| 2014 Regular Season Schedule | ||||||
| WK | DATE | OPPONENT | TIME (ET) | |||
| 1 | Mon, Sep 8 | vs New York | 7:10 PM ESPN | 1:0:0 | ||
| 2 | Sun, Sep 14 | @ Carolina | 1:00 PM FOX | 1:1:0 | ||
| 3 | Sun, Sep 21 | vs Green Bay | 1:00 PM FOX | 2:1:0 | ||
| 4 | Sun, Sep 28 | @ New York | 1:00 PM FOX | 3:1:0 | ||
| 5 | Sun, Oct 5 | vs Buffalo | 1:00 PM FOX | 4:1:0 | ||
| 6 | Sun, Oct 12 | @ Minnesota | 1:00 PM FOX | 5:1:0 | ||
| 7 | Sun, Oct 19 | vs New Orleans | 1:00 PM FOX | 5:2:0 | ||
| 8 | Sun, Oct 26 | @ Atlanta | 9:30 AM FOX | 6:2:0 | ||
| 9 | BYE WEEK | |||||
| 10 | Sun, Nov 9 | vs Miami | 1:00 PM CBS | 6:3:0 | ||
| 11 | Sun, Nov 16 | @ Arizona | 4:25 PM FOX | 6:4:0 | ||
| 12 | Sun, Nov 23 | @ New England | 1:00 PM FOX | 6:5:0 | ||
| 13 | Thu, Nov 27 | vs Chicago | 12:30 PM CBS | 7:5:0 | ||
| 14 | Sun, Dec 7 | vs Tampa Bay | 1:00 PM FOX | 8:5:0 | ||
| 15 | Sun, Dec 14 | vs Minnesota | 1:00 PM FOX | 8:6:0 | ||
| 16 | Sun, Dec 21 | @ Chicago | 1:00 PM FOX | 9:6:0 | ||
| 17 | Sun, Dec 28 | @ Green Bay | 1:00 PM FOX | 9:7:0 | ||
The Lions whipped the Giants on Monday Night Football, 35-14, and play the Panthers in Carolina tomorrow. Both teams are 1-0, the Panthers having beaten Tampa Bay 20-14.
Panthers kicker pushes trombone player at halftime
[he apologized after the vid went viral]
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000391418/article/panthers-kicker-pushes-trombone-player-at-halftime
I’m 2 and 0 on my W-L picks for the Lions thus far — and pick them to beat the Packers in Detroit today. I’ve got them going on a four game winning streak starting today, followed by a loss, a win, and a three game losing streak, some other stuff, finishing at 9 and 7.
[snip] The Detroit Lions will end the 2013 season 7 and 9, and finish the 2014 season at 9 and 7, but that won’t be good enough to make the playoffs. [/snip]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3105181/posts?page=67#67
I’m 4 and oh, Lions beat the Jets today.
BTW, the Thursday night game was pretty ugly (not the Lions).
I’ve got the right overall record, but they’ve switched the results on the games with Buffalo and New Orleans. I just realized it’s an early game in London UK, and turned it on at the 2 minute mark to go in the 1st. 21 to nothing? Stafford appears to be misjudging his throws due to the different heights of lines in the background (the stadiums differ), which is a problem ROOKIES have, even Favre had it, and GB brought in (of all people) Jim McMahon to straighten this out.
They’re ailing on both sides of the ball, as well.
Lucky for them they have a bye week after today. Hey, wouldn’t it make more sense to have the bye week after a Thursday night game? Just sayin’.
Assuming they come back against Atlanta today, or even if not, I think they’ve got a good matchup against Miami, which has been slowing down a little every game, approaching a stop. Arizona will be tough, as will New England on the road. Chicago’s showing depends on how Jay Cutler does, if the Lions have their D back, Cutler won’t have a good day.
Tampa Bay has in the past surprised the Lions, even when TB sucked, but I don’t think Detroit will lose that one, barring some more injury problems. Minnesota won’t have it together, then it will be Chicago followed by Green Bay, both on the road, meaning the other three teams in their division in the last three weeks of the season. It’s safe to say that Detroit has to either be a game or more ahead, or beat Chicago (twice) and GB (once more), and not worry too much about what happens with the Vikings.
No one from Black and Blue will be in the Wild Card hunt unless things go very well for Detroit with GB keeping pace all the way (Detroit owns a tiebreaker right now).
> Detroit’s past three victories have been by a combined six points, all with fourth-quarter comebacks.
Next two weeks, I’ve got them losing to AZ and NE, which isn’t that difficult to imagine, but they’ve got the prime players back, and the bench has been doing very well. The defense has kept them in games, and Stafford’s been much better at comebacks then, say, P. Manning.
All Detroit needs is a Bears victory over the Packers (at Lambeau, oh well) this evening and I’ll feel a lot better about the Lions’ chances for the playoffs. Detroit beat NO, but NO beat the Packers by 21 points. Weird they both had a bye week at the same time.
They lost to AZ, as I’d figured, and they are looking pretty preseason against New England.
Hint: when there’s one side of the field where the receiver will have the sun in his eyes, DON’T THROW TO THAT SIDE.
Hint: receivers elsewhere on the field need to CATCH THE BALL.
I did and do expect them to lose today, but they need to play better, at least keep me in suspense. Plan now is to avoid watching the second half and the seemingly inevitable runup by NE, final score 49-6?
They beat Chicago on T-giving, next weekend they’ll edge Tampa Bay (TB has shown some life this year), they’ll struggle against the Vikings but pull out another victory, and then face the Packers at Lambeau. The best they can wind up with is 10:7, and currently they trail the Packers by one half game.
BTW, it is rare that I say this, but GO PATRIOTS.
The Lions won, kinda destroyed Tampa Bay, keeping pace with the Packers, a mere half game behind, and leading the NFC wild card hunt. GB catches up for games played with a Monday night home game against the Falcons. They follow that with two road games where few expect any surprises in the outcome, and wrap up hosting the Lions.
Lions thus far, wlwwlwwwwllww, 9:4
‘Civ thus far, wlwwwwlwlllww, 8:5
Well, Buffalo is handing Aaron’s own ass to him today. Nice job, Schwartz! Too bad you couldn’t figure that out but once at Detroit! Of course, most of the 4th is left, 9 point lead is two possessions, assuming Buffalo doesn’t score again.
Assuming Detroit beats the Vikes, the Lions will have a statistical tie with Green Bay, with an edge since they beat the Cheezits once this season.
Lions would be fools to let Ndamukong Suh get away
http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2014/12/13/detroit-lions-ndamukong-suh/20385533/
Detroit Lions QB coach Jim Bob Cooter works Matthew Stafford relentlessly
http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2014/12/detroit_lions_qb_coach_jim_bob.html