Good thing Eagles packed it in the year before the super bowl and didn’t win it last year.
This off season will be key. Make the moves and go for it now.
Not giving up on this season but not super hopeful. But who knows maybe they surprise me.
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The Eagles were an 11 win team and made the playoffs. They made the Super Bowl the prior year. The Lions are going to be a 8 or 9 win team, missed the playoffs and don’t have the superbowl pedigree to fall back on. The eagles have a smart hyper aggressive GM. The Lions have an arrogant, complacent GM.The situations aren’t comparable….. at all.
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I can’t believe MORE people aren’t mad.
15-2. A team that looked unbeatable. Then, coming out looking unprepared yet again after a bye under Dan Campbell, a disaster of a gameplan and a loss to a team they should have beaten easily.
An off-season with an objectively bad draft that didn’t address the problems of the team. A very weak free agency period. The retirement of the best center in the league, leaving an OL without an anchor. A hire of an OC who was a personal friend that hadn’t had a successful season in the league in decades. A GM with an ego who clapped back at any media member or fan who dared question his philosophy and action that got the team to where it was, because how could it get worse? It could only get better from there! He had already built the team! Who cares that other teams got better? His team was already where it needed to be!
And then this year. The fall back to earth. The cracks in the system already showing in game 1. The lack of action at the trade deadline. The removal of playcalling duties from the previously-discussed new OC. The complete collapse of the defense. The weaknesses that fans complained about in the off-season all coming to fruition before our eyes, and the GM nowhere to be seen or heard from.
I don’t get how more people aren’t angry about how it all happened. Brad Holmes should be taking a TON of heat right now for hiding out in a hole somewhere.
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Agree. I have no idea why Holmes isn’t taking more heat. The guy has done absolutely nothing to improve the team over the last 2 years. 2 bad drafts, 2 free agency periods without signing a single difference maker, 2 trade deadlines bringing in one washed up player.
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Here ya go. Our season will unofficially end some time Thursday night and officially I’ll be more concerned about mock drafts and draft position. 
A 9 or 10 win season means nothing. IMO, our issues can’t be fixed or patched this late in the season. Its gonna take an entire offseason.
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You do also have to take account of who they have played.
Texans, Saints, Titans, 49ers with Mac Jones twice, Bucs missing Irving/Evans, and Mayfield for half the game, and Ravens without Lamar. They gave up 26 points to Mac Jones in both games.
They gave up 30+ to two mediocre offenses in Philly and Carolina.
They did hold Indy to 20 points although if I remember correctly Mitchell gave away a TD when he lost the ball right before the goal line and Jonathan Taylor fumbled going in for a score as well
Probably more impressive defensive game was holding Seattle to 19?
Not terribly impressed with the defense outside of the pass rushers and players up front, Stafford has been the best QB in the league this year though, and Adams and Nacua are a fantastic pair.
We can’t keep Goff standing up he looks shell shocked and we can’t rush the passer or stop the run as of late. You’re not going to win shit at any level of football that way. Our HC had to take over play call duties mid season because his newly hired OC couldn’t handle the job. As a result the team has looked ridiculous unprepared in all 3 phases. On top of that our last 2 drafts have been extremely underwhelming. When I see posts like this I wonder if people have a set of eyeballs.
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Whelp - I’ll bring this fact…. Up again for those complaining
32 teams fight to win the SB
- there is only one winner and 31 who failed to win it
Many people here recognized that losing Ragnow…
and playing a brutally difficult schedule would be a challenge.
And… with the schedule… I don’t just mean the teams they played.
They had to go on the road to Lambeau in week 1.
I had that as a loss before the Parson trade.
They had to play KC, the Ravens, and the Eagles on the road already… and still have the Rams left.
They played Tampa… never considered an easy game.
And …. despite the Lions going undefeated against the NFC North last year… most recognize that duplicating that feat would have been highly unlikely.
There were quite a few people on this forum (in the offseason) that mentioned 11-6 as a likely outcome against this schedule…
and that is coming from optimistic fans of the team.
If someone had told me before the season we could take a 12-5 record against this schedule… I would have accepted that in a heartbeat.
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We were expecting 20-0, with one of the hardest schedules in the league and the loss of both coordinators.
Doesn’t seem all that realistic in hindsight.
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I will bring this up to the slappies. This SB will be the 59th one, the Lions have never been to one in 59 years. The mindset at this point should be SB or bust! If that isn’t the standard then the flaw is with the ideology of being ok with being mediocre!
if you’re not first your last~ Ricky Bobby
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I personally expected 12-5. I thought the OLine would take some time to gel, which was my biggest concern outside of the DE spot opposite Hutch.
I thought the OLine would be much better by this point in the season though.
It’s because the way they have been playing…8-9 seems way more probable than 11-6 as to where they go from 7-5
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It has made vewwy vewwy angry.
I’ve killed populations of cute fuzzy bunnies in my mind.
When you just imagine mass rodent murder instead of doing it, that’s how you get to Zen, right?
I’ve got them at 9-8. The obvious losses are Dallas, LA and Chicago. Wins are Pittsburgh and Minny.
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The problem is…Pittsburg isn’t a “obvious win”
Pittsburg is a “might win”
Minny is a “Should win” but they were also a “Should win” if not “Obvious Win” earlier in the year in our house…and we all know how that turned out.
So yea, I would bet us at 9-8 or 8-9
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Our issues are execution, not talent. You literally have the opposite view of what is actually going on.
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Our issues are health, OL, pass rush and coaching. A backup player can perfectly execute a call but get beat by a more talented player.
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I’ve been telling myself for decades, if my Lions can just get to contenders status, where for multiple seasons, they competed for championships and were legit division contenders, I’d shape up. And I’m with you, I’m disheartened by everyone. I’m suppose to be the down in the dumps guy.
I always wondered what would happen in times like these, and now I know.
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No shit… well put