The Lions will not go winless

So, the Detroit Lions are 0-14, and it seems to be the consensus with the talking heads that they will more than likely lose their remaining two games to finish as the first team in NFL history to go 0-16. I just wanted to be on record as saying that they will definitely, no question about it, not go 0-16. Their next two games are at home against the Saints this Sunday, and they finish the season on the road against Green Bay. The Packers defense is pretty terrible, so maybe the Lions get lucky and pull that game out. But, it won’t matter at that point. Because they will absolutely beat the Saints this weekend. The only question is if the game will be close.

Let me just say that I don’t want the Saints to lose. I’m hoping Drew Brees can prove me wrong here and will the team to a win. But, I’ve been watching and following the Saints since I was a little kid (which unfortunately, was a really long time ago), and I know their m.o. pretty well. This is exactly the type of game they lose. I mean, just looking at recent history, you can go back to 1999 when the Saints gave up that hail mary as time expired, giving the reincarnated Browns their first franchise win. Or back in 2003 against the Jaguars, when they went 75 yards on the last play of the game, somehow lateraling the ball 3 different times in the process, only to lose the game because they missed the extra point. This is what they do. So, losing to an 0-14 team seems like just their thing.

Maybe if the Saints were still in the playoff race, or if Reggie “ow, my leg” Bush was going to be playing (on second thought, this might help them), or maybe if they hadn’t let the offensive coordinator leave the team early to go be the head coach at Syracuse, maybe then I’d think differently. But at this point, it seems to me the Saints have pretty much called it a season. And even if they haven't quit just yet, this still seems like the classic “team with nothing to lose vs. team with nothing to gain” scenario. When you add that to the Saints history of selective mediocrity, I’d say this one’s in the bag for the Lions.

On a scale of one to Gus Johnson, I give this a Troy Aikman.