Detroit Lions!!

[count35]

Just watched the Lions play a horrible game on offense and still win. It took change at the top FO to shake out and then make great hires at GM then coach, scouting and all thru the organization. Remember we’re talking about the Detroit Lions here, haven’t won a championship since 1957 or haven’t been to a Super Bowl. Unless the Bengals hire a President of Football Operations AND an actual GM AND the trickle down that comes with it, it’ll be the same old same old. Wasting a true talent in Burrow, Chase without building up the trenches.

[*bfine32*]

Yes!!! All NFL franchises should look to the Detroit Lions as the model of success.

[Nicomo Cosca]

A dude who was selling bricks a year ago made two 50+ yard FG’s for Detroit in that game.

McPherson needs to step it up.

[Fan_in_Kettering]

Let’s talk about this game. The former Portsmouth Spartans, now the Detroit Lions, had no business winning last night. None. Jared Goff was intercepted FIVE times. That’s more picks than Joe Burrow has thrown ALL YEAR. Houston led 23-7 at the half. Goff completed half of his pass attempts which for him is terrible.

The difference is defense: Detroit held Joe Mixon to only 46 yards on 25 carries; that’s 1.8 yards per carry. The Lions picked off CJ Stroud TWICE. That’s how you win even if your offense is sputtering.

[SunsetBengal]

The Lions are definitely my fall back team when the Bengals fail to make the playoffs this year. Dan Campbell has those guys prepared for war, every time they step on the field. They absorb adversity and fight on, they play solid fundamental football, and they never give up thinking that they're going to win the game.

[XenoMorph]

(11-11-2024, 08:45 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Let’s talk about this game.  The former Portsmouth Spartans, now the Detroit Lions, had no business winning last night.  None.  Jared Goff was intercepted FIVE times.  That’s more picks than Joe Burrow has thrown ALL YEAR.  Houston led 23-7 at the half.  Goff completed half of his pass attempts which for him is terrible.

The difference is defense: Detroit held Joe Mixon to only 25 yards on 46 carries; that’s 1.8 yards per carry. The Lions picked off CJ Stroud TWICE.  That’s how you win even if your offense is sputtering.

46 carries?  dude must be tired lol

[Truck_1_0_1_]

(11-11-2024, 08:45 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Let’s talk about this game.  The former Portsmouth Spartans, now the Detroit Lions, had no business winning last night.  None.  Jared Goff was intercepted FIVE times.  That’s more picks than Joe Burrow has thrown ALL YEAR.  Houston led 23-7 at the half.  Goff completed half of his pass attempts which for him is terrible.

The difference is defense: Detroit held Joe Mixon to only 25 yards on 46 carries; that’s 1.8 yards per carry. The Lions picked off CJ Stroud TWICE.  That’s how you win even if your offense is sputtering.

No, Stroud just projected and threw two awful balls, with Goff doing the same on 3 of his 5.

Last night was absolutely NOT the standard any team should play to, both squads played like utter shit, outside of a handful of plays on both sides, of both units.

Mixon looked even worse (aside from his two passes) than he ever did here: I do watch the games so I know what's going on, but for all the talk that, "we made a mistake and let him go," last night was not indicative that we made any mistakes.

It was an entertaining game, but a ton of flukes, a ton of weirdness and just awful play for almost all of the game.

[SunsetBengal]

(11-11-2024, 12:26 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: No, Stroud just projected and threw two awful balls, with Goff doing the same on 3 of his 5.

Last night was absolutely NOT the standard any team should play to, both squads played like utter shit, outside of a handful of plays on both sides, of both units.

Mixon looked even worse (aside from his two passes) than he ever did here: I do watch the games so I know what's going on, but for all the talk that, "we made a mistake and let him go," last night was not indicative that we made any mistakes.

It was an entertaining game, but a ton of flukes, a ton of weirdness and just awful play for almost all of the game.

Yep, the office manager and I had a conversation on that very topic this morning. We both arrived at the conclusion of it being the same old Joe Mixon that struggled in Cincinnati. He looked good against teams with weaker fronts and get completely shut down by a team that plays real defense.

[Fan_in_Kettering]

(11-11-2024, 09:48 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: 46 carries?  dude must be tired lol

Thank you. I fixed it.

[J24]

Brian Branch is a dawg!

[*Awful Llama*]

(11-11-2024, 08:45 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Let’s talk about this game.  The former Portsmouth Spartans, now the Detroit Lions, had no business winning last night.  None.  Jared Goff was intercepted FIVE times.  That’s more picks than Joe Burrow has thrown ALL YEAR.  Houston led 23-7 at the half.  Goff completed half of his pass attempts which for him is terrible.

The difference is defense: Detroit held Joe Mixon to only 46 yards on 25 carries; that’s 1.8 yards per carry. The Lions picked off CJ Stroud TWICE.  That’s how you win even if your offense is sputtering.

Here's a fun fact from last night:  Since 1933, teams that have thrown five interceptions and trailed by 15 or more points are a combined 2-373-1.  The only other team to do it was the 1970 Johnny Unitas-led Colts.  Great teams, even when having a bad night, find a way to win.  

Also, the snark in this thread is hysterical.  Everyone here would kill for the Bengals to be having both the Lions' season and their coaching staff, and whether you know it or not, to have their owner.  After generations of dolts they finally hit on a Ford that actually wants to win.  Let's see how many generations of Browns/Blackburns it takes before we're so lucky.  

[TecmoBengals]

(11-11-2024, 05:55 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: Here's a fun fact from last night:  Since 1933, teams that have thrown five interceptions and trailed by 15 or more points are a combined 2-373-1.  The only other team to do it was the 1970 Johnny Unitas-led Colts.  Great teams, even when having a bad night, find a way to win.  

Also, the snark in this thread is hysterical.  Everyone here would kill for the Bengals to be having both the Lions' season and their coaching staff, and whether you know it or not, to have their owner.  After generations of dolts they finally hit on a Ford that actually wants to win.  Let's see how many generations of Browns/Blackburns it takes before we're so lucky.  

[*jason*]

(11-11-2024, 05:55 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: Here's a fun fact from last night:  Since 1933, teams that have thrown five interceptions and trailed by 15 or more points are a combined 2-373-1.  The only other team to do it was the 1970 Johnny Unitas-led Colts.  Great teams, even when having a bad night, find a way to win.  

Also, the snark in this thread is hysterical.  Everyone here would kill for the Bengals to be having both the Lions' season and their coaching staff, and whether you know it or not, to have their owner.  After generations of dolts they finally hit on a Ford that actually wants to win.  Let's see how many generations of Browns/Blackburns it takes before we're so lucky.  

You're not wrong, and here's the other thing. Dan Campbell is really sorta meh in my book. He's a great motivator, but if you watch a lot of their games, you see what I mean. You know what he doesn't do though? Call plays.

[SunsetBengal]

(11-11-2024, 10:22 PM)jason Wrote: You're not wrong, and here's the other thing. Dan Campbell is really sorta meh in my book. He's a great motivator, but if you watch a lot of their games, you see what I mean. You know what he doesn't do though? Call plays.

In my opinion, that's how a HC should operate. Keep his attention on the bigger picture of the team, and allow the offensive and defensive specialists that he hired to do their jobs. 

[*bengalfan74*]

(11-11-2024, 08:45 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Let’s talk about this game.  The former Portsmouth Spartans, now the Detroit Lions, had no business winning last night.  None.  Jared Goff was intercepted FIVE times.  That’s more picks than Joe Burrow has thrown ALL YEAR.  Houston led 23-7 at the half.  Goff completed half of his pass attempts which for him is terrible.

The difference is defense: Detroit held Joe Mixon to only 46 yards on 25 carries; that’s 1.8 yards per carry. The Lions picked off CJ Stroud TWICE.  That’s how you win even if your offense is sputtering.

That's the main reason I've always been a semi Lions fan.

[*bengalfan74*]

(11-12-2024, 09:10 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: In my opinion, that's how a HC should operate. Keep his attention on the bigger picture of the team, and allow the offensive and defensive specialists that he hired to do their jobs. 

Yep

It's hard to keep that big picture in mind when calling plays.

[TecmoBengals]

(11-12-2024, 09:52 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: That's the main reason I've always been a semi Lions fan.

and Barry Sanders as an overall good dude and great RB.

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

Yes sir! My fall back team, those fans have suffered a lot like us and it is refreshing seeing them doing well with honestly a lot of players
I wanted us to draft. Ragnow, Amon Ra, LaPorta, Jahmyr Gibbs, I wanted all of these guys and of course Sewell if we were going to go
that route even if Chase has been fantastic. Love how the Lions play, physical in the trenches with tons of fight.

The Lions play with mad heart similar to our Bengals when we were a SB contender a couple years back.

[BengalYankee]

(11-12-2024, 06:28 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Yes sir! My fall back team, those fans have suffered a lot like us and it is refreshing seeing them doing well with honestly a lot of players
I wanted us to draft. Ragnow, Amon Ra, LaPorta, Jahmyr Gibbs, I wanted all of these guys and of course Sewell if we were going to go
that route even if Chase has been fantastic. Love how the Lions play, physical in the trenches with tons of fight.

The Lions play with mad heart similar to our Bengals when we were a SB contender a couple years back.

Option B: Super Bowl Bengals vs Rams