I have never been so equally happy and upset at a football game in my entire life, than I was for this past Sunday with the Lions 31-26 win against the Bears. From an abysmal three quarter effort from Jared Goff and company, to what looked like a Super Bowl winning team in the fourth quarter, I can confidently say that the Lions have been doing numbers to my blood pressure.
In all seriousness though, The Lions got lucky with this win. The only reason we won, and the only reason we nearly lost was because of Jared Goff. The guy threw three picks, almost four, and took away so much momentum that could’ve propelled the Lions to a greater win margin.
But you know what they say, doesn’t matter how it gets cooked, as long as it looks good on the plate.
The game started with an opening drive touchdown for the Bears, where Fields showed with his legs and threw the ball well. They finished it off with a hand off to D’Onta Foreman, which was one of his only looks at the ball all day. Chicago couldn’t capatilize on two interceptions on back to back drives which allowed the Lions to even the score at seven early in the second quarter with a shove play to Jahmyr Gibbs to the near side pylon.
The rest of the second quarter saw Fields march down the field to about the Lions 21-yard line where they’d settle for a field goal. I must say, Cairo Santos, the Bears’ kicker is automatic and it made me want to pull my hair out. But they can have their field goal, as a few big runs from Gibbs set up a 7-yard TD pass to Amon-Ra St. Brown to put the Lions ahead 14-10.
The good times didn’t last, because Khalif Raymond can’t hold onto a football when he returns a kick and gifted the Bears the ball at the Lions 40-yard line. It only took them 3 plays to go and score on a bomb connection between Fields and DJ Moore, and once again I was not mad, just severely disappointed the we were down 20-14 late in the 3rd. But guess what, it gets better, because right after that Jared Goff threw another interception and all I could do was smile through the pain.
Chicago would go onto another field goal to extend their lead 26-14. The Lions got the ball with less than five minutes to go, and one thing I know for certain is that there is only three quarterbacks that I would trust my life with to get a touchdown with not a lot of time on the clock, and that’s Matthew Stafford, Aaron Rodgers, and Jared Thomas Goff. Quickly, Goff and Jameson WIlliams connected with a huge 32-yard touchdown catch and just like that the Lions are a touchdown back at 26-21.

The defense came up with a huge stop, mainly because of a Justin Fields overthrow on third down, but it gave a chance for the offense to get the team back in front. Smart throws to St.
Brown, Sam LaPorta and aggressive runs from Gibbs and David Montgomery got the Lions within a yard of the end zone. Montgomery would get the ball and put the nail in the coffin against his former team, and LaPorta would sneak his way into the back of the endzone for a successful two point conversion, 29-26 Lions lead.
Then, in need of the biggest stop of the game, Aidan Hutchinson, who hasn’t gotten a sack or really any defensive productivity in the past four games, powers his way into Justin Fields, and knocks the ball away. Bears’ offensive lineman Darnell Wright kicked it into the back of the endzone and that was it for the game. Needless to say, I was jumping up and down in my living room when that happened.
Yes, Jared Goff turned it on at the end to lead the Lions down the field, but if you want to talk about who really won us this game, it was hands down the defense. Alim McNeil came up with a huge sack that gave the team much needed momentum since it held the Bears to a field goal.
Hutchinson, who keep in mind has been playing nothing like himself the past few weeks, waited for some late game theatrics when he strip sacked Fields and forced a safety to lock the win for the Lions.
Let’s be honest here, all of the analysts and fairweather fans are thinking that since we’re on an 8-2 start for the first time since 1962, we’re sitting top two in the league behind Philadelphia.
Don’t get me wrong, we’re a good football team, but with how we’ve been playing the past two or three weeks, I don’t see us making it out of the second round of playoffs.
However, with Thanksgiving coming up, we’re on the short week since we play Green Bay on turkey day at Ford Field. The Packers are fresh off of a close win against the Chargers, but I don’t know if they’ll be able to handle the raucous environment of Detroit on Thursday.
Hopefully you’ll have the TV on after Thankgiving dinner, your belly will be full, a cold one will be in your hand, and your feet will be kicked up to watch the Lions roll the Packers.
Keep sipping the blue Kool-aid ladies and gentlemen. The brand new Lions will be enjoying a hearty helping of turducken at the end of the day. Lions by a million.

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