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Quick observations: Lions regime heading for dangerous territory after 11th straight loss
Updated 4:26 PM; Today 4:16 PM
By Kyle Meinke | kmeinke@mlive.com
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- It’s Groundhog’s Day. Again.
The Detroit Lions aren’t even getting creative with how they lose anymore. It’s just the same old thing, over and over again. They jumped to a 13-0 lead in Green Bay last year and lost. They jumped to a 14-0 lead against the Packers back in Detroit and lost.
They jumped to a 20-6 lead last week against Chicago. They lost.
Then they ran out of the Lambeau tunnel on Sunday afternoon, scored back-to-back touchdowns on the Packers for just the second time since at least 1999, staked themselves to an early 14-3 lead -- and then melted down again in a baffling 42-21 loss.
That’s 40-3 worth of leads against Green Bay since last year, and they lost all three games. That’s 11 straight losses overall for Matt Patricia, a league worst. They’ve led in 10 of those games too, including the last two by double digits. But it seems no lead is safe for the team that spent all offseason drilling these very scenarios, how to close out games, how to finish. They talked so much about “Dagger Time" that someone thought it was a good idea to put it in the rafters at Ford Field.
Now they’re 0-2, and in a dangerous spot for this regime heading into another difficult matchup next week in Arizona against Kyler Murray and the Cardinals. Ownership said it needed to see dramatic improvement this season, and a playoff contender. But this team is not that. Not after 11 straight losses, and the odds are getting longer of it happening by the week. Out of the 107 teams that have started 0-2 since 2007, just 12 made the playoffs.
****This Lions team, including the Head Coach and his staff doesn't have the look of a team that will benefit from the NFL expanding the playoffs. ****
Detroit started this game so well, too. Running back Kerryon Johnson racked up 20 yards on the first series alone and plowed into the end zone for a 1-yard touchdown. Marvin Jones came right back on the next series and caught a 4-yard touchdown pass off his shoe tops. Just like that, it was 14-3.
But the wheels began coming off -- well, what’s left of the wheels anyway -- late in the first half. Matthew Stafford took another ill-advised sack, much like he did last week, which backed up the Lions against their own end zone. Then guard Oday Aboushi held on third down. Then Jack Fox uncorked another spectacular punt, a 57-yarder that hung in the air so long that it produced a fair catch despite the distance. And then Will Harris gave 30 yards of it back immediately with personal fouls for unnecessary roughness and a horsecollar on the next two plays.
**** With a 14-3 lead and the ball around midfield, Oday Aboushi committed a Personal Foul Late hit penalty. That play was the turning point in the game. The Holding Penalty by Aboushi should have led to him being benched for at least a series ( despite him playing well overall other than the penalties.
Matthew Stafford not throwing to DeAndre Swift underneath the Packers coverage, taking the sack, was a horrible and costly decision. ****
Aaron Rodgers doesn’t need help, but Detroit was obliged to give it. And three plays later, Rodgers hooked up with former Lions tight end Robert Tonyan for an 11-yard touchdown pass with just 19 seconds left in the half -- as a flag against Detroit laid on the other side of the field, you know, just for good measure.
That gave Green Bay its first lead, at 17-14. Then the Packers ran out of the tunnel for the second half, accepted the touchback on the opening kick, and then watched Aaron Jones run right through the middle of Detroit’s defense for a 75-yard touchdown.
It was the longest run for the Packers since 2004. And he did it without a single Lions player touching him. Just like that, a 14-3 lead had turned into a 24-14 deficit. The Lions were hanging on by a thread, the game teetering toward ugly. And then it got ugly.
**** The poor angle Will Harris took that led to him missing a tackle on the Aaron Jones 75 Yard TD Run, on top of his poor tackling vs. the Bears and the two penalties is all I need to know that at least for the foreseeable future, the Lions need a better option at Safety on the field. It wouldn't surprise me if Harris is a bust at Safety. *****
Jamal Agnew tried blocking a guy after calling for a fair catch on a punt -- you can’t do that -- which backed up the Lions against their own end zone once again. Stafford was under duress again, this time by former Michigan star Rashan Gary -- and tried to make something happen. That something: A Chandon Sullivan pick six that made it 31-14.
**** Horrible decision by Jamal Agnew. A reflection on the Head Coach, when factoring in all of the other bad mental decisions by Lions players in the first two games. ****
Patricia said his goal was not to turn Detroit into a contender -- Detroit was already that -- but into a consistent contender for division titles. Now Detroit has lost eight straight games against the division, 11 games overall, and this regime is fast-approaching a crossroads.
**** An 0-4 start heading to the bye seems more likely than not. The Lions first win might not come for a long time. It's possible Sheila Ford Hamp will clean house at the bye, much like her Mother did 5 seasons ago. Unlike back then, this time the Head Coach being swept out. I can envision Darrell Bevell as the Lions Interim Coach at some point this season. ****
Some more observations:
-- Jeff Okudah got the start in his highly anticipated NFL debut, as expected. And he had some struggles, as could have been expected. Okudah is trying to learn a difficult position with the shortest offseason in NFL history, then suffered a hamstring injury that cost him even more practice time. He didn’t play in the opener. But with Desmond Trufant and Justin Coleman out, Okudah had no choice but to go up against Aaron Rodgers in his NFL debut. Rodgers went away from him early, but picked on him more over time. That includes going over the top of Okudah for a big 41-yard pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling running free up the right sideline in the fourth quarter. Detroit had just scored a touchdown to pull within 34-21, then Okudah got toasted, and Aaron Jones tacked on a 14-yard touchdown run that put the final nail in Detroit’s coffin. Okudah finished with a team-high seven tackles, although a cornerback leading the team in tackles usually isn’t a good sign.
**** Jeff Okudah was in a difficult overall spot this game. On most plays, the Lions pass rush was ineffective. This on top of this being his first NFL game action, going against a future HOF QB, the highly skilled Davonte Adams much of the time before a hamstring injury sidelined the WR for the rest of the day, and other much more experienced WRs than Okudah is as a CB. He's far down the list of reasons this game got out of hand. He will improve, though with more growing pains inevitable.****
-- Looking for something to feel good about? Look no further than T.J. Hockenson, who continues to play like he did throughout a really nice summer camp. He led Detroit with five catches or 56 yards in the opener, then did the same on Sunday with another four catches for another 62 yards against Green Bay. Detroit clearly misses Kenny Golladay, which has hurt its deep passing game, but Hockenson’s improved consistency has helped pick up the slack.
**** The downside is T. J Hockenson's run blocking remains far too inconsistent. ****
-- Quintez Cephus got the start for Golladay last week. Marvin Hall got the start this week, and even came through with a 24-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter. The problem, of course, is the Packers had just reeled off 31 unanswered points. The game was out of reach by then.
**** Both of these backup WRs have their place. But they can't replace Kenny Golladay effectively enough . ****
-- Thirty-one straight points don’t happen without a lot going really wrong, and that’s exactly what happened. Like coordinator Cory Undlin said last week, “The best coverage is a good pass rush, and the best pass rush is a good coverage. It all works together.” On Sunday, none of it worked at all. The Lions were leaning heavily on young guys at cornerback, with the rookie Okudah on one side of the field and second-year man Amani Oruwariye at the other. There was a backup, Darryl Roberts, in the slot too. Never was it more important to pressure Aaron Rodgers -- and yet the Lions did not pressure Aaron Rodgers. In the first half, quite literally so. They didn’t hit Rodgers a single time until the second half, after hitting Mitchell Trubisky just four times all last week. I just don’t understand the philosophy here. You have young guys all over the place in the secondary. You have to get home. And yet the Lions were content to sit back and let one of the best quarterbacks ever just wait for guys to get open. And that, friends, is how you allow 31 unanswered points.
**** The lack of a pass rush with any consistency was a theme last season and it's again this season. A major part of this is the fault of Bob Quinn. ****
-- Another way to allow 31 straight points is by not stopping the run. Check that box too. The Packers averaged a stunning 7.4 yards per carry even though they also ran the ball 35 times. That is just spectacularly bad run defense. Aaron Jones led the way with 168 yards on 18 carries, 75 of which came on that long touchdown run to open the second half. It looked like Jarrad Davis and Jaimie Collins couldn’t get off blocks on that play, although Will Harris also took a bad angle in the back end.
**** Jarrad Davis made 3 splash plays against the run. But this might have been his worst run Defense game since coming to the Lions. Davis was out of position repeatedly. The right decision was made to bench him for a while.
Even factoring in the loss of DT Nick Williams, CB Desmond Trufant, and CB Justin Coleman, the Lions overall run Defense performance is inexcusable. This was one of the worst run Lions Defense games I've seen. It ranks with the debacle against the Jets in the 2018 MNF opener. That was Matt Patricia's first game as an NFL Coach. The Lions are back to square one vs. the run!!! ****
-- Tracy Walker continues to come off the bench behind Will Harris. This, like so much about this team, is baffling. Walker isn’t perfect, but he’s one of Detroit’s best playmakers. Which, you know, Detroit could probably use. Harris, on the other hand, committed back-to-back personal fouls that set up Green Bay’s go-ahead touchdown at the end of the first half, then took a bad angle on Aaron Jones' 75-yard touchdown run to open up the second half. That was the critical swing in the game, and Harris was at least partially culpable both times.
**** There's no question that Tracy Walker should never be off the field on Defense, when Will Harris is on the field....in a game in which the outcome isn't decided and Walker is relatively healthy. Harris is unreliable. ****
-- Matthew Stafford continues to struggle to recapture the explosion and consistency that made him one of the league’s best quarterbacks in the first half of last season. He completed all four passes on that game-opening touchdown series, then hooked up with Marvin Jones on a 4-yard touchdown pass that made it 14-3. He was hot, and the Lions' offense looked unbeatable. But Stafford was erratic after that, taking the sack near his own goal line at the end of the first half and then throwing another bad interception at the worst possible time deep in his own territory in the third quarter. This time, it resulted in a pick-six that made it 31-14. Detroit never really had a shot after that. Stafford finished 20 of 33 passing for 244 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
**** The missed block by Adrian Peterson ( this has been a problematic facet of play for him in his HOF career ) contributed substantially to Stafford's interception. Having said that, Stafford needed to make a better throw if he was going to attempt that pass. *****
-- Kerryon Johnson earned the start over Adrian Peterson at running back, and earned the work on the first series. He turned five carries into 20 yards, the last of which was a 1-yard touchdown plunge on the game’s first drive. He finished with eight carries for 32 yards. Peterson led the way with 41 yards on seven carries. The running game was working early, but Detroit had to go away from it as the deficit deepened.
**** The Lions not running the ball on 3rd and 1 from the Lions 34 yard Line in the middle of the 3rd QTR when trailing 31-14 ( incomplete pass result. ) and then punting sums up Matt Patricia not having good game decision instincts. The way the Packers were moving the ball at will, the risk/ reward of going for the 1st Down on that 4th Down play clearly was in the reward column. Jack Fox had another great Punt. But predictability, the Packers had a long drive ( ended up with a FG ). ****
-- Perhaps it says something about the Lions that their best player has been their new punter. Still, don’t take anything away from Jack Fox. The former undrafted rookie held off Arryn Siposs in a tough training camp battle, then followed up an excellent debut against Chicago with an even better effort in Green Bay. His first attempt went 45 yards right to the sideline at the 10-yard line. Then he boomed a 57-yarder out of his own end zone late in the first half, then opened the second half with a 50-yard moonshot that stopped for a cup of coffee before returning to earth. He averaged 54.2 yards on his five attempts overall. So long, Sam Martin. The Lions seem like they’re in pretty good shape for the foreseeable at punter.
****Bob Quinn deserves credit for signing Jack Fox to the Lions P.S. late last season and to a Futures Contract back in January. Fox and Frank Ragnow look like the best players on the Lions through 2 games. Quinn has made far too many decisions ax Lions G.M. that haven't worked out well enough or even worse. Yet, with Fox and Ragnow. ( much more weight because of the pick # 21 resource in 2018 ), Quinn has delivered. It's possible Fox will regress substantially. But right now, he looks like a Pro Bowl Caliber Punter. ****
-- The Lions continued their protests against police brutality for a second straight week. Many players ran up the tunnel as the anthem began playing, while the rest of the team lined up on the back line of the end zone where “END RACISM” was painted onto the Lambeau grass. Quarterback Matthew Stafford continued to kneel on the field with several players, while others chose to stand. Green Bay’s entire team remained in the locker room.
**** This has become a distraction to the Lions and its reflecting in the team's play. ****
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Lions at. Packers preview: Game # 2 ( 2020 )
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Thoughts in ****
Quick observations: Lions regime heading for dangerous territory after 11th straight loss
Updated 4:26 PM; Today 4:16 PM
By Kyle Meinke | kmeinke@mlive.com
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- It’s Groundhog’s Day. Again.
The Detroit Lions aren’t even getting creative with how they lose anymore. It’s just the same old thing, over and over again. They jumped to a 13-0 lead in Green Bay last year and lost. They jumped to a 14-0 lead against the Packers back in Detroit and lost.
They jumped to a 20-6 lead last week against Chicago. They lost.
Then they ran out of the Lambeau tunnel on Sunday afternoon, scored back-to-back touchdowns on the Packers for just the second time since at least 1999, staked themselves to an early 14-3 lead -- and then melted down again in a baffling 42-21 loss.
That’s 40-3 worth of leads against Green Bay since last year, and they lost all three games. That’s 11 straight losses overall for Matt Patricia, a league worst. They’ve led in 10 of those games too, including the last two by double digits. But it seems no lead is safe for the team that spent all offseason drilling these very scenarios, how to close out games, how to finish. They talked so much about “Dagger Time" that someone thought it was a good idea to put it in the rafters at Ford Field.
Now they’re 0-2, and in a dangerous spot for this regime heading into another difficult matchup next week in Arizona against Kyler Murray and the Cardinals. Ownership said it needed to see dramatic improvement this season, and a playoff contender. But this team is not that. Not after 11 straight losses, and the odds are getting longer of it happening by the week. Out of the 107 teams that have started 0-2 since 2007, just 12 made the playoffs.
****This Lions team, including the Head Coach and his staff doesn't have the look of a team that will benefit from the NFL expanding the playoffs. ****
Detroit started this game so well, too. Running back Kerryon Johnson racked up 20 yards on the first series alone and plowed into the end zone for a 1-yard touchdown. Marvin Jones came right back on the next series and caught a 4-yard touchdown pass off his shoe tops. Just like that, it was 14-3.
But the wheels began coming off -- well, what’s left of the wheels anyway -- late in the first half. Matthew Stafford took another ill-advised sack, much like he did last week, which backed up the Lions against their own end zone. Then guard Oday Aboushi held on third down. Then Jack Fox uncorked another spectacular punt, a 57-yarder that hung in the air so long that it produced a fair catch despite the distance. And then Will Harris gave 30 yards of it back immediately with personal fouls for unnecessary roughness and a horsecollar on the next two plays.
**** With a 14-3 lead and the ball around midfield, Oday Aboushi committed a Personal Foul Late hit penalty. That play was the turning point in the game. The Holding Penalty by Aboushi should have led to him being benched for at least a series ( despite him playing well overall other than the penalties.
Matthew Stafford not throwing to DeAndre Swift underneath the Packers coverage, taking the sack, was a horrible and costly decision. ****
Aaron Rodgers doesn’t need help, but Detroit was obliged to give it. And three plays later, Rodgers hooked up with former Lions tight end Robert Tonyan for an 11-yard touchdown pass with just 19 seconds left in the half -- as a flag against Detroit laid on the other side of the field, you know, just for good measure.
That gave Green Bay its first lead, at 17-14. Then the Packers ran out of the tunnel for the second half, accepted the touchback on the opening kick, and then watched Aaron Jones run right through the middle of Detroit’s defense for a 75-yard touchdown.
It was the longest run for the Packers since 2004. And he did it without a single Lions player touching him. Just like that, a 14-3 lead had turned into a 24-14 deficit. The Lions were hanging on by a thread, the game teetering toward ugly. And then it got ugly.
**** The poor angle Will Harris took that led to him missing a tackle on the Aaron Jones 75 Yard TD Run, on top of his poor tackling vs. the Bears and the two penalties is all I need to know that at least for the foreseeable future, the Lions need a better option at Safety on the field. It wouldn't surprise me if Harris is a bust at Safety. *****
Jamal Agnew tried blocking a guy after calling for a fair catch on a punt -- you can’t do that -- which backed up the Lions against their own end zone once again. Stafford was under duress again, this time by former Michigan star Rashan Gary -- and tried to make something happen. That something: A Chandon Sullivan pick six that made it 31-14.
**** Horrible decision by Jamal Agnew. A reflection on the Head Coach, when factoring in all of the other bad mental decisions by Lions players in the first two games. ****
Patricia said his goal was not to turn Detroit into a contender -- Detroit was already that -- but into a consistent contender for division titles. Now Detroit has lost eight straight games against the division, 11 games overall, and this regime is fast-approaching a crossroads.
**** An 0-4 start heading to the bye seems more likely than not. The Lions first win might not come for a long time. It's possible Sheila Ford Hamp will clean house at the bye, much like her Mother did 5 seasons ago. Unlike back then, this time the Head Coach being swept out. I can envision Darrell Bevell as the Lions Interim Coach at some point this season. ****
Some more observations:
-- Jeff Okudah got the start in his highly anticipated NFL debut, as expected. And he had some struggles, as could have been expected. Okudah is trying to learn a difficult position with the shortest offseason in NFL history, then suffered a hamstring injury that cost him even more practice time. He didn’t play in the opener. But with Desmond Trufant and Justin Coleman out, Okudah had no choice but to go up against Aaron Rodgers in his NFL debut. Rodgers went away from him early, but picked on him more over time. That includes going over the top of Okudah for a big 41-yard pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling running free up the right sideline in the fourth quarter. Detroit had just scored a touchdown to pull within 34-21, then Okudah got toasted, and Aaron Jones tacked on a 14-yard touchdown run that put the final nail in Detroit’s coffin. Okudah finished with a team-high seven tackles, although a cornerback leading the team in tackles usually isn’t a good sign.
**** Jeff Okudah was in a difficult overall spot this game. On most plays, the Lions pass rush was ineffective. This on top of this being his first NFL game action, going against a future HOF QB, the highly skilled Davonte Adams much of the time before a hamstring injury sidelined the WR for the rest of the day, and other much more experienced WRs than Okudah is as a CB. He's far down the list of reasons this game got out of hand. He will improve, though with more growing pains inevitable.****
-- Looking for something to feel good about? Look no further than T.J. Hockenson, who continues to play like he did throughout a really nice summer camp. He led Detroit with five catches or 56 yards in the opener, then did the same on Sunday with another four catches for another 62 yards against Green Bay. Detroit clearly misses Kenny Golladay, which has hurt its deep passing game, but Hockenson’s improved consistency has helped pick up the slack.
**** The downside is T. J Hockenson's run blocking remains far too inconsistent. ****
-- Quintez Cephus got the start for Golladay last week. Marvin Hall got the start this week, and even came through with a 24-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter. The problem, of course, is the Packers had just reeled off 31 unanswered points. The game was out of reach by then.
**** Both of these backup WRs have their place. But they can't replace Kenny Golladay effectively enough . ****
-- Thirty-one straight points don’t happen without a lot going really wrong, and that’s exactly what happened. Like coordinator Cory Undlin said last week, “The best coverage is a good pass rush, and the best pass rush is a good coverage. It all works together.” On Sunday, none of it worked at all. The Lions were leaning heavily on young guys at cornerback, with the rookie Okudah on one side of the field and second-year man Amani Oruwariye at the other. There was a backup, Darryl Roberts, in the slot too. Never was it more important to pressure Aaron Rodgers -- and yet the Lions did not pressure Aaron Rodgers. In the first half, quite literally so. They didn’t hit Rodgers a single time until the second half, after hitting Mitchell Trubisky just four times all last week. I just don’t understand the philosophy here. You have young guys all over the place in the secondary. You have to get home. And yet the Lions were content to sit back and let one of the best quarterbacks ever just wait for guys to get open. And that, friends, is how you allow 31 unanswered points.
**** The lack of a pass rush with any consistency was a theme last season and it's again this season. A major part of this is the fault of Bob Quinn. ****
-- Another way to allow 31 straight points is by not stopping the run. Check that box too. The Packers averaged a stunning 7.4 yards per carry even though they also ran the ball 35 times. That is just spectacularly bad run defense. Aaron Jones led the way with 168 yards on 18 carries, 75 of which came on that long touchdown run to open the second half. It looked like Jarrad Davis and Jaimie Collins couldn’t get off blocks on that play, although Will Harris also took a bad angle in the back end.
**** Jarrad Davis made 3 splash plays against the run. But this might have been his worst run Defense game since coming to the Lions. Davis was out of position repeatedly. The right decision was made to bench him for a while.
Even factoring in the loss of DT Nick Williams, CB Desmond Trufant, and CB Justin Coleman, the Lions overall run Defense performance is inexcusable. This was one of the worst run Lions Defense games I've seen. It ranks with the debacle against the Jets in the 2018 MNF opener. That was Matt Patricia's first game as an NFL Coach. The Lions are back to square one vs. the run!!! ****
-- Tracy Walker continues to come off the bench behind Will Harris. This, like so much about this team, is baffling. Walker isn’t perfect, but he’s one of Detroit’s best playmakers. Which, you know, Detroit could probably use. Harris, on the other hand, committed back-to-back personal fouls that set up Green Bay’s go-ahead touchdown at the end of the first half, then took a bad angle on Aaron Jones' 75-yard touchdown run to open up the second half. That was the critical swing in the game, and Harris was at least partially culpable both times.
**** There's no question that Tracy Walker should never be off the field on Defense, when Will Harris is on the field....in a game in which the outcome isn't decided and Walker is relatively healthy. Harris is unreliable. ****
-- Matthew Stafford continues to struggle to recapture the explosion and consistency that made him one of the league’s best quarterbacks in the first half of last season. He completed all four passes on that game-opening touchdown series, then hooked up with Marvin Jones on a 4-yard touchdown pass that made it 14-3. He was hot, and the Lions' offense looked unbeatable. But Stafford was erratic after that, taking the sack near his own goal line at the end of the first half and then throwing another bad interception at the worst possible time deep in his own territory in the third quarter. This time, it resulted in a pick-six that made it 31-14. Detroit never really had a shot after that. Stafford finished 20 of 33 passing for 244 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
**** The missed block by Adrian Peterson ( this has been a problematic facet of play for him in his HOF career ) contributed substantially to Stafford's interception. Having said that, Stafford needed to make a better throw if he was going to attempt that pass. *****
-- Kerryon Johnson earned the start over Adrian Peterson at running back, and earned the work on the first series. He turned five carries into 20 yards, the last of which was a 1-yard touchdown plunge on the game’s first drive. He finished with eight carries for 32 yards. Peterson led the way with 41 yards on seven carries. The running game was working early, but Detroit had to go away from it as the deficit deepened.
**** The Lions not running the ball on 3rd and 1 from the Lions 34 yard Line in the middle of the 3rd QTR when trailing 31-14 ( incomplete pass result. ) and then punting sums up Matt Patricia not having good game decision instincts. The way the Packers were moving the ball at will, the risk/ reward of going for the 1st Down on that 4th Down play clearly was in the reward column. Jack Fox had another great Punt. But predictability, the Packers had a long drive ( ended up with a FG ). ****
-- Perhaps it says something about the Lions that their best player has been their new punter. Still, don’t take anything away from Jack Fox. The former undrafted rookie held off Arryn Siposs in a tough training camp battle, then followed up an excellent debut against Chicago with an even better effort in Green Bay. His first attempt went 45 yards right to the sideline at the 10-yard line. Then he boomed a 57-yarder out of his own end zone late in the first half, then opened the second half with a 50-yard moonshot that stopped for a cup of coffee before returning to earth. He averaged 54.2 yards on his five attempts overall. So long, Sam Martin. The Lions seem like they’re in pretty good shape for the foreseeable at punter.
****Bob Quinn deserves credit for signing Jack Fox to the Lions P.S. late last season and to a Futures Contract back in January. Fox and Frank Ragnow look like the best players on the Lions through 2 games. Quinn has made far too many decisions ax Lions G.M. that haven't worked out well enough or even worse. Yet, with Fox and Ragnow. ( much more weight because of the pick # 21 resource in 2018 ), Quinn has delivered. It's possible Fox will regress substantially. But right now, he looks like a Pro Bowl Caliber Punter. ****
-- The Lions continued their protests against police brutality for a second straight week. Many players ran up the tunnel as the anthem began playing, while the rest of the team lined up on the back line of the end zone where “END RACISM” was painted onto the Lambeau grass. Quarterback Matthew Stafford continued to kneel on the field with several players, while others chose to stand. Green Bay’s entire team remained in the locker room.
**** This has become a distraction to the Lions and its reflecting in the team's play. ****
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This new thread is a continuation of the following thread:
Lions at. Packers preview: Game # 2 ( 2020 )
detroit-lions-forum.proboards.com/thread/768/lions-packers-preview-game-2020