2017 Week 9 Monday Game Ball

Aliens have officially landed on earth and played football last night. The Lions and Packers game didn’t make sense last night.

From the start of the game, the Lions didn’t play like they were going to win the game. The play calling by Jim Bob Cooter was just nonsensical, yet the Lions had the advantage all night long. I watched the first half of this game and didn’t understand what kind of football that I was watching. The first three drives the Lions just didn’t call good plays on first or second down. If Aaron Rodgers wasn’t sitting on the sidelines and was under center, the Packers would have blown Detroit out of the water.

The Packers defense played well enough to keep the Packers in the game. Except for the fact that Brett Hundley is the quarterback of the Packers. 14-3 at half is a score that the Packers could handle, if Aaron Rodgers was playing. I picked the Lions as a dark horse playoff candidate and after watching Detroit last night I was dead wrong. Part of it is the injuries that the Lions have suffered this year but the Lions have a ton of glaring holes on this team. If the Lions didn’t have Matthew Stafford, they would be the Cleveland Browns.

The game ball in this foreign football game hurts me to do this, but I have too. I know fantasy football doesn’t matter at all, but I benched my game ball recipient for a guy who had only 3.9 points. That would be the Detroit Lions Wide Out Marvin Jones Jr. Jones of course, would absolutely blow up when I finally bench him. Jones had seven receptions for 107 and both of Stafford’s touchdown passes.


A troubling week for the NFL ends with a game that shows the shakiness of the play in the league, hopefully it can get better for Thursday where we have the struggling Seattle Seahawks and a team with Drew Stanton under center… Dear God can football be saved? 

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