Lions lose to San Francisco 20-6

Short and sweet today.  The Lions lost, again, yesterday to the San Francisco 49ers 20-6.  The first drive of the game for the Lions looked pretty good until they got into the redzone and couldn’t get the TD.  They settled for a Jason Hanson field goal to go up 3-0.  It all went down hill big time from there.  Mistake after mistake.  Very disappointing.

The D looked good at times.  Delmas, Levy and Hunter performed well as did the Line and LB’s at times.  Those yelling for Sims to be traded should shut up now.  Thank you.  The secondary still sucks and, except for Delmas, couldn’t defend my 9 year old.  The offense looked horrible.  6 turnovers included picks by Stanton and fumbles by Calvin Johnson.  The return game wasn’t much better.  Witherspoon looked ok but Northcutt is a wuss and fair catches everything.

Cuplepper came in during the second half and looked like normal, old and washed up.  Stanton should get the start next week unless they want to try and play Patrick Ramsey, who they signed a few days ago as insurance to replace Matthew Stafford who is finishing the season on IR..

Overall, this was an extremely poor performance by the Lions.  They return home for the last game of the season this coming Sunday against the Bears.  The Lions are guaranteed, at worst, the #3 pick in the draft.  If the Rams win against the 49ers next week, the Lions could end up with the first pick and Suh.  I seriously doubt the Rams would take anyone else but him at #1 so here’s hoping the Rams win.

Pretty soon everything will turn to draft discussion, if it hasn’t already.  Hopefully the Lions will do as well in the ‘10 draft as they did last year and maybe they’ll get lucky in free agency.  Looking forward to the offseason myself.