NFL Divisional Playoffs: T B Buccaneers @ OUR DETROIT LIONS
[Thread originally titled: "OT: NFL Sunday Divisional games - discussion"; changed to reflect the fact that the MGoBoard membership overwhelmingly consists of Detroit Lions fans ---rob f]
Two divisional NFL games today. The Lions host Tampa Bay at 3:00 pm with the winner heading to SF for the Conference Championship next weekend. And, tonight - KC visits Buffalo with the winner heading to Baltimore.
The Packers collapse yesterday means this is the last game at Ford Field for the Lions this season.
Thoughts - reactions - perspectives?
GO LIONS!
January 21st, 2024 at 6:27 PM ^
Gotta say, I’ve always liked D Barnes. Even when he was at Purdue. I love how this team and Michigan are so similar in makeup. They play for each other! Have each other’s back. Genuinely love their coaches and the chemistry. Go Lions!
January 21st, 2024 at 6:29 PM ^
Congratulations to Lions fans! Looking forward to hosting you next week in SF!
January 21st, 2024 at 6:29 PM ^
Will we ever be able to describe something as "Lionesque" ever again?
January 21st, 2024 at 6:35 PM ^
Ugh! 3 1/2 hours of Nantz and Romo.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:03 PM ^
And Taylor
January 21st, 2024 at 8:11 PM ^
Nope Mitch Holthus on SiriusXM like all my Chiefs games
January 21st, 2024 at 6:44 PM ^
Congrats to the Lions and all the fans who stuck with them through thick and thin. Happy for you.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:46 PM ^
Would’ve like to see my hometown Bucs steal a win, but they got beat by a better team and it’s hard not to root for the Lions, anyway. Hard not to keep rooting for Aidan, so I’ll be rooting for Detroit the rest of the way!
January 21st, 2024 at 6:48 PM ^
Great awareness by Allen there, just barely backwards
January 21st, 2024 at 6:49 PM ^
It was Dave Casper, not Franco Harris
January 21st, 2024 at 6:52 PM ^
uhm, guys? guys!? fairly certain this is signaling the end of the world.
just sayin'.
January 21st, 2024 at 6:52 PM ^
So, do the Lions get the Rilo Kiley treatment now?
January 21st, 2024 at 10:21 PM ^
No. That's only for us. Let the Lions blogs come up with their own motif.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:04 PM ^
I love it Vlady!!!
Just a random thought....
Where the hell is MGoOhNo with his snark and SOL bullshit. It appears he is too busy eating crow or maybe he's hiding somewhere in Los Angeles 🤔😱🤣
January 21st, 2024 at 7:02 PM ^
ONE WIN FROM THE SUPER BOWL.
I cannot believe I just typed that. I’ll go bite a knee cap now.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:05 PM ^
Repeat post. Oops.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:18 PM ^
These Bills KC games are always crazy good.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:30 PM ^
LET'S GO BEAT THE NINERS!!!
January 21st, 2024 at 7:33 PM ^
Best Lions team in my fandom, which goes back to 1972. Im beginning to believe a Super Bowel title is on the way
January 21st, 2024 at 7:47 PM ^
I’m sure it will be an explosive experience, amirite?!
January 21st, 2024 at 7:49 PM ^
Making it there and renaming it the Super Bowel would be the most Lions thing ever. Or let’s just say the most pre-2023 Lions thing ever.
January 22nd, 2024 at 3:01 AM ^
Most *Loins* thing, ever.
January 21st, 2024 at 7:49 PM ^
I'd like to see the Lions vs the Chiefs in the super bowl. Though, I fear this will go the same way as '92. Detroit beat the Cowboys handily in the home playoff game, but then went on the road to play the red skins and got blown out. But this year our QB is better, so it may be a close game and the lions could have a chance to make it to the super bowl.
January 21st, 2024 at 8:43 PM ^
Lions match up better with Niners. Niners strengths is run game and TE. Not so much WR outside of Deebo.
January 21st, 2024 at 10:40 PM ^
I hope you're right. The only lines I've looked at for next weekend are on ESPN:
49ers open at -7 in the NFC championship while the Ravens are -3 in the AFC Title game.
January 22nd, 2024 at 7:49 PM ^
I was surprised it was only 7 given that 3 of that is for home field advantage.
January 22nd, 2024 at 3:40 AM ^
The Hogs beat the Lions the first game of the season that year, 45-0. I still remember how badly the Lions’ lines were overmatched in that playoff game. It was clear from the outset. The Lions were a sucker’s bet. The Lions can beat any team left (they have beaten the Chiefs).
January 21st, 2024 at 7:56 PM ^
I prefer it goes more like the last road Playoff win for the Lions. 1957 Detroit goes to SF and wins Western Conference Title game and then demolish Browns in Championship game 59-14!
January 21st, 2024 at 9:37 PM ^
Joe knows his Lions history.
January 21st, 2024 at 8:18 PM ^
Atmosphere was crazy. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a game that loud
January 22nd, 2024 at 2:26 AM ^
Perspective: the last time the Lions won a road playoff game was at Kezar Stadium (eight blocks from Haight-Ashbury, my old neighborhood). In 1957. The fall Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” dropped.
LGL. Beat the Niners.
January 22nd, 2024 at 8:02 PM ^
Wow. The Bucs actually did have a timeout, and both the Lions and the Bucs misplayed it. I was thinking NBC HAD to be wrong. Both the Lions and the Bucs couldn't be that stupid, could they?
https://brobible.com/sports/article/bucs-final-timeout-fans-confused/
This is the craziest thing I've ever seen in football. I don't know what's dumber. The Lions snap it early or the Bucs not using the last timeout to try to win the game.
The Lions took over with 1:32 (92 seconds) to go and the Bucs really did have that time out. That's pre-2nd down + pre-3rd down + pre 4th down - 1 timeout = 2 running clocks = 80 seconds. Plus the Lions had 4 running plays to bleed the residual 12 seconds, or only 3 seconds/live play needed.
But the Lions blow the time management and the Bucs let the opportunity slide by. Any Tampa player could have walked up to the umpire and called timeout. But no one did.