OT: 4th Quarter Lions thread

I have never seen this many OPI's before on one team let alone one player

schwartz needs to get this team together. 
edit: But harper is a pussy, needs to get his ass beat.

Det nothing but thugs... No better than MSU!

It's about fucking time.

Lions have been playing a lot better than this, but the questionable OPI's hurt us and our own players make stupid mistakes. There's playing with a chip on your shoulder and then there's playing stupid

Okay. I think we can say goodnight, now.

Well we can kiss the Wild Card goodbye

I be like dang. Lions be like the lions.
This just isn't a playoff team.

I'm not even a lions fan, but this is pretty ridiculous... Lions have been called for 4-5 penalties that were marginal at BEST, while NO got away with the same plays. Have the lions committed some stupid, ridiculous penalties? Yes. But that doesn't change the fact that the calls have been unbalanced. The tally is currently 11-3 when it should be more like 7-5(6). Take into account when those missing calls should have been (FG attempt, etc.) and it writes a diff story.

That said, I do think the Saints deserved the win more. I just feel like they were provided an easier path to it than they deserved.

i want to slap nate burleson in the fucking face

Lions were making a game of it early in the 4th. But since that loss to the Rams the Saints have been playing at such a high level.

we need to revamp our offensive line. and not slap the refs.

Two national TV appearances over two weeks.   Both embarrassing with stupid penalties.   This team can be competitive with anyone, but the ill-timed penalties need to end.    10 wins is a guaranteed wild card.   We'll have to scrape and claw for each win and not push referees.

I should be used to this shit.  I find myself continually amazed that I am not.  I must say it's a lot more fun watching the Lions lose if it doesn't mean anything when they do.

A lot of those penalties were dumb, no question, but they haven't called ANYTHING our way. A bunch of those push-offs called on Burleson were absolute garbage. Recievers and corners bump all the time, and only one of those was the contact even CLOSE to waranting a call. They've been holding VadenBosch ALL night.

Not like the Saints haven't been taking their shots tonight either, they just aren't calling ANY of them. When crap like that happens, you get frustrated, and that breeds more penalties.

These announces are absolutely unbearable, too. They're been giving the Saints a 3-hour blow job and taking every shot at the Lions that they possibly can. I don't care how much Backus's age is showing, he doesn't deserve to be called out for being the losingest player in the NFL like it's all his fault. That's despicable.

This is like playing in the early 2000's again, losing 10 games by a touchdown or less and losing a good half of them on getting a screw job. Can't remember the exact game, but I'll never forget watching us throw it deep on the last drive. Their safety had both hands around the reciever's neck pulling him, and the ball just barely slips off his finger tips. No call. That embodies this franchise more than any play I've ever seen. Absolutely no breaks, all the futility, etc. I'm tired of it and I really hope this team finally becomes the one that gets tired of it to. It still looks bad now, but there's reason to hope for the first time since Barry. Starting 5-0 just makes it hard to remember that, methinks.

the Lions were embarassing.  This is why they don't get Monday night games very often.  No playoffs this year and we'll need a new Oline and probably draft defense again.

We need two Olineman and another back and a corner and a safety and a kicker and a punter.  Jeebus this team always has so many holes.

Madonna will be doing the halftime show of the Super Bowl, could they get any more irrelevant?  How about having a Notre Dame highlights show of returning to glory.

he's just getting old.  We need a shutdown corner and we've got to get rid of Backus and Cherilus.  The Lions haven't had a good OLine in my 47 years.  Barry made some look good, but he also had more carries for loss than any player in history.

Penalties and fumbles are one thing.  However, his biggest transgression is his mouth.  I'm convinced that his attitude and trash talk are a big reason the Lions are so undisciplined.  They just don't need his type of leadership on or off the field.

We've seen this show before.