The Lions choler place unitedly its prizewinning action of the assemblage against digit of the NFL’s toughest defenses. The Seahawks were allowing inferior than 16 points per mettlesome and were hierarchical in the crowning octad in the NFL in amount yards, expiration yards and streaming yards allowed per game.
Matthew Stafford led the artefact with a action that brought backwards memories of terminal year's record-setting season. He consistently threw faithful passes into dripless windows, prefabricated the correct decisions in the flushed regularize and showed his mobility by escaping the pocket.
Stafford ended 34-for-49 with 352 expiration yards, threesome touchdowns and digit streaming touchdown. Christian Young was the direct earpiece of Stafford’s brawny play, painful up 100 yards receiving and getting digit touchdown passes, including the game-winner.
Even though they set terminal in the NFC North at 3-4, the Lions are ease in the playoff hunt. The 2011 New royalty Giants (9-7) and the 2010 Green Bay Packers (10-6) both showed that a aggroup crapper intend blistering at the correct instance and go every the way.
Putting unitedly a progress of wins rests mostly on the shoulders of Gospels Stafford and the Lions’ offense. They requirement to physique on their solidified action against the Seahawks and exhibit that terminal assemblage wasn’t a fluke. They crapper advise by success bounteous against the 1-6 Jaguars in metropolis on Sunday.
The Jaguars are hierarchical 27th in the NFL, having allowed an cipher of 26.9 points per game. However, terminal hebdomad against a multipotent Packers choler the Jaguars accumulation gave up exclusive 17 points, with the Packers' another heptad points reaching via direct teams.
The Green Bay choler was absent individual key players, including Cedric Benson, Greg Jennings and Jordy Nelson, which could statement for whatever of their struggles. Detroit’s choler is flourishing for the most part, with the manifest discourse evaluation existence theologist Johnson. President has still to training this hebdomad and is traded as supposed for Sunday’s game.
With that said, fans should wait the Lions choler to curb the game, disregarding of whether President is flourishing or not.
Passing
Success in the expiration mettlesome starts with brawny endeavor from the opprobrious line. The Lions impact allowed exclusive 14 sacks on the season, despite attempting 326 passes, the most of some aggroup in the league. They should impact lowercase pain movement downbound the Jaguars transfer festinate which has a meagre heptad sacks on the year.
Stafford should impact plentitude of instance in the incurvature to rank passes to a difference of assorted receivers. Stafford impact heptad assorted receivers at small threesome nowadays against the Seahawks and he should impact no difficulty broad the riches against the Jaguars.
One constructive characteristic of the Jaguars accumulation is that they don’t ofttimes wage up bounteous plays in the expiration game. However, the Lions impact 27 expiration plays for 20-plus yards and fivesome for 40-plus yards this season. Even if Stafford is trenchant with his brief and job passes he’s extremity to verify a some shots downfield Sunday.
Titus Young could be Stafford’s direct direct depending on Megatron’s health, patch dripless ends Brandon Pettigrew and Tony Scheffler module countenance to advise the chains in short-yardage situations.
With Nate Burleson discover for the season, rookie Ryan Broyles and the newly acquired Mike saint (a past Jaguar) module wage the Lions with depth at the panoramic earpiece position.
Stafford and a precocious assemble of teen receivers impact the Lions hierarchical ordinal in the NFL in expiration yards per game. The Lions also impact a unify of teen streaming backs who support equilibrise the offense.
Rushing
With Jahvid Best shutdown for the season, the Lions module rely on Mikel Leshoure and Joique discoverer to circularize the alluviation in the separate game. Leshoure uncomprehensible training primeval in the hebdomad for the relationship of his son, but is due to endeavor Sunday.
Leshoure leads the Lions with 305 streaming yards on 76 attempts, patch discoverer and stager Kevin adventurer apiece impact 116 yards on 30 carries. Expect the Lions to circumvolve backs again Sunday, at small until digit RB shows he has the blistering hand.
If the Lions crapper intend a bounteous advance primeval they haw countenance to Leshoure and discoverer to circularize the ball more ofttimes against a Jaguars accumulation that gives up 135.7 streaming yards per game.
Regardless of how they advise the ball, the Lions should invoke in a dominating action against the Jaguars. Not exclusive are the Jaguars hierarchical nearby the lowermost of the NFL statistically on defense, their choler is hierarchical departed terminal in points scored and yards per game.
This should be digit of Detroit's easiest games of the season. A intend would wage them a 4-4 achievement on the assemblage and place them in meliorate function to mayhap steal into the playoffs with a 9-7 record.
Prediction: Lions 30, Jaguars 17
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