By now the familiarity of the game ending score should be self evident. Great try but no ‘cigar’. Failure to finish produces the same old results.

By my observation, the meltdown started with 7 minutes to go in the third quarter. A stupid penalty negated a good play. Follow this up with a few ‘false start’ penalties and it’s game over.

Game stats provide the glaring obvious, with apologies to Stevie Wonder. Opposing receivers with over 390 yards receiving tell the tale. Coupled with a ‘low rent’ running game and you have your expected conclusion. Fundamentally, the Lion’s pass defense is the hopeless flaw to our 65th year of rebuilding. Goff is not capable of offsetting this deluge of defensive weakness.

Discounting mental illness, let’s hope corrective actions do not include trading away current talent for a few ‘end of life’ players in a simplistic show of progress.