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2025 Detroit Lions: 0-0 HOF Game on tape, as DC said..."We got work to do" (40 Viewers)

BobbyLayne said:
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:

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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.
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This sums it up well. Quinn and Patricia are as unlikable as it gets. 

 
The slow motion disaster of the Patrica years makes me hope teams will learn to stop giving 3 years to coaching situations that are obviously not working out.

I wanted it to work out.  Lions D was heavily underrated Patricia’s first year. 

But something that resembles improvement from year 1 to year 2 is more than a reasonable expectation in literally any high level managerial job outside of NFL teams.  I feel like this third year with wonder boy is just an unnecessary waste of a year in the relatively short life of an NFL starter.

 
BobbyLayne said:
don't say that doesn't matter - these are the people who made both Barry Sanders and Megatron pay back a $1M plus when they retired
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 POS ownership that deserve the 6 (six) decades of total incompetence they have been in charge of. And yet we still have the clueless blaming the players they in charge chose.

 
BobbyLayne said:
aw so happy to see us get back to can beat the bad & mediocre teams but not compete against elite

only took Patricia three years to get to where Caldwell had them Day One
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Actually wish they would have kept Schwartz and Mayhew and let them learn and mature. If Stafford did not have a total meltdown in 2013 JS would not have been fired.

 
Lions streak of winning games where they had a 10+ point lead: 0 0 0 1. Progress!

Still Atlanta, Washington, Houston and two games against Minnesota ahead. Win enough of those (or surprise another actually decent team) and it wouldn't stun me if Patricia and Quinn were back. As much as we might hope for different results.

 
Mt. Man said:
Lions streak of winning games where they had a 10+ point lead: 0 0 0 1. Progress!

Still Atlanta, Washington, Houston and two games against Minnesota ahead. Win enough of those (or surprise another actually decent team) and it wouldn't stun me if Patricia and Quinn were back. As much as we might hope for different results.
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Atlanta, Washington, Houston and Minnesota twice are all looking at the Detroit game thinking well THAT ONE is winnable.

 
In 12 years in the NFL, this was only the 11th time Matthew Stafford played with a 100 yard rusher. The Lions are 9-2 in those games.

D’Andre Swift is the first Lions rookie with 100 yards rushing and 2 TDs since 1989 (Barry Sanders.)

ETA: pretty good day considering the entire right side went out due to hydration. They had a converted d lineman in there at RT a good chunk of the game (literally the last OL who was left on the bench.)

 
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BobbyLayne said:
oh they’re coming back

might as complete the process so we can draft Matthew’s replacement after they’re done
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If Lions win 7-8 games they will be back.  6 or less not so sure.

 
Gandalf said:
How did Swift look?
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Good. 

On his long run it was a huge hole on right side on line but he hit the hole fast, also not sure why he slowed at the end and tried to cut back as it looked like he could have had 10-15 more yards just angling towards the sidelines.   

Was suprised at some of the power he showed, ran over a few would be tacklers and ran very hard inside.  Was nice to see him get some more carries finally.

 
Da Guru said:
Good. 

On his long run it was a huge hole on right side on line but he hit the hole fast, also not sure why he slowed at the end and tried to cut back as it looked like he could have had 10-15 more yards just angling towards the sidelines.   

Was suprised at some of the power he showed, ran over a few would be tacklers and ran very hard inside.  Was nice to see him get some more carries finally.
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I need to watch the condensed game later this week, but good call on the 54 yarder. The LB/S vacated at the snap, all he had do was burst through the huge gap (which, props to the OL, the right side has not been as good this year and they were great on that play) But I feel like almost any RB would have gotten 50+ on that play, there was literally nothing to it except run in a straight line fast, and he def didn't max out the end of the run even if the DB did have the angle.

Still, that 17-15 touch ratio needs to be heavily in his favor going forward.

And would it be too much for them to notice how much the D plays off Hock EVERY SINGLE WEEK and maybe think about getting him more than 4-5 targets??

 
BobbyLayne said:
And would it be too much for them to notice how much the D plays off Hock EVERY SINGLE WEEK and maybe think about getting him more than 4-5 targets??
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It's amazing how little the GM and coaching staff are ever on the same page. Huge draft capital on players like Hock & Swift, yet it takes forever  for them to be main players in the offense.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
It's amazing how little the GM and coaching staff are ever on the same page. Huge draft capital on players like Hock & Swift, yet it takes forever  for them to be main players in the offense.
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Nice win.  Hock almost blew the game by not getting OB right after his catch.  Peterson got stuffed twice in short yardage, they have to bootleg or something as the D just unloaded on him.

Another note.  I hate those dirty grey uniforms!

 
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Feel like Detroit has been burned on so many close last min losses the last couple years, nice to see them pull one out

 
Da Guru said:
Nice win.  Hock almost blew the game by not getting OB right after his catch.  Peterson got stuffed twice in short yardage, they have to bootleg or something as the D just unloaded on him.

Another note.  I hate those dirty grey uniforms!
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Terrible look. 

 
How does everyone like their chances against IND next week?  Highly rated defense but has looked fallible lately. 

 
Leroy Hoard said:
I was absolutely certain the ref was going to call a ten second runoff just to screw with them one more time.
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They must have changed the rule. I was sure that when they said it was a replay stop, the game was over, whatever the ruling was.

That was such a Lions way to lose. Feels strange to be on the other side of it.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
I was absolutely certain the ref was going to call a ten second runoff just to screw with them one more time.
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Against the same team as the last ten second run off no less ! 
 

Weird screwed over history we are developing with the Falcons, I was at the game at Wembley in ‘14 ( I think ), when Prater missed the last second field goal and a wrongfully done flag was thrown which gave him the second chance to win it which he took 

 
Lions were competitive last year when Stafford was healthy. Looks the same this year.  They beat two of the worst teams in the league in Jax and Atl and took advantage of their ineptitude.

Played NO and Chi tough who have winning records.  Beat a 5-2 Ariz team. Blown out by Pack.

Lions look like an average team. Defense has improved some, doesn't profusely bleed points.

So have a playoff chance, if team stays healthy and defense improves further. 

 
From NFL.com (via Ian Rapoport)

The Dallas Cowboys are trading defensive end Everson Griffen to the Detroit Lions in exchange for draft pick compensation, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per sources informed. The Lions give up a conditional sixth-rounder for the veteran pass-rusher.
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Definitely a cheap enough price. Mildly surprised that the Lions are buyers.

 
Mt. Man said:
From NFL.com (via Ian Rapoport)

Definitely a cheap enough price. Mildly surprised that the Lions are buyers.
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I'm surprised there aren't more trades like this by coaches/GM that have one foot out the door. Expanded playoffs this year makes it more possible they keep their jobs. 

 
whoknew said:
Good trade, right?
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Hes worth a 5th round pick which is I believe the most the Lions will have to give up for him.

I think the Vikings wanted to keep him and they would be better on defense, not needed to trade for Ngakwe and waste much higher draft picks than this.

But they lowball offered Griffen the whole way because they wanted to over spend on guys like Rudolph and Barr instead.

 
Moonlight said:
Colts OL and DL outplayed Lions. End of story.
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Colts got 5-6 yards a carry 5-6 plays in a row right up the middle on the last drive. Seen in in HS and college but Have not seen a NFL team pushed back off the ball like that so many plays in a row.

 
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NE not doing too good after Brady moving on. Former NE executives and coaches benefitted from that mystique as well. Flop elsewhere.

 
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