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Originally Posted by SmashMouth (Post 619640)

The team is what it is. It's certainly not what we all wanted and expected it to be. Now that we have proper expectations after a 2-4 start, we can temper our enthusiasm to pre-SP years, kinda like Slo-Mo has been doing with the Lions - FOR YEARS. :lol:

I know you guys don't want to hear from me, and it's too bad, because I honestly feel I could give you some perspective, as pointed out by Smash (had to fix your post at the end there, though, ;)), just as you guys have given me a place to discuss "winning" football the past few seasons. I honestly enjoy hanging around the board and would have preferred the Lions lost because that's "how we do" on Sundays & it means a heckuva' lot more to you than it did to me.

It's a game, fellas. Let me tell you "What the Lions win means". It means I woke up in the same bed October 20th as I did on October 19th. It means the Lions now have a better chance to go 7-9 (or even 8-8), finish second/third in their Division and miss the playoffs .... again. It means my life doesn't change a single iota, and probably neither does yours.

It's a heartbreaking way to lose a game and I strongly empathize with each and every one of you ... strongly. Losing a game in the final minutes has been the Lions m.o. since about ... oh, 1957 or so ... a few years before I was even born and the Saints were even in the league. I'm just as surprised as the next guy that this one wound up the way it did, because it certainly isn't characteristic of either the Saints or the Lions, IMO.

I'm reading some of these threads. Do you guys really believe there is a conspiracy by the NFL and the refs to elevate the Lions status in the league and get them into the playoffs? The Lions? Detroit? Really? The day I ever see anyone outside the City of Detroit step up and actually do/say something for the City of Detroit other than kicking 'em when they're down, will be the day I die, eh? Ridiculous.

IDK. Count your blessings, I guess. I'd kill for a team that has been to the playoffs 4-outta'-5, a SuperBowl, a HOF QB, played in a warm-weather climate, et ... just sayin' ... it's a loss, it'll happen in the NFL now & again. If there's any team in the NFL that has shown that it can handle adversity, it's the Saints. My money says the Saints still make the postseason & the Lions won't, so whatever.

This stuff happens in the NFL all over, all the time. It's been going on with the Lions for as long as I can remember. At least with the Saints, the organization was able to elevate itself, for the fans, above all that and become one of the elite teams. So you're encountering a few bumps in the road, now all of a sudden the Saints, Drew Brees, et ... don't have the cajones to right the ship? They do, and I guess that's what I'm trying to tell you guys, if the roles were reversed and the Lions had lost that game, it would have been their swan-song for the season. The Saints will get this turned around. They've done it before.

Perspective. You take the good with the bad. If it doesn't kill you, it only makes you stronger. We live to fight another day. It's always darkest before the dawn. It's just a game.

Continue to march. I'll be rooting for ya', :).