2017 Week 2 Monday Game Ball

Football has just been bad… Last night was a decent game until the very end with some sloppy play from the Giants. I took on the Giants problems on my podcast. The Thursday, Sunday, and Monday Night schedules have not nearly as good as we hoped they would be. Thursday has never been good, but the Monday and Sunday night games have not been what we hoped they would be. With the ‘9ers and Rams playing on Thursday it won’t change immediately, but hopefully it will change before the end of the season. There will be many football fans flatlined by the end of the year if the Prime-Time games will continue be as lack luster as they have been.


Getting to the game last night, it was a good road win for the Detroit Lions and just a bad loss for the Giants. Absolute fantastic game from Detroit ruining the 10th anniversary of the 2007 Super Bowl winning team. Matthew Stafford had a good not great game going 15/21 for 122 yards, and 2 touchdowns while running 3 times for 23 big yards. But, the game ball goes Detroit Lions Defensive End Ezekiel Ansah for having a team high 6 tackles and 3 sacks. Ansah also forced a fumble for the Lions. The Lions had 5 sacks as a team and just wreaked havoc on that Giants offensive line. This Lions team will not win the Super Bowl this year but might have a real shot at the NFC North the way the Packers looked in Atlanta plus all of the injuries that Green Bay suffered on Sunday Night. The Lions are looking good at 2-0 and the Giants look the exact opposite and need to go back to the drawing board. Hopefully, the Prime-Time football can wake up and actual be the Prime-Time football of past years.   

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