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Lions Make NFL History with Latest Loss

Detroit has lost four consecutive games in which it's held double-digit leads
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Lions Make NFL History with Latest Loss
Lions Make NFL History with Latest Loss

The Detroit Lions have been able to start games strong their last four times out.  

Unfortunately, with their latest 42-21 defeat to the Green Bay Packers, Detroit has made NFL history. 

According to Elias Sports, Detroit has become the first team in NFL history to lose four consecutive games in which it's had a double-digit lead. 

Detroit has also lost 11 consecutive games -- its most since losing 19 in a row from 2007-09. 

Following the loss to the Bears, Lions head coach Matt Patricia acknowledged the team made certain mistakes that without the preseason, must now be corrected in the first month of the regular season.

"We don't have the luxury of the four preseason games to kind of teach some of this stuff right now. You try to do the best you can with the 14 padded days of practice that we had. But, certainly live, in-game action, we're coaching, we're teaching and we're learning on the fly," he said.

On Sunday, Patricia addressed the blown leads that the Lions have suffered the last four games. 

"Obviously, we're doing a good job starting fast. I think that's something that's happening for our team. And that's that's a good thing," he said.

Patricia added, "I think we've got to use that momentum, and we've got to keep it going. Certainly, in a year that's a little bit unusual. But, that energy, that focus, all of it, it's just got to come through for 60 minutes. We can't ride the wave of the game. We can't go up and down, and be really high and then something happens -- get really low and then try to pick it back up and then, something good happens, you get really high again. Just the ebbs and flows of the game. We've got to ignore that. We've got to stay consistent. We've got to not think about the end result before we get to the end result. We've got to think about that play at that moment and stay in that moment. That's something we have to do."

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JOHN MAAKARON

John Maakaron has covered Detroit Sports since 2013. Brings a vast array of experience covering the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Detroit Mercy Titans, and Oakland University Golden Grizzlies. John brings a wealth of sports broadcast experience. In 2013, John had the vision to establish the Detroit Sports Podcast Network. Has recorded over 3000 podcasts analyzing Detroit Sports. In 2019, Sports Illustrated Media Group, a historical sports media outlet, partnered with Detroit Sports Podcast to provide daily Lions content for their growing and expanding digital media outlet. Our Lions content can also be read in the newspaper at The Oakland  Passionate about Detroit Sports and it is reflected in his coverage of the local teams!

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