The Detroit Lions may be a little happier with this week’s report card, but it’s anything but post-to-the-fridge worthy. Here are my grades for the Lions’ Week 2 performance against the San Francisco 49ers.
I’m probably being overly harsh here because the bar is set so high for Matthew Stafford, but the Lions quarterback made some critical mistakes on Sunday, and was also uncharacteristically shaky at times.
The mistakes were obvious: The fumble deep in Lions territory was undefendable, and Stafford missed on a handful of big plays. Obviously, deep passes are low-percentage plays to begin with, but Stafford was not even close on some of these throws.