Detroit Lions: 2025

[StrangeBird]

7 hours ago, sagnam said:

The Seahawks were never going 0-3. They are good. Good teams win.

The Rams and SF are also “good teams.”

Carolina is obviously weaker, but they beat GB and the Rams. I guess neither of those teams is good.

[Motown Bombers]

48 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Do we have a thread for lame Carlos Monnarez articles?  

I got an alert about the Lions need to trade Montgomery and I was like this is definitely Monnarez. I had to quit following Birkett because he kept platforming that clown. 

[romad1]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

I got an alert about the Lions need to trade Montgomery and I was like this is definitely Monnarez. I had to quit following Birkett because he kept platforming that clown. 

He's good at his job which is to generate slop that he can sign his name to even though he got it from AI. 

[lordstanley]

12 hours ago, StrangeBird said:

We should be rooting for the Rams tonight, yes? Lions can still pass the Seahawks if the Lions go 3-0 and Seahawks go 0-3.

 

Just like with the Bears-Packers game, there's good and bad with each outcome. On the one hand, the Lions can no longer beat out Seattle for a playoff spot. On the other hand, if the Lions do beat out Chicago or Green Bay for the wildcard and get seeded #7, if and when it comes down to play the #1 seed "perhaps" at Seattle is a bit less daunting than at LA Rams? There's still a way the Lions could beat out an NFC West team for a wildcard - if the Lions win out and SF loses out at Indy, vs. Chicago, vs Seattle. Of course we'll be cheering for Chicago over SF, so counting on the Niners losing out is only a desperate fallback.

[MichiganCardinal]

3 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Just like with the Bears-Packers game, there's good and bad with each outcome. On the one hand, the Lions can no longer beat out Seattle for a playoff spot. On the other hand, if the Lions do beat out Chicago or Green Bay for the wildcard and get seeded #7, if and when it comes down to play the #1 seed "perhaps" at Seattle is a bit less daunting than at LA Rams? There's still a way the Lions could beat out an NFC West team for a wildcard - if the Lions win out and SF loses out at Indy, vs. Chicago, vs Seattle. Of course we'll be cheering for Chicago over SF, so counting on the Niners losing out is only a desperate fallback.

A playoff game at SoFi would be a Detroit home game. A playoff game at Lumen would most definitely not be.

That said, they may have a slightly better chance against the Seahawks. They've exposed Sam Darnold before. To beat the Rams would be to win 52-49, which feels unlikely.

[lordstanley]

46 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

 A playoff game at Lumen would most definitely not be.

 

True, but at least I'd be there 🙂, like I was for Tigers @ Mariners in October. 

Edited 5 hours ago by lordstanley

[lordstanley]

Another interesting wrinkle as far as playoff implications. If the Bears win their next 2 games, they'll have clinched the  division and likely would have little to play for against the Lions (bye likely out of reach). If that happens, the Lions will need to hope that GB also lost to Baltimore or that GB would lose their final game at Minnesota.

[Shinzaki]

I could see Minnesota being highly motivated against GB to set a tone for next year...of course the saame thing could be said about our game with them on Christmas

[Sports_Freak]

Somebody better tell me who to root for in the Packer/Bears game so I can be disappointed. 😅😅