Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 04:31 PM
What do you say boys? Time for a little bit of Football, by far my favorite sport.
Since the Lions are my hometown team and I have followed them since I started playing football when I was 10 yrs. old, I decided to start a blog. I will talk about the past weeks game as well as the upcoming game.
Feel free to chime in with whatever you boys want, good or bad. I am a big boy and can take it......plus, the Lions have been bad for some time now, so I am use to hearing from all my friends.
When going into this season I saw a team that went 7-9 last year and did absolutely nothing to improve on their team.....then training camp came.
Their D looks so much better than I thought it would. Their O looks more balanced (even though they only avg. 3.4 yds. per carry in the pre-season), they ran the ball an average of about 23 times per game last year.....this pre-season alone they averaged 31 carries.
This more balanced O will help keep the pass rushers off of Kitna. He didn't face any real pressure all pre-season. The addition of Rudi Johnson will help.
The D should benefit from the O holding onto the ball for more sustained drives, thus making them more fresh when they come out. This D was ranked last in the league last year. From what I have seen in the pre-season, they should improve to middle of the pack, this will have me putting some coin on their Over win total this ye... [More]