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Blame Matthew Stafford if you want, but the Lions got bigger problems

Editor's note: This is an opinion piece from MLive.com reporter Kyle Meinke.

DETROIT -- People are very upset with Matthew Stafford, and it's easy to understand why.

One day, you're watching the Rams and Chiefs run laps around the Los Angeles Coliseum. It was breathtaking and exhilarating. It was the future. Then you pull a chair up to the Thanksgiving table, flip on the TV and watch the Detroit Lions try to knock off first-place Chicago with a playbook from 1973.

It didn't work.

Stafford attempted just two passes that traveled at least 15 yards through the air.