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Week 11 Preview: How Many Different Ways Can an 0-16 Team Get Em-Bare-Assed!

The Lions go on the road to face the 7-2 Carolina Panthers this week.  The Panthers who have struggled mightily to reach their 7-2 record, are a bad match-up, at a bad time, for the Lions.

Panther QB Jake Delhomme threw four interceptions last week in an abysmal game against the Oakland Raiders. Nothing reinvigorates an opposing QB like facing the Lions soft, swiss cheese (holes, you know?)-like zone coverage.   Teams don’t find voids in the Lions zone, they find virtual gulfs!

Adding insult to injury, the Lions will be without starting DE’s DeWayne White and Jared DeVries.   That mean’s the high-ceiling tandem of “Kalimba 2.0″ Alama-Francis and Cliff Avril will get their shot at attempting to generate more consistent pressure for the Lions defense.

So besides Jake Delhomme throwing the ball with ease to WR’s Steve Smith and Michigander Muhsin Muhammad while systemematically cutting threw the Lions defense, the Panthers will also try to keep the Lions offense off of the field by utilizing their RB’s DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart in ball control, as they pound away at the feeble Lions defense.

That’s it, other than the likelihood that Julius Peppers will embarass both Gosder Cherilus and Jeff Backus repeatedly, I don’t know what else to say about the Lions chances in this game.

As the Lions face some of their toughest challenges of the season in the upcoming weeks, I expect for the team to throw in the towel, as they continue to be demoralized.   The Lions are going to face several physical teams who are fighting for their playoff livelihood’s, which does not bode well for an 0-whatever team, who has won one game in it’s last 17.

The Lions are a very bad team.  Generally, bad teams don’t win a game on the road, unless it is handed to them outright.  Six more games until history is achieved.

Carolina 32 Lions 14