If your local professional football team has played eight games, it must be time for a half-way point review of how things are going. There are dueling looks at the Lions, though the conclusion is pretty much the same: the running game stinks.

The Free Press brings out Rosey, who sums things up neatly: “If they don’t run, they have to pass. And they don’t do that so well, either.”

Yes, it’s been a tough year on the injury front, especially for wide receivers, what with Charles Rogers’ second straight collarbone and the ankle of rookie Roy Williams.

The News’ Mike O’Hara notes that the rushing attack, last in the league last year, has actually regressed to the point of only 75 yards per game.

I have a solution: Get the Bengals on the schedule. Their grades aren’t much better, chiefly because of a run defense that is last in the league, surrendering 149.6 yards per contest, which the Enquirer’s Mark Curnutte labels “unacceptable.”

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