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New Lions Revert to the Old Lions

Last night’s pre-season game against Oakland stands as the penultimate indicator of where the Lions currently reside in implementing their new offensive and defensive systems, as well as shining a bright light on just how difficult it will be for new Head Coach Rod Marinelli to root out the losing culture which permeates this organization.

The third pre-season game is supposed to be the most meaningful of the pre-season. The starting units play a majority of the game. This game reveals a lot about the preparedness of the starting units to lineup against it’s opponents ands compete. In typical Lion fashion, they were not up to the challenge.

I had come to believe that we would no longer see the rear end of a Lion’s defensive back hopelessly chasing the comet tail of a streaking Randy Moss as he burns them for a long distance touchdown. Moss-related nightmares were rekindled for Lion’s fans everywhere, as he proved yet again that the Lion’s secondary is not quite ready for prime time.

When it was announced earlier this week that the Lions would be flying to Oakland, playing the pre-season game and flying back to Detroit all in one day, it was obvious there would be a high potential for the team to lay an egg. The Lion’s don’t have the character or fortitude to meet any sort of adversity or challenge, let alone one where they would be expected to perform in less than ideal circumstances. This may be a harsh assessment considering that this was only a pre-season game, yet, who in their right mind believes after the Lion’s have embarassed themselves the last two weekends that they will be ready to face Seattle in two more weeks?

In an even more discouraging note, the Lion’s left an injured Charles Rogers in Detroit and apparently Mike Williams didn’t play last night, either. I hate to think that the Lions are about to burn three of the last four first round draft picks in less than 6 months. That would represent a flame-out of draft busts that would be unmatched in the history of the NFL. Fasten your seat belts Lion fans, there may be tubulence ahead….