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I’ve Got a Baaad Feeling About This One!

Their is bad juju going around. This weekend’s game is giving me an incredible sense of impending doom. The Titans, who are a capable of filling an entire hospital ward with their injured, have been playing terribly down the stretch. This is one of those games that the Lions should win with relative ease. Emphasize the word SHOULD! We know how the Lions traditionally have performed in games they should win against outmatched opponents. The Titans, who traditionally play very well at home, are just not a desirable matchup. The gunslinging Billy Volek has to be salivating at the prospects of throwing against the coverage of DB’s such as Andre Goodman, Brock Marion, and Fernando Bryant. After watching this offensive unit roast the KC DB’s over an open flame two weeks ago on Monday Night Football, I experienced all kinds of premonitions about the outcome of this game. If I were a certain famous bard from Hibbing, Minnesota, I might coin tunes along the lines of such favorites as “Talkin’ Those Andre Goodman Got Burned Again Blues”, or “Pretty Joey-O”, or “Brock Marion’s 113th Missed Tackle” or the unforgettable chestnut “Coach from a North Country Town (Once Was a True Love of Ours) (All Apologies, Zimmy)

At any rate, the Titans are about as banged up as any team the Lions have faced all year. They appear to be entering a very transitional offseason and their defense has been scored upon with a high frequency. Factoring into the equation that the Lions have won one more game this season than they did all of last season, this game just reeks of debacle. What more do the Lions have to accomplish? Even though the Titans have been profuse in their allowance of Touchdowns, what makes you think a team as inept as the Lions in utilizing their “red zone” opportunities will be capable of scoring points against the Titans defense like other teams have recently. I just don’t like this matchup. I think that Kevin Jones will rush for over a 100 yds, but yet there will be long periods of time where the Lions forget to hand him the ball. Joey Harrington and his cast of butterfingered receivers should be able to take advantage of the overexposed, depthless, Titan secondary but between crucial dropped passes and the Lion propensity towards the dink and dunk, they will not take full advantage of this situation as handed to them.

On Defense, the Lions should be able to pressure Volek. That will be their only chance to disrupt the Titans passing attack. One factor in the Lions favor, will be the fact that Chris Brown is unable to play at running back for the Titans. Yet, the tandem of Derrick Mason and Drew Bennett facing the Lions secondary gives me the a bad feeling about the game’s outcome. Plus, this team would not fulfill it’s historical responsibility as Lions if they didn’t end the season on a sour note? The Lions are ripe for a good fashioned (insert words that rhyme with Rass-Clicking!)

Titans 38 Lions 23