Yesterday afternoon the season finally got away from the Lions. Even great, wonderful, completely non-Lion type things like Nick Harris' punt turned to complete shit as they mutated into points for the other team. Absolutely nothing ever goes right with this team and nothing WILL ever go right with this team. I've basically come to the conclusion that it's just something we're all gonna have to deal with. I don't mean to be morbid but I honestly think that until William Clay Ford bites the big one we'll keep getting shit on by this black cloud like Charlie Brown.
Again the refs did the Lions no favors, but before anyone starts bitching lets consider that in the end it didn't really matter. Sure, Suh's hair pull on Barber resulted in a first down and an eventual score, and Bryan McCann definitely stepped out of bounds on his punt return for a touchdown, but the Lions didn't show up at all in the second half of this game.
I'm way more pissed at them for playing uninspired football than I am at the officials for screwing the pooch on a couple of calls. And even though Delmas tried his best to sell his strip of Barber as a 98 yard TD the other way, the repay clearly showed Barber was down before it came out. No grip there.
The real glaring deficiencies in this one were the putrid running game and the downfield passing game which was nonexistent except for a few Burleson completions. Best continues to disappoint while battling injuries and I for one am completely shocked at how ineffective he has been. I thought his speed would translate exceptionally well in the NFL and that the Lions would eventually learn to run a screen pass like every other fuckin team in the league. NOPE. I really hope it's the injuries holding him back and not his lack of desire or NFL talent. If this is all we're gonna see from Best in the future we're fucked six ways to Sunday, cause that pick is the one Detroit absolutely can't afford to miss on.
Things aren't fixin to get any better come Thursday when the Lions are gonna get stuffed harder than the Thanksgiving turkey by the Brady Bunch. The Pats are one of the most professional and systematic organizations in the business and should carve up the Lions with surgical precision.
PS - Calling that Kitna bootleg was fuckin cold blooded. I was actually happy for him though cause I thought he was still in a coma from this hit 4 years ago. Congrats on being relevant again Jon.
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