This is a must-win for the Lions, not to make the playoffs, but to let assert themselves as a professional football team capable of GETTING TO .500. A-holes. I’m so sick of this, year after year, decade after decade.
Then pick which two of their remaining three (message 249, this msg is in reply to it; Chargers, Raiders Packers) games they’ll win in hopes of making the NFC wild card. Ideally, they’d win all three (and knock the Peckers out of undefeated status — assuming the Raiders don’t do it first ;’), finish 11-5, and go to the playoffs. Right now they’re tied with the Bears and Falcons, and a game up on the Giants.
Chicago plays Denver, then has to face Seattle, Green Bay, and Minnesota. They’ll split these I think, beating Seattle and Minnesota (at least).
The Falcons face Carolina, Jacksonville, New Orleans, and Tampa Bay, and probably have a shot at beating all of them, including the Saints. More likely they’ll win just two. And they’ll have the tiebreaker over the Lions.
IOW, it’s just barely possible that the Lions could go as NFC wildcard with a 10-6 record. They will probably need (at minimum) 11 wins, as I noted back when they were 5-0 and needed only six more effin’ wins.
Of course, they could finish the season 7-9, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
I’m so sick of this, year after year, decade after decade. Imagine — I’m really just rooting for them to NOT have a losing season by finishing 8-8. If they could win two effin’ games and finish 9-7, that would mark their first winning season since (brace yourself) 2000, which was also a 9-7 season, and it sez they finished 4th in their division that year.
You probably remember the 2000 season — the hillbilly Bobby Ross coached them to a screaming 5-4 record, and resigned after game nine. Gary Moeller, as ass’t coach, went 4-3 in his seven games as interim coach, then was dumped by football genius Matt Millen.
Vikings At Lions Score Update: Titus Young Puts Detroit On The Board Again
Dec 11 12:25p by Christopher Gates
http://minnesota.sbnation.com/minnesota-vikings/2011/12/11/2628281/vikings-at-lions-score-update-titus-young-puts-detroit-on-the-board
[snip] So, with 9:45 left in the first quarter at Ford Field, the Vikings have already turned the ball over twice and find themselves trailing the Detroit Lions by a score of 14-0. [snip]
It’s 4th q, Lions have a six point lead, last score of theirs was a FG; Vikings are driving again.
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