Drew Stanton was very solid in the first half of the Lions/Bears game. For a 3rd string quarterback making just his second career start, 9-14 for 143 yards with a passing touchdown, rushing touchdown and a dougie celebration attempt is pretty damn good. All over the division leading Bears, no less.

The dougie celebration is Stanton's lone mistake on the day, but it's still worthy of some props. I imagine that's his way of poo'ing all over Mike Martz and Rod Marinelli's chests for not giving him a shot over equally, if not worse, futile quarterbacks.

Here it is, via SB Nation Detroit:

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Rough week 12 for everybody, where 6-10 was the best record. Everybody is off to an 0-1 start this week by selecting Houston, except for Rob who smartly chose Philly.

Bobby B's picks:


Robby R's picks: 

Brady G's picks:

Dupree's picks:



Updated Standings:

///	W	L	T	GB
Dupree	96	77	3	---
Brady G	86	86	4	9.5
Bobby B	83	90	3	13
Robby R	76	96	4	19.5

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Dissing the Lions/Detroit? Simpsons did it. Sadly, on the way to a Coney Island this morning I did notice two separate Thunderdomes being constructed in the Detroit area. And, this is the part of the post where I analyze a 4 second joke too much and would like to point out that the Lions are currently 7-4 against the spread this year just one game behind the Rams who are 8-3 ATS in the NFL this season. So, yeah...Take that Simpsons!

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 

Bobby B's picks: 



Robby R's picks: 


Brady's picks:

 

Dupree's picks:

 

//	W	L	T	GB
Dupree	90	67	3	---
Brady G	84	72	4	5.5
Bobby B	77	80	3	13
Robby R	74	82	4	15.5

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Lions up 12-7, look like they might have a shot against an equally futile Cowboys and then this happens...

Lions wound up losing 35-19, after former terrible Lions QB Jon Kitna's career high 29-yard touchdown run sealed it for the 'boys. Perf.

Video via Sharapova's Thigh

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I just got finished watching Thursday Night Football and I'm disgusted by the on-air fellatio Matt Millen was giving one of his former head coaches, Rod Marinelli, who is now the defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears. So distasteful.

It all started early in the game when Matt Millen jumped at the opportunity to take off his pants and call Rod Marinelli one of the best coaches he's ever met. Millen must not know many NFL coaches, because, if he knew just one in addition to Marinelli, there's a good chance that coach is better than Marinelli. Marinelli, you know, is the guy who led the Lions to the NFL's only 0-16 season. Pad Level. Walks with a limp. Yeah, real nice guy, but real bad coach.

Then, as the game was winding down, Millen spent a good five minutes going over Rod Marinelli's hijacking of the word loaf. It's cute that Marinelli has an ironic football related definition for the word, but we don't care. If you must bring it up, do so in passing. Do not belabor it and sound like you're a school-aged girl talking about Justin Bieber while you're doing it. I guarantee Millen wore the above t-shirt when he first met Marinelli.

[Matt Millen Still Loves Rod Marinelli - Sparty & Friends]

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November 4th, 2007 OUR Detroit Lions defeated the Broncos (Hah, look at that headline) 44-7 in front of a sold out crowd in Ford Field. Sadly, every win since then (5 Big ones!) has taken place in a non sold out Ford Field thus not being broadcast in Detroit. As we all know, the Lions set another dubious record on Sunday by achieving their 25th consecutive road loss breaking the record by, you know it, the Detroit Lions (2001-2003).

Personally, I've seen all 5 of these victories by scouring the dark side of the internet for streams. I've probably infected my computer with all sorts of viruses and spyware visiting websites that promise me the opportunity to stream the big Lions/Seahawks game or cricket if I felt like it. This isn't me bragging that I saw the epic Lions/Redskins victories more that I'm feeling absolutely pathetic that every Sunday without fail i'm making plans to watch a team of professionals that is completely inept in every facet of the game.

This Sunday two 2-7 teams matchup and the Lions are once again heavy underdogs on the road (6.5 points) to a team led by Jon Kitna and Roy Williams. This week I've braved the stupidity and went out of my way to listen to local sports radio in Detroit. Right now, we got MSU playing for a Big Ten Championship, UM playing the 6th ranked team at home, the Red Wings in 1st, College basketball just starting and Tigers free agency talk is heating up...yet, Lions football still dominates sports radio. We live in a sick sadistic city where the last televised win came over three years ago and all we want to do is talk about the Lions and if Drew Stanton needs to be replaced as 3rd string QB.

Oh welll, if we don't win on Sunday WE ARE DUE to beat New England on Thanksgiving. WE ARE DUE.

EDIT: I GOOFED, BIG TIME. Lions/Rams this year was sold out. The other 4, definitely were not. So, that kind of changes everything about this posting. We still suck, just not as much as I apparently thought we did.

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Dupree is running away with this thing after going 11-3 last week. Blast it all!

Bobby B's picks against the spread:

Robby R's picks:

Brady G's picks:

Dupree:

Updated Standings:

///	W	L	T	GB
Dupree	85	56	3	---
Brady G	73	67	4	11.5
Bobby B	71	70	3	14
Robby R	65	76	3	20

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Another week, another heart breaking loss for the Lions (if you were able to piece together the heart from last week's game).  Hey, at least the Lions are 8-1 against the spread this year!

On a chilly, Rayner day in Buffalo, the Lions weren't able to get their offense jumpstarted against one of the weaker defenses in the NFL until it was too late. Penalties, a lack of a running game, dropped passes and missed tackles on defense cost the Lions the most against the 0-8 Bills.

Shaun Hill, starting in place of the injured Matthew Stafford, was rusty early due to the fact he's playing with a cast on his left arm and hasn't seen the field since he broke that left forearm, but he shook the cobwebs and finished 29-50 for 323 yards, one touchdown and one interception. His numbers would've been better if the Lions hadn't dropped several passes (there were 5-6 of them that I can think of off the top of my head). Unfortunately, he didn't make his best decision of the day on the most important play of the game when he attemped to lob one to Brandon Pettigrew in the back of the end zone on a two-point conversion with the Lions trailing 14-12 with just 14 seconds left on the game clock. The ball was overthrown and sailed out of the back of the end zone, sealing the Lions fate.

The Bills came into the game allowing the most rushing yards per game in the NFL (170+), but the Lions only managed to rack up 76 on 26 attempts, putting added pressure on the passing game that did struggle early.

The Lions are 2-7 and head to Dallas to take on the rejuvenated Jason Garrett led Cowboys, who just beat up on the Giants, who many were calling the best team in the NFC earlier this week. Losing to Jon Kitna and Roy Williams will only be most fitting for the Lions. I fully expect Detroit to be 2-8 heading into the short week, Thanksgiving Day game against Tom Brady and the Patriots. *Sigh*

Below are video highlights:

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Jets linebacker Bart Scott was none too pleased with all that aggressiveness he had to deal with against the Lions last weekend, so naturally, he whined to the media, claiming the Lions played dirty.

Jim Schwartz kind of shrugged it off, but gave a jab of his own by saying, "consider the source."

Bart Scott doesn't have a starting job to talk about, so of course he responded to Schwartz's response.

And, look what Bart did, he has awoken the beast, Gunther Cunningham, who pretty much chewed Bart up and spit him out:

"I don’t want this one-track pony going, ‘Oh, the Lions are dirty,’“ Cunningham said after the Lions’ practice today. “We hit you. And I told you that in the beginning of the year, or last year, we’re going to hit you. And we’re not going to push you out on the sideline. We’re going to hit you. You’re legal, we’re going to hit you.

“That’s what we do, and for them to call us a dirty football team really (expletive) me off. We play tough, we play hard, and we’re going to continue to do that, and we’re going to get better at that. And mister what’s his name? Scott? Maybe he can read that if you write it."

I love Gunther Cunningham ... not only for bringing defense to the Lions, but for calling Bart Scott out as a potentially illiterate nobody. Quit your bitching, Bart.

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