Lions Vs. Bears

Hello Class!

Sorry for the delay on my posts, but we haven't been missing much from the Lions performances as of lately. This past monday night, the Lions squared off against the Chicago Bears in a prime time showdown. Last year the Lions were set up on a Monday Night game for the first time since 1999 and they shined running wild all over the Chicago Bears. This year was a different story though. The Bears assembled a dominant team over the offseason adding a new young wide receiver and also All Pro wide receiver Brandon Marshall. With running back Matt Forte and Quarterback Jay Cutler controlling the offense, it is a force to be reckoned with. The Lions, coming off an exciting win over the Philadelphia Eagles, were up to the challenge in front of them. Chicago's defense was to much for the Lions high powered offense, or so its called this night holding them to only 7 points total in the game. Chicago also struggled on offense too only scoring 13, which is drastically lower than their season average. The Lions defense came to play. If only we could've had the offense play a full game, we could have stolen this game away from the Bears and won as the underdogs. I think our team this season has a lot of potential, but have just underperformed. Hopefully next week they can put together multiple successful offensive drives and score some points!

Lions BYE Week

Good Day Clasmates,
We have some good news this week. The lions didnt lose a game this weekend, this is duie to the fact that they didnt play one. This was their bye week that each team in the NFL gets. 1 per 16 game regular season. So i thought id take this opportunity to give my thoughts about the team and the restructuring that i believe they should do. I'll start on the offensive side of the ball, directing my attention towards the offensive line. I think we are very week in this area though others dont. Our long time left tackle, Jeff Backus, is falling under the radar of good tackles. I think it would benefit us very much to either cut him from the team and let our new draft pick, Riley Reiff, have a shot at the job. Backus last week allowed 2 sacks that were direcly his fault. These came at critical times as the lions were trying to mount a comeback against the Minnesota Vikings. We have one outstnading guard in Rob Sims, but his opposite, Steven Peterman, has played attrocious the last 2 years and needs to be cut. If we were goinjg to utilize Backus anymore, i think it should be as a replacement for Peterman. Also, our long time center, Dominic Raiola, is god awful. He is a great leader and speaker, but can not lead by example anymore because he gets blown off the ball by these new monstrous defensive tackles. We need to draft a new center to lead and direct our offensive line to an elite status. Until then, we will always fall short of being considered a dominant offense. On the defensive side of the ball, it is blunty obvious that our secondary looks like that of a high school team. We have a decent safety in Louios Delmas, but he cant stay healthy throughout an entire season, so we pay him to be hurt and sit the bench. CUT! I think we could find a much better safety in free agency and probably save a lot of money that we are paying for Delmas to produce nothing. The only other real change id like to see on our defense is a better middle linebacker. Tulloch is an excellent player, but he is to small to be a dominant linebacker. He is not feared by any running back and will continue to be ran over always aloowing the running backs to get extra yards. These are just my thoughts on the restructuring i believe the lions need to tend too!

Lions Vs. Vikings

Good Day Classmates!
Well in reality it wasnt a good day for the Detroit Lions as they played a pitiful game against the Minnesota Vikings, losing 20-13. After last weeks special teams collapse against the Tennessee Titans, you would figure that the Lions would go back to practice working very hard on their "special teams". Well, Minnesote showed everyone that the Lions special teams were very "special". The Lions won the coin toss and deferred to receive the ball in the second half and gave the ball to the Vikings first. As the kickoff reached retrurner, Percy Harvin, you could already see the alley open up for a long gain. And would'nt you know, Harvin shoots through the gap and explodes for a 105 yard kickoff return for a touchdown. The crowd begins to boo as they see how juch "work" the Lions must have put into their special teams over the week. This was only the beginning of their demise though. The offense just looked slow and very out of rythm. Stafford was throwing decent but the receiving core could not catach anything. I think if a cold managed to find its way to them they would probably drop that too. Impressive to say the least, not! The only sound aspect of the game for the Lions was the game paly of the defensive front 7. Though they let Adrian Peterson run wild, they tightened up in the redzone and only allowed 6 points to be scored by the Vikings offense. At the beginning of the second half, the Lions received the ball and had a quick 3 and out. They punted the ball and would'nt yyou know, the Vikings returned it over 60 yards to the house. This was the 4th touchdown allowed by the Lions special teams in the last 2 games. They have given up 9 touchdowns to their oppents defense and special teams so far this year. Needless to say, its the highest in the NFL so far. Detroit better straighten out their fundementals or its going to be one hell of a long year!