Yeah...and a few years later, the "LA Lions" would win Superbowl XLXI and XLXII. Ending the "Layne curse" for all intents and purposes, and thereby proving its existence at the same time.
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Game 13: Lions @ Eagles Thread
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Yeah...and a few years later, the "LA Lions" would win Superbowl XLXI and XLXII. Ending the "Layne curse" for all intents and purposes, and thereby proving its existence at the same time.
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I don't want Detroit moving anywhere..just a new Owner.
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It has been done
the snow storm kinda makes him look Asian.
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how'd that work out for you?
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Terribly
Losing by 6 in my circus scoring league (owner wanted to see high points so he doubled everything) Brees scored 91, he still has Forte left to play. Maybe I'll get lucky and Forte fumbles 10 times and runs backwards every play.
Losing by 54 in my PPR league, I still have Witten and Marshall left to play. Wonderful week for Peterson to go down.
Chris Johnson was absolute garbage this season. Had him in both my leagues, never taking him again.
Also, I don't care about RBs anymore, I'm taking a QB in the 1st round next year in all of my leagues. So many times this season I've been burned by bad QB play (or beaten by good QBs).
P.S. RG3 is a piece of shit, though I can't put all the blame on him, that team is awful
Done ranting about FF now
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Philly changed shoe type at half
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When do we start getting the excuses from LKP?
Blizzard, Bush, Waddle hurt (1st quarter).
I get cold games, I get a little rain but that snow throws a big curve ball in the game. I hope its a the blizzard of the century Super Bowl Sunday in New York and the game is completely skewed from it.
No excuse for that 4th Quarter run defense though. Bad DT and LB play. I don't know if that happens in a regular game but Ross doesn't look like Devin Hester in his prime either. So it's a wash.
Turnovers will cause this coaching staff to be fired if we don't make the playoffs. I just hope we get a good OC/DC. Linehan gets the points but they have disappeared in the second half in 3 losses now (2 weather games at Zona, at Pit and at Philly).
Monday's game is huge.
I get cold games, I get a little rain but that snow throws a big curve ball in the game. I hope its a the blizzard of the century Super Bowl Sunday in New York and the game is completely skewed from it.
No excuse for that 4th Quarter run defense though. Bad DT and LB play. I don't know if that happens in a regular game but Ross doesn't look like Devin Hester in his prime either. So it's a wash.
Turnovers will cause this coaching staff to be fired if we don't make the playoffs. I just hope we get a good OC/DC. Linehan gets the points but they have disappeared in the second half in 3 losses now (2 weather games at Zona, at Pit and at Philly).
Monday's game is huge.
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If I didn't know better I'd say they were trying to win the division and make the playoffs with the fewest wins possible on purpose.
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I will laugh at the Cardinals finishing 10-6 or 11-5 and beating the Lions but missing the playoffs if that even happens.
2 home games then a tVikings. They could win all 3 or lose just as easily all 3 but they have to at least win 2.
Do or die for this coaching staff.
Didn't seatle do that a few years back at 7-9?
Yeah, thats the rumor that I have been reading online, in which the Iggles switched to shoes with longer cleats to get more bite into the snow-covered turf. I wondered why Baltimore had plowed their field clear of snow and it wasn't snowing quite as hard there. The difference between the first and second half of the game was quite noticeably obvious, when suddenly the Iggles were able to make better defensive plays and their O ran through the Lions D-line like a hot knife through butter. You could also see them push the Lions O and D-lines off the ball or make wide gaps for their ball carrier. No wonder that they didn't do jack-shit to clear the gridiron of 6"-8" snow accumulation during halftime.
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I think the problem is the idiot coaching staff that didn't plan ahead. Everybody knew that there was going to be snow in Philly over the weekend.
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This is on the Lions not the snow being removed. A blizzard and one pair of cleats?
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Because it wasn't a blizzard in the 2nd half?
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well...if they did have them they were dumb as hell for not changing them!
17 -- Zone read rushes by the Eagles in the fourth quarter, resulting in 204 rushing yards.
0 -- Zone-read rushes attempted by Philadelphia in the first three quarters.
Just going to throw that one out there. Fairley, Tulloch, Levy and Delmas blew it big time.
0 -- Zone-read rushes attempted by Philadelphia in the first three quarters.
Just going to throw that one out there. Fairley, Tulloch, Levy and Delmas blew it big time.
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My prediction?
The Lions are going to end the season in perfect Lions fashion
They're going to win their last 3 games convincingly, double digit wins, no turnovers, few penalties, sure hands, no big plays given up. I'll even go out on a limb and say Akers is perfect the rest of the way.
Then in the 1st round of the playoffs, they're going to get demolished at home. That old, familiar Lions team is going to rear it's ugly head. They'll probably turn it over 4-5 times, drops on 3rd downs in opponent territory, big runs on defense, zero pressure on the opposing QB...in fact the O-line we've seen most of the season will disappear and Stafford will be running for his life. The Lions will lose by 3-4 TDs.
As pessimistic Lions fans, we've been waiting for the total collapse. We've seen glimpses here and there, lapses on defense and offense, mental screw-ups late in games, but it hasn't all come crashing down at once yet. I think that happens in the playoffs.
The Lions are going to end the season in perfect Lions fashion
They're going to win their last 3 games convincingly, double digit wins, no turnovers, few penalties, sure hands, no big plays given up. I'll even go out on a limb and say Akers is perfect the rest of the way.
Then in the 1st round of the playoffs, they're going to get demolished at home. That old, familiar Lions team is going to rear it's ugly head. They'll probably turn it over 4-5 times, drops on 3rd downs in opponent territory, big runs on defense, zero pressure on the opposing QB...in fact the O-line we've seen most of the season will disappear and Stafford will be running for his life. The Lions will lose by 3-4 TDs.
As pessimistic Lions fans, we've been waiting for the total collapse. We've seen glimpses here and there, lapses on defense and offense, mental screw-ups late in games, but it hasn't all come crashing down at once yet. I think that happens in the playoffs.
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It has been done
The more I think about, the more symbolic this picture is of the Lions season.
Stafford is the Lions franchise
The football is the NFC North division title
The ball is right there, all they need to do is pay attention and catch it, but instead it flies right past them and another team picks it up.
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