Should we be nervous about the Lions? I’m kinda nervous about the Lions.

Last Updated: January 9, 2024By

Alright now look, the Packers game sucked. It absolutely sucked. Like ruined my  Thanksgiving to the point that I wanted to huck the turkey out the front window sucked, and now I believe there is reason to be nervous.

I’m not just talking about the past two games, where we played underperforming, divisional teams at home and BARELY squeaked by one of them and got embarrassed by the other. No.

My nervousness now tracks back all the way to the Baltimore game. We got BLOWN OUT by the Midnight Pigeons in week 7 and, quite honestly, I don’t think we’ve looked great since.

  • Baltimore, loss 38-6
  • Week 8, Las Vegas on life support in Prime Time at home on Monday Night, win 26-14, but not an extremely convincing W given the circumstances
  • Week 9, Bye Week
  • Week 10, offense EXTREMELY impressive. Defense, EXTREMELY shitty. Not reassuring that we can play a complete game.
  • Week 11, Bears at home. Should have been a blow out cake walk. Instead, miracle win. Honestly should not have won. Teams were 0-84 in those circumstances prior to us pulling off that miraculous comeback
  • Week 12, Thanksgiving, at home. The Lions day. Embarrassing loss to a pathetic Packers team.

Prior to a few weeks ago, we thought we had an absolute cake walk of a schedule to close the season.

Us now

  • Saints = In the Super Dome, fighting to win the division. Could be tough
  • Bears = On the road, know they can beat us, should have beaten us. Going to be a fight
  • Broncos = Oh shit, they’re back from the absolute dead and Russ is absolutely cooking again
  • Vikings X2 = Fuck! Dobbs can play (forget the Chicago game)
  • Cowboys = Wow they’re actually even better than we thought

Now look, I’m not saying we can’t win the division. Our magic number is 4, which means any combination of Lions wins and Vikings losses that add up to 4 means we clinch. So by all that’s holy if we don’t do that it’s an epic collapse.

I think what worries me is we are meeting the hump we need to get over. We are a bad organization, a bad team- until you clear the hump. We haven’t done that yet. The hump is winning the division, hosting a playoff game, and winning it. It’s all fun and sure 8-3 is a great record but now it’s hump clearing time, which is something we haven’t seen Detroit do since the early 90’s.

In addition- guys like Goff, Hutch, the offensive line… looked lost last game. We need the big guns to show back up and play like we know their capable of… or we’re never going to have a shot against the two biggest dawgs – Philly & San Fran.

Up Next: Lions @ Saints 1pm Sunday.

Score prediction: Lions 22, Saints 16

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