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Detroit Lions - Team Notes

https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2019...-quarter-nfl-review-grade-card-report-podcast
Pride Of Detroit Lions Podcast Let?s review the Lions first quarter of NFL play. 56 minutes.
It?s time to hand out report cards, teacher notes and other strain allegories for regular progress on the 2019 Detroit Lions.

First Byte is on bye this week, but that doesn?t mean this machine stops.

We?re handing out report cards as the Lions slam home one quarter of NFL play in the books. Four games is enough to start picking apart more and more of their play and passing judgement thus far. We?re sitting down to grade this team all around, and hand out notes on best and worst performers, and what we?d like to see in the next four games of play.

First Quarter Lions Review:
General thoughts on where the season has gone so far. It?s exceeded expectations, but in what ways?

Will these close losses/ties end up hurting the Lions in the NFC North race? How tight will the division race really be?

How Matthew Stafford has exceeded expectations and found another revival after a sluggish year.

How the offense finally shed its ?boring? title from last year, according to our own John Whiticar.

The defense is breaking up passes like a machine, but can they get it settled in on the ground? What?s caused the drop-off in rushing defense this year?

Justin Coleman earns a gold star as a truly breakout star.

Jarrad Davis... not so much. See me after class.

We had out letter grades and teacher notes. As I said we?re riding this analogy straight into the ground.
 
PFF data analysts believe Lions are the best team in the NFC North.
Newer data reveals a better team as more of the bad stuff from last year fades away.
Eric Eager at Pro Football Focus had very encouraging words to say about the Lions in the PFF Forecast prior to Week 4. ?I think they?re what the Vikings want to be. . . I think the Lions are a better version of the Vikings.? That is a hell of a characterization, considering what many of us on the Pride of Detroit staff thought about the Minnesota Vikings roster at the start of the season.

https://youtu.be/oc254k8DaoA

On the show, his co-host George Chahrouri took in the argument (around 35:27 in the embedded video). ?When you told me this yesterday, I thought you were out of your mind, and then I thought about it, and I agree with you. I think this is perhaps your best take of the season. I?m on board - this is the most counterintuitive thing I think I could imagine hearing three weeks into the season, and I one hundred percent agree with you.?

Now that we have the result of Week 4 in the books, Eager has laid down in writing a declaration that the Detroit Lions have made their case for being the NFC North?s best team. Although a PFF Elite membership is required to read the whole article, Eager makes the point that:

Our underlying metrics and simulations haven?t caught up to this truth, as we have the Lions with just a 17 percent chance to win the division through four weeks (ahead of Minnesota, but trailing Green Bay and Chicago). A lot of this is due to prior information, which will be regressed away in increasing fashion as the season progresses.

This makes absolute sense from a data analyst perspective, since updated information based on this year?s team will outweigh and displace older information from 2018 in the models as it becomes available. There is a lot of really thoughtful stuff in the piece, with much praise for Darrell Bevell?s offensive changes and some great performances in the secondary.

POD
 
https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2019/10/04/lions-quarter-of-the-season-awards-most-pleasant-surprise/
Lions quarter-of-the-season awards: Most pleasant surprise.
LionsWire

https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2019/10/04/lions-quarter-of-the-season-awards-biggest-disappointment/
Lions quarter-of-the-season awards: Biggest disappointment.
LionsWire

https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2019...-the-season-awards-best-play-favorite-moment/
Lions quarter-of-the-season awards: Best play/favorite moment.
LionsWire
 
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