Back when the Lions were 6-2 I stated that it would be a colossal failure if they didn't make the playoffs. They had eight games left. All they had to do was win three to four games which would have sealed the deal...and they couldn't do that!

Yeah, mathematically playoff hope lives with 3 games left, but it's not going to happen. Don't allow yourself to get sucked in to thinking that it can either. That kind of optimism leads to a pit of hopelessness from which there is no escape. It's a black hole, a place where there is no light. Your positivity is wasted on such foolish daydreams. Do not go there...

Hell of an effort against the Cowboys, but it didn’t make up for that dog o####ame against the Vikings. The bottom line was all the same, loss, loss and likely another loss coming on the road in San Diego as the Chargers fight to make the playoffs themselves.

As for the Lions they managed to find a way to show the football-watching nation that those six wins to start the season were the most deceiving six wins in the league. Now they take the field looking like the team we're all use to watching, the team that we watch every Sunday to see in just what fashion they'll blow this weeks' game.

The Lions are not an elite NFL team. The Lions are not going to the playoffs. Rod Marinelli, try as he might, is not going to be the NFL Coach of the Year.

Now that all is once again right with the world, we can go back to accepting our football-fate here in Motown. We must reconcile ourselves once again to being on the outside looking in. Again, as opposed to being a Super Bowl contender, we must settle for being among the also-rans. It's not a bad thing; it just is what it is. A bad thing is what's taking place down in Miami. Think about that for a minute.