Detroit Lions - the rise and fall
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The return of the Squibster. Now the good and the bad. The good is that my most excellent boss and coworkers filled in quite nicely and that is most appreciated.
The bad is the Squibster is diagnosed with Cancer and undergoing chemotherapy. Fear not, they say the cancer is one that is curable, so let us move forward with our dreams of football!
The Detroit Lions have managed to tie up the first Turkey day game forever. Every few years someone will balk and complain that there could be better matchups for the Thanksgiving spectacle and the game should be rotated around the league.
About this time, William Clay Ford Sr. steps in and mentions all the Ford truck ads that put tons of bucks into the NFL coffers and mentions that he is one of the elder statesman in the football ownership world and has run, if not a successful, at least a stable and profitable franchise for like forever.
The talk stops. The NFL respects tradition backed by money.
Now Squibster is such a huge Lions fan that the whole world has to be resituated for him to watch. This Thanksgiving, due to the time in my Chemo cycle, no relatives were allowed around me, thus giving me the big screen hi def all to my self. Life can be so rewarding.
Then life stopped being rewarding as the Lions took the field.
It was evident that the Pack was back and this time doing it with defense. Sure, Brett toyed with the pitiful Lions defense, but it was the aggressive defense that shut down the Lions running game and made them one dimensional.
The following week the Minnesota Petersons utterly destroyed my Lions. It seems the one trick pony of Mike Martz and the long range pass has no one fooled at this point.
Lions fans have went from utter jubilation at winning 6 games to utter despair.
The Lions have now lost 4 straight games to be in a tie with the Vikings for second.
The Lions have even been doing poorly in takeaways, which is one of their strengths earlier in the season.
As the Lions rolled to a 6-2 start, one of their key statistical superlatives was the turnover-to-takeaway ratio. After eight games, they were plus-eight, which ranked third in the NFL. In all but one of their wins, the Lions were at least plus-1.
But in each of their past four losses, the Lions have either lost or drawn even in the battle. Their turnover-to-takeaway ratio is now plus-five, which ranks 10th in the NFL. source
Geez, can’t a Lions fan get a break?
NFL Football Fan Question Will Martz be a Lion’s coach after this season?
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