By Kelvin Butler
UNIVERSITY CENTER — During the pandemic a lot of what we call normal is at a halt right now. But, fortunately the Detroit Lions will never leave us hanging.
As tradition, the Lions will play against the defunct Houston Texans; where out of sheer desperation I have the Lions winning 41-34 in a shootout.
The Lions have shown the defensive ability to lock teams down. But they have a tendency to always let teams get back into the game. Their problem is that they can’t manage to play at a high level for all four quarters, that’s why they’re in the position they’re in now.
Offensively if everyone is healthy, the Lions have more talent than the Texans; therefore they can easily put up points on the poor run and mediocre pass Defense. With quarterback Matthew Stafford, gunslinger mentality, and an okay offensive line; outside of the Texans defensive end J.J Watt they should have no worries protecting Stafford or opening up running lanes for the running backs.
The only way the Texans would be competitive is if they put the ball in the hands of their playmakers.
Quarterback Deshaun Watson has to play a great game from start to finish to have a shot at winning. This means his weapons Will Fuller V, Brandon Cooks, and David Johnson (if Healthy) have to step up and do their jobs.
The Texans defense is playing poorly, they don’t have the defensive talent like the Lions. All they can hope for is to either just ball out and have their best game of the season or hope that the Lions have a terrible game in which everything that happens ends in favor of the Texans.
Hopefully this game is a shootout like I predict. After all there’s nothing worse than watching a boring game while starving. For some reason people prefer to have the food done around 6pm. So let’s wish for a competitive game to take our mind off of our hunger pains.
