35 Detroit 
0
PLAYER STATISTICS A: 77,765; T: 2:46.
1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
Final
St Louis 7
14
0
14 35
Detroit 0
0
0
0 0
Scoring 1ST QUARTER STL - TD, AZ-ZAHIR HAKIM 15 YD PASS FROM KURT WARNER
(JEFF WILKINS KICK), 11:30. Drive: 10 plays, 80
yards in 4:35. Key plays: Warner 11-yard pass
to Faulk to St Louis 30; Warner 20-yard pass to
Holt to midfield; Warner 12-yard pass to Hakim
on 3rd-and-3 to Detroit 15; Warner 8-for-10 for
80 yards. ST LOUIS 7-02ND QUARTER STL - TD, TORRY HOLT 36 YD PASS FROM KURT WARNER (JEFF
WILKINS KICK), 1:29. Drive: 5 plays, 70 yards
in 1:57. Key plays: Warner 10-yard pass to
Faulk on 3rd-and-3 to St Louis 47; Warner
17-yard pass to Bruce to Detroit 36. ST LOUIS
14-0
STL - TD, DRE BLY 93 YD INTERCEPTION RETURN (JEFF WILKINS
KICK), 11:56. ST LOUIS 21-03RD QUARTER NONE
4TH QUARTER STL - TD, ERNIE CONWELL 1 YD PASS FROM KURT WARNER (JEFF
WILKINS KICK), 4:46. Drive: 10 plays, 63 yards
in 5:53. Key plays: Wistrom 12-yard return of
Batch fumble to St Louis 37; Bruce 10-yard run
on 3rd-and-2 to Detroit 45; Warner 12-yard pass
Holt to Detroit 31; Candidate 15-yard run to
Detroit 1. ST LOUIS 28-0
STL - TD, MARSHALL FAULK 7 YD RUN (JEFF WILKINS KICK),
10:28. Drive: 6 plays, 45 yards in 3:54. Key
plays: Faulk 13-yard run to Detroit 32; Faulk
14-yard run to Detroit 18; Warner 5-yard pass
to Robinson on 3rd-and-4 to Detroit 7. ST LOUIS
35-0
PASSING
St Louis
Att
Cmp
Yds
Td
Int
Detroit
Att
Cmp
Yds
Td
Int
Warner
29
37
291
3
0
Detmer
15
18
149
0
1
Batch
11
16
113
0
1
RUSHING
St Louis
Att
Yards
Detroit
Att
Yards
Faulk
14
71
J Stewart
13
88
Canidate
2
16
Howard
2
11
Bruce
1
10
Batch
1
7
Hakim
1
0
C Schlesinge
1
0
Martin
3
-3
Detmer
2
-1
RECEIVING
St Louis
Att
Yards
Detroit
Att
Yards
Faulk
9
80
Crowell
5
65
Bruce
6
66
Morton
4
40
Hakim
5
44
J Stewart
4
36
T Holt
4
74
C Schlesinge
3
19
Conwell
4
22
Warren
3
19
Robinson
1
5
Mitchell
3
13
Sloan
2
35
Moore
2
35
TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS (UNOFFICIAL)
St Louis
T
A
S
Detroit
T
A
S
Polley
9
2
0
Boyd
7
0
0
Fletcher
5
2
1
Fair
7
0
0
Herring
6
0
0
S Rogers
4
1
0
Bly
5
1
0
Rice
3
2
0
Little
5
0
3
Aldridge
4
0
0
Davis
2
2
0
Wyrick
4
0
0
D Mccleon
3
0
0
Elliss
3
0
0
Archuleta
3
0
1
Claiborne
2
1
0
A Williams
2
1
0
Bailey
1
2
0
Pickett
2
0
0
Green
2
0
0
Lewis
2
0
0
Campbell
1
1
0
Ahanotu
1
1
0
Pritchett
1
0
0
Wistrom
1
0
0
Spellman
1
0
1
Young
1
0
1
Porcher
1
0
0
MISSED FIELD GOALS
None.
INTERCEPTIONS
St Louis (D Mccleon 1 for 0 yards, Bly 1 for 93 yards).
FUMBLES LOST
St Louis (Faulk); Detroit (Batch).
OPPONENT'S FUMBLES RECOVERED
St Louis (Wistrom); Detroit (Claiborne). TEAM STATISTICS STL DET
FIRST DOWNS 23 14
Rushing 7 5
Passing 16 9
Penalty 0 0
3RD-DOWN EFFICIENCY 6-11 4-12
4TH-DOWN EFFICIENCY 0-1 0-2
TOTAL NET YARDS 378 334
Total plays 59 59
Average gain 6.4 5.7
NET YARDS RUSHING 94 105
Rushes 21 19
Average per rush 4.5 5.5
NET YARDS PASSING 284 229
Completed-attempted 29-37 26-34
Yards per pass 7.5 5.7
Sacked-yards lost 1-7 6-33
Had intercepted 0 2
PUNTS-AVERAGE 3-38.0 5-38.2
RETURN YARDAGE 127 128
Punts-returns 2-13 0-0
Kickoffs-returns 1-21 6-128
Interceptions-returns 2-93 0-0
PENALTIES-YARDS 3-15 8-68
FUMBLES-LOST 3-1 2-1
TIME OF POSSESSION 31:11 28:49
News: 10/9/01
Have we stopped laughing yet?
The comedy the Lions' offense has become took a perverse detour toward the absurd Monday night when a national television audience discovered what this city already knew -- the Lions' quarterback position is a vacuum. And as the embarrassing losses pile up, you can't help but wonder if the same description applies to the coaches.
Two quarterbacks, no points and no answers for where to turn next.
"The quarterback question is the furthest thing from my mind," steamed a still-winless Marty Mornhinweg. "We've got other problems that are more serious than the quarterback. Turnovers and penalties are killing us, especially in the red zone. Geez, it looked like we had a chance to pull back into the game and then mistakes kill us. Obviously, our offense is giving us problems."
It doesn't matter who's taking the snaps for the Lions. Nobody is better or worse than the other.
Whom might the quarterback Marty-go-round spit out against Minnesota? Mike McMahon? Why not? We're nearly at the point where the only alternative is waving the white flags and beginning to assess who should survive for next season.
Mornhinweg, still shell-shocked from the 35-0 beating the Lions absorbed, declined to commit to either Ty Detmer or Charlie Batch. He no doubt realizes now the error of his ways in prematurely benching Batch after one game instead of giving him a little more time to find his footing.
But now it's a matter of Mornhinweg's finding his footing. How much confidence can an offense have in itself when it doesn't know its QB from game to game?
"I don't make the decisions on who's going to play," said Detmer, who completed 15 of 18 passes in the first half, but threw one costly interception, resulting in his second-half benching in favor of Batch. "It's hard to say how changes can affect an offense. But the bottom line is, whoever's in the game has to make the plays. And we're not getting that done."
Detmer couldn't get yanked after throwing seven interceptions against Cleveland two weeks ago, but Mornhinweg could tolerate only one against St. Louis. The Lions were deep in Rams territory, positioning themselves for a Jason Hanson field goal, when Detmer mistakenly tried throwing off his back foot.
Dre' Bly picked off the underthrown pass and rambled 93 yards for the touchdown, eliciting chants of "Charlie! Charlie!" from the Silverdome fans.
They got their wish. Mornhinweg returned Batch to the lineup six quarters after banishing him to the bench.
Short memories are common for Lions quarterbacks. The Batch bashing was momentarily forgotten as he moved the team down the field, putting zip on passes that Detmer could only dream of mustering.
So what did Batch do? He threw a deep route into the corner of the end zone. The only problem? The only person within 10 yards of the pass was Rams cornerback Dexter McCleon. Germane Crowell broke off the route.
Who's left to boo?
How about Mornhinweg, who has created a mess in just three games? Neither Detmer nor Batch has really asserted himself. But until he's ready to throw McMahon in there and find how long he can go before he's booed, Mornhinweg needs to keep Batch in the lineup. This constant switching does nothing to make the offense more cohesive. If anything, it pulls it farther apart.
Tempers flared on the sideline after Batch's interception, fingers of blame flying everywhere.
"We're in for a long season if we're relying on excuses," said receiver Herman Moore. "We stunk up the place. It's the same mistakes every week. It's not one person or one position. We got to get our acts together."
The Lions' quarterback situation has become a national punch line. The "Fox NFL Sunday" pregame crew practically fell over each other in laughter Sunday in assessing the Marty-go-round. The consensus was that it wasn't worth the energy of picking up the remote control to watch either Detmer or Batch.
Quarterbacking isn't the worst problem on this team. But Mornhinweg's constant shuffling keeps the mutual inadequacies of Detmer and Batch in sharp focus.
And it underscores a growing lack of confidence in the coach himself.
Kurt Warner threw three touchdown passes and Dre Bly returned an interception 93 yards for a touchdown as the St. Louis Rams remained the only unbeaten team in the NFL with a 35-0 rout of the Detroit Lions.
Nicknamed "The Greatest Show on Earth with Warner, Marshall Faulk and a trio of explosive receivers, the Rams' offense helped embarrass a team that has been embarrassing itself this season.
Warner completed 29-of-37 passes for 291 yards, throwing TD passes to Az-Zahir Hakim, Torry Holt and Ernie Conwell.
With an anemic quarterback tandem, the Lions (0-3) sniffed the end zone just once and watched Bly turn their best drive into a 21-0 Rams lead late in the first half.
How bad are things for the Lions? They had not been blanked since 1993, and the Rams (4-0) had not posted a shutout since moving to St. Louis in 1995.
A week after throwing seven interceptions, Ty Detmer had only one. But he was booed in the first half and pulled in favor of former starter Charlie Batch in the third quarter.
By then, fans at the Silverdome for the Monday night contest on ABC creatively used the network's initials to sum up the Lions' season with a sign that read "Another Bad QB." Several other fans wore paper bags on their heads.
Detmer and Batch combined to go 25-of-33 for 256 yards with two interceptions for Detroit, which is the only winless team in the Central Division and one of five in the NFL.
The Rams are early favorites to challenge for their second Super Bowl title in three years. They have outscored opponents, 127-53, this season.
"This was the best Detroit Lions game i've ever seen in my life!!!!" "The Lions proved that they are among the NFL elite with all the injuries and parity in the NFL this year." Anyone take a guess where I got those quotes from? If you guessed the last St. Louis game, you were right....take those two quotes and flip them upside down and you have the game that was played on Monday Night. Although I knew the Lions were a 14 point underdog, something kept on telling me, its Monday Night...the Lions always surprise us on Monday Night's...WRONG!!! After the Lions stopped the Rams three and out in the beginning of the 1st quarter, it was all downhill. I feel sorry for anyone that had to stay up and watch that crap on Monday Night Football. It'll be years before the honolulu blue and silver are on prime time again!!! There isn't much to say about this game that we didn't already know: The Rams are the best team in football (my choice to win the Superbowl) and the Lions keep on falling into the bottomless abyss!!! With the Lions defense playing well, Ty Detmer had the chance to get the Lions to within 7 late in the 2nd quarter...but instead he throws an interception that is run back for a TD...21-0 instead of 14-7...that was the game right there...Batch came in to play the 2nd half just to stink it up just as much as Detmer. All in all, one of the worst games i've ever been too...and folks....its only going to get worse :-(
Offense: --- F-. The offense has yet to earn a passing grade this season! Although they played better than the 1st two games, there are no excuses to being shut out, the first time in eight years. Detmer, who padded his stats with dump off passes, proved once again that he's nothing more than a backup...with the Lions down 14-0, he had a chance to cut the St. Louis lead to seven...instead he threw off his back foot and his pass was intercepted and ruturned for a TD...Game Over right there!!! It was nice to see Batch come in and play the 2nd half...he gave the offense a brief spark, but miscommunicated with Germane Crowell, one of the biggest flops this season, and was picked off...later in the half Batch fumbled the ball. Besides the QB, the offensive line was rotten (big surprise there)...Brandon Stai was awful committing a few false starts...Aaron Gibson is nothing more than an over weight injury riddled bust....and Stockar McDougle, who the Lions were so high on a few years ago, hasn't come close to living up to expectations. James Stewart had a decent game, but like I've said in the past, he's nothing more than a mediocre NFL running back. The only player that has produced on offense is Johnnie Morton. I never thought the offense could get any worse than last years...boy was I wrong.
Defense: --- D-. The defense was riled up after stopping the Rams and sacking Warner. For the most part, the defense held the best offense in football in check for the most of the game...but gave up two long drives, when it seemed they were exhaused and mentally out of it. Its still surprising why this unit cannot seem to get more sacks...after the 1st drive, they didn't get to Warner the rest of the game. As bad as the offense has been this year, the defense is just as disappointing after carrying the team last year.
Special Teams: --- D. Jett had a punt under 20 yards, which is just pathetic!!! Desmond Howard has been non existant this year...and Jason Hanson can never get a chance to kick a field goal because the offense doesn't know how to get into the redzone.
Coaching: --- F. Morninweig's shuffling of the QB's has blown up in his face. Trading a 4th round draft pick next year for Detmer was another bonehead decision...the bottom line is Morninweig knows neither Batch or Detmer are capable NFL starters for his offense, but he's stuck with them for the rest of the year. Maybe Marty should think about hiring an offense coordinator because simply put, he doing a crappy job at it, even with to inept QB's.
Overall: --- F-. The season is definitely over by all means. With Minnesota and Tennessee looming on the schedule, the Lions could easily go 0-5. Yes, the Vikings and Titans are a combined 1-5, but they have far more talent than the Lions. No matter who starts at QB against the Vikings, the Lions don't stand a chance. I'm just counting down the days to the season is over, because the honolulu blue and silver are through...and just to think...if not for a few bad breaks in the Bears game last year, the Lions would of finished at 10-6 and made the playoffs....just goes to show its not just the players, but the coaching staff as well.
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