Jason_R

It is hard to fault the coaching when they literally had an entire starting defense — that would have been a top 15 unit, including the runaway candidate for DPOY — on IR at the end of the season.

As I understand it, the Lions have pick 1:28, 2:60, comp pick in 3rd round, a 4th, a 6th, and two 7ths. I hope they use them all on defensive lineman.

This Super Bowl, and the whole post-season, makes me want to puke.

They also didn't win because they called a pass on 3rd and 1. Yes, Goff blew it, but this was also one of a few key decisions the coaching staff made that were overly aggressive that backfired. Everyone knew that Washington's run defense was its weakest link. Though Montgomery was a little rusty early (and the staff was overly aggressive in letting a rusty Montgomery open the game), there was no reason not to let Gibbs put pressure on Washington's run defense early and often. Campbell's aggressiveness has made the Lions a much tougher opponent. Sometimes being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive is not the right play, and it wasn't on that play. They spent the whole game trying to come back from it.

It seems like the only thing they really need, other than a dozen defensive players who went on injured reserve, is someone they can groom to take over for Ragnow. And they may not even see someone in this draft class they like for that role.

Nobody ever calls a perfect game, but it is true that he made a few glaring mistakes. Some of these mistakes are ones that you could see in real time, like the third and one where they split out Montgomery. And if they had told us before the snap that they were going to let Jameson Williams have a pass attempt, we would’ve told them that Williams is known for his legs, not his arm. His strength is his aggressiveness. But the weakness of the staff is also not knowing when to hold back.

On the second defensive play of the game, Amik Robertson — who had his best game as a pro against Minnesota — went down with a gruesome injury. By the third quarter they were also missing Branch and Melifonwu. The injury luck this defense had this year was unimaginably and unprecedentedly bad. Amik’s injury early limited what the defense could do and I believe it made Johnson and Goff put pressure on themselves to get too cute. They both started playing hero ball rather than letting Gibbs gash Washington’s defense on the ground and relying on the intermediate passing game. They kept rolling the dice and it kept coming up snake eyes. It was an awful weekend of football, but if Buffalo and Washington end up in the Super Bowl at least we’ll know we got beat by the champ.

Peace out gents.

Incredibly disappointing. Second defensive play of the game they lost Amik Robertson to what appears to have been a gruesome injury. Defense just could not hold on. Goff lost his composure. It snowballed.

That’s gonna be game.

Maybe three… Amik, Melifonwu, and I’m not sure if Branch is back.

Detroit has made a lot of bad decisions on kickoffs.

Missing two of their already depleted secondary and they may have given up the game because they didn’t even know who was supposed to be on the field.

Unbelievable. 12 men on the field on 4th and 2.

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Great tackle by Branch but he needs to be OK.

Ward had the mean streak that ASB has. Not a fan of the helmet contact but was good to see them finally lay the wood on Daniels.

MVP

Hines Ward is a good comp for ASB.

Ahahahaha! Payback for the non-call on delay of game.

Monty is back.

Stop right out of halftime. Now get it to Gibbs.

The defensive players on IR would make up a top-ten starting defense.