Game 11: Vikings @ Lions *Thanksgiving* Thread

[brewer229]

Left 2 TDs on the field. Still win. Guess it's good Vikings offense sucks more than ours.

 

[Mitchrapp]

My early Christmas gift is that the Lions have a big lead early and win by 4 touchdowns vs someone..

 

[kdp1980]

This team is gonna lead to my premature death. But I love them so much! Sure they piss me off but that's just passion. I don't mean all those mean words i said for the last 2 hours.

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Lol, me too

 

[kdp1980]

Still don't understand how this team wins. Good teams lose to us and bad teams lose to us the exact same way. Its infuriatingly confusing.

 

[cheeno]

Happy Thanksgiving fellas. Nice to get desert before dinner!

 

[elrod817]

Cardiac Cats... and I can afford new shoes now. So much to be thankful for!

 

[turok]

Cardiac Cats...Some Vikes fans whining about officiating in ESPN game-thread.

 

[dubbsco]

They are whining? Did they watch the game game? Holy crap the Lions were on the short side of the stick the entire first half.

 

[motown1958]

Still don't understand how this team wins. Good teams lose to us and bad teams lose to us the exact same way. Its infuriatingly confusing.

It's insane. The Lions exist in some odd parallel universe where they dictate the tempo and for some reason 4th qtr come back is the weapon of choice. Just be better longer and i would still have a bit of a voice.

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[mhughes0021]

Shit makes no sense....

Since 2008, eight NFL teams have trailed in the fourth quarter in each of their first 11 games of a season. The other seven teams were 4-73 (.052) through 11 games. The Lions are 7-4 (.636).

 

[elrod817]

It makes plenty of sense hughes, it's Detroit. It's where catches aren't catches, PI flags get picked up, and coaches take the wind. Granted good things don't usually happen to us, but if they're going to, this is the only way that makes sense.

 

[manchild98]

Shit makes no sense....

Since 2008, eight NFL teams have trailed in the fourth quarter in each of their first 11 games of a season. The other seven teams were 4-73 (.052) through 11 games. The Lions are 7-4 (.636).

It's just an incredible, insane stat. First to trail at some point in the 4th quarter in all 11 games. And then to actually be able to win 7 of those games. Those other teams trailed in every game because they were really bad teams. That makes sense. You shouldn't be anywhere near a playoff race or leading the division if you've trailed in all 11 games at some point in the 4th quarter.

 

[manchild98]

And it looks like our refs may have been flown into ref the Dallas/Skins game. SOme shit calls here too.

 

[kalinecountry]

Game Notes:
Prater was 24 of 24 on game-tying or game-winning kicks in the fourth quarter or overtime in his career. Now, make that 25.

The Lions improve to 37-38-2 all time on Thanksgiving, and have won four in a row. That's their longest streak since taking four straight from 1997-2000.

Matthew Stafford has set an NFL record for quickest quarterback to 2,500 completions. He entered the day needing just 16 to get there in his 104th career game. That smashes Matt Ryan's record of 110.

Matthew Stafford has played in 104 games. And he has now led the Lions to a comeback win in 27 of them.

The Lions have held opponents to 20 or fewer points in five straight games. The last time they did that in one season: 1991.

Rookie second-round pick A'Shawn Robinson earned his first start at defensive tackle.

The Lions held a moment of silence before the game for Collin Rose, the Wayne State University police officer who was killed on duty this week. Rose also worked at Lions games.

The stage already felt like a big one, with the division lead on the line in front of a national TV audience, and then Detroit's own Aretha Franklin really enhanced it with a rousing rendition of the national anthem.

Long snapper Don Muhlbach played in the 191st game of his Lions career, which ties Jeff Backus for fourth most in franchise history.
Next up on that list is linebacker Wayne Walker (200).
Jason Hanson holds the record with 327 games.

Since 2008, eight NFL teams have trailed in the fourth quarter in each of their first 11 games of a season.
The other seven teams were 4-73 (.052) through 11 games.
The Lions are 7-4 (.636).

DETROIT -- Matthew Stafford is now officially one of the top 50 passers in NFL history.
Stafford moved past Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson and former Minnesota, Washington, Kansas City and Oakland quarterback Rich Gannon to move into 50th place in all-time passing yards.
Stafford finished the game with 28,859 career passing yards.

Stafford also moved up the all-time passing touchdowns leaderboard in the first half against Minnesota. With a 2-yard pass to Anquan Boldin, he threw his 182nd touchdown, placing him in a tie with Steve Grogan for No. 52 all time. It was also Stafford's 15th touchdown pass on Thanksgiving, setting a franchise record.
The play was also the 80th touchdown catch of Boldin’s career. Boldin had seven catches for 69 yards.

http://www.detroitlions.com/media-center/video/recent-videos.html
Webvideo Highlights of the Lions 16 - 13 win over the vikings.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=400874495
Boxscore.

After four third down stops last week, Miles Killebrew added another two to his resume in this game. He has found a nice role for himself on this defense and has earned more snaps.

This was Stafford’s seventh Thanksgiving day start and fourth straight victory.
Stafford’s opening drive touchdown pass was his 100th at Ford Field.
Stafford now has 25 touchdowns and 2 interceptions in his last 13 games at home.

Stafford was 23-of-40 passing for 232 yards with a touchdown to Anquan Boldin and no interceptions. He finished with a passer rating of 82.5.

Stafford is averaging 5.8 yards per rush this season, and at 156 total yards rushing through 11 games, he’s just three yards shy of his career season high of 159 yards set in 2015. The Lions have five more games to go.

Three Stars:
Matthew Stafford, Lions (23-of-40, 232 yards, 1 TD; 4 carries, 30 yards).
Matt Prater, Lions (3/3 FGs, 1/1 Extra Pt.).
Darius Slay, Lions (4 Tackles, 1 Int.).

The Lions' defense has now allowed 20 or fewer points in five straight games.

The Lions turned 19 carries into 94 yards, much improved from last week's 14-yard effort.

Tahir Whitehead made 12 tackles and Josh Bynes had four, including one for loss.
Whitehead made a touchdown-saving tackle on a Jerick McKinnon wildcat run, and Bynes stopped McKinnon for a 2-yard gain on third-and-3 when the Vikings had a chance to run out the clock in the fourth quarter.

Matt Prater's two fourth-quarter field goals improved his career line to 25-of-25 on game-tying or go-ahead field goal attempts in the fourth quarter or overtime.
Since the start of the 2001 season, he has the most successful field goal tries without a miss in such situations of any NFL player.

Prater now has 11 field goals in the fourth quarter or overtime this season, second-most in the NFL. Nine of those have come while the game has been within one score -- the most in the NFL.
He has made 11 field goals when the Lions have trailed this season, second-most in the NFL.
Both of his fourth-quarter kicks Thursday were from 40 or more yards, giving him nine of that length this season, tied for the second-most in the NFL.

Elias and ESPN Stats & Information: Two teams in NFL history have 7 wins in a single season where they trailed in the fourth quarter, the 2016 Lions and...the 2009 Colts that were also coached by Jim Caldwell.
That Colts team went 14-2 and reached the Super Bowl.

Stafford is tied for the most fourth-quarter/overtime winning drives (seven) in a season by a quarterback since 1950, according to profootballreference.com.

 

[kalinecountry]

http://walterfootball.com/OpenRant/Published/276
Ranking the NFL Referees from 1 to 17. This might be worth saving/bookmark.
WalterFootball

 

[LKP]

Great win. Defense has been good and keeps getting better. Offense too much talent to only score 16 but vikings have good d too.

That pi call on slay was terrible in 1st

Glad lions are overcoming this bullshit

 

[mhughes0021]

5 games in a row the D gives up 20 or less. Again, i have no fucking idea how:

Wentz 25/33
Keenum 27/32
Cousins 30/39
Osweiler 20/29
Bradford 31/40
Bortles 22/35
Bradford 31/37

That shit shouldnt equal 6-1 lol. Theres no math out there that can make any sense of this. Is Austin some genius that has found out that if you let opposing qbs complete passes at record pace week in and week out means we will hold teams to under 20? How the fuck does this make sense??!!!!

 

[LKP]

Dink and dunk. Nothing deep. Good red zone d. Big turnovers and sacks forced at right times

Defense stepped up. Talented defense,

If anything, offense underachieving now

 

[biggunsbob]

5 games in a row the D gives up 20 or less. Again, i have no fucking idea how:

Wentz 25/33
Keenum 27/32
Cousins 30/39
Osweiler 20/29
Bradford 31/40
Bortles 22/35
Bradford 31/37

That shit shouldnt equal 6-1 lol. Theres no math out there that can make any sense of this. Is Austin some genius that has found out that if you let opposing qbs complete passes at record pace week in and week out means we will hold teams to under 20? How the fuck does this make sense??!!!!

Bend but don't break I guess . We all felt Sam could and would make a mistake,.
Glover studied film saw the set and knew the tendencics of Bradford and audible into a different defense and Slay did the rest. He was set up good by Glover !!!

 

[biggunsbob]

Dink and dunk. Nothing deep. Good red zone d. Big turnovers and sacks forced at right times

Defense stepped up. Talented defense,

If anything, offense underachieving now

I know after that first drive I really thought we would spank the vikings by 10+ Probably should have because that was not pass inference.