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Although, to me, it's a little hard to believe (not the record itself. The fact that it's the LIONS who broke it): https://sports.yahoo.com/lions-set-new- ... 36701.html

In the previous 64 seasons the Lions have won a total of one playoff game. The fact the Lions set the the cited record is proof of the old blind squirrel adage.

Another so-called “record” that isn’t worthy of being in a record book.

JohnH19 wrote:Another so-called “record” that isn’t worthy of being in a record book.

The cherry picking now of stats has gotten out of control. For example Zach Wilson today...great win. Elated as a fan, he was 8/24 with some awful throws and picks for a big chunk of this game, but everyone is keying on his great 4th quarter as if this will suddenly be a career turning point and how he established himself etc. You have to be honest about a players full performance especially when trying to chart his future (I'm still not bullish on Wilson)

You see guys trying to get optimistic because a bad young QB on some bad young team, well if we look at his last 3 games of this 2-15 season...hey look he was the 3rd best NFL red zone QB in that stretch...here's hope! People cherry pick so much meaningless random stuff looking for silver linings

JohnH19 wrote:Another so-called “record” that isn’t worthy of being in a record book.

The APBR forum has a thread called "Gotta Love these curios" that featured all sorts of manufactured stat combinations
that were found in print such as: "Jaylen Brown is the 11th player to have 22+ pts, 7+ reb, 2+ stl & 2+ blk in a game this season"

Wilson threw one interception where he deserves most of the blame and another interception where he does not deserve most of the blame.

JWL wrote:Wilson threw one interception where he deserves most of the blame and another interception where he does not deserve most of the blame.

The tipped one was still a bad throw. Probably evens out since there was another four (probably forgetting some, haven't rewatched the game yet) should have been interceptions:

-The throwaway that Fitzpatrick almost got both feet down on.
-Maulet dropped an int that was thrown right to him.
-Wilson hung up a hole shot that led to a collision with Edmunds and Carter but could and probably should have easily been an Edmunds int (think there was defensive holding on this anyway, though.)
-Another bad throw that bounced off, Hall?, that Fitzpatrick was maybe a step away from getting to the deflection and would have likely been a pick-six.

Want to say there was another? A comeback to Moore that ended up being a big play but he stared him down the entire time and the DB slipped out of the break, can't remember if he could have got there or not, maybe 50/50 if he didn't slip but ended up being a good on-target throw.

And that isn't counting other bad throws. Wildly inaccurate throws on WR screen to Wilson and during the comeback was hilariously way off on a little flare out to Hall. Also had Hall downfield earlier in the game and he underthrew it horribly.

Made for a pretty inexplicable comeback -- Pickett's Wilson'esque throws helped.
To me it was only the go-ahead drive that Wilson was on-point. So should get credit for that.

From a neutral perspective he's entertaining. All the escapability, even bails on the pocket when he doesn't need to, has all the talent to make all the throws but never know if he's going to be 5-yards wide when he tries to load up or if he's just going to float it into triple coverage, and of course looks good when he's on target, generally between the hashmarks.