09-29-2017, 11:34 AM
The win vs the Bucs was fun, and pretty dominant. No one lie, the Case Keenum performance was surprising to all but his Mom.
But, the win vs the Texans was dominant too last year, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.
If anyone thinks the Lions are predominantly the shitty Lions of the past 3 decades, look again. Stafford is Pro Bowl level and can give fits, and the defense is adequate. That does not mean that the Lions are a 12-4 team, but doesn't mean they are a 6-10 team either.
I have never been a big Jim Caldwell fan, but his team does play for him, and I applaud him for how he accepted a defeat last week with a clock runoff that had to be hard to take - he has some class.
It is an NFL North contest, and rarely are those easy "W's" I hope Keenum is the 369 QB, not the 167 yard QB we saw in Pittsburgh. We all want the Vikings to win, but we beat a bad Saint team on a record night for our QB, lost to what looks like an average Pittsburgh team (could have been distracted by all the "will same play or won't he" talk). How are the Bucs? Hard to say.
Maybe we blow the doors off of the Lions, but until we do, this team has proven nothing other than when the defense plays well and the offensive line blocks decently, we can win, and sometimes dominate. Let's see more from this sample size before we fire up the printing press for our playoff T-shirts.
But, the win vs the Texans was dominant too last year, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.
If anyone thinks the Lions are predominantly the shitty Lions of the past 3 decades, look again. Stafford is Pro Bowl level and can give fits, and the defense is adequate. That does not mean that the Lions are a 12-4 team, but doesn't mean they are a 6-10 team either.
I have never been a big Jim Caldwell fan, but his team does play for him, and I applaud him for how he accepted a defeat last week with a clock runoff that had to be hard to take - he has some class.
It is an NFL North contest, and rarely are those easy "W's" I hope Keenum is the 369 QB, not the 167 yard QB we saw in Pittsburgh. We all want the Vikings to win, but we beat a bad Saint team on a record night for our QB, lost to what looks like an average Pittsburgh team (could have been distracted by all the "will same play or won't he" talk). How are the Bucs? Hard to say.
Maybe we blow the doors off of the Lions, but until we do, this team has proven nothing other than when the defense plays well and the offensive line blocks decently, we can win, and sometimes dominate. Let's see more from this sample size before we fire up the printing press for our playoff T-shirts.
