Nothing sours a fan base more than a loss to a division rival. As we’ve seen following each of the Lions’ three losses this season, confidence in the team has dropped significantly from its previous level. While this week’s results are not as low as we saw following the Lions’ Week 1 loss to Green Bay, they still took a pretty big hit.
64% is pretty rough for a team that’s a single win out of being in first place in their division, but the standard is high in Detroit, and the team certainly fell short of those expectations last week.
As for our first standalone question—******Do you approve of the Lions’ inaction at the trade deadline?******—Lions fans had high expectations that the team would find more help on the trade market, but nothing presented itself. The majority of fans did not approve of the inaction:
What’s interesting about this question is that when searching the comment section of our original survey for explanations on why fans voted the way they did, almost all the “recommended” responses are in direct conflict with the results. Here are a few examples (slightly edited for clarity):
As for our second standalone question—********Which player needs to rebound in order to secure a Lions win in Week 10?********—Lions fans focused on the two players responsible for making the in-game pre-snap adjustments on offense, which is the area most fans believe was the catalyst in the Lions’ most recent loss.
While Glasgow received the majority of the votes, once again, when we look at the comment section of our original survey, fans are focused on the offensive line as a whole, more than just the Lions center. Here are some examples of each (slightly edited for clarity):
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