After a beating like the one suffered at Baltimore, Detroit Lions fans are likely asking themselves two questions: What is Daunte Culpepper doing still playing professional football, and why are we still watching Lions games?
I'm here to answer one of those questions. I don't know what to tell anyone about Culpepper anymore.
But the Lions are still worth watching, if only to learn the answers to questions about 2010. After all, what did you expect this year? You all knew they weren't going to the playoffs this year when August rolled around.
So there's no reason to give up on them now. They're doing exactly what they were expected to do. If you were going to give up on them, you would have been gone after last season.
This season is now and has always been a preseason for [...]
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If you're a Detroit Lions fan, Sunday's game sure looked familiar.
Just like the home opener against the Vikings, the Lions looked almost playoff-caliber in the first half. And then the second half rolled around, and they didn't.
In the Vikings game, it was the defense that performed admirably in the first half, then let up and allowed 27 unanswered points.
This week, it was the offense, which put up 21 first-half points against the vaunted Bears' defense, before notching negative total yardage in the third quarter, and three points in the fourth.
All the while, the Bears went on a scoring rampage, putting up 48 points.
Now, it's tempting to say this isn't a trend. After all, the Lions beat Washington, right? They must have held up in that game, right?
Not exactly. The [...]
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