What a game that was! For the objective outsider that must have been a fun game to watch. Sunday Night prime time fun. Tirico and Collins(gag)worth(y) were beside themselves with the insanity of these high-flying offenses marching up and down the field scoring TDs. Reminiscent really of the old 60’s AFL days and their high-scoring affairs. And it really was a blast watching this offense just cruising up and down the field. In fact when we forced the FG late, I thought that we would score to take the lead.

Holding it would be a different matter.

To me it was an exercise in frustration to watch our defense just get smoked over and over on the same plays that have plagued this team all season. Screens, delayed dumps, and 10 yard crossers continually befuddle these guys. And the occasional deep pass. This defense is supposed to stop that, but we stopped neither.

I get that we are undermanned, but there were situations where we should have forced the issue rather than play soft. The 3rd and 14 especially. On the first two drives that we shut down, we played press man on 3rd down and blitzed 5 & 6. It worked both times. On the 3rd and 14 later we played soft and it bit us hard with a 20 yard gain.

We did try blitzing Lenoir but that rarely worked. I just felt like Saleh had no answer for Ben Johnson’s offense and he was outcoached. And I get how now Deetroit isn’t nearly as good on offense this season without him.

Still and all a win is a win is a win and we are in position to lock down the #1 seed with a win over Seattle. Given all the ups and downs this year, that is amazing. Kinda sucks that we get rewarded for this by getting flexed to Saturday night tho.

Bring on the Seahawks!!!