Lions play 4 full quarters!

Jones got his 100+ game and we won the turn over battle... like I said last week, and we won! But in addition to my request, the boys went ahead and got Roy Williams a 161 yard game, 3.5 sacks for Hall, and 67% pass completion for Kitna!

What a day Mr. Hall. And our Defense against the run in general. Can you imagine what it would be like if Hall and Rogers had a great day?!

Even though Jones had a good game we really need to work on our short yardage downs. There should have been 7 more points on the board pretty early but somehow we failed to get it into the end zone from a yard out.

Overall I would say the thing I am the most excited about is that we played for 4 quarters! Instead of playing 2 or 3 great ones... we actually played a full game.

Fun Stats.
On this pace Kitna will have 4,224 yards at the end of the season.
Roy Williams, pretty much didn’t play last week, leads the NFL in Rec. yards.
90..9... Pennington's QB Rating
30th... Our pass defense rank in the league :(

What impressed me about Sunday...
- The ability to close out the game. Played the full 60 minutes.
- Roy Williams 161 yards on 10 catches.
- Kevin Jones averaging 5.5 yards a carry for 127 yards!
- Hall with his big bad self... 3.5 sacks, forced fumble!
- Stopping the run! Keep that up guys.
- Getting pressure on the QB, this needs to be done next week!

What made me nervous...
- Our inability to punch it in on such short yardage.
- While we won the turnover war, we still need to work on holding onto the ball.
- Our secondary is still giving up some of the big plays, I think we get one of our starters back Sunday but I have to check.
- Red Zone efficiency for this game was 1-3... that has got to improve.

Next week. At the NY Jets.
Not having Curtis Martin will be good news for us; however I do believe we can stop the run no matter who is carrying the ball. The bad news for us is now there is a bigger chance for them to go to an air attack, and Chad can get it done. Overall I think we are a better team. Right now Vegas thinks the Jets are a 3.5 point better team.

Final Thought
The Jets at home is the advantage they have. I was so hoping they would beat Miami but just barely... for some reason I think that changes the attitude of the players. The Lions getting their first win hopefully sparked the taste and desire for another. If they can pull this game off and go into the bye week winning our previous two, that would be a very good thing.