Another Sunday, Another Defeat in Detroit

By Ashley VanOchten / @ashleyvanochten

DETROIT, Mich. — Another Sunday is in the books for the Detroit Lions and their luck hasn’t seemed to turn around. The Detroit Lions faced the Minnesota Vikings at Ford Field hoping for their second win of the season. Coming off of their first win last week, the Lions seemed ready to compete in the game and show their fans that they won’t give up on them. Going into the game the Lions held a record of 1-6 and the Vikings stood at 4-2.

Detroit seemed ready to battle and proved that they can be a winning team as they took off to a hot start in the 1st quarter. Early on Matt Stafford and Calvin Johnson were a forced to be reckoned with. Stafford made a beautiful throw to Johnson for their 50th touchdown connection between them and the Lions took a 7-0 lead. The Vikings had a forced field goal and the score moved to 7-3.

Stafford did more than show up this game as he connected with Eric Ebron shortly after for another touchdown, pushing the score to 14-3. The offense was humming, the fans were on their feet and it looked like a positive turnaround for this team. The Lions defense then forced another Vikings field goal to limit the damage.

Minnesota then fumbled the ball and Detroit recovered the ball, leading to a 52-yard Matt Prater field goal to increase the lead to 17-6 midway through the 2nd quarter.

But, the hot start seemed to cool off as the Lions looked to have lost all of the momentum they had going for them. The Vikings took over and began to dominate on both sides of the ball. Kyle Rudolph scored their first touchdown of the game and closed the gap. Add in a another Blair Walsh field goal and it was 17-15 in favor of Detroit at the break.

Minnesota snatched their first lead of the game early in the 3rd quarter with a highlight reel 36-yard touchdown grab by Stefon Diggs to bring the score to 22-17.

The Lions defense then was forced to hold strong and limit the Vikings to a single field goal and trailed 25-17. Matthew Stafford was sacked seven times on the day and the Lions seemed to look dysfunctional as the sacks became more frequent. The team began to unravel and their strong 1st quarter seemed like a distant memory as they proceeded to get dominated by the Vikings. The Lions faced yet another unfortunate loss on the season falling 28-19.

For a team to come out so strong and hungry for another win, they seemed to fall quickly once they began to get outrun by the Vikings. Heartbroken fans flooded out once they felt their team didn’t have the heart in the game anymore. Yet, other fans stayed and will stick behind their team as they hope for at least one more win this season. The Lions travel to London next to face the Kansas City Chiefs.

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