Lions News

[jaadam4]

Sorry but our division isn’t what it used to be. Whether Love is good or not he’ll need a season to figure shit out. Jefferson can’t do everything in Minny and Chicago isn’t good.

Its the Lions time not just because they’ll have talent but they’re deep. It’s going to be a legit awesome season.

[wcfwtf]

For me it’s all about turnovers. Goff needs to be better, he got lucky a lot last year.
Cant throw into double coverage as much. Seen it happen too much last year.
with additions of defensive players hopefully turnovers on defense will go up.
Ben Johnson can scheme with the best of them. He just can’t control turnovers.

[jaadam4]

Aaron Rodgers has the longest streak of 402 straight passes thrown without an INT. Goff is sitting at 324 right now and has thrown 7 and 8 ints per year the last 2 seasons. Goff is doing well with INTs.

The offense needs stay play action and lean heavily on the run letting Goff pick his spots. Our offense is built for beating the hell out of people running the ball and quick routes.

The Lions O is legit.

[jaadam4]

And that defense is built to be one of the top 10 in the league. This team is going to be real problem for opponents. The rumors of teams saying they didn’t want to face the lions in the playoffs were real

[CGVT]

And that defense is built to be one of the top 10 in the league. This team is going to be real problem for opponents. The rumors of teams saying they didn’t want to face the lions in the playoffs were real

I am cautiously optimistic, and have been reading and watching everything Lions related this year.

It has been a looooong time since I paid this much attention, but I can't go all in like some of you fuckers.

60+ years of Lions fandom and frustration will not allow it.

[Topweasel]

And that defense is built to be one of the top 10 in the league. This team is going to be real problem for opponents. The rumors of teams saying they didn’t want to face the lions in the playoffs were real

Our Defense is built a lot like I thought the team was as a whole last year. My predicition was that we had a team that could sneak out 10 wins if the right people stayed upright and things went our way. But as a whole, if we lost more than 1 of those key players, or if Goff played like crap it was a 3 win team.

Same thing with the deferense. We added a lot of talent through the draft and through FA. We have the skeleton crew of a really good defense. But if any one of them don't play their best and we lose more than one we are looking at 20-25 defense. Plus a most of this is on first and second year players. Are real advantage here is that we have real depth now. We aren't going to go from 20th to 29th. But I doubt we have staying power to get anything better then 16th over the year and we have just as many shootouts as we have shutdowns.

[jaadam4]

It’s not just us. Have you ever seen the national media act like this with our squad. Even when we had the #1 offense led by Stafford / CJ and the #1 defense led by Suh no one gave us the time of day. Everyone knew the division went through GB.

The national media won’t shut Up about the Lions. I’ve never seen anything like it in my lifetime

[wcfwtf]

But most of the National media is still not sold on the defense.
Needs to be proven first.

[Mainevent]

A lot of new parts and a lot of guys that need to take that next step. I like the depth, the potential is there in a number of areas, but expecting all of these different guys to hit, that's long odds in the short term. It could be that they are much better by the end of the year than the start, but where that gets them in terms of wins and losses may not be a lot different than last year.

I do have big expectations out of that secondary though - it should be much improved even if the CBs aren't great. Between Joseph, CGJ and Branch, there should be an upgrade in playmaking.

[froot loops]

It sounds like Blough has boarded the Cason bus.

[Iron Lion]

All of this positive press and spin about the Lions certainly is nice for a change, but ffs, they are not Superbowl Champs and they are being covered as if they are.

The fact is that they haven't done shit.

Seems to me that we may be putting the apple cart before the horse. I guess we'll see how it shakes out.

Seems like the actual SB champs are barely getting talked about.

That reporter in the article literally asked if MCDC's job was safe no matter what. Lol. I would've asked the reporter if their job is safe no matter what. What a stupid question.

[jaadam4]

I’d much rather have Cade York playing QB for the practice squad but we could do worse there. Always seemed like a nice dude

[jaadam4]

Seems like the actual SB champs are barely getting talked about.

That reporter in the article literally asked if MCDC's job was safe no matter what. Lol. I would've asked the reporter if their job is safe no matter what. What a stupid question.

The 9ers are tough and skilled. The Lions will make waves and no one will want to play them but Philly in the NFC is the top of the class. They’re so friggin talented it’s insane.

Buffalo could screw shit up for KC but man that Chiefs squad is pretty bad ass.

It’ll be Philly and KC again.

[Iron Lion]

Sorry but our division isn’t what it used to be. Whether Love is good or not he’ll need a season to figure shit out. Jefferson can’t do everything in Minny and Chicago isn’t good.

Its the Lions time not just because they’ll have talent but they’re deep. It’s going to be a legit awesome season.

I'm most worried about the Vikings because Kirk is not only good but he's got weapons. But I am laughing right now because they made Hock the highest paid TE in the NFL. But it's a contract year for Kirk and he has done well in those, getting franchise tagged twice and grabbing obscene amounts of guaranteed cash. The only way the Vikings collapse is if Kirk's body breaks down. QB's seem to fall off a cliff suddenly and without warning. Could be this year, could be in 3 years for him.

Fields would be terrifying if he knew how to throw the ball. That game at Ford Field last year made me wonder if he ever will. He got that leg injury and when forced to throw as a 2nd year QB, it was worse than anything I'd seen in a while.

Love is of course the true unknown but the Packers don't seem as confident in him as they were with Rodgers. They straight up told Favre he could come back and hold the clipboard. If they somehow failed to trade Rodgers, then Rodgers would be their QB right now.

I'm pleased with our QB situation because we have the ideal structure in place: unquestioned starter, competent veteran backup, developmental third QB (Hooker, not Blough).

[DanO]

"I’d argue this was one of the most significant moves that Hamp has made."
--------------------------------------She said in an interview it was probably the best move she's made.

"Granted, three of those wins were by four points or less — all on the road (against the Bears, Jets and Packers)."
-------------------------------------------So what. They won the fucking game.............and they were all on the road.