Schwartz will have the Lions going into the game with an “us vs. the world” attitude … the city of Detroit lives with that attitude every day, and the team has monstrous support. The footage of the idiotic mistakes/penalties in the last visit to the Big Easy will also help keep players focused on just one thing – winning this one game.

I think we win, but I also think it will be a very exciting game – maybe one of the most exciting games of the playoffs.

I feel a little bad for my friends who are Denver fans. It’s cool that their team made the playoffs, but I think they’d be more comfortable if they were talking about Tebow’s off season workout program rather than his potential for a very embarassing playoff loss.

Go Lions!

And Denver will still have a shot at the W late in the game.

You make valid points that support your optimism about a Lions victory, and you may be right.

On the Saints side, I give you the fact that they are on a mission and still smarting over the embarassment in the Seattle game, and they are 8-0 in the HomeDome this year. The defense has started playing better since Vilma is back.

It should be an entertaining game however and by no means are we pencilling in a W. I think all the teams in the playoffs have a shot at the title.

So what you really have is one rookie playing very well, and one rookie forced to play. That’s not much of a “historic moment.”

The Lions pretty much handled the Saints in the second half of that 31-17 loss. Brees had one mega quarter with huge plays (the 2nd) and then was pretty much contained. Stafford trashed that Saints defense, even with zero running game.

Plus, if I am the Lions, i might be happier to be playing inside a dome, facing a defense that has to blitz to bring pressure as opposed to having to play outside in NY against Tuck, Osi and JPP.

Look at it this way, Saturday the Lions will have the best player on the field (CJ) and a stud QB. They’ll be 100% healthy on defense for the first time in 8 weeks and they are playing a team that will be feeling the pressure of expectations. Why exactly would they feel ‘outgunned or outmanned’ ?

This will be a very interesting game.

Yates is also the first rookie QB drafted in round five or later during the modern draft era (since 1967) to start a playoff game

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Dalton is the first rookie qb taken outside the first round to start all sixteen games and make the playoffs.

Tom Brady was a 6th round pick.
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But he didn’t play his rookie year

Tom Brady was a 6th round pick.

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He did not start a playoff game as a rookie. It was in his 2nd year

1. Lions have had their B secondary on the field since halftime on Thanksgiving (having kept Rodgers to 7 points in that half). They’ll all be back in this game.

2. Fairley owned Brees for the limited time he played in the last game. Suh will, at least, do the same. The intimidation factor will be high. Brees will be off.

3. The Lions D (especially the B secondary) gave 50% effort against GB and Flynn thinking it wouldn’t need more. There was minimal gain to win. They let the offenses work it out. This will not be a factor against the Stains. The D will be out to kill or be killed.

4. At a chemical level, teams still think these new Lions are the old Lions. Must be the Honolulu blue. They are underestimated. The Stains, at their core, believe they are better. Disadvantage.

5. If the Lions “dome team” can throw for 520 yards and 5 tds in windy, cold GB, imagine what they will do in a…dome against a similar defense.

I totally understand people don’t want to see the Lions. After all, historically, it’s still the Lions. As they become more dominant, that will change.

Tom Brady was a 6th round pick.

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No it expanded by two, as in Brady & Stafford have been added to the club this year. Brees already threw over 5000 yards last year.

Shouldn’t it be “the club has expanded by 3″ as Brady also threw for over 5, 000 yards this year?
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No because Brees was already in the 5000 club and this yr Brady n stafford did it.

Right after the Saints-Lions game!
It will be broadcasted live with no tape delay!

Kickoff iss scheduled for 12:30 AM

Lions 37
Saints 31

That’s some shameful promotion right there. There is no need to advertise NBC as much as you did in this article. It could have been written differently very easily. Just saying.
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How is it shameful for PFT to pimp a broadcast of which PFT will be a part?

Just sayin’.