Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would take the Bears lightly.
With Akiem Hicks, Khalil Mack, Robert Quinn, Roquan Smith, and Danny Trevathan in their front 7, they could hurt Stafford again if this OL isn’t ready.
Call me a little more concerned about the offense than most of you. Weapons are meaningless if your OL can’t keep your QB clean.
They have the best front 7 in all of football (arguably) and their secondary would be the strength of many other clubs. Very, very scary D. They also have a top-10 run-game.
Fortunately for Detroit, the strength of our team is the offense and it should be complete enough to actually get their guys guessing wrong. Strength v strength.
On the opposite side, you have our work-in-progress defense going up against their work-in-progress offense. Yes, they can run the ball well, but assuming we gameplan for that, their passing attack will have to show something. Does the new-look Lions have anything for Trubes/Foles? Weakness v weakness.
My opinion is our D is not as weak as their O with the QBs they have. Advantage Detroit.
I just want a win and no injuries to boot!
I prefer seeing the post game threads about us being overhyped at 1-0 than the world is ending as we know it at 0-1…
Lion’s win 23-20. Stafford goes 23-36 with 276 passing yards 1 td pass.
Kenny G leads the lion’s with 120 wr yards
Marvin Jones get the td pass from Stafford
Johnson gets the other td
Prater kicks a 36, 43, and 46 yard field goals.
Def gets 4 sacks and one pick
All good points LB, but if the best front 7 in the league is shredding our Oline, doesn’t it negate our offensive strengths? I saw Chicago do it to GB last year in week 1. GB ended up winning, but that front 7 blew up GBs offensive game plan.
That’s what I’m worried about. I don’t know that our D is strong enough to win us games if the offense is contained.
The most concerning thing to me on offense is the right side of the oline. The good thing is there is major upside with both big V and the rook Jonah Jackson.
The Detroit Offense vs the Chicago defense is a nice chess-match. Even the best defenses pick their poison. I think @BigNatty mentioned it earlier… throw in some screens or other quick-out passes that gets the ball into a little bit of space. That’s the good thing about being deep on offense even if we don’t have top-level talent. If you can’t beat them with your 1st, 2nd or 3rd option, we’re deep enough on offense to roll out a 3rd, 4th and 5th.
That’s the difference between our offense and theirs. They can beat us with their run game. We have to take that away and force them to beat us with their air attack. That’s where we all cringe a bit (including them). I think we have enough pieces to make Trubes look like Trubes instead of like an NFL QB. Remember, as bad as things were last year, we had Green Bay beat save for the zebras.
Its a tall order for those two starting with the Bears. Media reports are saying they are getting consistent push in the run game though.
On to Green Bay!!
I believe in #9! Shit’s about to get real AF!
I think Stafford is the tipping point. Mainly because him and Bevell like to go deep and they do it well.
However the key to winning is the Lions run game if you ask me. If we sustain long drives and wear that defense down then I don’t think CHI offense can keep up with Stafford and the Lions run game.
Luckily, we have an offense that can’t be contained
I don’t think they’re going to run it well against that front 7.
Truth is their run defense wasn’t that much better than the Lions was.
CHI gave up 102 yrds game but over their last 3 games they gave up 127 yrds a game.
Det gave up 115 yrds a game but over their last 3 games they gave up just 106.
Here’s the fun facts Det ran for 98 yrds and 105 yrds vs CHI with a bunch of nobodies running the football. CHI didn’t face a healthy Lions run game last year either. But they did face a healthy Min run game and they gave up 174 yrds to them.
We can run on them… I won’t be shocked if we put up 150 yrds rushing on them. Especially if Swift is healthy.
I’m guessing Swift’s production in the screen and passing game will be a large portion of his production in that game. Sending him on routes is better than any block he could ever dream of throwing. If they don’t honor that shit, he will burn them big. This ain’t KJ 2.0. this is a whole different animal.
Looks like Nagy named Trubes the starter per rotoworld.
He’ll last one week!
Yeh. Given Trubisky’s success against Detroit and Undlin’s familiarity with Foles - if that matters - Trubisky might make the most sense for them in that first game.
EXCELLENT news.
They do? They had the 27th ranked rushing attack last year.