Martz, 49ers Kill Lions Season

This was it Detroit. The San Francisco 49ers represented Detroit's last chance to salvage a season. Most teams at 0-2 still have a shot at the playoffs, after all, just last year the New York Giants started 0-2 and won the Superbowl. Most years at least one 0-2 team makes the playoffs. The Lions have a bye next week. It sure looks better going into a rough stretch against Chicago and Minnesota when you're 1-2 than 0-3. This was a winnable game for Detroit, just as Atlanta should have been, just as Green Bay should have been. Two of the 49ers most important team components were Lions off-casts. Think about that for a minute. When you're off-casts of what is undoubtedly the worst team in the NFL over the last seven years, you're about as low as you can sink. If the Lions had any killer instinct at all in them, they would have dominated this 49ers team. JT O'Sullivan was Jon Kitna's backup last season. Through two games this season, he had been sacked 12 times. That's 4 more times than even ... (link)