Sorry Packer Fan, This is the way it had to be...

 

It's been a while since I posted about my beloved Detroit Lions, I mean last year they won all of three games and looked to be in danger of not winning any of those, and this year, despite the joy of that Hard Knocks comedy show, they started out 1-6.  Thus it was pretty much a given that QB Jared Goff would be jettisoned after this year to make room their eventual no.1 draft pick Bryce Young, and maybe even the Knee Biting antics of HC Dan Campbell might've run it's course.  But then something strange started to happen.  In week eight they beat the Packers, despite the fact the Packers pretty much dominated that game.  Somebody convince me Aaron Rogers didn't throw that game.  Then the next week they beat the Bears, despite the fact the Bears had that game all but won.  And from there, it was on.

From there the Lions started to win games in impressive fashion.  Even that game against the presumptive Super Champion Buffalo Bills on Thanksgiving Day, they probably should've won that game as well if it weren't for Josh Allen doing Josh Allen things.  Sure, they got road-grated by the Panthers which was odd, but they picked it up the next week and somehow managed to play themselves back into playoff contention.

As you probably know a lot of things had to happen on this past Sunday for the Lions to backdoor into the playoffs, mainly the Rams beating the Seahawks... sure wish Baker Mayfield had a stronger arm... but it didn't happen.  So with nothing to play for except pride, a winning record, and keeping that terrible Human Being known as Aaron Rogers out of the playoffs, they had to go to what has been a Lions house of horrors for the entirety of my adult life, Lambeau field, in the dead of winter, against a guy who has victimized my team for decades, just like his soulless, grifting, stealing, dick pic taking predecessor used to do, and is a man, in my opinion, who is the best to ever throw a football.  At least for the moment.  At some point that guy is going to be Patrick Mahomes, but let's give the kid a couple more years.  Brady is the GOAT, but he can't do the things that Aaron Rogers can do.  

Whatever.  The Detroit Lions beat that ass.  20-16 doesn't sound like an ass whoopin', but it was.  Season sweep complete, Manifestation Destination or whatever that overly verbose, faux intellectual psycho was talking about is derailed, and my man can consult his shaman and magic mushrooms to figure out his next move.  I think Rogers is slated to make 58 million next year?  I know what I would do, but then I'm not a prickly, self-important, ayahuaska smoking, blame-deflecting, inoculated, asshole so what would I know?  Besides, if Aiden Hutchinson made Rogers life a living hell that night, imagine what Bosa and the 49ers would've put him through.  Again.  The Lions did him a favor.  Still though, if I was starting a theoretical team, Rogers in his prime would still be my guy.

Now comes the hard part for my Lions... expectations.  Most pundits are going to pick the Lions to win the division next year, with some of those pundits picking them win the conference with even a few of those picking them to win the Superb Owl.  It's gonna happen.  Me?  I've been a Lions fan far too long to get caught up in such nonsense.  After losing the NFC Championship game in the '91 season, that was going to be the start of our dynasty, but we went 4-12 the next season and haven't won a playoff game since.  I have a 26-year old son who has no idea what a Lions playoff victory looks like so I will just wait and see.  

However, this doesn't mean that I'm not hopeful.  At some point in the timeline rooting for the Detroit Lions has got to bear some fruit the long suffering Lions fan, and now seems to be as good a time as any.  They're missing a few pieces, mostly on defense, but with a ton of draft capital, a top 5 O-line, a top ten QB who might be even better than that, a rock solid receiving core with Amon-Ra looking like the rebirth of a sane Antonio Brown, the Lions can score and will score on anybody.  I'm hopeful for the immediate future of my team.  But we have to wait and see.  And hope Jordan Love isn't the third generational QB that's going to terrorize us for the next fifteen years.

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