OT: NFL - Lions at Bears - Open thread - discussion

Forward down the field

Glenn's defense picks up where they left off.

maintain gap integrity!  crap.  and a fumble we could've had. 

Another week, another awful defensive performance. Glenn needs to be gone.

This defense is garbage

Fields is such a pain in the ass to bring down.  Going to have to win a shootout. 

Aaron Glenn still having a job is insane to me. 

Wow, after 2 series, Lions' defense and offense BOTH got run over. 😖

figures that the ohio kid, decker, didn't do his job and got goff sacked. 

Should have had him sacked at the 1 yard line.  He runs for 30 yards.  

How Aaron Glenn has a job is amazing and I feel bad Hutch is getting pressure but can't finish the job cuz he has no help

Can it get any worse?  What’s the risk in firing Glenn right now?  
 

maybe it’s because we don’t have anyone lined up behind him?

After that pass (and late hit), I already feel like it’s over.  Unless the offense can score on every possession for the rest of the game.  

Paper Lions.

SOL lol

Anzalone is having a bad game.  2 missed tackles and now a stupid penalty. 

Hutch gets too far upfield and creates huge lanes for Fields to step up into. No pass rusher on the other side either.

Holding them to 3 seems to be a big win for this team.  3 and outs are going ti be rare today.

Time for Ben Johnson to do something. I was worried about losing him, but it seems like lately the offense is getting stale. Let’s see something. 

Cannot stop stepping on their own dicks.

Wait, if the play clock ended before the end of the first quarter, then shouldn’t there be 00:01 left?

Try to draw them offsides, do it, then do nothing. I don’t even get it anymore. 

This feels like the most fraudulent 9-3 team of all time. Just can’t do anything right.

Making the garbage Bears look like the 49ers. Unreal. 

Watching this defense is exhausting. Absolutely terrible. 

Despite being 9-3, the Lions have been pretty shit for a few weeks now. This feels like a late season swoon starting, when they should be peaking heading into the playoffs instead. 

Anzalone has been so bad in this game.

This home playoff game at Ford Field is going to be one more episode in the ongoing saga of the “Same Old Lions”.

D actually held 'em on 4th.  

Awful penalty call before the end of the 1st Q, Gibbs drops a TD off the swing on 3rd and then Goff throws a pick on 4th. A wild swing of events there that you can't afford with this defense.

Speaking of, defense is as bad as ever. Schematically and execution is worse than year one right now. At least that defense was absolutely void of talent. While the talent level is currently still bad, theyre playing far below their talent level. Anzalone had lost the Analzone moniker I had for him but he's slowly earning that back. He alone probably gave The Bears a few of those early 10pts. 

Any playoffs this team sees as they are the past few weeks will see them bounced immediately. In fact, at this rate the division itself isn't a sure bet even with the leas they have. The rest of the schedule are dome games but that goes both ways so Detroit will have to keep winning shootouts it seems.

A slight positive is they just now forced a turnover on downs so let's see how this plays out.

I'm watching this game on a massive delay but for all of Detroit's struggles the Bears are still just dumb with their weapons.  Fields can get you a yard with a sneak while trying to pitch it to the short side with Moore, 1 blocker, and 3 tacklers is just dumb.

DPJ sighting.

DPJ! and hey, that is a heck of a pass.  wow. 

DPJ with a great catch there.

And then they miss the extra point. Now a field goal no longer ties it.

Of course they miss the extra point

go blue!  hutch takes down fields for a sack. 

Good stop there. Don't over pursue Fields, force him to be a QB and not a RB playing QB. 

Goff has his limits but he'll throw into tight windows with no fear.  It's impressive.