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In the wake of the worst Thanksgiving Day loss in franchise history, a management-side league source who had an opportunity to study the Lions for the first time tells us, quite simply, that the Lions “need an enema.”
“They are as bad as advertised,” the source said.
The 47-10 defeat to the Titans takes the Lions to 34-34-1 all-time on Thanksgiving. For the current decade, however, the Lions have fallen to 2-7.
But now the Lions have extra time to prepare to host the Vikings, whose brand of keep-it-close Chillyball will give the Lions a chance to pull out their first win of the season.
Indeed, the Lions were 0-12 seven years ago and seemingly destined to finish the job until the Vikings came to town and found themselves on the wrong end of a 27-24 final score.
November 28th, 2008 at 8:54 am
34-34-1 record? There is ties in the NFL?
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November 28th, 2008 at 8:57 am
You really needed a “league source” to tell you that the 0-12 Lions are as bad as bad as adveristed? My 85 year old grandma, who has glaucoma in both eyes and passes gas at a level that would put most people at a truck stop to shame, could tell you that.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I think they can do it. The saints game scares me a bit and so does tyhe Vikings game but 0-16 is do-able. If they go 0-16 they are my official 2nd fav. team in pro football.
Don’t let the pressure get to you boys, you can do it. Just remember, 0-16 is withing your grasp.
Don’t block
Don’t Tackle
Don’t change.
I( think you may want to think of sitting Johnson and Fitzsimmons, their hands could prevent this beautiful 0-16 season from being a reality.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Both games yesterday stunk. They weren’t remotely competitive. As for last nights game? I don’t get the NFL Network so I didn’t get to see it. However, just looking at that score it appears that, that game stunk too.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:05 am
lol You think the Lions will beat the Vikings? Did you see their run D? Yeah yeah, it was close last time, but it was the same way last season in the first game, and then the second we came out and punched them right in the mouth.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I would like to see Cowher coach the Lions. That would be pretty cool.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Watching yesterday also makes me think that the NFL is going to give us more crappy matchups on Thanksgiving because it is a captive audience. Fortunately I have Comcast so I didn’t have the opportunity to watch the 3rd 20+ point win of the day. Actually I do have the opportunity if I want to fork over $120 for 2 months of games.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Good old Florio and his daily shot at Minnesota. You will be laughing when we kick the Lions ass 35-7. Florio, I dare you to write an NFC North article WITHOUT taking a shot at Minnesota.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:23 am
The Lions will not achieve 0-16. They will blow that too.
The vikings always have a late season clunker to prove they are going nowhere.
It is a Lions win that makes too much sense.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:24 am
HardcoreVikesFan: True, but with Chilly as your head coach, how can you not take a shot at them whenever you get a chance?
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Man o man. Its tough being a Lions fan. The only think that we can hope for is a complete roster overhaul. They have some decent cornerstones on offense, but they need a Offensive Line upgrade big time. In my opinion, they keep 4 starters(Kevin Smith,Calvin Johnson, Godzer Cherilus and Dominic Raiola), on offense and everything else needs to be replaced. Defense is even is worse shape. I am normally a pretty optimistic guy, but I am really nervous about who the ford’s are going to replace millen with. We cannot waste those draft picks we got for next year.
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:44 am
The whole NFL could use a massive laxative….pro football is boring. The talent level is watered down…the rules are a joke since they allowed instant replay into the system and the thugs are running the whole thing….
and those halftime shows yesterday….are ya kidding me?
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November 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Any man that goes to Detroit leaves a broken, shattered, mumbling, drooling shaken husk of a person…Fontes, Ross, Morningwig, Rogers, Hipple…
It’s No Man’s Land. The only thing in the world that could cause more men to lose their minds and go stark raving mad is seeing Rosie O’Donnel with no clothes on.
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November 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Actually, a Lions’ win that makes more sense is their season finale at Corrugated Tin Shack Field in Green Bay. Daunte Culpepper has a long and distinguished history of embarrassing the Packers at every opportunity, and since the Packers are the worst non-Detroit team in the NFC North, all indicators point to the Lions going from 0-15 to 1-15 in the season finale.
At which point, hopefully, we’ll never hear from any of the Packer fans that post here again.
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November 28th, 2008 at 10:03 am
It’s Gosder, and cut him too. On D, keep Sims and maybe Bullock. just maybe DeVries.
Let Hanson go. Just like really good teams (Jimmy Johnson said so), really bad teams dont need an ace high-paid kicker. Cause neither will be in too many close games.
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November 28th, 2008 at 10:10 am
@ guinsslvr –
As a (former) Detroit area resident for forty years, I’d like to know what you’re smokin’ and if you have any extra you could spare.
Seriously, “roster overhaul”? New GM?! Nothing the Lions have ever done or ever will do will make a significant difference until the team gets new ownership. The Fords apparently think they know a lot about football and have consistently interfered with every football decision since they purchased the franchise, even to the extent of calling plays down from their box during the game.
The Lions do have several very talented players and Marinelli may not be an awful coach. For that matter, Millen may not have been that bad a GM, but we’ll never know since the Fords probably countermanded every smart choice he might have made.
All this talk about Cowher or Pioli going to the Lions to “fix things”? Not gonna happen because the Fords will never relinquish enough control to enable guys like this to actually do the job.
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November 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am
@ Hollywood Wags –
Y’know, ordinarily, I avoid going to any store on Black Friday. But now, I need to go out for a gallon or two of brain bleach, thanks to you.
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November 28th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I think I’m gonna need an enema today after all of the food I ate yesterday.
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November 28th, 2008 at 11:59 am
What’s more important finding a QB of the future, determining if Rod Marinelli has what it takes to coach this team, and upgrading talent throughout the team, or building more fuel-efficent cars, re-tooling the automotive industry to survive in the 21st century, and cutting fat at the corportate executive level in order to save auto workers jobs and prevent this country from going into a major economic depression?
I could care about the Lions, but I think the Ford family has a lot more important issues to deal with and needs to be stripped of ownership of the Lions for the good of the NFL and the country’s economic health.
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
MaineMan is right…the constant in the years of the Lions losing is the Ford family. They’ve done a bad job on running a once proud franchise into the ground (and burrowing to China), just like their auto franchise.
Get rid of the Ford’s and find someone who wants to buy the Lions and return them to a proud franchise…then the Lions will get better
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November 28th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
what they really need to do is draft Crabtree this year
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