Lions Postgame: WE GOT A BYE

[Godgers]

BoOm Sue suspended for wild card round. He deserves a 4 game suspension but its a start. Guy is a bum and someone needs to go all Ray Rice/AP on him.

[DanoMac]

My avatar sums up one of the best moments of the season

[emunney]

Slocum may be a problem. Some of our special teams issues have always been tied to inexperience, though. We always have one of the youngest teams in the league and those guys all cut their teeth on ST.

[crkone]

Slocum swears the protection is the problem and not the kicks.

[RRyder823]

If our biggest problem is blocking on FG attempts I'll take it all day. Yes it should be addressed but when put up to how big of an issue our run defense was going into the bye ill take the correctable blocking issues over being worried about stopping the run just to give some perspective

[MickeyDavis]

Matthews only played 15 of 53 snaps inside

For the second week in a row, the Packers cut back Julius Peppers' playing time. Instead of his customary 75 to 80%, he was down to 63% in Tampa and 48% Sunday. Fourth-quarter pass rush remains one of the integral components of successful defense, and if fresh legs enabled Peppers to produce as he did late the Packers were the better for it. Granted, Reynolds is a pushover, and most of Peppers' late damage came one-on-one against him in a colossal mismatch. He also tipped two passes with his gigantic wingspan. The other snap counts outside were 53 for Clay Matthews (he played 15 inside), 30 for Mike Neal (he also had 22 on the line), 25 for Nick Perry and four for Jayrone Elliott. Matthews was violent, as usual. One time Sims was double-teaming the nose tackle when Matthews shot forward from ILB and crashed over the top of the guard as they both mashed to the ground. The ball was somewhere else. Matthews made a great play on the two-point conversion, scrambling off TE Brandon Pettigrew's block and upending Bell a foot short. He also beat hapless TE Kellen Davis inside a few times. However, despite being double-teamed just 33% on individual rushes, he never beat LT Riley Reiff. Matthews makes and misses plays, hits everything that moves and keeps offenses on edge. Neal and Perry combined for several tackles after shedding blocks by Pettigrew. It was more of the same for SLB Sam Barrington (41). He's a more explosive hitter than base ILB A.J. Hawk (22) or dime LB Brad Jones (28). Barrington also is giving up his share of big plays with imprecise zone drops and mistakes, gets engulfed at times and lacks desired speed to the boundary. Jones cost the Packers a TD with a third-and-13 slap to the side of Matthew Stafford's helmet. He didn't get much done in eight A-gap blitzes, lunged against RB Theo Riddick and allowed a 21-yard check-down, and showed agility deficiencies in space. He does provide a far more physical presence than Hawk.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

Great headline if you are a GoT fan.