The two guards and our center equal NO push…nothing! We are in big trouble looking at next year! Decker is really slipping, Glascow has always been below average and i’m being generous. We have to rebuild the line and it will have to be in the draft and free agency! A real tough thing to do in one off season. The interior o-line really is just not good! Maybe should have been looked at closer as soon as Ragnow mentioned retiring.
The ‘that’s who we are’ comments are turning into a thin gruel. Who we are is an elite football team, loaded with talent, intelligence and good preparation. Their schedule this year, the strength of their opponents, demonstrates how the league sees them. This is not 2023 or even 2024, the Lions have climbed the mountain to the top of the NFL. In certain situations they’ve got to tone down the grit and play up the calculus. The weather and a less than stellar opponent-offense made this a field possession game, period. This game was lost by reducing the opposing field length to 50 yards. If who we are is 4th and 5 on our forty five yard line when we are down by three points against an elite team and fail to convert we will never achieve the status the league has donned upon us. Good teams are many things. DC knows this. In any endeavor a good leader will inspire, prepare, ADAPT and execute his team to the best of their ability. DC let them down tonight. He has to do better on game days.
“Be gritty only when it works” is not how Detroit built this up. It’s how they are successful. You can’t be the Detroit lions without games like this where everything that could go wrong did. Iron sharpens iron I think this will just make them hungrier for the rematch in the playoffs
We need help with the O-line first and foremost. Goff needs room and space to make a decision and deliver the ball.
It’s easy for me to say as a professionally ignorant nobody, I know and understand.
There are several ways to accomplish this, of course, such as free agency, current player development and future acquisition (UDF or veteran) by free agency and/or amateur draft.
JG had a bad game but he had Eagles in his face all night. Our short handed defense was stellar. I don’t recall any other team stopping the tush push like we did tonight.
Aggressiveness on offense didn’t work tonight but it’s what got us here from 3-13 4 years ago. As bad as it feels right now, I’m confident we’ll be fine.
What would the score have been if we kicked field goals instead of going for 4th downs? Still room for improvement. Defense deserves credit for keeping the Lions in a close game.
I know there was one for sure in the red zone plus the penalty point, that's and additional 4 and if there was another red zone 4th down, that could have been another 3 which would have tied, even with the Eagles defense.
The two guards and our center equal NO push…nothing! We are in big trouble looking at next year! Decker is really slipping, Glascow has always been below average and i’m being generous. We have to rebuild the line and it will have to be in the draft and free agency! A real tough thing to do in one off season. The interior o-line really is just not good! Maybe should have been looked at closer as soon as Ragnow mentioned retiring.
I am not going to like watching the Bears and the Colts in the silly bowl.
The ‘that’s who we are’ comments are turning into a thin gruel. Who we are is an elite football team, loaded with talent, intelligence and good preparation. Their schedule this year, the strength of their opponents, demonstrates how the league sees them. This is not 2023 or even 2024, the Lions have climbed the mountain to the top of the NFL. In certain situations they’ve got to tone down the grit and play up the calculus. The weather and a less than stellar opponent-offense made this a field possession game, period. This game was lost by reducing the opposing field length to 50 yards. If who we are is 4th and 5 on our forty five yard line when we are down by three points against an elite team and fail to convert we will never achieve the status the league has donned upon us. Good teams are many things. DC knows this. In any endeavor a good leader will inspire, prepare, ADAPT and execute his team to the best of their ability. DC let them down tonight. He has to do better on game days.
“Be gritty only when it works” is not how Detroit built this up. It’s how they are successful. You can’t be the Detroit lions without games like this where everything that could go wrong did. Iron sharpens iron I think this will just make them hungrier for the rematch in the playoffs
We need help with the O-line first and foremost. Goff needs room and space to make a decision and deliver the ball.
It’s easy for me to say as a professionally ignorant nobody, I know and understand.
There are several ways to accomplish this, of course, such as free agency, current player development and future acquisition (UDF or veteran) by free agency and/or amateur draft.
Sorry for my incomplete fat fingered thoughts here. I hit post before I properly edited my opinion
JG had a bad game but he had Eagles in his face all night. Our short handed defense was stellar. I don’t recall any other team stopping the tush push like we did tonight.
Aggressiveness on offense didn’t work tonight but it’s what got us here from 3-13 4 years ago. As bad as it feels right now, I’m confident we’ll be fine.
Best O line?? Good QB??
What would the score have been if we kicked field goals instead of going for 4th downs? Still room for improvement. Defense deserves credit for keeping the Lions in a close game.
Just going by memory there were only 1 or 2 4th downs that would have been gimmes considering the wind and the extra long extra point miss.
I know there was one for sure in the red zone plus the penalty point, that's and additional 4 and if there was another red zone 4th down, that could have been another 3 which would have tied, even with the Eagles defense.
I thought most of the 4th downs were closer to mid field since my memory is the Lions kept giving really short fields to the Eagles.
Live by the sword, die by the sword I guess.