A Game You're Supposed to Lose?

W, Detroit Lions 23 - Tampa Bay Bucaneers 17

Every year it is the same - there is at least one game through the course of each season that your team should lose and doesn't, one it should win but won't and the mark of the upper echelon teams is that they win either scenario. Today's game was one that the current team would find a way to lose.

Jeff Garcia returned to Detroit after getting the Marinelli and Millen silent treatment (just ask Tatum Bell) and shown the door even though he was injured. He played as though he had a chip on his shoulder and the stats reflected it. Garcia led a well balanced Tampa attack (reserve back Earnest Graham gained 191 all-purpose yards (92 rush, 99 receiving) with over three hundred yards passing and the game was for all intents and purposes, dominated by the swashbucklers.

Detroit was again opportunistic and that was the difference in this one, holding the Bucs late rally enough to secure their FIFTH win of the season. Is it time to get excited yet?


My highlight of the game was the end around by Calvin Johnson for a 32-yard touchdown run. Man is he big quick and strong!