Isn’t About Time We Beat These Motherflappers? Lions vs Seachickens 9/30 Game Week Thread

[ghandi]

Anxious to see Devon Witherspoon play....he was almost a lIon! I dont know if they will match him up with Amon Ra or with JaMo...I am guessing JaMo I dont think he plays in the slot.

[NewOrleansLion]

when I see the lions in black, I think of Millen.

This x 1000.

[ghandi]

This x 1000.

The black unis look bush league to me...Like rejects from the XFL or USFL

[Blue Lagoon58]

You apparently haven't watched a single other NFL game then.

[Mainevent]

Seahawks are down to a their 3rd string RT and brought in Jason Peters for a look see this week. Along with their starting DT's being banged up along with Walker, it could be a pretty even trade off with injured starters.

Geno Smith has been a Lions destroyer the last 2 years - almost 650 yards, 4 TD/0 picks and 77% completion. And the Lions only sacked him once. They need to get to him and not let him get rhythm with those WRs.

[El Axe]

I'm not good with predicting this stuff. Mike MacDonald pwned our offense last year with Baltimore. The Seahawks have had our number in general. We are banged up. If Ragnow can't go, that's a huge loss.

All that and maybe it means we finally break all those trends and win anyway. I mean, with the way this NFL season is going.

[CGVT]

I get the Black= Millen vibe, but I think I'm over it. These uniforms look different and I love the blue helmet. I wish they wore it more often, hell, maybe all the time.

So I guess I'm past it. These unis are pretty sharp.

[froot loops]

Millen was over 15 years ago. We have seen a Hall of Fame quarterback suit up for the Lions in the interim. Expand your mind.

[Mainevent]

Win some games in the black unis and we can start calling them the Campbells.

[Dan V]

I get it that old guys like me like blue and sliver at home and white and silver on the road.
no blue pants or white pants or monochrome .
But damn it in my whole 50 plus years of being a lions fan, those traditional uniforms got me losses in the playoffs during the billy sims, Barry and Stafford years.

I will embrace change because last year was almost like a dream to me. Prior to that all I had was Detroit over Dallas 38-6 in January 1992.

Shit monochrome black is fine if they beat the hell out of Seattle.

[Mainevent]

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[Iron Lion]

I get it that old guys like me like blue and sliver at home and white and silver on the road.
no blue pants or white pants or monochrome .
But damn it in my whole 50 plus years of being a lions fan, those traditional uniforms got me losses in the playoffs during the billy sims, Barry and Stafford years.

I will embrace change because last year was almost like a dream to me. Prior to that all I had was Detroit over Dallas 38-6 in January 1992.

Shit monochrome black is fine if they beat the hell out of Seattle.

I don't mind traditional or blueberry, just don't wear whites at home. Recently the traditionals have been cursed so for now I guess it's blueberries and marshmallows all the way.

The greys were ugly looking. I like the blue helmet, but not with the greys. The helmet being the only different color looks weird to me, like the Vikings road look. Ugly. The old logo on the new helmet was also unsettling. We should use the old logo for Thanksgiving throwbacks instead of just a blank helmet.

The black unis dont entirely make me think of Millen. More than anything it would be black facemasks and black trim that reminds me of him. His "subtle" attempts to Raiderize us annoyed me more than anything else. The black jerseys always looked good.

Also I'm glad we finally changed the jersey number font. That old font was ugly and hard to read.

[froot loops]

The problem with black unis is the design is limited due to the Raiders and Panthers. It's hard not to look like either team. If I designed them, I'd want to accentuate the silver but then it looks like the Raiders. That's unfortunate because Al Davis used silver because he liked the Lions uniforms.

In my opinion most of the time you should hold judgment until you see them in action. I just remember not liking some of the Spartan alternate jerseys until I saw them on the field.

[Lionsfan123]

I mean, if I'm the Seahawks, I'm just looking at the past two games for a roadmap on how to beat the Lions. Dink and dunk. The Lions defensively will have to come up with a better tactic than the "Bend but Don't Break" style they've been using. In 95% of cases, it works well enough, but the Seahawks are in the 5% that can, and will, win that way. They are simply a terrible matchup for what the Lions want to do defensively. I expect that Glenn knows this, and finally has the overall talent level that will allow for some wrinkles that he couldn't do in the past.

Offensively, they can't make too many mistakes. In both games the last two years, Goff got baited into backbreaking pick-sixes that put the Lions on their back foot and not able to catch up. He has to be smarter with the ball, and much more accurate. Unfortunately, he's been neither the first three weeks of this season.

This is gonna be one of those games where the first to 30 wins, I suspect.

Seachickens are getting us at a good time. We have some injuries both defensive and offensive right now so we’ll see what Glenn can cook up but if honestly if it wasn’t for the injuries I would like this matchup a bit more but not liking how we currently stack up defensive against Seattle right now especially when this has been a team that has given the Lions problems for years.

If I’m Seattle I’m coming into Ford Field wanting to run the football and force my defense to pressure Goff especially over the middle. I’m going to take away St. Brown, LaPorta is kind of banged up right now so I don’t got to worry about him too much, stack the box and take away the run and force Goff to beat me because chances are he’s probably going to throw me a pick.

This could be the game where guys like Tim Patrick, Raymond, and Jamo could have a good game if they can beat someone which they will have a opportunity too.

[Mainevent]

The problem with black unis is the design is limited due to the Raiders and Panthers. It's hard not to look like either team. If I designed them, I'd want to accentuate the silver but then it looks like the Raiders. That's unfortunate because Al Davis used silver because he liked the Lions uniforms.

In my opinion most of the time you should hold judgment until you see them in action. I just remember not liking some of the Spartan alternate jerseys until I saw them on the field.

Yeah, i think I would have liked a silver numbering with blue outlines better than the blue, though that does start stepping on Raider turf. But you can separate that with blue outlines and the blue helmet. I really, really wish they had kept the blue helmet from last year. Somebody mocked that up with white numbers and I think it looks a lot less gimicky. That said, they win games, they can wear pink tutus for all i care.