Jeff Seidel Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EST Nov 5, 2018 MINNEAPOLIS – Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford couldn’t see. Everything was blurry. The game. The season. The future. Everything. Stafford was hit so many times and driven into the ground so often that his eyes filled up with chunks of turf. It was that kind of day for the Lions. “The fault is on everybody,” Stafford said, after he was sacked a career-high 10 times and the Lions were embarrassed by the Vikings, 24-9. Yes, it is. But let’s try to step back and look at the big picture, ugly as it is. At the halfway point of his rookie season, how is coach Matt Patricia doing? To this point, his performance falls somewhere between a disappointment and a failure. Patricia inherited a team that went 9-7 in each of the past two seasons. And yet the Lions are worse today than they were at the end of last season under Jim Caldwell, whose tenure ended after winning three of his final four games. The Lions have a 3-5 record – halfway to something that feels like a disaster in the making. “Overall,” Patricia said, “we had major issues with the pass rush, passing game and run game.” That about covers it. That’s the Lions’ trifecta of ineptitude, or as I like to say: the Lions just stink, like they’ve been stinking for the past 50 years. The Lions are nowhere near competing for the playoffs. At this rate,… [Read full story]
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