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9-1 baby, 9-1! However, this was one of the ugliest games I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Let's go to the review...
The Good
Winning Ugly-I'll take an ugly win over a beautifully played loss any day.
DEFENSE, DEFENSE, DEFENSE-The Lions have one of the most dangerous QB/WR combinations in the game today and Stafford and Megatron were basically held in check all day. Sure the defense allowed some yahoo to gain some rushing yards(still haven't given up an individual 100 yard game yet) but they tightened up when it counted especially on another 3rd and short. But the secondary played it's best game of the season today. Stafford only threw for 183 yards.
Michael Floyd-Good to see him get off the schneid today with 2 scores.
The Crowd-I could hear how loud you guys were on TV and it effected them on that botched snap late. Great job guys!
Beating Yet Another Top Team-Chargers, 49ers, Eagles, Cowboys, Lions. Chances are we still won't get ant respect and that's fine. Keep shooing us off.
Offensive Line-Sure they didn't open any holes but for the most part they kept a pretty damned good defensive line off of Stanton.
The Bad
The Running Game-Where has it gone? Nothing last week and even worse this week. Ellington 2.2YPC today but today he went up against the #1 defense in the league so we can let this passed.
Drew Stanton-After the 1st 2 drives when he looked absolutely brilliant, from that point on he looked like Max Hall out there. His biggest problem IMO is that he tends to lock on a single receiver. Detroit figured that out and basically shut our offense down after that. I might chalk this up to ring rust but he looked pathetic at times especially on that INT in the red zone. You simply cannot do that. Oh, and don't get me started on his illegal motion penalty. That was horrendous.
BA's No Confidence In Cat-Man-Last week Catanzaro missed his first FG which was of 52 yards but it was under extenuating circumstances as it came right after Palmer got hurt. This week, BA kept him on the sidelines on 2 different long FG situations. The first, OK, it's early but the 2nd came when a seemingly downed punt late nearly turned into disaster but thankfully it didn't but if that play had stood, allowing Cat to try from 53 yards out even missing would have been a better result that nearly transpired. Luckily the review fixed what broke but I'm not getting BA lacking confidence in the kid.
2nd And 3rd And Long- Way too much of this today. Seemed like we were in long yardage all day. Even when we got a 1st and 5 late, it still ended up 3rd and 11 but thanks to a blessing of a spot it was the last forward play we needed.
The Ugly
The Officiating-2 exact plays got different results. The first, we're in a 3rd and long. Stanton passes long and it's incomplete but a good 2 seconds after throwing, he gets blasted to the point he gets up slowly. A roughing the passer call there would have been huge at it puts is on about the 30 or so of Detroit with a fresh set of downs but no call. Next Detroit drive, Stafford is scrambling and ends up throwing the ball away but Kareem Martin stupidly shoves him and Stafford goes down(great sell BTW by Stafford) and flags go flying extending their drive. Thankfully the defense did their thing. The reason I'm posting this is because both could have been game changing calls. Had we gotten the call our way, it would have put us in FG range and extended the drive. Who knows what might have happened. As it stood, calling the one on us could have given them new life and could have been disastrous. The officials are making themselves too much a part of the game.
OT-NFC South-Oy is that division bad. First place team 2 games UNDER .500 and we play that team in 2 weeks.
There you have it. 9-1, guaranteed a winning season. This team is willing itself to wins. Let's fool around and win this thing!
The Good
Winning Ugly-I'll take an ugly win over a beautifully played loss any day.
DEFENSE, DEFENSE, DEFENSE-The Lions have one of the most dangerous QB/WR combinations in the game today and Stafford and Megatron were basically held in check all day. Sure the defense allowed some yahoo to gain some rushing yards(still haven't given up an individual 100 yard game yet) but they tightened up when it counted especially on another 3rd and short. But the secondary played it's best game of the season today. Stafford only threw for 183 yards.
Michael Floyd-Good to see him get off the schneid today with 2 scores.
The Crowd-I could hear how loud you guys were on TV and it effected them on that botched snap late. Great job guys!
Beating Yet Another Top Team-Chargers, 49ers, Eagles, Cowboys, Lions. Chances are we still won't get ant respect and that's fine. Keep shooing us off.
Offensive Line-Sure they didn't open any holes but for the most part they kept a pretty damned good defensive line off of Stanton.
The Bad
The Running Game-Where has it gone? Nothing last week and even worse this week. Ellington 2.2YPC today but today he went up against the #1 defense in the league so we can let this passed.
Drew Stanton-After the 1st 2 drives when he looked absolutely brilliant, from that point on he looked like Max Hall out there. His biggest problem IMO is that he tends to lock on a single receiver. Detroit figured that out and basically shut our offense down after that. I might chalk this up to ring rust but he looked pathetic at times especially on that INT in the red zone. You simply cannot do that. Oh, and don't get me started on his illegal motion penalty. That was horrendous.
BA's No Confidence In Cat-Man-Last week Catanzaro missed his first FG which was of 52 yards but it was under extenuating circumstances as it came right after Palmer got hurt. This week, BA kept him on the sidelines on 2 different long FG situations. The first, OK, it's early but the 2nd came when a seemingly downed punt late nearly turned into disaster but thankfully it didn't but if that play had stood, allowing Cat to try from 53 yards out even missing would have been a better result that nearly transpired. Luckily the review fixed what broke but I'm not getting BA lacking confidence in the kid.
2nd And 3rd And Long- Way too much of this today. Seemed like we were in long yardage all day. Even when we got a 1st and 5 late, it still ended up 3rd and 11 but thanks to a blessing of a spot it was the last forward play we needed.
The Ugly
The Officiating-2 exact plays got different results. The first, we're in a 3rd and long. Stanton passes long and it's incomplete but a good 2 seconds after throwing, he gets blasted to the point he gets up slowly. A roughing the passer call there would have been huge at it puts is on about the 30 or so of Detroit with a fresh set of downs but no call. Next Detroit drive, Stafford is scrambling and ends up throwing the ball away but Kareem Martin stupidly shoves him and Stafford goes down(great sell BTW by Stafford) and flags go flying extending their drive. Thankfully the defense did their thing. The reason I'm posting this is because both could have been game changing calls. Had we gotten the call our way, it would have put us in FG range and extended the drive. Who knows what might have happened. As it stood, calling the one on us could have given them new life and could have been disastrous. The officials are making themselves too much a part of the game.
OT-NFC South-Oy is that division bad. First place team 2 games UNDER .500 and we play that team in 2 weeks.
There you have it. 9-1, guaranteed a winning season. This team is willing itself to wins. Let's fool around and win this thing!
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