For your first part above: Losing by just 3 or even fewer points tells me something, maybe not everything...but....It lets me know that if the main body of your loses come in by 3 - 4 points, you are having trouble closing out the game, making offensive drives count. A lot of that falls on stafford IMO. He has had to do that infamous walk of shame with the helmet half off his head back to the side lines showing off his chubby cheeked face because he tossed that 4th Qtr pick that drove the nail into his own coffin. He sure can throw for 5,000 yards per season, but he aint got **** to show for inflated stats. Hell, give me a guy who throws for 4,000 and 35-40 TD's and only a hand full of picks any day.... oh wait, we have that. lol Not to mention with all this new blood, new coaching, new this, new that..... that does not always spell joy and rainbows, sometimes that can spell disaster as well. Think about this: new coaching trying to tame a dirty "do my own thing" D line, a poor secondary that has no time working together, a QB that is and always will be a gun slinger..... good luck Lions and staff, you will need it.