What Lions Fans Are Saying

[MountainRam]

Lions are absolutely reeling from the loss from Hail Mary. 23-17 Rams Win

 

[RamFan503]

Lions are absolutely reeling from the loss from Hail Mary. 23-17 Rams Win

Me too. I laugh every time I think about it.

 

[ramsince62]

Well... because this is a Rams discussion forum. If we're not gonna discuss the Rams, what's the point of logging on?

To suffer, what else?

 

[Force16X]

Gurley needs 165 yards to hit 1,000 yards. That's all I care about at this point. Just get Gurley, Tavon, Hekker and Donald in the pro bowl. Maybe Jenkins too.

last place teams dont get a lot of pro bowlers. donald at best. maybe hekker, and gurley if he hits over 1,000 with this OL and lack o' passin offense he's in.

 

[Mojo Ram]

im gonna miss jenkins. call me a pessimist but.....

You're a pessimist of the highest order.

 

[Psycho_X]

Two just sad, sad organizations. What happens when the Lions and Rams meet... no one besides the sad, depressed true fans will know because this game's score will be lucky to be shown on any sports show following the conclusion.

But as was said, Lions should win this one. Even our elite defense is a shell of what it was at the beginning of the season with injuries absolutely decimating every level of it. Bleh.

 

[LetsGoRams]

You're a pessimist of the highest order.

Yep - He gone. Unless of course they move to LA - because wasn't he one of the outspoken ones who wanted to move there?

 

[Prime Time]

http://www.scout.com/nfl/lions/foru...fisher-jim-schwartz-should-get-another-hc-job

JEFF FISHER: "JIM SCHWARTZ SHOULD GET ANOTHER HC JOB"

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2015/12/09/where-is-jim-schwartz-lions/77040134/

I agree with Fisher and believe that Schwartz will be the FIRST former Lions HC to get another HC job. Looking at the list of available candidates it is tough to find anyone who is a better candidate than Jim Schwartz.

I look at the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays- John Gibbons much like Schwartz. Gibbons was the manager from 2005-2008 and his tenure included several incidents somewhat similar to what Schwartz did here. Gibbons challenged a player to a fight in the club house, and also got into a shoving match with one of his pitchers in the tunnel.

He was hired again as manager in 2013 and led them to the ALCS last season. Sometimes people just need time off to learn from their mistakes, and that is what Schwartz is doing. He completely changed the culture here and did some GREAT things. I would fully endorse a return of Jim Schwartz as HC of this team.. he's a smart guy and is going to be a slam dunk hire for whoever is lucky enough to snag him.
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Funny given Fisher is about to get fired from his in St. Louis
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I think its pretty clear, now. A Head Coach needs players to coach.
Schwartz is a good coach, that much is certain.

He never had all the pieces when he was here, so, we really have no idea if he can be an effective head coach.

I suspect if he had this team with Austin and Cooter we would be in better shape than we are. He's definitely not a chickenshit.
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I loved Schwartz. Still do. The single thing I did not like about Schwartz was that he seemed fine with Cunningham playing the CB's 10 yards off the LOS on every single play. This was a killer, The Lions could have been awesome during his entire tenure with the team if Austin would have been here doing his thing.

Schwartz' defense was solid in Buffalo after leaving Detroit. He must be on to something...that's not my favorite kind of D though. I can't stand when they give up those easy screens and slants without any contest. Worthless as the prevent D in my opinion.

I liked everything else about Schwartz though.

Still laughing at the fans who thought he was the reason for the "lack of discipline and penalties". Absurd.
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Why is that absurd? He lacked discipline himself on the sidelines and cost us a game and made an ass out of himself in general

The same players got fewer and less stupid penalties the next season under Caldwell.

Schwartz was a loose cannon and so was the team under him.
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http://www.prideofdetroit.com/2015/...y-misses-fans-stephen-tullochs-childrens-book

Lions notes: Nick Fairley misses Lions fans
By Jeremy Reisman  @DetroitOnLion on Dec 10, 2015

Former Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley misses Lions fans and has no ill-will toward the organization for not renewing his contract.

Good to see Fairley is following through with turning some stuff around in his life
Said the other day I would have no problem if the new GM tried to bring him back. Hasn’t done a whole lot in STL, but kind of buried on their depth chart. But to me that can be viewed as a positive thing, despite not playing much apparently he is staying on his new lifestyle choices. Fisher even saying they struggled keeping enough weight on him. Not positive of his effort levels on the field, but haven’t read anything bad either.
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I'm agree
It is good to see him with a better outlook and taking care of himself. I thought he was giving great effort and showing the professionalism and discipline we’d been hoping for in his last year as a Lion – and wanted him kept on. Getting him to come back to Detroit on a reasonable contract would be fine with me, given our revolving door at Defensive Tackle since the departure of Suh, Mosley, and Fairley.
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I can agree with this as well.
Sounds like he is figuring things out and actually misses playing for our team. Also sounds like he may want to come back to our team. If we could get him affordable I was be okay with this. Bring Ngata and Walker back and we have some serious depth at DT. Probably too much depth. And I don’t think it is unrealistic they sign for reasonable contracts. All are good players but aren’t at that level of great that would require a high price tag.
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You know, for all of the grief we give the Fords
they seem to run a classy organization that treats its players well. A lot of current and former Lions (Fairley, Mathis, Taint, Burleson, etc.) always speak fondly of the organization and the fans. Even Barry is involved with the franchise once again.

Like a lot of you, I wouldn’t be opposed to bringing Fairley back. The beat writers would probably eviscerate the new GM in the press for it, but that’s going to happen even if he invents a time machine and signs 90s-era Barry and 2010 Ndamukong Suh.
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I always remember Suh saying
That Fairley had a higher ceiling than even himself. It always stuck with me. For some reason, it seemed like he actually meant it. (maybe I am naive)
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Fairley at 281?
Sign him up.
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Im sure he can find a balance
But it is hard not to go from over weight to under when you are really pushing yourself.
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It looks like he has managed to stay healthy as a rotational DT in St Louis.
I just feel that $5 million per season is too much money for a rotational DT. If Fairley is willing to cut that in half, then we can talk. I don’t think it is wise to play him as a starter that eats up snaps. He has never been able to pull that off and stay healthy.
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I don't really see why everybody thinks the Lions are interested
The Lions seemed very resolute in not wanting him back last year. They didn’t even low ball him. Between getting busted for weed and the weight/effort issues, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the Lions aren’t considering him as much as fans are.

That said, with a new GM who knows whats gonna happen? But if Caldwell sticks around (*sigh) I just don’t see it happening with Fairley.

 

[RedRam]

The ice or opposing players? :mrburns:

Opposing players on the ice. :yess::mrburnsevil:

 

[MountainRam]

By law of averages, we are due to put some hurt on next QB. If I were matthew Stafford:

 

[Prime Time]

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/12/02/martha-firestone-ford-detroit-lions-owner

Martha Firestone Ford’s Patience has Run Out
No one was quite sure what to expect when Martha Firestone Ford took over as the Detroit Lions’ majority owner. Over the past few months, her message has come through loud and clear: Unlike her late husband, she won’t wait around to build a winner
by Jenny Vrentas

Paul Sancya/AP

This is the first in a three-part series on the NFL’s “Corridor of Woe”—Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo, proud franchises suffering through decades of hard times. In each city we’ll look at a pivotal element of team success—owner, coach, quarterback—to see what has gone wrong and what needs to change if these teams are to find the path to a Super Bowl.

DETROIT — On the 30-yard line of Ford Field, one of the most powerful women in the NFL is holding court.

Martha Firestone Ford cuts an unassuming figure. She is the shortest adult in almost any group; a pair of oversized dark glasses obscures her face; she abides by the NFL stadium bag policy by carrying a clear plastic tote printed with her team’s logo (retail: $9.99). But if the past few weeks have made anything clear, it’s that the 90-year-old owner of the Detroit Lions is not to be overlooked.

Mark Davis came over to the Lions sideline to greet her, having been fetched by Sheldon White, Detroit’s interim general manager. Ford then introduced the Raiders’ owner to Rod Wood, the new team president she’d hired three days earlier.

During the 90 minutes leading up to kickoff of the Lions’ Week 11 game with the Raiders, they all came to greet her: head coach Jim Caldwell, former quarterback Greg Landry, receiver Golden Taint, who customarily gives her a hug and a kiss on the cheek before every game.

In this building, where she long stood beside her husband, she’s now the boss.

For much of her life, Ford’s public image has been defined by the people around her. Granddaughter of Harvey Firestone, the entrepreneur of the global tire company. Wife to William Clay Ford, Sr., the last grandchild of automotive pioneer Henry Ford, and mother to their four children. But since her husband’s death in March 2014, Ford has alone become the principal owner of the Lions. The decisions about the direction of the franchise rest on her shoulders.

The moves she made last month, firing GM Martin Mayhew and president Tom Lewand, who had been with the Lions for a combined 35 years, left no doubt about how seriously she is taking that responsibility. Her late husband long practiced patience, but when the Lions got off to a 1-7 start in Ford’s second season at the helm, she took action. The team and city are taking notice.

“It’s the look of an owner who wants to win,” says franchise receiver Calvin Johnson.

The Lions haven’t done a lot of winning through the years. Since William Clay Ford, Sr., purchased the team in 1963, Detroit has just 15 winning seasons and a single playoff victory. The frustration that has built up over 52 seasons, those who know Martha Firestone Ford say, has contributed to her boldness this fall. She’s impatient—and perhaps that’s what this franchise needs.

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As the regular season hits its homestretch, we visited three NFL cities where forward progress has long been elusive. Detroit, Buffalo and Cleveland sit along the Rust Belt, and as their economies and populations have shrunk over the last two decades, so too have the hopes of their football teams.

The game matters in these cities, but it has been 20 years since any of the three has experienced a postseason win. In each city, the question persists: How do they turn things around?

Martha Firestone Ford wants to be the answer for Detroit. At season’s end, two critical decisions for the direction of the team will rest in her hands: the future of second-year head coach Caldwell, and the hiring of the team’s next general manager.

The in-season firings she made, one week after Caldwell also dispatched three coaches, including offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, turned heads. “Everybody in Detroit was surprised it happened during the season,” Landry says. It particularly sent shock waves through the Lions’ Allen Park facility.

The housecleaning after the 1-7 start opened the eyes of even stars like Johnson, the All-Pro receiver who is in year four of his eight-year, $132 million contract. “When changes happen upstairs, you know that whoever is making those decisions can change up the look of the locker room,” Johnson says.

“There was a sense of unsettlement, I would say, right after all the changes happened,” safety James Ihedigbo says. “Guys were wondering, Where is the direction of the team? Where are we going now? Because leadership comes from the top down.”

They quickly got an answer to those questions. Ford held a press conference to explain the moves, and when the players returned from the bye, she stood up in the team meeting room and spent about 15 minutes explaining her actions to them. She spoke from the heart that day, players said, telling them she had to make tough decisions to change the course of the team and build a winning tradition.

Ford has tried to stay out of the spotlight—a team spokesman said she is declining all one-on-one interviews—but by standing behind her moves, publicly and privately, she earned credibility. Her late husband was well-liked by players for his kindness and interest in their families (and golf games), but he was perhaps loyal to a fault, slow to make firing decisions, to the frustration of many inside and outside the building.

Through his five decades at the helm, he employed only five different general managers, including Matt Millen, whose eight-year tenure yielded a league-low 31 wins; he was fired in September 2008, the first month of the infamous 0-16 season.

“He waited a long time before making the move, when things weren’t working, and that rubbed people the wrong way,” says Jason Hanson, the Lions’ kicker from 1992 to 2012. “What she has done since she has become the chief, the centerpiece of the organization as the leader, has been very aggressive, and I’m very excited about it. When I say excited, I think I should say, I appreciate her lack of patience. Because it backs up how I know the Ford family feels—they want to win, and they are tired of losing.”

It helps that the Lions rattled off three straight wins following Ford’s bye-week shakeups, including the team’s first victory in Green Bay since 1991. But fans in the Motor City, which hasn’t seen a football championship since 1957, are hanging on to their skepticism. The weekend of the Oakland game, the hiring of Wood was fodder for the “same old Lions” rants on local sports talk radio. Ford had said there would be a national search but instead hired inside the family’s inner circle.

Wood, for the last seven years the the CEO of Ford Estates (which provides financial management services to members of the Ford family), made clear he will handle the business side of the organization, not football. Fans have clamored for the Lions to secure outside help to turn the team around, and they have done that by bringing in former Colts, Browns and Giants GM Ernie Accorsi to advise on their general manager hire. But cynicism bred over decades is hard to shake.

“Every year, I ask, should I renew my tickets?” says longtime season-ticket holder Wayne Wrobel, who been attending games with his wife, Debbie, for nearly four decades. “If I don’t, we’ll probably have a good year, but I’ve been saying that for 30-some years. It’s getting to the point, is it worth it? I hope they get it right, but I’m not overly optimistic. They haven’t gotten it right in how many years? We’ve been waiting a long time for a good season.”

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Photo: Anthony Camerano/AP
Martha Firestone and William Clay Ford, days before their wedding in 1947.

When the Fords first bought the team, Martha spent Sundays at Tiger Stadium with her husband and four kids, the six of them waiting outside the locker room to greet the players as they came off the field. After William Clay Ford, Sr., died of pneumonia in 2014, many assumed their son, Bill Ford Jr., the executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, would be calling the shots.

But Martha “makes all the decisions,” Bill Jr. told Detroit radio station WJR in October. He said he has been less involved in running the team since his father passed away. All four Ford children are vice chairmen of the team, but people around the Lions say daughter Sheila Ford Hamp, their second child, bears the strongest influence on her mother’s decision-making.

The league is still largely an old boys’ club. Only a handful of women currently hold a controlling interest in an NFL team: Chicago’s Virginia Halas McCaskey; Tennessee’s Amy Adams Strunk; Oakland’s Carol Davis, along with son, Mark; San Francisco’s Denise DeBartolo York, along with husband John; and Buffalo’s Kim Pegula, along with husband, Terry. “Martha is not a football girl,” scoffed one Lions season-ticket holder at Ford Field last month.

That’s a lazy characterization, considering that Ford has been around the NFL for more than 50 years (and many professional sports team owners, whether male or female, never played the sport of the team they own). Ford has attended every Lions game since taking the reins, as well as many of the summer practices, greeting each player on the 90-man roster by name.

When representing the Lions at the fall NFL meetings, Caldwell said Ford gave league officials “a piece of her mind” over the controversial non-call against the Seahawks for illegally batting the ball out of the end zone at the end of Detroit’s Week 4 loss at Seattle.

Photo: Rebecca Cook/Reuters
In the winless 2008 season, sad-sack fans went incognito at Ford Field.

Ford has kept a low public profile, but those who have worked with her describe her as very sharp and a voracious reader. Landry calls her “strong-willed.” She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in 1946, during an era when women were not usually encouraged to attend college.

A year later she married William Clay Ford Sr. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in her native Akron, Ohio, followed by a reception with 900 invited guests and elaborate gifts from the likes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The event was covered in society pages across the country, including the Akron Beacon Journal, which reported, “The grandchildren of two of the world’s most fabulous empire builders were man and wife.”

The couple put down roots in Detroit, and as the Lions became part of their family tradition, so too did their involvement in the community. The Fords have long supported the Henry Ford Health System, spearheading in 1981 the creation of the Maplegrove Center, an inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment facility, and committing $6 million of their money to establish a “Fund for the Future” research initiative in the 1990s.

Even at age 90, and with her responsibilities heading the Lions, Ford schedules meetings with Henry Ford Health System CEO Nancy Schlichting at Ford’s Grosse Pointe home or over lunch at The Hill Seafood & Chop House nearby. Ford asks for reports on the hospital’s progress and to meet new hires in leadership roles.

Few understand the tough decisions Ford had to make earlier this fall as well as Schlichting, who came to Detroit in 1998 and was faced with an urban healthcare system crumbling in step with the city’s population decline. Schlichting laid off 1,500 people, closed three hospitals and reinvested in world-class technologies and physicians, to draw patients from afar.

Now, the health system has nearly tripled its revenue and staff over the past decade. Schlichting remembers Ford seeking her out at a reception after the turnaround, telling her warmly, “I never thought Henry Ford Hospital would make money.”

Ford is known for her personal touches. Golden Taint, the wide receiver, was stunned to receive a letter from Ford in the mail this offseason, congratulating him on making the Pro Bowl in his first year with the team.

During the holidays the Henry Ford Health System sends its donors a small token of appreciation, like a logo pen or umbrella, and for 17 years and counting Ford has sent Schlichting a handwritten thank-you note. “She made it sound like every umbrella and every pen set was the best gift she ever got,” Schlichting says.

Schlichting recently authored a book, entitled Unconventional Leadership, and in the acknowledgements, thanked the Ford Family, naming Martha among those who “have encouraged me to lead with boldness, but have always had my back during the tough times.”

Schlichting held a book signing last month, and was surprised to look up and see Ford waiting in a long line to get her copy signed. They moved her to the front, but Ford wouldn’t have minded waiting like anybody else. Thank you for what you have meant to all of us, Schlichting wrote in her copy.

“Of course she has been the wife of William Clay Ford all these years, but in her own right she is an incredibly smart and talented woman,” Schlichting says. “She has all the gifts to lead, and she is demonstrating that now with the Lions. Believe me, she has been paying attention. And I think she’s enjoying this.”

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Photo: Carlos Osorio/AP
Coach Jim Caldwell and Ford had their customary greeting before the Thanksgiving Classic. The Lions went on to a third straight win.

Before the Lions opened the 2014 season on a Monday night, the team held a pregame ceremony honoring William Clay Ford, Sr., six months after his passing. Jason Hanson was among the five former players, one representing each decade of the Ford family’s ownership, on the field.

“We weren’t just a product to him, and of course people are cynical about that, but it really was a good thing,” Hanson says. “That moment was about honoring someone who was genuine and cared about the people who worked for him. No one was worried about what would be different now.”

But in a business judged by wins and losses, it was only a matter of time until the focus shifted to how his widow would run the team. The Lions made the playoffs in 2014 with an 11-5 record, the franchise’s best mark since 1991, the year of the lone playoff win under the Fords.

Instead of building on that success, this year’s team stumbled mightily out of the gate. The struggles started up front, with a patchwork offensive line and a vast underestimation of the impact of losing Ndamukong Suh, Nick Fairley and C.J. Mosley from the interior of their defensive line.

Over the past three weeks, the Lions have looked like a different team in wins over Green Bay, Oakland and Philadelphia. Matthew Stafford looks better when he can throw deep to Calvin Johnson, and defensive end Ziggy Ansah ranks behind only J.J. Watt with 11.5 sacks. The improved play of key roster pieces is a reminder that the Lions should be able to hire a top GM candidate.

“This is not a rebuild,” says Hall of Fame team architect Bill Polian. “The 11-5 that you saw last season was real. It was not a mirage.”

No one except Martha Firestone Ford has a clear idea of what’s coming next, just like no one knew what kind of leader she would be when she took over after her husband’s death. At least so far, her actions have spoken louder than her words.

“The team mattered to them, the losing bothered them, it was upsetting,” Hanson says. “And of course with that, not only do the players and coaches have their names raked through the mud, but their family name, too. And people begin to question if they really care, if they are in it for the money or, even if they do care, whether they don’t know what to do. I know that pained all of them.

The message she has sent immediately is that it is unacceptable, and I am glad that people can see they want to win. With just the few initial moves she made, I think [it indicates] that is exactly what will happen, that this organization will win.”

A winner in Detroit. Fans have waited too long. Martha Firestone Ford has, too.
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As a fan of the Lions, born in Flint Michigan. I think the lost franchise in the NFL is the Lions. I hope the coach is kept and allowed to turn the major players on the team Johnson, Safford, Taint into the winning combination that these men can be. It would not shock anyone if the Lions finished this season with a 9 -7 record. The shock is if the main pieces can keep the winning ideas together to make it happen.
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Very tough cookie and well respected. Lions were in the playoffs last year and are now hitting their stride, they could be a dark horse that can upset the Panthers for the NFC title.
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And this "serious" franchise has Jim Caldwell at the helm? Sorry, Caldwell might be a helluva guy, a righteous dude, a recycler, a credit to the community, and all the normal stuff the media says. But the guy has shown no indicaton that he is a very good head coach. And that is the most important thing.
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Sick of hearing idiots talking about getting rid of Stafford, who is out there to replace him? The top QB's out there are not getting sacked 4 or 5 times a game! Spend the money on the offensive line which they didn't for this year!
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Martha Ford is pushing 100 and her team (Lions) have sucked for the last 50+ years and now she won't wait and her patience has run out??? Is this some sort of a joke? What exactly have been Fords waiting for the last half century?
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She needs to trade Calvin to the Patriots, they are hurting for a wide out and the Lions can get a lot from the Pats
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The Patriots are a buy low and sell high kind of team. They would never give up what Detroit would want for Johnson. Besides, Johnson is really the only star in Detroit right now. He has played banged up the past couple years, but he can still do great things. I don't think Detroit would consider trading him.
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I think for the right price they would, NE stock piles draft picks and are the next man up type of team and are very successful with it. NE has the type of funds to get someone great like this. And if he were to go to a better team like NE he wouldn't be so banged up, he wouldnt have to run crossing routes it would be deep or option routes.
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Might very well be the best article I've eve read on Yahoo. Have spent my entire life watching my father follow the Detroit sorts teams. Have been there right with him with one exception......the Lions. I used to tease him that it was the Ford's that kept the lions down. Like some sort of curse, year after year after year.

Dad and I speak often, and I remember a few weeks ago him telling me about the moves in the front office. Reminding me of what I had said about the Ford's keeping the Lions down and how that might have been true. BUT this Ford was going to change that, and at the very least would put the team back on track to being competitive. Didn't bother to correct him, because from what I have seen Martha Firestone Ford, she is one smart cookie and a class act that will get it done.

Go Lions...........for my dad's sake please, he is not getting any younger.
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It all sounds good on paper but Matthew Stafford will be a $22 million hit to your salary cap in 2016 and 2017. Can they win with him? Don't see it.

 

[JoeBo21]

I'll be golfing.. not wasting my time with this shit show

 

[Mackeyser]

Martha Firestone Ford is who and what we ALL wish Georgia Frontiere would have been.

Truly a contrast...

 

[Rabid Ram]

:deadhorse::deadhorse::deadhorse:
Sorry man but I'm past the point of giving a flying fornication in a rolling pastry what Lions fans, or any other fans for that matter, have to say about the Rams. :headexplosion::baghead::death:

I have a simple solution don't open a thread that says what insert team name here is saying.

 

[ohiorams]

This is sad lol
Like 2 geek - nerds in grade school betting each other on who gets picked 1st or last between them for a pick up basketball game

 

[RedRam]

I have a simple solution don't open a thread that says what insert team name here is saying.

 

[Prime Time]

http://detroitlionsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6926

I just want you fans to know

That even though I sent Roger Goodell a Christmas card, it was not one with hand signed calligraphy.

I also had Allison stop payment on his $12 check.

I am confident my message will be heard. - Martha Ford
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Fire Caldwell.
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Like she even knows how to turn on a computer.
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Sure she does!

She just rubs her coochie up against it!

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http://www.prideofdetroit.com/2015/12/11/9890978/detroit-lions-at-st-louis-rams-staff-picks

Detroit Lions at St. Louis Rams: Staff picks
By Jeremy Reisman  @DetroitOnLion

Despite the loss suffered on Thursday night, the Pride of Detroit staff has not lost their faith in the Detroit Lions. We unanimously picked the Lions to jump back on the winning side this week. Of course, much of that may have to do with their opponent, the St. Louis Rams, who have lost five straight. Here are our picks:

Record Prediction
Jeremy Reisman/24-13/ Lions
Christopher Tomke/31-13/ Lions
Joseph Buszek/24-17/ Lions
Drew Erickson/29-17/ Lions
Chris Lemieux/31-22/ Lions
Alex Reno/23-2/ Lions
Brian Packey/21-20/ Lions
John Cherette/31-17/ Lions
Ryan Mathews/35-14/ Lions
Solomon Williams/21-13/ Lions
Justin Simon/20-7/ Lions
Kyle Yost/20-14/ Lions
Andrew Keating/23-21/ Lions
Aaron Meckes/28-12/ Lions
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24-3 Lions
The Lions offense is decent against a good Rams defense. The Rams offense struggles to do much of anything.
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31-16 Lions
AA gets his 2nd touchdown Calvin does Calvin things, Gurley gets 132 with 1td
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23-10 Lions
Lions score on their first two drives and then struggle the rest of the game. Turnovers by the Rams leave the Lions close enough for a few FGs.
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Shocker! 24-13 Rams
besides the fact all the national commentators are picking us, which is always a bad sign..there is the truth that whenever we come off a game with a controversial call, we always lay an egg in the game following it..

Besides, someone has to offer a counter to all the predictions of us winning, to balance out the universe, so this week it will be me. Of course I hope I’m totally wrong
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27-23 Rams
The Lions are the fix for many a teams woes, and the Rams players have taken notice that coaches are getting fired and start playing for their jobs. The Lions players on the other hand are deflated after getting screwed, yet again. Is a tough grind it out kind of game, with the Lions doing to little too late. Lions lose, guaranteed.
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27 - 10 Lions
Lions win the TO battle.

Lions dominate on 1st downs.

Lions score on the opening drive.
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34-24 Lions.
Lions lead at half 27-3. Refs help Rams cut lead to three. With 1:30 left to play in the 4th quarter, the Rams reach the red zone only for Big Play Slay to return a pick six 100 yards. Devin Taylor recovers a loose fumble on the subsequent kick return and pegs a ref in the balls. Jim Caldwell comes up with the quote of the year:

"Bad calls equals hurt balls. We’re coming for your Mcnuggets zebras."
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If that happened and Caldwell said that
The entire fan base would demand he is back for next season lol

Just defending us from the refs would give any HC hero status here
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18-14 Lions.
Our offense goes back and forth with their defense. We make some plays, they make some plays.

Rams with a second half rally make the final score respectable.
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28-7 Lions
The defense plays angry, get lots of sacks and bottle up Gurley. Case Keenum is our offensiveMVP by throwing us two TDs
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48-0.....
Rams. I got Gurly in fantasy and he’s been sucking the last two weeks. Need 5 TDs from him this week.
Of course I will be rooting for the Lions.
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22-13 Lions
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Lions 27-12

 

[SuperMan28]

Buffalo Wild Wings has a running joke about this match up, via advertisement. It's been playing for years.

 

[RamzFanz]

Gurley needs 165 yards to hit 1,000 yards. That's all I care about at this point. Just get Gurley, Tavon, Hekker and Donald in the pro bowl. Maybe Jenkins too.

Good point. Tree was a shoe in for the pro bowl too.

 

[RamzFanz]

Aaron Donalds post game interview after having 5 sacks says "You should have drafted me."

:yess:

Ford has attended every Lions game since taking the reins, as well as many of the summer practices, greeting each player on the 90-man roster by name.

Wait...owners attend games and know who plays for them?