Quote (rdeight8 @ May 10 2014 11:53am)
Come on man. Obviously Stafford chunked it a few times. But you are lying to yourself if you can honestly say that our secondary is even mediocre.
Pierre Desir is inexplicably still on the board, if we grab him I would be thrilled
Quote (EViLDeeDz @ May 10 2014 11:54am)
Our corners had 2 ints all last season - both by Chris Houston.
If we don't spend either of our 4th rounders on a secondary player I will be upset.
Here is the thing. Our 4th rounder CB isn't going to be better. He is going to be what we have now. He will share time with Bently / Slay. CBs take time to develop, they won't be a big impact this year.
And here.... these are the games we lost last year. Tell me where I am wrong.
Quote (Shroom2 @ Mar 30 2014 01:56pm)
You think the DEFENSE lost more than 3 games last year? I would actually disagree. After going through the games I can only see 2 that they lost us...
Edit: Bolded games are the one's I am giving you
Games we lost:
Week 2 - Arizona --> Lost this game 21 to 25. Lions lost TOS 28:41 - 31:19. Lions held rushing to under 100 yards. However, one of our TDs was scored by a pick 6. Also, Stafford fumbled the ball. Our offense only scored 14 points. We were 3/11 on 3rd down attempts. Arizona was 1/11. Our defense held them on 3rd down but our offense could not score.
Week 5 - Green Bay --> We lost 9 to 22. Lions lost TOS 27:41 - 32:19. Lions held Eddie Lacy under 100 yards. Lions and Packers had fairly equal 3rd down attempts (7/15 to 7/16). However this game is this simple. Green Bay (one of the most potent offenses in the league) had a bad game. Our defense held them to 22 points. GB was 0-2 in the redzone. They only allowed ONE touchdown to Aaron rodgers. The rest were all FGs. But our offense once again did nothing. Calvin was out this game, but this was the first time it was apparent that without him we couldn't do anything.
Week 7 - Cincinnati
Week 11 - Pittsburg --> We lost 27 to 37. Lions lost TOS 27:44 - 32:16. Our defense held their rush game to under 100 yards. Both the lions and the Steelers were 6/16 on 3rd down attempts. However, there were 2 fumbles and and interception that kept our defense on the field. Pretty hard to win when your offense / ST turns the ball over 3 times.
Week 12 - Tampa Bay --> We lost 24 to 21. Lions dominated TOS 33:22 - 26:38. We dominated in yards, too. Lions held TB rushing game under 100 yards again. Lions defense had 4 sacks. But the lions offense turned the ball over 5 times. 5. You cannot win a game when you turn the ball over 5 times.
Week 14 - Philly --> Although LeSean McCoy destroyed our defense in the 4th quarter... 3 fumbles did not help our cause. Tbh, I'll blame our "defense" for this one, but I really blame coaching for not being able to adjust.
Week 15 - Baltimore --> Not even going into the stats of this game. Our defense dominated this game. The Ravens never scored a TD. If our offense cannot win when the other team doesn't get a TD.... (Ok one stat to go with this one... Stafford had 3 picks)
Week 16 - Giants --> We lost 23 - 20 in OT. We destroyed them in TOS 37:45 - 29:43. Tell me how your offense only scored 2 touch downs when they have the ball 37 minutes of the game. Our defense got a pick and a fumble... however, naturally our offense also had 3 turnovers. Fairly also got us a safety.
Week 17 - Vikings --> We lost 14 to 13. We won TOS 32:37 - 27:23. However we could only score 1 TD. Once again Megatron wasn't in the game... and our offense showed how much it hurt because of it. Our defense even got 2 turnovers that game and we were unable to do anything with them.