Check the night sky tonight...

[Shoalzie]

...you'll be able see the Leos crashing back to earth. That rumbling sound is the beginning fans jumping off the bandwagon. This game today was hyped up as the biggest game played at Ford Field in the Millen era...way to come up big, fellas. Maybe I was having nightmares from yesterday's game but Brandon Jacobs looked way too much like Beanie Wells...thankfully he had leave the game with an injury because he was taking it over.

Thanksgiving is going to be the funeral for their season. The division is now out of reach and now having lost head to head games against four teams competing for the two NFC wild card spots...this team pretty much needs to win one of the berths outright because the tiebreakers aren't going to go their way. Old man Favre needs to come into Ford Field on Thursday and put these guys out of their misery...this team just doesn't know how to win big games and if they somehow fell ass backwards into the playoffs, it would be false hope for them and the fans.

Am I overreacting over just this one loss? Come on, we're talking about the Lions here...they're all about crushing any hope their fans might have. They need to prove me wrong that these guys aren't losers. They may have a winning record but it was probably one of the more fraudulant 6-2 starts considering their first half schedule. So far in the much tougher second half, they laid a huge turd in Glendale last week and then they choked in a big game at home, where they were unbeaten so far.

This team is done like Thanksgiving dinner. (I couldn't resist)

[jiminphilly]

I knew Detroit was a fraud when they got their asses kicked by an pretty inept Eagles team that is struggling at 5-5.

[Shoalzie]

Am I overreacting over just this one loss?

Yes. The Giants are a better team. The Lions are trending in the right direction, but they aren't there yet.

They're better than last year but this team showed again that they aren't among the best in the NFC right now. Their hold on the last wild card spot is slipping...the Eagles, Redskins and Cardinals are just a half game back...teams that have beaten the Lions head-to-head. I have to laugh at the myopic fans up here that were talking about not only playoffs but the Super Bowl after they started 6-2.

5 games left...winnable game in Minnesota next Sunday, they host Dallas in two weeks (eek), travel to San Diego, the Chiefs come to Ford Field in Week 16 and they close the season in Lambeau. I see one or maybe two wins out of those remaining games. An 8-8 record won't get them to the playoffs and the head-to-head losses in the conferences will come back to haunt them.

[RevLimiter]

the Chiefs come to Ford Field in Week 16

As close to an automatic win as the Kittens will get this year.

[Shoalzie]

At the half, Vikings 35, Lions 10.

Say goodbye to that wild card spot, Leos...


The Lions get a little bit of gift with Washington and Philadelphia losing today. They're tied with Vikings at 6-6 with the Bears, Cardinals and Saints at 5-6 in action right now. Hard to believe a 5-7 record puts you just one game out of the playoffs in the NFC. There's parity and then there's a bunch of bad teams stumbling over themselves trying to make the playoffs. In the NFC, that's what we have with all the teams after Dallas and Green Bay. Seattle and Tampa aren't that good but they're sitting pretty in their divisions. The inconsistent Giants can beat the Bears today and move closer to locking up one of the wild card spots.

[Shoalzie]

The 2007 Lions...we hardly knew ya.