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Harsh reactions flow after an ugly football game for Detroit.
"He needs to be fired tonight," Benjamin Hyde tweets from Kalamazoo about quarterback Matthew Stafford after the Lions' 24-9 loss Sunday afternoon to the Vikings in Minneapolis.
Here's how WDIV sportscaster Steve Garagiola frames it:
Zero points from the offense. Stafford sacked 10 times (Vikings team record). I think it doesn't matter if all the reporters sit up straight, coach Patricia is not going to like the questions he gets.
— Steve Garagiola (@SteveGaragiola) November 4, 2018
"The Lions' offense looked anemic," Chris Thomas writes at the Detroit Free Press. His second paragraph says:
Grab the Advil. Or the aspirin. Your head hurts. And that's understandable.
Over at The Detroit News, Nolan Bianchi also piles on justifiably:
Absolutely nothing went right for the Detroit Lions today. But perhaps nobody had it worse than quarterback Matthew Stafford, who was sacked a career-high eight times before the fourth quarter even started. The Vikings finished with 10 sacks.
"The loss drops the Lions to 3-5 on the year, and their hopes of salvaging a season look to be slipping away at an increasingly fast rate," managing editor Jeremy Reisman posts at Pride of Detroit, a Vox Media site for fans. "Next week, Detroit heads to Chicago for a matchup against the division-leading Chicago Bears." The sportwriter, incidentallty, describes himself as "a Lions season-ticket holder since I was the age of five."
These are among other reactions soon after the final whistle:
We're embarrassed to be Lions fans pic.twitter.com/NFCl4VJ1R6
— TheDLine™ (@TheDetroitLine) November 4, 2018
Wow the Lions really did give up on the season. Every single player quit today
— Former Coach Jim Caldwell (@Fake_Caldwell) November 4, 2018
I already know what Matt Patricia is going to say. I got to coach it better. We got to clean some things up and we got to get better
— Terry Foster (@TerryFoster971) November 4, 2018
The question is how many Offensive Coordinators will Stafford get fired in his career?
— Joseph Coffey (@CoffeyJoecoff) November 4, 2018
Have been a #stafford supporter for a long time he has played like shit this year today is the topper wtf are u doing #DETvsMIN
— Brian Huff (@huffbud21) November 4, 2018
The Lions averaged 3.1 yards per play today, which is their lowest mark since a Sept. 12, 2010 loss to the Bears.
— Chris Burke (@ChrisBurkeNFL) November 4, 2018
