The Lions Had An Awful Lot Of Excuses About The Wind Yesterday
You could chalk the Lions' embarrassing loss to Chicago up to
many things. Turnovers, an inability to get the run game going,
Matthew Stafford...but no matter how many things don't go your
way, it remains all-but-impossible for an NFL team to win when
the wind itself is a Bears fan. Here, some selected postgame
quotes from both coach and QB.  Jim Schwartz:  "[Stafford] had a
good grip on the ball, it was more of the wind then it was
anything else. The ball was moving… the one interception that he
threw, moved about three yards on him when he threw it. It was
very unpredictable, the wind, it seemed like it was gusting at
all the wrong times. The same thing with the kicking game. All
of a sudden it came time for a field goal attempt and it seemed
like for them the wind died down and for us it would kick up,
but there's no excuses."  They were playing a lot of man-to-man
coverage...Not as much zone, a lot of man, but that was more of
the game becaus