The Lions are heading into their bye week, but all three losses are to NFC South teams they could be competing with for a wild-card berth.
Detroit will need to finish at least one game better than at least one of the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and Saints because all would hold tiebreakers over the Lions due to head-to-head record. We've got to work that out. We've got to be trending in the right direction at all times and playing at a higher level. The Lions could have the talent to pull it off. They showed flashes of it throughout the first month of the season. Skip to main content Skip to navigation.
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I hate to bring up the idea that the Lions gave up, but what would you call it? The Lions get the ball back with great field position after a shanked punt and they run it several times and burn time off the clock?
A two touchdown deficit is a lot at that point in the game I suppose, but this type of play calling is all you need to see to know Patricia is bad at this. I mean this is the difference between winning head coaches and losing head coaches.
You have to always play like a miracle can happen at any point. The game management issues continue to bite this team. Just a quick reminder. The Saints were missing their Pro Bowl receiver, Pro Bowl left guard, both starting corners, starting tight end, starting defensive end and they even lost more players during the game. They scored more points than they have in any game all year. It really showed early on in the game on Sunday when he threw an ugly interception and missed on a few other throws.
Even if he did throw for multiple touchdowns on Sunday, something is just not right. I am in absolutely no way saying the Lions should trade Stafford or that Stafford is done being a good player and the Lions need to move on and draft a rookie quarterback. I am not saying that at all. Stafford threw a second quarter interception in the end zone one series after taking a drive-killing sack on third down.
And Brees completed 11 of his final 13 passes in the first half for yards and two touchdowns. One of his incompletions came when he bounced the ball into the turf after trying to hold up on a pass.
The Saints scored on drives of 13, 10, nine and four plays in the first half, when they had a near 2-to-1 edge in time of possession. Latavius Murray added two rushing touchdowns, and Alvin Kamara had yards from scrimmage.
Stafford was 17 of 31 passing for yards and three touchdowns for the Lions, who got a late 5-yard touchdown run from Adrian Peterson and a two-point catch by T.
Hockenson with to play, before Brees ended any hopes of a comeback with a yard pass to Smith on third-and
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