A powerful statement was made by lions fan because of ……….
One of these days, they’re going to win a game like this. One of these days this is all going to end, and you’re going to wake from this half-century-long … nightmare?
Well, it’s not quite that.
Not after what happened to your Detroit Lions hosted the most exciting team in football and damn near beat them. Maybe should’ve beat them. An inch here or there, and they absolutely beat them.
That’s how close it was at Ford Field Sunday, where Kansas City won, 34-30. Actually, it was closer than that.
This was a game so bizarrely fun it needed two Hail Mary attempts.
Two Sure, why not? It had just about everything else. Except, of course, a Lions’ win. But that’s OK for now. Because in defeat, the Lions just gave you a reason to believe.
For real. An actual reason. Maybe several of them. Because whatever else we learned Sunday, we learned this:
They can play with anyone. That should be clear now, after the Lions stayed with the most explosive team in the NFL.
“We had that game,” said Lions safety Tracy Walker.
Learning how to finish it off, he said, “is something we can correct and fix.”
He made it sound so simple, and in a way the mission was on Sunday: stop the most gifted quarterback in the league – Patrick Mahomes.
Or at least slow him. The Lions did in stretches. Both in their defensive approach – sending spies, keeping a single safety deep – and in their offensive strategy – run the ball to eat the clock and let Matthew Stafford make plays when he can.
Despite the success of the plan, Mahomes still threw for more than 300 yards and led the game-winning touchdown drive.
Yeah, he’s good, and probably this season’s MVP. But Stafford’s performance was a reminder of just how good he can be, too.
“It was a tough one,” Stafford said, “but I was really proud of the way our g
I think don’t think we need to prove anything to anybody,” said Stafford. “We love the way we practice, the way we work, the way we come out and play. We’re a good football team. (It) came down to the last 15 seconds. (We had a) good opportunity to beat a good team.”
They sure did.
uys battled.”
As for making a statement by going blow for blow with the Chiefs?
Because of Stafford’s play, because of the varied and skillful playmakers the Lions have been collecting. Players like Golladay, the third-year receiver who is becoming as dangerous an offensive force as anyone Kansas City rolled out.
Stafford and Golladay and Johnson pushed the Lions to 30 points, which should’ve been enough the way the defense played, giving up yards but getting stops when necessary. Well, except for the end of the game, when they needed to stop and fourth-and-8 to win the game and couldn’t; after that conversion Kansas City went on to score the winning touchdown with 20 seconds to play.