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2024 Detroit Lions: Getting ready for the draft in Motown. (35 Viewers)

eleven straight losses

Didn’t see the presser but I can tell you what was said.

We need to play better. We need to execute better. Nobody knows what goes on in this locker room. Our coaching staff does a great job.

 
By far the worst franchise in professional sports over the last 60 years.  And this is with even having the greatest RB of all-time.  Pathetic.  

 
jon_mx said:
They should not make it to the end of the week.  
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The Lions become the first team in NFL history to lose 4 straight games in which they had a double-digit lead, according to @EliasSports.

Detroit has lost 11 straight games, its most since losing 19 in a row from 2007-09, including the first-ever 0-16 season in league history.

 
Rod Marinelli’s Lions HC Record after his first 34 games: 10-24

Matt Patricia’s Lions HC Record after his first 34 games: 9-24-1
 

19-15 for JC but 9-7 wasn’t up to our standards 
 
BobbyLayne said:
Rod Marinelli’s Lions HC Record after his first 34 games: 10-24

Matt Patricia’s Lions HC Record after his first 34 games: 9-24-1
 

19-15 for JC but 9-7 wasn’t up to our standards 
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My daughters who are in their 20s now say SOLs.   

 
Just for giggles, I looked up Jim Swartz’s first 34.

10-24

####### franchise

ETA: that’s not entirely fair. JS started out 2-14 and 2-10 before finishing out winning their last 4 in 2010. Then won their first 5 in 2011. They were heading in the right direction.

 
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BobbyLayne said:
Just for giggles, I looked up Jim Swartz’s first 34.

10-24

####### franchise

ETA: that’s not entirely fair. JS started out 2-14 and 2-10 before finishing out winning their last 4 in 2010. Then won their first 5 in 2011. They were heading in the right direction.
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JS took over a 0-16 team, one of the worst teams in NFL history.  It was basically like a expansion team starting.   JS made some mistakes but I really wish they would have kept him on and let him mature as a HC. I read the players loved him.   Stafford horrible play the last half of his final season cost JS his job.

 
Ilov80s said:
Name one thing positive. Try it. 
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There's about 30 people who do a football pick 'em at work. My daughter has followed in my footsteps and is a Lions fan, even though we live in Arizona (I was born in Detroit). She was the only person of the 30 who picked the Lions Sunday (I sure as heck didn't...)

I was pretty proud.

 
kutta said:
There's about 30 people who do a football pick 'em at work. My daughter has followed in my footsteps and is a Lions fan, even though we live in Arizona (I was born in Detroit). She was the only person of the 30 who picked the Lions Sunday (I sure as heck didn't...)

I was pretty proud.
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To be that young and innocent again...

 
I WAS a life long fan of this horrible, horrible franchise..  Two years ago, I just "stopped"..   Stopped wasting my Sundays and getting angry when they'd inevitably lose..

I don't root against them and I'll watch if I've got nothing else going on, but haven't watched a complete game since then.  If the Ford's don't care about winning, why should I care about the Lions?

 
After the Lions renewed Matt Millen's contract all my Lions gear went into a box in the basement. 

Donated it to goodwill this year.

 
If Matt Patricia was building rockets instead of coaching and each one of his rockets exploded leaving the launch pad, would he say the flaw was in the design or that the rockets weren't executing the plan to fly?

 
Well, it's always a really difficult Sunday for me when the Lions play the Cardinals, but fun too. (I was born in Detroit but have been in Arizona for 40 years).

If the Cards are going to have to lose, I'm glad it was to the Lions.

 
I wish we could talk about something substantial like how the offense is clicking or how improved the defense has been. Wonder what that’s like, eh? We are getting healthier.

But we’re excelling in the least important thing phase. We got that going for us. Which is...nice.

Yipee?

Matt Prater was just named the NFC’s special teams player of the week for the 11th time, and you can make a convincing case he wasn’t even Detroit’s best specialist in Arizona.

Jack Fox sent another 65-yard punt into the stratosphere, becoming the first Lions player ever to have 65-yard punts in back-to-back weeks. That’s pretty good. He now leads the league in punting (53.1 yards per attempt), net punting (51.1) and even average hangtime (4.78 seconds). That’s also pretty good. Let’s call it the unofficial triple crown of punting.

Fox has been so good that he’s not only the No. 1 punter in the league, according to ProFootballFocus, but the distance between him and the No. 2 guy is greater than the distance between the No. 2 guy and every other punter in the league. 

Jamal Agnew looks like he’s recaptured that All-Pro form from 2017 and leads the league in punt returns (17.5 yards per attempt). Don’t forget about long snapper Don Muhlbach either, who just played in his 247th career game and is about to move into the top 50 on the NFL’s all-time list in Sunday’s game against New Orleans
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BobbyLayne said:
I wish we could talk about something substantial like how the offense is clicking or how improved the defense has been. Wonder what that’s like, eh? We are getting healthier.

But we’re excelling in the least important thing phase. We got that going for us. Which is...nice.

Yipee?
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I cannot praise this poster enough, over the years he continuously points out great info that might otherwise have been overlooked. 

:Tip of the Cap: 

Exactly what he is talking about

 
Saints will be missing six starters Sunday (4 went to the Pro Bowl last season)

I'm starting Stafford over Watson for the first time all year

 
Hockenson has a good schedule coming up with NO, and some bad teams after next week's bye. But what about this Jesse James guy?

 
Matt Patricia Has Made The Lions As Unlikable As They Are Bad

Nobody really cares if the Lions are bad. They’re the Lions! They can go through season after season without winning many games and every football fan outside of Michigan will just spend their time thinking about something else. So it takes something special, a real dedication to not only losing but losing ugly, to get everyone to turn their attention towards Detroit and ask, collectively, “Holy ####, what’s wrong with the Lions?” This year, Matt Patricia and his team have reached that special level of losing.

The Lions jumped out to a 14-0 lead against the Saints yesterday, and then proceeded to surrender touchdowns on the Saints’ next four drives. Things didn’t get much better in the second half, and the Lions ended up losing 35-29 to drop to 1-3 on the season. That’s a bad loss, but even more so because it fit neatly within the tapestry of crap football that the Lions have been busy creating:

ESPN Stats & Info

@ESPNStatsInfo

The Lions have now lost 6 consecutive games in which they led by 10+ points, the longest such streak in NFL history. h/t @EliasSports

So we’ve got an historically embarrassing losing streak, but what we really need now to get the whole country united in pointing and laughing at the Lions is someone in the organization to take all of this with as little grace and humility as possible. Thankfully, the Lions are still coached by Matt Patricia, who stepped up to provide us with this ####-eating postgame quote, which was delivered in response to a question about whether he was still the right person to coach the team: “When I came to Detroit, there was a lot of work to do. That’s what we’re trying to do.”

Former Lions quarterback and current ESPN talking head Dan Orlovsky did the necessary work of explaining the brazen inaccuracy of that quote, but the particulars are worth reiterating here, because the amount of arrogance required for a person in Patricia’s position to give a quote like that is truly astounding. The Lions had a winning record in three of the four seasons before Patricia’s tenure began, and made the playoffs twice. Jim Caldwell, who coached the team in each of those four seasons, went 36-28 during his time in Detroit. Patricia, meanwhile, is 10-25-1 as the Lions head coach, and has, incredibly, lost 12 of his last 13 games despite having a lead in all but one of them. 

Matt Patricia stinks! God, does he stink. But more than that, he manages to be an unsympathetic ####### at every opportunity. It’s no wonder that the man who once scolded a reporter for slouching, despite looking like a pile of dirty laundry himself, would try to shift blame onto his predecessor during his team’s lowest point. The Lions are really bad right now, and most people are probably rooting for them to get worse. Congratulations to Matt Patricia for pulling off that unlikely feat.
 
Gotta say I enjoy the bye weeks after a Lions loss. 2 whole weeks to roast the Fords and the atrocious GMs & HCs they hire.

 
@Da Guru thread title

Smells like apathy around here. Dafuqsdamatta wit youse guyz? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Leroy Hoard said:
Gotta say I enjoy the bye weeks after a Lions loss. 2 whole weeks to roast the Fords and the atrocious GMs & HCs they hire.
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The Fords have owned the Detroit a lions since 1963.

57 seasons

Here are their accolades.

Top 10 picks - 27

Top 5 picks - 13

Division Titles - 3 (1983, 1991, 1993)

Playoff Wins - 1

Super Bowl appearances - 0

 
BobbyLayne said:
@Da Guru thread title

Smells like apathy around here. Dafuqsdamatta wit youse guyz? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

The Fords have owned the Detroit a lions since 1963.

57 seasons

Here are their accolades.

Top 10 picks - 27

Top 5 picks - 13

Division Titles - 3 (1983, 1991, 1993)

Playoff Wins - 1

Super Bowl appearances - 0
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Stafford needs a change of scenery.  Starting to show the wear and tear of being a Lion.    

 
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