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Tate was here last week as well, and quite frankly the whole Detroit Lions offense can be put here. Ameer Abdullah is officially out of the circle of trust, and he'll have to put a good game in before I feel comfortable inserting him into any of my lineups. Matthew Stafford was benched for Dan Orlovsky. No one is going to sit Calvin Johnson of course, but he struggles by way of everyone else struggling.
Tate is the interesting case though, as he has yet to find the end zone. The key here is how many are hanging their hopes on Tate's 15 targets from this past week leading to eight receptions for 74 yards. Keep in mind that the Lions ran an absurd 98 plays, many of them occurring while they were trailing big time to Arizona.
The point is, the gameflow was not reliable at all. Tate, and the Lions as a whole, are in a very worrisome spot. I'm not buying Tate, because Stafford and the rest of the team do not appear to be close to figuring themselves out.
