Gameday Thread: NFC Championship GRIT vs 9ers.

[DanO]

I won’t totally discount momentum, but at the end of the day they made the important plays and the Lions didn’t. Maybe the failed conversion was the fulcrum, but if SF still makes that reception of Vildors face, and Gibbs still fumbles, momentum was turning regardless. It was one of the few games I can remember where the opposing team was able to turn up their intensity and the Lions wilted instead of matching it.

Basically it comes down to the Lions not executing like we're use too. Instead the opposite was true and they were making mistakes something we're not use too.

[froot loops]

Yeah, we are searching for one or two decisions that would have been a potential safeguard against the avalanche of bad mistakes.

[chemiclord]

Basically it comes down to the Lions not executing like we're use too. Instead the opposite was true and they were making mistakes something we're not use too.

Now, what I would argue is that they made a lot of the mistakes they've been making all season... they just finally played a team that could reliably make them pay for it.

[ghandi]

Basically it comes down to the Lions not executing like we're use too. Instead the opposite was true and they were making mistakes something we're not use too.

Alot of what Dan C preaches is that he has the ultimate confidence in his players to make these plays.....They did a good job this year on offense making those plays msot of the time...they just didnt in this particular case....it may have been the moment was too big, or just as fate would have it and they dropped passes and missed throws....This should make these players hungrier...They know now they can go toe to toe with SF and all the others...Now its just executing.

[Tom]

I heard on the radio today that the Lions Kicker was something like 9 for 21 on kicks of 48+ yards. Another person called in and said he hadn’t made a kick of over 40 yards outdoors. Not sure if that’s true.

[dsred]

I heard on the radio today that the Lions Kicker was something like 9 for 21 on kicks of 48+ yards. Another person called in and said he hadn’t made a kick of over 40 yards outdoors. Not sure if that’s true.

Neither attempt in that game would have been over 48 yards.

Don't believe everything you read. Michael Badgley- Career

40-49 yards- 37-48, 82.4%

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BadgMi00.htm#all_kicking

[Sanders Fan]

Dan just wanted to go for it. I don’t think Justin Tucker would change his mind.

[ghandi]

Neither attempt in that game would have been over 48 yards.

Don't believe everything you read. Michael Badgley- Career

40-49 yards- 37-48, 82.4%

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...tm#all_kicking

Maybe alot of those were 40-47 yards? you could both be right

[Tom]

Yeah someone called In with the 40-49 range stat but I think the 2nd kick would have been 47-48 yards. It wasn’t a chip shot like the one before the half.

[ghandi]

I still remember that game with Minn where he passed on going for it late in the game and tried a long FG, which of course was missed...I dont think I remember him being that mad before, and he said if that situation came up again he wasnt going to kick it, and he didnt....In that game he had a 3 point lead though, the FG would have only put him up 6....and the defense collapsed and gave up a long TD pass and the game was over.

[Cody_Russell]

Gawd damn this loss sucked. 24-7 halftime lead and if Reynolds didn’t drop that 4th down catch. 😭

Reminiscent of the feeling of a heartbreaking breakup. It took two plus weeks of getting over it. Needing to get past the Super Bowl, go to the gym a ton, and watching a perfect movie to finally feel like it’s old news.

[guitarjack87]

Anyone else think about this stupid game roughly once a week

[Marko69]

Think we all believed, GJ87.

[-Deborah-]

Anyone else think about this stupid game roughly once a week

I can't let myself think about it. I appreciate how they covered this game on the "Inside the Den" episode. Check it out if you haven't. Much less painful, lol.

[froot loops]

I don't think about it too much truthfully. What happens in the future will probably determine how I think about that game.

When the Wings lost at home in game 7, it didn't bother me that much at the time. I had seen 4 cups in 11 seasons, losing one finals was bad, but the future was still bright and certainly there were more SCF appearances on the way.

Now I think about that ridiculous loss a hell of a lot more than I did then. Brad Stuart and Jiri Hudler mistakes haunt me.