Another blacked out home game, another game most fans in Detroit were lucky enough to miss. The lowly Leos fell to last year’s Super Bowl runner ups, the Arizona Cardinals by a final score of 31-24 Sunday to drop to 2-12 and in turn, improve their draft status. Dissecting this loss would be redundant and as boring as an afternoon not watching football because the team is blacked out, so I won’t. However, there are a few items of note.
For starters, Drew Stanton finally saw some action. Read into it what you will, but the Lions actually scored points with him as the quarterback, as opposed to the big fat zero they put up in the first half with Daunte’s inferno under center.
Secondly, for as meaningless as Week 15 is for a 2-11 team, it’s still nice that the Lions didn’t just roll over for the Cardinals to have their way with them. This could have been a complete disaster when the Cardinals took a 17-0 lead into the half, but the Lions found some special juices, or something not named Daunte Culpepper, in their lockers because they played like they actually cared in the second half. If only they had (some more) talent.
Lastly, the Lions found a gem in rookie safety from Western Michigan, Louis Delmas. Today he had a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown, his second defensive touchdown this season. All signs indicate that he has the potential to develop into a premier safety in the NFL, something the Lions haven’t had grace their secondary since the Bennie Blades glory days. Let’s just hope Delmas stays away from the standings, we don’t want the Lions losing this youngster to an unfortunate suicide:
“I don’t really pay attention to (our) record,” he said, when asked how much the losing is bothering him. “But if I did, I’d probably kill myself.
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