Lions defeat Jets, 23-3

[NDMick]

The linebackers are freaking slow.

Speed rushers, if the DL fails to wreck havoc, will kill this LB corp.

Pace and Harris are glaciers.

The OL looked fine. I hope the chemistry with Fitz comes sooner than later. There are good WRs out there. Ivory is so much fun to watch.

Return game looked great tonight.

I liked the few reps I saw from MacDougle. I hope this kid rises up the depth chart during the year.

Mauldin has the tools to be a player in this league. His timing needs to get better. It'll take some time.

This Lions team is good, and the Jets aren't.

Seeing Petty throw for an extended time was nice.

[Johnny English]

Matthew Stafford didn't get hurt. Game was a bust.

[Badger]

The linebackers are freaking slow.

Speed rushers, if the DL fails to wreck havoc, will kill this LB corp.

Pace and Harris are glaciers.

Yeah, this was pretty obvious last night and there's really no way around it. They're all slow except for Davis.

Hopefully Bowles can implement a scheme to mitigate this, because there's nothing the team can do about it until next year unless Mauldin somehow overtakes Pace, but he's no speed demon either.

[bojanglesman]

I don't know how you can read too much into anything in that game.  Tackling sucked.  The rest (good and bad) can be chalked up to being a preseason game.

[Tommy]

How was Leonard Williams?

[bojanglesman]

How was Leonard Williams?

Black

[Derek Smalls]

I didn't see much of the 2nd half, so maybe things got better, but Calvin Pryor looked like he did last year in the 1st half. That's not a good thing.

[Tommy]

Black

Hahahhaa

[Laxin]

I didn't see much of the 2nd half, so maybe things got better, but Calvin Pryor looked like he did last year in the 1st half. That's not a good thing.

Brandin Cooks scored a TD...

[Heismanberg]

They're all slow except for Davis.

Ameer Abdullah made Davis look stupid on that long run.

[Laxin]

Ameer Abdullah made Davis look stupid on that long run.

He's going to be good. He'll catch a ton of passes in that offense and will get a whole lot of work to damage in space.

[Heismanberg]

I think he'll be a nice player too, but we have to remember that last night we were without Mo Wilkerson and Sheldon Richardson.

Both of those players make things easier on all of the linebackers, even the ones that are permanently running in mud. 

[NDMick]

Ameer Abdullah made Davis look stupid on that long run.

I'm worried about all 4 of them.

Mauldin looks the part. I'm rooting for him to act the part.

As much as the Jets need help at QB, they need help at LB. It's been ignored or gholston'd for far too long.

[Libero_2]

I'm worried about all 4 of them.

Mauldin looks the part. I'm rooting for him to act the part.

As much as the Jets need help at QB, they need help at LB. It's been ignored or gholston'd for far too long.

I think Davis and Mauldin are the only top four round LBs we've taken since Gholston in 08, and I believe we've only taken 5 overall since Gholston

Davis
Mauldin
George
Enemkpali
Reilly

And we wonder why our LBs are old as excrement.

[Johnny English]

I think Babin is reasonably fast, but we've only seen him used as a situational player to go after the QB. I'm presuming there's a reason for that.