Lions Midseason Report Card

The Lions sit at the bye week with a 6-2 record, a relatively healthy roster and, for the first time since the horrific collapse of 2007, a legitimate shot at snapping an 11-year playoff drought.
"Being 6-2 won't mean much if we don't do something in the second half," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. "You look back and see things that we have done well and things that we still need to work on — there are still a lot of things on that 'need to be worked on' side of the equation."

Hopefully, this mid-term assessment will acknowledge both sides of the equation; the superlatives and the concerns going forward.
-- Chris McCosky


Photo Report Card - click here

i thought mccosky did a good job. m2k s grades were ok but a some of what was written didnt correlate with on field game play - probably a product of him admittedly not watching all of the games or only portions of the games.

everyone seems to be underrating stafford or at least saying they expected him to be as good as he s been which seems like a stretch to me. stafford started out the season by far exceeding expectations and then had a weak game against ATL and an average game against SF but overall he has far exceeded what most people expected of him going into training camp.

Since when was stafford on pace to throw for over 50 TDs? 40? Sure...but that's not the record

:arrow: I love a good article. And M2k is always good for an accurate article.

The only things I would disagree with are three.

1. QB - A- at absolutely positively worse. I know we all want to be judgmental, but lets think about this for 2 seconds. Stafford is on pace to break the record for TD's and when is the last time we had a better QB? Never sounds about right. Tom Brady has less TD's and double the interceptions, and he's pretty good. Just saying.

2. The RB's have a better grade than the offensive line. REALLY? our RB's have sucked flat out, never really getting into any kind of groove, minus the one or two good runs Best had against the bears. I don't blame the O line for that, or half of Staffords sacks. The Oline is a top 10 Oline, and we just don't see that because we don't realize how BAD some of the others are. We have faced two of the sack leaders in the NFL, and still have a less sacks than most teams. Just saying

3. Defensive line. A- at worst. They play the scheme given them. They play it well. They are the main ingredient in pass defense, sacks, and unfortunately run defense, but it's what they are asked to do. They straight up can dominate a game and have only just begun to reach their potential.

Other than that pretty fair grading. I really enjoyed the article, just think that these grade's equate more to a husband who expects a perfect wife to make his eggs over easy instead of over medium 9 times out of 10. Over medium is better than scrambled, considering that 6-2 is on pace for 12-4.

I realize 2007 happened, but so did 2008 and the 4-0 preseason. Not the same team.

I like these better (than again, I may be slightly biased towards the site)

http://www.lionbacker.com/index.asp?id= ... -midgrades

Link don't work...

weird, works for me. You can't cut and paste because the Link is truncated for space purposes here but if you click on the link it should work fine.