The Detroit Lions have been punching bag in 2021. Now, they are a national joke. Whatever you want to call them, their 16-14 loss to the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving added to the definition of ineptitude.
The 0-10-1 Lions sealed their doom by calling back-to-back timeouts on the Bears’ 18-play, game-winning drive that devoured the final 8:30 of the game between NFC North teams.
The timeout mistake created a five-yard penalty that turned a third-and-9 into a third-and-5, which Chicago converted.
Cairo Santos kicked the game-winning field goal from 28 yards as time expired … and Twitter erupted.
Without wasting — or calling — any time.
Lions fans after their fifth straight Thanksgiving loss: pic.twitter.com/CZP57dS6Sw
— ESPN (@espn) November 25, 2021
They find a new way every week.
— Pride of Detroit (@PrideOfDetroit) November 25, 2021
The Lions are finding new ways to lose, this week it’s calling 2 timeouts in a row pic.twitter.com/vmitT2yYhD
— NFL Memes (@funniestnflmeme) November 25, 2021
If the Lions waited till tomorrow those Timeouts would have been 2 for 1 on Black Friday .
— SP Not the Ghost (@SPnottheGhost) November 25, 2021
The Lions aren’t a real NFL team. You come out of back to back timeouts and this is the defense you come up with knowing a first down ends the game??? Whew pic.twitter.com/ghjHSekRLk
— Kyle (@Kyle_F10) November 25, 2021
The lions actually have the clock management of an angry 12 year old playing madden and spamming his timeouts after getting dotted up🤣🤣🤣
— Dignity (@ItsMeDignity) November 25, 2021
The Lions allowed an 18 play drive and nearly called 3 timeouts in two plays. That’s tough to do. I don’t see them winning ever again. Dan Campbell isn’t the answer either. There’s a difference between a rebuild and just being incompetent.
— Jake Brown (@Jake_Brown7) November 25, 2021
Back to back timeouts is a penalty? Huh? Only the lions, man pic.twitter.com/xEv2LnIOWF
— Steve Nelson (@thefullnelson16) November 25, 2021
No timeout before 2 min warning so 20 secs roll off, 2 timeouts in a row for a penalty before 3rd down, then the d backs playing 10 yards off receivers on 3rd and 4… the Lions are like, “LOOK THIS IS WHY WE HAVE NO WINS! LOOK AT US!”
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) November 25, 2021
The Lions losing cause the coach didn’t know not to call back to back Timeouts……blow up that whole franchise
— Don’t Call Me Chuck (@3rd_Time_Around) November 25, 2021
#Lions were confused pre-snap and Dan Campbell just called timeout. Can't call consecutive timeouts so that is a penalty.
— Brad Biggs (@BradBiggs) November 25, 2021
Detroit Lions just called back-to-back timeouts. 😂 #DETvsCHI #OnePride pic.twitter.com/2HKep6wugS
— SportsGrid (@SportsGrid) November 25, 2021
Another penalty for the Lions: this one because back-to-back timeouts is a five-yard penalty pic.twitter.com/6HxuTk8icG
— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) November 25, 2021
Aaron Glenn FURIOUS on the sideline as his team scrambles to get set. Lions call another timeout, can't do that, back-to-back timeouts not allowed without snap. 5-yard penalty.
national audience, pic.twitter.com/aGsTcMKCNv
— Benjamin Raven (@BenjaminSRaven) November 25, 2021
Culley and his staff for how bad the in-game management has been couldn’t screw up as bad as Detroit did the final 2:20 of that game if they tried. No F’n way. That was pitiful. Aaron Glenn deserves some of that blame too. His defense wasn’t lined up, he called the worst TO.
— Landry Locker (@LandryLocker) November 25, 2021
3rd and 4, and @Lions have their corners playing 12 yards off the ball… Aaron Glenn should be fired immediately
— Michael Haddad (@mhaddad715) November 25, 2021
Aaron Glenn. Best known for being on the receiving end of the Marino spike play. #CHIvsDET
— Troy Appel (@tdappel) November 25, 2021
Fifth-straight Thanksgiving loss for the Lions :/ pic.twitter.com/lA3f1GkJvJ
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) November 25, 2021
The Lions are breathtakingly incompetent.
— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) November 25, 2021
Even the Lion has seen enough. pic.twitter.com/L5ZxNwtT4J
— patrick (@muldowney) November 25, 2021
2 timeouts in a row only the #Lions then have to many on the field after the first timeout. we need coaches not ex players pic.twitter.com/5oVJZ6wPCA
— loschino (@Marcos68881175) November 25, 2021
– Multiple 3rd and 32s.
– A penalty because they called 2 timeouts in a row.
– A last second loss after giving up an 8-minute game winning drive.Ladies and gentlemen, the Detroit Lions.
— Max Loeb (@loebsleads) November 25, 2021
Lions coaching staff trying to call back to back timeouts and then call another timeout #CHIvsDET pic.twitter.com/30yolNkGEj
— Max (@masonbiznes) November 25, 2021
2 timeouts in a row only the #Lions then have to many on the field after the first timeout. we need coaches not ex players pic.twitter.com/5oVJZ6wPCA
— loschino (@Marcos68881175) November 25, 2021
Losing the game on a penalty for calling two timeouts in a row is the most Lionsy of ways to lose a Lions game pic.twitter.com/WYfMKvkQdw
— Jacob Magid (@JacobMagid) November 25, 2021
