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NFC Playoff Thread

Lions should have won. Doesn't make the Steelers a bad team. Lions should beat good teams and made alot of plays in order to be in position to beat a good team on the road.

When you say should have won but didn't - that means Detroit played bad. From our QB to WR to DB to coaching. It wasn't rain or luck or being on the road. Bad play from inconsistent team.
 
Its well known that Detroit with Staff has a pretty bad record when it comes to teams finishing over .500.

In 2013, not much has changed. Chicago is the only team we've beat so far with a winning record, twice. And bt the end of the season that might have changed.

I don't know about anyone else but it would be nice if we could beat some good teams now and then.
 
When you say should have won but didn't - that means Detroit played bad. From our QB to WR to DB to coaching. It wasn't rain or luck or being on the road. Bad play from inconsistent team.

You can play well and lose from other factors. You can play well at times and really bad at times too and lose even if you played well the majority of the time. The 96 yard TD drive and two plays in the first quarter was a good example of that.
 
Its well known that Detroit with Staff has a pretty bad record when it comes to teams finishing over .500.

In 2013, not much has changed. Chicago is the only team we've beat so far with a winning record, twice. And bt the end of the season that might have changed.

I don't know about anyone else but it would be nice if we could beat some good teams now and then.

Stafford played well enough to beat many of those teams. Other players let him down to earn the Lions a loss. Stafford did enough for a win though.
 
Stafford played well enough to beat many of those teams. Other players let him down to earn the Lions a loss. Stafford did enough for a win though.

When we win, Staff played well. When we lose, it was the other players? Is that what I'm getting.

And on your last thought, no he didn't.
 
When we win, Staff played well. When we lose, it was the other players? Is that what I'm getting.

And on your last thought, no he didn't.

When we lose, it depends who actually played bad. You decide that by watching the game several times and counting things like drops and misthrows and defensive breakdowns. And you don't weight stuff based on your biased memory of remembering only a Stafford int but disregarding the two plays he properly made before the int that were dropped by a Rb/WR.

You create opinions without all the information. I give you all the information but you choose to ignore it.
 
Going into this game if I told you, Lions score 27, Stafford throws for 350 and 2 TDs and the Lions run the ball fairly well overall.

You would say Lions win or Lions loss?
 
Going into this game if I told you, Lions score 27, Stafford throws for 350 and 2 TDs and the Lions run the ball fairly well overall.

You would say Lions win or Lions loss?

The dude averaged over 300 last year. Yards don't mean shit..
 
It means alot of first downs and redzone opportunities. And 23 PPG from long drive offense.

So first downs and red zone opportunities were all him but 41% completion rate was on the rain, dropped passes, wrong routes and batted balls?
 
So first downs and red zone opportunities were all him but 41% completion rate was on the rain, dropped passes, wrong routes and batted balls?

some of the 41% was on the rain and dropped passes. It's amazing how a few completions increase that % tremendously.

I didn't say all him, but Stafford made plenty of good plays. 27 points, the QB made plays. He missed some throws in the first half too. It's too bad he didn't score 55 points in the first half but I'll take 27 in a half.

2nd half, the 2 3 and outs (one sack and 2 runs on those 6 plays), one good drive (3rd down stop not on him) and he made 2 plays before his int down 3. Down 10, he had a first down run and a bomb to Ogletree.
 
I feel I have to step in here...what does any of this have to do with the NFC playoffs?
 
Lions are the 3rd seed thanks to Stafford?

and also have the same record as the team in the 8 slot....which just so happen to be in the same division. Therefor we need to stop losing to shitty teams or else we will end up being a shitty team and all of us will have to start our draft threads :D
 
Flex scheduling starts this week.

Poking around at the TV schedule, not sure if Detroit will factor into any flex scheduling.

@ Pittsburgh and vs TB - obviously not
vs GB - Thanksgiving, can't be moved
@ Philadelphia - potential candidate
vs Baltimore - Monday Night, can't be moved
vs NY Giants and @ Minnesota - probably not, unless either of these teams go on a run

The Week 14 match-up is the only one I think could possibly be moved, however it has to go up against a few other games,

Atlanta @ GB - Currently scheduled, guessing it will be moved out

Other candidates for this week (based on current record/position)
Indy @ Cincy
Carolina @ NO
Seattle @ SF


According to 97.1, the NFL will make a decision on this flex game by Monday. I really don't know how it beats out Carolina-New Orleans.
 
According to 97.1, the NFL will make a decision on this flex game by Monday. I really don't know how it beats out Carolina-New Orleans.

Yeah, I think that game would be a lock at this point..Carolina vs NO is a game I'd want to see..
 
Sea @ SF would be another. they should move one to Sun night and the other to Mon night.
 
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