swendro
formerly swendro88
- Aug 1, 2005
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Like I said with the Vikings last week, them losing doesn't make them frauds. It's the fashion in which they lost. I'm a Washington fan and I fully expected them to drop a minimum of 40 on us. They're the number 1 offense in the league and a shootout was to be expected and we got that for a while but then we saw what happened. I'm not blaming their defense, it's the QB. There was a point in the game where they stopped throwing because they didn't trust Goff. The most explosive offense in the league looked incompetent. They ran through everybody through the regular season but in their most meaningful game of the season, they folded. That makes them frauds, it's the same metric by which I graded the Vikings. The Vikings have more claim to the "overachiever" title than the lions do. If I'm being honest all the guys who supposedly 'turned the corner" like Goff, Darnold, Geno, and Baker can't be trusted in playoff games. They're always gonna revert to them old selves. Lions aren't winning anything with Goff at QB.
Sorry for the long post.
I mean they put up 31 with 5 turnovers. The turnovers killed them.
When the defense is showing zero resistance it can lead to an offense pressing and making mistakes, which is what I think happened tonight.