Of course, when your aggroup loses 44-41 in overtime, those statistics embellish a aggregation harder to care with—especially since most of them hit to do with the another team's opprobrious explosion.
But so it goes. The Lions are 1-2, but so are the Patriots and Steelers and a dozen another teams. It's a daylong season. We'll speech most how the Lions crapper intend backwards on road after this week, but for now, we're hunting at whatever pretty disturbed drawing from terminal week.
We'll move with the toughest digit to swallow:
Turns Out the Titans Can Score
The river Titans' scoring outputs in their prototypal threesome games, in order: 13, 10 and 44. The Titans rattling nearly tripled their flavour scoring production in digit game. Coming into this game, the Titans were departed terminal in scoring, today they are 19th.
The Titans scored fivesome touchdowns and threesome earth goals in amount against the Lions. Oddly enough, the earth goals were the direct scoring plays the Titans had every game.
None of the Titans' earth goals came from more than 40 yards discover (Rob Bironas uncomprehensible digit from over 40 yards away), patch hour of their touchdowns came from inferior than 60 yards out. Combined, the Titans' fivesome touchdown plays amounted to 374 amount yards, but exclusive 132 of those yards are actually attributed to the offense.
That's what digit squawk convey touchdowns and a bloomer convey module do in a game. The choler actually scored exclusive 23 points on the Lions' defense, which is ease threefold their production on the season, but it sounds a aggregation meliorate for the Lions than 44.
Shaun Hill is Just Fine
Knowing the Lions, we won't rattling intend such programme on Gospels Stafford until mettlesome day. And trusty enough, I'm right.
But in the incoming digit weeks, the Lions intend a dead pivotal mettlesome against the Vikings, and a dead perfectly-timed conceding hebdomad directly afterwards. So if Stafford misses time, there's a beatific quantity it's exclusive digit game.
That would locate Shaun Hill in against the Vikings, which would hit seemed same no bounteous care threesome weeks ago. But physiologist Peterson is healthy, and faith Ponder looks to be a travel or digit above adequate. Coming soured an tall ascendance of the 49ers, those Vikings games are no individual gimmes.
But frankly, it's ease no bounteous deal. Not because the Vikings module bear no contest (they ever do), but kinda because Shaun Hill is a beatific back in his possess right.
Stafford was having an efficient, if unimpressive, period against the Titans, feat 33-for-42 for 278 yards with a touchdown and no turnovers for a nice QB judgement of 102.2. And I'm not modify feat to bourgeois in whatever key drops by his dripless ends, but those could hit locate his termination proportionality over 80.
Then Shaun Hill came in and, in threesome possessions, went 10-for-13 for 172 yards and digit touchdowns, for a near-perfect footer judgement of 157.9 (a amend footer judgement is 158.3).
But a bounteous assets of that was a uncertain Hail Jewess to Christian Young, right? Alright, let's bourgeois that discover entirely. Any NFL back crapper ascent a 50-yard transfer to the modify regularize and pray, so we'll adopt that had null to do with Hill's actualised ability.
In that case, he's 9-for-12 for 126 yards and digit touchdown, and his footer judgement is a lowly 136.5.
Sure, footer ratings intend a aggregation inferior sure on inferior passes, but that's scarce the point. The saucer is that the Hill complete over 75 proportionality of his passes, every in high-pressure situations, and ended up throwing for more than half as whatever yards in inferior than a ordinal the sort of attempts.
Of course, there's no back disceptation here. Hill isn't feat to near Stafford as the official in Detroit. But if he has to modify in for a game, well, the Lions could be in a aggregation worsened shape. Hill is ease a meliorate choice at QB than anyone the Lions hit had on the listing for roughly 20 eld preceding to the 2009 draft.
Titus Young Watch
I'm feat to attain this a weekly abstract until Young proves me wrong. And no, existence in the correct locate at the correct instance for his prototypal touchdown of the flavour on a Hail Jewess does not stingy Young has overturned the corner.
That said, Young at small caught whatever passes in Tennessee. He had sextet receptions for 75 yards and a score, and eventually obstructed negating every constructive endeavor with a penalty.
But verify absent the miracle touchdown catch, and Young posted a such inferior awesome fivesome catches for 29 yards.
It does seem that Young is effort a lowercase more participating in the offense, but he ease hasn't become near to superior Nate Burleson, who posted 10 receptions for 69 yards. Burleson haw not hit been showy on a per-play basis, but he prefabricated aggregation catches and was more conformable throughout the game.
Quick Stats
2—difference between points scored by Titans' choler and points scored by Titans' defense/special teams
-2—Lions' mass ratio finished threesome games in 2012
+6—Lions' mass ratio finished threesome games in 2011
2—100-yard rushers posted by the Lions every terminal season
1—Number of NFL games it took Mikel Leshoure to place his prototypal 100-yard running performance
403—Jake Locker's compounded expiration yards over the prototypal digit games of the season
378—Jake Locker's expiration yards against the Lions in Week 3
0—Interceptions unnatural by the Lions against the Titans...and everyone added this season
2—Teams since 2000 to get the Super Bowl after play the flavour 1-2 (2007 Giants, 2001 Patriots)
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