Lions care more about dressing up than playing football. If they hadn't gotten bombed on Wednesday, maybe they wouldn't have gotten bombed by the Vikings. And maybe they would have been physically fit enough to handle a football game, instead of getting 80% of the OL injured.
There's no discipline to this team. No evidence of improvement. Shep's defense continues to give up opening drive touchdowns. Fipp's special teams look like they came off the short bus. Morton doesn't exercise discipline like Johnson did, so the players line up wherever and tip off the play.
I am doubting that the Lions even make the playoffs. They still have three divisional games and things are very tight. Chicago wins the division? They have a good game or two and then a pukefest like Sunday.
The score ended up being close, but except for a few great plays, the Lions were still on holiday. Beaten by a rookie QB in only his third game? Unacceptable and I don't want to hear about "cleaning" things up. That excuse is wearing VERY thin.
They had no answer for the blitz knowing the Vikes would do it relentlessly. Special teams were abysmal. The running game is on a downward spiral. Goff looked un-poised. Even the refs threw in a few wonky penalties. It was a team effort to let this one go.
Trouble on the horizon! Injuries to our o-line coupled with glascow ineptness and decker looking like its over for him there doesn’t appear to be help coming! Coaching can only do so much with moving practice squad players up and preparing street people! But worse than this our team looked poorly prepared for the bigger picture today. There is much to be done.
Saint's 3rd down drop leading to a punt looked the same as the 4th down drop in KC. Both were knee-high and went between both hands with neither touching the ball. He grabs those when he goes to the ground.
Morton needs to go. If it were one game, I’d ignore it. It’s now multiple games of poor play calling. How LAC put 200 yds rushing up and the Lions couldn’t break 100 is inexcusable.
It’s possible I’m looking at history through rose-colored glasses, but it’s seemed to me that the Lions have historically come out hot, with some new wrinkles, after the bye in the Campbell/Holmes era. In any case, there were a lot more problems than I expected, foremost among them the protection. We had to know they were going to blitz a lot, but we didn’t seem to have an answer for it.
Rushing stats: 20 attempts for 65 yds, 3.3 per carry. When we don't rush for over 100 yards we lose. They need to fix the O-line but not sure how they can do that mid season. Maybe a trade?
The difference in the quality of play between the Vikings and Lions, made it clear to me the Lions were simply out coached in every phase of the game! The Vikings came in ready to play and the Lions simply put in an appearance--this was a coaching failure!!!
My thought is, this loss will serve them well in the long-run--be a reminder that each player and coach must be prepared to play every game like it is sudden death!
The road to the championship is full of pot holes.
Lions care more about dressing up than playing football. If they hadn't gotten bombed on Wednesday, maybe they wouldn't have gotten bombed by the Vikings. And maybe they would have been physically fit enough to handle a football game, instead of getting 80% of the OL injured.
There's no discipline to this team. No evidence of improvement. Shep's defense continues to give up opening drive touchdowns. Fipp's special teams look like they came off the short bus. Morton doesn't exercise discipline like Johnson did, so the players line up wherever and tip off the play.
This is not a well-coached team.
I am doubting that the Lions even make the playoffs. They still have three divisional games and things are very tight. Chicago wins the division? They have a good game or two and then a pukefest like Sunday.
The score ended up being close, but except for a few great plays, the Lions were still on holiday. Beaten by a rookie QB in only his third game? Unacceptable and I don't want to hear about "cleaning" things up. That excuse is wearing VERY thin.
They had no answer for the blitz knowing the Vikes would do it relentlessly. Special teams were abysmal. The running game is on a downward spiral. Goff looked un-poised. Even the refs threw in a few wonky penalties. It was a team effort to let this one go.
Trouble on the horizon! Injuries to our o-line coupled with glascow ineptness and decker looking like its over for him there doesn’t appear to be help coming! Coaching can only do so much with moving practice squad players up and preparing street people! But worse than this our team looked poorly prepared for the bigger picture today. There is much to be done.
Saint's 3rd down drop leading to a punt looked the same as the 4th down drop in KC. Both were knee-high and went between both hands with neither touching the ball. He grabs those when he goes to the ground.
Morton needs to go. If it were one game, I’d ignore it. It’s now multiple games of poor play calling. How LAC put 200 yds rushing up and the Lions couldn’t break 100 is inexcusable.
There will be trades.....
Ass kicked. Dominated on LOS.
Fourth time we’ve been beat physically in Holmes/ Campbell era:
Baltimore, Carolina in previous years
GB and Vikings this year.
U-G-L-Y in all facets
Today was depressing. That is all.
This was a sad performance in every aspect , Offensive, Defensive , Specials, and Coaching! Hope they got it out of their way!!!
It’s possible I’m looking at history through rose-colored glasses, but it’s seemed to me that the Lions have historically come out hot, with some new wrinkles, after the bye in the Campbell/Holmes era. In any case, there were a lot more problems than I expected, foremost among them the protection. We had to know they were going to blitz a lot, but we didn’t seem to have an answer for it.
Rushing stats: 20 attempts for 65 yds, 3.3 per carry. When we don't rush for over 100 yards we lose. They need to fix the O-line but not sure how they can do that mid season. Maybe a trade?
The difference in the quality of play between the Vikings and Lions, made it clear to me the Lions were simply out coached in every phase of the game! The Vikings came in ready to play and the Lions simply put in an appearance--this was a coaching failure!!!
My thought is, this loss will serve them well in the long-run--be a reminder that each player and coach must be prepared to play every game like it is sudden death!
Disjointed was too kind. For the first time in a long time they looked completely unprepared.
Not a long time all season they have had parts of games where it’s looked unprepared
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