Week Fourteen: Minnesota Vikings (10-2) @ Detroit Lions (5-7)

[Sports_Freak]

This team is not the SOL. That died after last week's crushing of a less talented team. The SOL teams would beat a good team and then lose to a very bad team. The culture is changing for the better. Can they beat a 10-2 team? Yes, especially a team that has just been getting lucky all season long. Buffalo fumbles on their own goal line and the Vikings fall on if for a late TD? Pure luck....

Edited December 11, 2022 by Sports_Freak

[Shinzaki]

I woke up looking forward to watching the Lions for the first time in awhile....

[Motown Bombers]

 

[buddha]

i hope jarad goff is a bridge to a new qb.

[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, Shinzaki said:

I woke up looking forward to watching the Lions for the first time in awhile....

But isn't this when they usually stab us in the heart?   

 

I want them to win.  I turn 58 2 weeks from today, and a lifetime of pain and disappointment at the hands of this team leads me to believe that with everyone believing in them they'll shite it and do what they've always done.  

Cousins in 1pm games had a ridiculous record, but the Lions beat them last year (almost the same date), and the Vikings were 5-7, still in the playoff chase and we had nothing to play for. 

Now the Lions are 5-7, still in the playoff chase and let's face it, the Vikings aren't really playing for anything - they are in the playoffs and even though they are only a game behind the Eagles for the #1 seed, that they probably won't jump them.

I want the Lions to win.  And I want them to win easily, because this Vikings team is as lucky as the Lions are unlucky.  This isn't a 10-2 team.  It's a 7-5 team that has had some breaks.    Most of the NFL is like that.      

But prove it's different now by going out there and winning.        Fontes won 7 in a row in 1991 to salvage the season, and this team feels a lot like that, but gotta get over the top first.   

 

 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

4 minutes ago, buddha said:

i hope jarad goff is a bridge to a new qb.

If the offense is this good, why is he a bridge QB?  If you draft a rookie they'll likely suck their first year, and like last eyar, none of the QBs blow me away this year.    Acquire a veteran?  Well, the good teams aren't letting theirs get away and based on the seasons that Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan are having, that not be the best idea - to throw a ton of money at a name in decline (which is the only kind of veteran you're going to be able to get).    When Goff is clicking, he's a Top 10 QB .     It's about depth and defense........Goff is likely the long-term guy (and he'll have his share of bad games, but better than a rookie.  I guess we'll find out how good he really is if he gets hurt and Sudfeld has to play.    

[buddha]

5 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

If the offense is this good, why is he a bridge QB?  If you draft a rookie they'll likely suck their first year, and like last eyar, none of the QBs blow me away this year.    Acquire a veteran?  Well, the good teams aren't letting theirs get away and based on the seasons that Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan are having, that not be the best idea - to throw a ton of money at a name in decline (which is the only kind of veteran you're going to be able to get).    When Goff is clicking, he's a Top 10 QB .     It's about depth and defense........Goff is likely the long-term guy (and he'll have his share of bad games, but better than a rookie.  I guess we'll find out how good he really is if he gets hurt and Sudfeld has to play.    

because he is poor under pressure and has no escapability.  he cannot challenge a defense with his legs.

i think the qb position is evolving as more and more qbs become active in the run game and put pressure on the defense to account for them.  i would like to see the lions have a qb like that too.

goff has been good at times this year and i hope he keeps it up.  i like goff.  i just want them to eventually upgrade the qb position.

[1984Echoes]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

because he is poor under pressure and has no escapability.  he cannot challenge a defense with his legs.

i think the qb position is evolving as more and more qbs become active in the run game and put pressure on the defense to account for them.  i would like to see the lions have a qb like that too.

goff has been good at times this year and i hope he keeps it up.  i like goff.  i just want them to eventually upgrade the qb position.

This might be the key word.

The Lions' timeline sounds like it is different than ours... it may have always been that way, from the moment they traded for him...

I was open to seeing what they could do with Goff.

Based on what I'm seeing... mine, and I'm guessing maybe a few others on here, are sliding their timelines backwards a little bit... maybe getting closer to the Lions' timeline.

Just a guess.

[MichiganCardinal]

I think Jared Goff has turned out to be the perfect QB to rebuild a team with. He has his limitations, but he will very seldom lose you a game. If you put pieces around him, he will succeed and you will win games.

Might he be the QB you go all the way and win a Super Bowl with? Not if you ask the Rams. That doesn't mean you can't win in the interim though, even long-term, while waiting to catch lightning in a bottle with a Mahomes, Allen, or Rodgers in a spot where you can take them, place them in a position to succeed, and not have to completely mortgage any future chance at success.

You don't have to force the issue with drafting a QB you aren't in love with the way the Jets, Texans, and Panthers may need to do right now.

[1984Echoes]

IE: I'm not worried about drafting a franchise QB in 2023.

I want a boatload of defensive playmakers/ gamechangers and a couple backup O guys (1 RB in round 2-3 range, 1 backup OC/OG in the 2-5 range).

If they draft a QB (as a backup I presume) so be it, I'm not stressing one way or the other.

[holygoat]

The thing that worries me the most about today's game is that the Vikings have been treated to a solid week of national reporters and talking heads saying how they're the most fraudulent 10-2 team in the history of the NFL and how lucky they are. Which may or may not be true, but I suspect their players have a little bit of pride, and might be keen to prove everyone wrong. They've been hearing all week how Okuda shut Jefferson down in the first game -- which he did, and yet the Vikes still won. What are the chances that Jefferson is kept quiet a second time? I think the Lions should win today, but I don't think it lines up as nicely as a lot of the local and national sports media seem to think.

[Hongbit]

I’m not worried.

Lions 38

Vikes 26

Game isn’t as close as the final score and Jamo gets his first tud.

[Motown Bombers]

Lions 31 Vikings 26. Minnesota has the ball late, out of timeouts and driving into Lions territory. Cousins hits Thielen on the sideline but Thielen cuts it upfield The clock's run out, time's up, over, blaow! Snap back to reality, ope there goes Minny, ope there goes Thielen, he choked.

[Motor City Sonics]

Everyone picking the Lions - means they'll lose.    

 

Just a little bit of history repeating.............

[holygoat]

Ugly.

[Motor City Sonics]

Did Goff hit his own lineman in the head? 

[buddha]

there's our punter!  flippin' the field!

[Motor City Sonics]

Lions just wanted to get Jack Fox some action

 

Man did he boom that one. 

[buddha]

1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Everyone picking the Lions - means they'll lose.    

 

Just a little bit of history repeating.............

dont you quote dame shirley bassey to disparage the lions...

[chasfh]

I don’t like being favored in today’s game. Bad juju. 

[Motor City Sonics]

There's TJ..............who should have a career day today..........you know............It's the Lions !

[Motor City Sonics]

1 minute ago, buddha said:

dont you quote dame shirley bassey to disparage the lions...

They say the next big thing is here,  that the revolution's near, but to me it seems quite clear, that it's all just a little history repeating.    

[buddha]

good stop.

[Motor City Sonics]

Absolutely cranking that song at 10 right now.   

[holygoat]

Chris Board making a play.