Detroit prediction thread.....what you say?

[Care-Oh-Linuh]

31-20 Carolina

[Your GFs favorite huddler]

We will need to play ball control and keep long sustained drives in order to keep their offense off the field. HAVE to get pressure on Stafford and force turnovers. Calvin will get his, its just a matter of limiting the rest of their offense and not letting them establish any sort of a run game or another performer stepping up. For the love of god someone knock out Golden Tate's cocky a$$. I expect another big game out of Olsen, the giants had some success over the middle with their big TE. Unfortunately I think we will learn just how healthy Cam really is this game with Suh and Ansah. Byron needs to come to play and keep Ansah from getting pressure. Good thing for Bell, Ansah seems to be more of a bull rusher. He's definitely an athlete but he's still learning to play the DE position.

 

All that being said I expect to win a close one on a late Gano FG 24-21!

KB 2 TDs

Tolbert adding a rushing TD

[mbarbour21]

Detroit is going to come in with a lot of confidence and a lot of firepower on offense. Will be a good test.

I think Stafford will make mistakes if pressured but if they don't their receivers will make it a long day for the DBs

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Yeh, but a lot of confidence isn't always a good thing.

[mbarbour21]

can't blitz too much tho. Lions have at least 3 maybe 4 guys 6'3 or taller.

You see Keek swat the ball away from ASJ Sunday? 6'5".......who cares?

[ludwig]

we struggle vs good w.r and we are vs calvin johnson , we struggle against fast runningbacks like bush and its always tough for us when we play a tough dline i think we loose 30  to 17 

[ludwig]

You see Keek swat the ball away from ASJ Sunday? 6'5".......who cares?

its calvin johnson though man 

[ludwig]

if we somehow contain calvin we will win but if we cant he might have like 4 tds vs us .

hope roman harper cheaps shot him 

[rayzor]

if we somehow contain calvin we will win but if we cant he might have like 4 tds vs us .

hope roman harper cheaps shot him

we don't say stuff like that around here. bad mojo and pretty classless. we're better than the saints.

[punchymcgee]

Lions fan here.   I am certainly not here to quabble and start fights.   I think this is a tough matchup both ways and I see a lot of misconceptions here.

 

A few glaring ones are as follows

 

Matt Stafford throws a lot of interceptions and has a knack for having multiple INT games.   He has only once in his career thrown more interceptions than TDs and that was his rookie campaign.  His average is 1.17 INT per game.   While that is not great, it certainly does not indicate that he is a turnover machine.

 

The Lions are bad against the run.  Last year they were 6th overall against the run.   They held up pretty good against the Giants running game on Monday.

 

The OL is shoddy.   The OL is one of the best pass blocking units in the game today.  Run blocking they are middle of the pack.

 

The Lions defense over all is not very good.  The Lions front 7 is a top ten unit with the ability to become much better than that. 

 

The secondary is questionable.  This I agree with to an extent.  However this is a partially new group of guys back there, so until they prove otherwise they are suspect.

 

Good Luck on Sunday.  I will be there.