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Nah, just remembering a forum discussion awhile back when a similar thing was discussed and the whole idea that the Lions are super injured was basically put to bed.
Excuses. Excuses. That's all you got. I pray that this team stays full healthy and you will have nothing left to lean on if they miss the playoffs.
No it's not. It's something that every team deals with. So it's not a valid reason, just another of the long list of excuses you've had.
You know who was lower on that list? Seattle. How'd they do?
When you are in the middle of anything statistically, it cannot be used as a crutch to justify why you didn't succeed more. If they were at the bottom and were ravaged with injuries, fine. But they weren't. They were fine.
Get back to me on trying to sell Delmas and Houston being big injuries.
Depends who get hurt too. Packers had good health in numbers and in who got hurt. Seattle had lesser important injuries but not many defensive and Lynch injury issues. That is how they win games.
Injuries can affect play and win totals. It's a fact. Not an opinion. And it can affect other teams more than others. Also a fact.
Unger (10), Zach Miller(13) and Mebane(7) were the big injuries. They just traded Unger.
Wagner 4, Chancellor 2 and Maxwell 3. Big deal compared to Fairley 8 and Tulloch 12.5 and the top two nickels for 14 games for Detroit. Ihedgibo 3
If Sherman, Thomas and Chancellor get major injuries like Delmas (knee and couldn't practice), Quin( bad ankle all year) and Houston (hamstring and toe) had in 2013. Then get back to me.
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2014/2013-adjusted-games-lost
Lions 15th
Indy 31st (won division)
GB 30th (won division)
NE 29th (won division)
SD 28th (made playoffs)
N.O. 26th (Made playoffs)
Those 5 teams had 5 of the 7 worst games missed and all still either won their division or made it to the playoffs. 4 of those teams won at least one playoff game. You know what the difference was. The Lions had Stafford and those teams had great QBs....Luck, Brady, AR, Rivers & Brees. Great QB play can overcome injuries!
GB only won 8 games. That is not a team you should point out. AFC South is junk. Depends who got hurt for NE, San Diego and New Orleans.
you have to point them out. They were the 3rd most injured team and still managed to win the division over the Lions because Stafford shit the bed down the stretch!
Lions were very injured too causing 9 losses. Green Bay only won 8 games and went 6-2 with a healthy Rodgers.
Green Bay proves my point. A double digit win team became an 8 win team with injuries.
And guys like Glover Quin and Delmas had injuries but didn't count on that list by the way in 2013.
Lions 15th, GB 30th.
GB playoffs
Lions went golfing
Ah yes, the year when GB lost arguably the best player in football and still did just enough to get in the playoffs down the stretch. Meanwhile the golden boy in Detroit had pathetic games against the Giants and Ravens on the biggest stage.
Many of those picks weren't his fault in those 2 games. Lions also had many injuries in those games. Houston, Slay, Mathis out against Giants and Quin playing hurt.
Stafford led a GW drive against Ravens and then Tucker kicked a miracle after a big kickoff return and 20 yard gain.
Oh yea...the Ravens game. 18-34, 234 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTs... #Awesomegame!
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