Now Detroit has lost eight straight games against the division, 11 games overall, and this regime is fast-approaching a crossroads.-- Jeff Okudah got the start in his highly anticipated NFL debut, as expected. You have young guys all over the place in the secondary.
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.
The Packers averaged a stunning 7.4 yards per carry even though they also ran the ball 35 times. It was the second time that Crosby saved them from a humbling loss to the Lions, along with a game-winner on Oct. 14.The Lions never trailed in either of the games last season — but wound up with losses in both. 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.-- Tracy Walker continues to come off the bench behind Will Harris. In 1993, they won the NFC Central Division but lost a wildcard game to the Green Bay Packers when Sterling Sharpe ran free behind William White and Kevin Scott to catch a 40-yard touchdown pass wide open in the back of the end zone.The Lions made the playoffs as a wildcard again the next two years, but ran into superior teams both times. When Matt Prater added a field goal on the Lions’ opening possession of the second half, it looked like the franchise’s streak was about to end.But the Cowboys chipped away at the lead, first with a DeMarco Murray 1-yard touchdown run, then with a Dan Bailey 51-yard field goal, and they trailed just 20-17 when Stafford threw incomplete to Brandon Pettigrew on third-and-1 from the Dallas 46 with 8:25 to play.Back judge Lee Dyer called Cowboys linebacker Anthony Hitchens for pass interference, but head linesman Jerry Bergman overturned the call.The Lions punted on fourth down, a shank of a kick that went just 10 yards, and the Cowboys followed with the game-winning touchdown drive, converting a fourth-and-6 and two third-and-longs.“Just another missed call, missed opportunity where referees, I don’t really know what they’re looking at sometimes,” Bush said earlier this year.The overturned penalty isn’t why the Lions lost that game — they fumbled twice in the final 2:10 with an opportunity to drive and tie or take the lead — and it’s not why the streak of sorrow has reached 10,000 days.Taken collectively, though, that flag, plus Edinger’s kick, plus Millen’s hire, plus Sharpe’s catch, plus Sanders’ surprise retirement — plus dozens of other moments big and small — help explain why the Lions’ marathon of misery is still going strong today.© 2020 www.freep.com. We were praying about the thing the whole time and then I just said I guess this is what we’re supposed to do, so that’s what we did.”.In 2008, the Lions became the first team to go 0-16 in NFL history, when they had a minus-249 point differential for the entire season.Millen wasn’t around to see the end of that year, but he left the organization with a parting gift that could one day be the reason the Lions’ playoff winless streak ends — or, depending on your point of view, is perhaps a contributing factor to why it’s continued.In the 2009 draft, the Lions, led by Millen’s replacement and his former top lieutenant, Martin Mayhew, took quarterback Matthew Stafford with the No. That is just spectacularly bad run defense. A clear message was sent after last season’s poor 3-12-1 performance that Lions’ ownership expects Detroit to be a playoff contender in 2020. So, it’s very possible the Lions could enter their bye week winless.With Sheila Ford Hamp taking over as principal owner of the Lions back in June, the organization could be heading in an exciting, new direction. He detailed the Lions’ pursuit of him in a 2013 interview about William Clay Ford’s 50th anniversary of buying the team.“It started with Bill Jr. (reaching out) first,” Millen said. 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. Then guard Oday Aboushi held on third down. Get all the sports news you need, direct to your inbox.It’s been a long time since the Detroit Lions won an NFL playoff game.In other words, the Lions’ ignominious streak is a millennial. The running game was working early, but Detroit had to go away from it as the deficit deepened.-- Perhaps it says something about the Lions that their best player has been their new punter. He averaged 54.2 yards on his five attempts overall. Mike Williams. Are you #SundayReady?Crystal Palace chairman Parish denies Brewster bid,James White misses Sunday's game after father dies in car crash, mother in critical condition. 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.Aaron Rodgers doesn’t need help, but Detroit was obliged to give it. 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. Stafford finished 20 of 33 passing for 244 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.-- Kerryon Johnson earned the start over Adrian Peterson at running back, and earned the work on the first series. 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. Look no further than T.J. Hockenson, who continues to play like he did throughout a really nice summer camp. With a playoff spot clinched and a first-round bye hanging in the balance, the Packers were trailing the lowly Lions, who were 3-11-1 and playing for one of the top three picks in the draft.The Packers needed a last-second field goal by Mason Crosby to eke out a 23-20 victory, which propelled them to the postseason, before losing in the NFC title game. Of the 122 other teams in the four major American professional sports, the Bengals and Washington Nationals (formerly the Montreal Expos) are the only ones not to win a playoff game or series, in the case of baseball, basketball and hockey, in that span.But if not for those pesky Cowboys, the Lions’ drought would have ended 1,600 days ago.On Jan. 4, 2015, the Lions lost a wildcard game to the Cowboys in controversial fashion when.The Lions, playing on the road days after star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh successfully appealed a one-game suspension, scored 14 first-quarter points on touchdowns by Golden Tate and Reggie Bush and led 17-7 at halftime.
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