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Detroit Lions Week 3 Song of the Game: ‘Oh Yeah’ Song of the Game is back. Each week Jahlani Tavai Jersey 2019 , we’ll use a song to describe our feeling or the Lions’ performance from the previous game. At the end of the year, we’ll have a complete Spotify playlist telling the story of the Lions’ 2018 season. You can check out the 2017 playlist here, and our explanations for our choices here.Was that good for you?I’m of a mind to write the Patriots game as a one-off: a bizarre abomination that will never see the light of day again, forgotten among the debris of a digital sea of information that grows exponentially every second; already too vast for memory to hold. The Patriots defense is at present terrible, the Lions are a goddamn enigma.And yet, there’s an undeniable beauty, sincere and sublime Youth Jahlani Tavai Jersey , in watching Tom Brady—a man so committed to perfection in the art of football and football-shaped things that he subordinates himself to the whims of an insane trainer and, I don’t know, drinks his own urine or whatever—throw a ball 30 yards deep to a referee and get flagged for intentional grounding.Look again, and there it is along the fringes of sight as you watch the Patriots defense open up like so many waves on the Red Sea and allow Kerryon Johnson to rush through.Some would say there’s no beauty in rooting for downfalls. I disagree. Read your Shelley.You’d think this is too much on the Patriots and not enough on the Lions, and you’d be right. That said, both are needed for this gumbo to work. It’s important that the Lions looked good, and it’s important that the team they beat also looked bad White Jahlani Tavai Jersey , and that team was also the Patriots. Do you see how this works? Do you see what cosmic bounty is before us?“Oh Yeah” is generally considered “that one song from ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’” and not for the spastically trippy lyrics and music video. We should be celebrating this. The movie is fine but it’s held to a much higher standard by Gen Xers than I can fathom (honestly, the track plays over two guys staring at a restored Ferrari. So lame.)Anyway we’ve digressed. “Oh Yeah” is simple, beautiful, and has overtones of bliss. It doesn’t ask for any more analysis than that. I think that’s about fitting for the Detroit Lions victory. If you’d start to pick it apart more you might find terrible things, like maybe some sort of flaw in Matthew Stafford’s delivery that still hasn’t been killed or more opponent analysis and schedule watching and oops now everything isn’t cool anymore.No man. Just drink it in. The moon... beautiful.I think I can get away with finishing this up now and Jeremy won’t ask for anything else. The Detroit Lions are 3-6 and falling fast. If the problems with the team were nice and simple, you’d like to think the coaching staff—even as green as they are—would be able to make some progress in chipping away at those issues. Unfortunately for Detroit, there are a lot of things wrong with the team right now Jahlani Tavai Jersey Mens , and no turnaround seems imminent. I’m not sure it’s fair to say head coach Matt Patricia is in over his head, but it’s also clear that his work is cut out for him not just this year but likely for next, as well.So today’s Question of the Day is:What is the Lions’ biggest problem right now?My answer: I think the biggest thing holding this Detroit Lions team back is their inability to defend the pass in any sort of way. Patricia and defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni have said multiple times this year that pass defense relies on the cooperation between the pass rushing abilities of your front seven combined with the play of the secondary. Unfortunately for the Lions, they don’t do either of those things particularly well, and the results are disastrous. Detroit ranks 31st in passer rating allowed (116.8), 31st in yards per attempt allowed (8.9) and27th in completion percentage (69.0). Ouch.Admittedly, teams can succeed in today’s NFL without a proper pass defense. The Saints (108.8) and Rams (98.9) both rank in the bottom 10 in passer rating allowed Kenny Golladay Jersey , but are considered two of the best teams in league. Obviously, the Lions don’t have an offense at those levels where they can compensate for such a poor defense, which, again, points to how complicated this team’s issues right now. But it all comes back to that pass defense right now.The league is getting more and more successful through the air, and the Lions are getting worse and worse at defending it. I hate to say it, but we haven’t seen a pass defense this bad in Detroit since 2008. Granted Michael Roberts Jersey , the league was much different a decade ago, but their stats back then were actually slightly better: 110.9 passer rating, 8.8 yards per attempt and 68.4 completion percentage.Pass rushers and defensive backs need to be a high priority for this team next year.Your turn.Tweets from https://twitter.com/PrideOfDetroit/lists/lions-coverage