Quote:Yeah buddy. I'm liking the Lions this year. 

 

 

Thanks, Rachel!

 

Tying this discussion into a Jaguars theme,   at one point in yesterday's game in Chicago,  there were 4 former Jaguars on the field when the Lions were on Defense:    CB Rashean Mathis,  Nickel Back Don Carey,   DT C.J. Mosley,  and DE Austen Lane.    Carey came off the bench after rookie CB Darius Slay struggled mightily and Brandon Marshall and co.    Slay is going through major growing pains this season.     Carey more than held his own and made two outstanding tackles in this game.     As for Mathis,   I don't even want to think where the Lions would be if the team didn't sign him back in August.     Certainly,  this team wouldn't be 6-3.     Considering this was Lane's first regular season action in the NFL this season,   in limited action,   he performed better than I expected.   He even had a QB pressure.

 

 Unfortunately,   Montell Owens injured his left knee again early in the game.    This was Owens'  first regular season action after being on Short Term I.R.      Jim Schwartz mentioned today that he thinks it will be a short term injury.   Hopefully,  that will prove to be the case.

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