You can call them what you want, but never consider the Detroit Lions as a bunch of procrastinators as they prepare to do away with the San Diego Chargers and subsequently waltz into the playoffs.
The Lions come in with the weight of not playing in the playoffs since 1999, and will surely have that pressure pointed out to them in the cries and screams from the crowd at Ford Field.
The Chargers will also have their fair share of tumult to overcome. Many will have you believe that the Chargers are a surging team, a hot squad that is on their way to closing out the season in fine fashion.
That would be to negate the weeks of torture and dismal results that were sent their way. All that ineptitude will come flooding back the second that the Chargers have to deal with the Detroit Lions' pass rush.
The Lions have their heads in the right place, and that is off the scoreboards. Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said as much to ESPN.
We need to beat the San Diego Chargers. We are not playing the out-of-town scoreboard. We are not playing anything other than the Chargers. The team does a good job of getting the focus each week, and that is what we need to go do this week. Everybody knows where we are. Everybody knows what is at stake.
The Chargers have finally welcomed back their quarterback Philip Rivers. While he physically went nowhere, this was definitely a different man mentally.
The Chargers QB was the polar opposite of the usual poised and collected leader in the start of the season. He has come back to be the star arm we always expect, but the uglier version will return against a stiff defense that runs on killing quarterbacks.
It's all about which version of the Chargers you think takes the field. The Chargers that lost six straight will be the ones taking on Detroit, and that means the Lions are playoff bound.
Mariano Rivera Kerry Wood Francisco Cervelli Chad Moeller Jorge Posada Lance Berkman
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