Detroit's Perfection is Still Going

It has been ten years since their last Monday Night Football game and with the noisy crowd in Ford Field, Matthew Stafford and the once laughable Lions came out on top. With the help of two touchdown passes from Stafford and Jahvid Best's 88-yard dash to the endzone Detroit was able to unseat the defending National Football Conference (NFC) North rivals, The Chicago Bears, 24-13. The Bears offensive line looked shaky and freaked out by the noisy Lions fans failing to protect Jay Cutler, their Quarterback, and were tagged for nine false start penalties.

"Our fans came out and did an unbelievable job. We need that kind of support every week," Stafford said. "That's just the potential of this city. We know that they can get behind us like that and come out and really wreck a game for another team." The last time they won a National Football League title was 1957 but what is more saddening is that 1956 was the last time the Detroit Lions went to 5-0 to start their season. They are not that team who went 0-16 in 2008 anymore and it was only a matter of time they started playing like this. They are letting everyone know why they are doing so well by their record. They are only trying to keep up the pace with their other NFC North rival, the Green Bay Packers who are also 5-0. They have won nine consectutive games dating back to last season.

Stafford's main and favorite target to through to, Calvin Johnson, caught a 73-yard touchdown pass during the second quarter of Mondays primtime game of the week. Johnson's touchdown catch was the ninth one he has caught this season while becoming the first player in NFL history to catch two touchdown passes in four straight gaames to start a season. Best's 88-yard run was the second best run for the Lions franchise. Even though the score was 24-13, it was the bears who beat themselves not the lions. The Bears were unable to do anything right, they had more false start penalties in the first half at six then anyone made for a whole game this season.

The Bears let Cutler get sacked three times, didn't give him much time to look for a receiver to throw to and let the Lions defensive front seven harass him almost the entire game. "I threw a couple left-handed, one over my head and at least one underhanded. When you have to do those kind of things, you aren't going to be successful," Cutler said. "We started with a regular count, but the guys couldn't hear me, so we had to go to a silent count. It was a lot of things."

It also didn't help that by the end of hte first quarter the Bears already wasted two of their three first-half timeouts on short yardage plays that they shouldn't have used especially in front of a large and loud crowd in a rival game in Detroit. One of their wasted timeouts in the first quartercame on a play they challenged but should not have challenged. It was fourth down with one yeard to go for the first down and the Bears runningback, Matt Forte, was clearly stopped. He was stopped short by the 2010 League Dfensive Rookie of the Year, Ndamukong Suh. Overall, It was a horrible game for the Bears and gave the city of Detroit to rejoice and celebrate.

Detroit's perfection is still intact until at least their next game next sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. This amazing start to the season and the way they ended their season last year with four straight wins to end the year is giving the city of Detroit hope that it won't have to endure being the NFL's laughing stock much longer. It is making their future look bright with all the players they have on their roster who are starting to play like All-Pro's at their postitions, especially with the likes of Calvin Johnson, Matthew Stafford and the Rookie of the Year from last year Ndamukong Suh. All these young players who have only started playing for Detroit in the last few years are showing that they belong in the NFL. All three of the players mentioned, Suh, Stafford and Johnson, were recently extremely high 1st-round draft picks when the were drafted. All three were in the top-5 spots among the first five chosen in their respective drafts. They are just now this year showing that they worth the picks, especially Suh, with the way Suh has been playing since his first professional game.

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Concept of Justice

Any society throughout the history of time, whether it was during the reign of the Roman Empire, the British Empire or America today, there has been the concept of justice and how it has been perceived by society. Through time, the way people have perceived justice and how it should be applied to people of any society is constantly changing. Whether or not someone is a criminal, everyone is restrained by the rules of justice. Whether or not someone wants to obey them, that is up to them. Although people have the option to obey the laws of justice made for us by society today, while they could be applied differently to people who break the law. Criminals could have the concept of justice tossed at them harder and faster in the court of law when they break the law it all depends on what they do. In today's culture people have differing views of what might happen to criminals when they break the law and how justice should be served to them. Even though a criminal could be put in jail or sentenced to death, criminals also have rights and might recieve fair treatment upon certain agreements. The concept of justice isn't always correct when it is applied. 

O.J. Simpson

This case, in terms of the concept of justice, can be seen as justified for what O.J. did or maybe unjustified. It all depends on the individuals perception of the case. In the O.J. Simpson trial, O.J. was accused of the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman in the early-1990's but in in 1995 he was acquitted of the charges. Being acquitted of a crime is the same as a not guilty verdict. Even though O.J. was accused of murder, he was let go as an innocent man after the trial. With this acquittal of murder of the deaths of Ms. Simpson and Mr. Goldman, the reparations with being let go came to follow. He was ordered to repay Fred Goldman, Ronald's father, just over $33,000,000 for his son's death. O.J. Simpson is one of many people who have been accused of something they are or are not guilty of committing. He has had some minor things happen to him with the law since this trial but the concept of justice during his trial may or may not have been twisted because it wasn't solved on whether or not he had indeed been the actual murderer. With O.J., it all depends on the person looking at the facts to feel if this was a justified verdict or unjust and if the concept had been twisted for a high profile athlete such as O.J. Simpson.


 

Iraq War

 In todays's society, people have the ability to twist the concept of justice just so we can feel better that something was solved and there would be one less criminal on the street. Even though we try to uphold justice as best we can, sometimes people seek revenge because of letting ourselves become clouded with hatred for somebody. One possibility the concept of justice may have become twisted and dishonest over time is America's involvement in the Iraq war and why we are still there. We were told the reason for starting the Iraq war was for Weapons of Mass Destruction, such as nuclear bombs, chemical weapons and other extremely dangerous explosives. There wern't any W.M.D.'s that we could fine then or now. America may have had a just cause to enter Iraq when the war started. But some ask why we are still there. America took out Saddam Hussein in the process which can be seen as another just reason to go in. What other reasons are there? That has been left open to the public to ask. With a war like Iraq it is left open to the public whether or not it is a justified war to have started and are still involved with.

With a Concept, everyone has their view or vision on how to describe that concept. Some become inventions, such as the various weapons used in war or a building for courtrooms to be used to uphold the laws our founding fathers and those who came after them have created through time. With a thing such as the concept of justice, though, no matter who it is who describes it, it is a hard subject to describe. People have similar views when it comes to justice and how it should be applied. But there are some views that differ and that happens with something that is hard to describe and also a bit broad because of all the factors the come into justice such as the laws of cities, counties, provinces, states or countries and the can all vary from each place.