated those suckers. THAT was a statement win to all the skeptics who said that the Lions Superbowl window closed. I'd love for them to get another crack at the Packers right now.

The Packers look good now but I don't put much stock into early season results. Obviously they count as much as late season results but it takes teams a while to find their true selves during the regular season as it takes time for teams to develop chemistry and get used to the regular season grind so I think it's a wait and see on every team to really know how good or bad they are outside of the Bears who always suck.

Well the team, fans and, hell, the city of Detroit needed this. Everybody acting like this was SOL all week was getting tiresome to read.

Beasley acting like he's Lebron or something with "The Decision". Who would have thought before last season that Cade would be on a top 15 player list. He sure has come a long way, hopefully he doesn't get all fat and happy with the new success and keeps working hard to get better.