Through two games, both lopsided losses, Williams has six catches for 95 yards and a touchdown, while Calvin Johnson has 13 catches for 236 yards and two TDs. "The first week, I had five balls thrown my way, caught three for 47," Williams said. "This week, I had six come my way - three for 48. So keeping on my average." Is that enough? "Enough balls come my way?" Williams said. "No, sir. No, sir."

--Does quarterback Jon Kitna look for Johnson, 6-5, more than Williams, 6-3? "I think so," Williams said. "I always joke with him, because when he throws the ball to me, he kind of throws it like I'm 6-7, up there with Calvin." Kitna disputed that. "I think these first couple weeks, we definitely want to get him the ball more," Kitna said of Williams. "I think we tried to get him the ball more yesterday. We just missed on a few plays. Unfortunately had the pass interference call they called against him and things like that. We tried to get him the ball. I don't know how many times we threw it in his direction yesterday. But there's not a cognizant effort to go away from him on my part."

--Cornerback Brian Kelly said the Lions' former Buccaneers were "getting real sick" of being singled out as coach Rod Marinelli's guys and that the Tampa Two defense is constantly evolving. "I mean, look, everybody goes in and says, 'These are Rod's guys' or whatever," said Kelly, who spent the previous 10 years with Tampa Bay, where Marinelli was once the defensive line coach and assistant head coach. "We're football players. We were brought here to play football. So if Rod was here or Rod wasn't here, the type of defense we play just so happens to be the type of defense we played in. I'm ... We're getting real sick of hearing this whole 'Rod's guys.' Everybody in this room is Rod's guys. We've all been in the defense for a while, I've been in the defense for a while, and the defense is forever changing. It's nothing that you can sit there and just close your eyes and know what you're going to do. It's always forever changing. Every year, every week, we're putting in something new."

--The Lions' back-to-back 21-0 deficits aren't just the defense's fault. The offense is allowed to score early, too. "It's not just one side of the ball," center Dominic Raiola said. "It's every person in this locker room. We don't help the defense out by slowing them up by scoring, putting points up. It's 21-0. Everybody says, 'Yeah, it's 21-0.' But yeah, we can help that."

--The Lions are looking to the Giants for inspiration. Last year, the Giants started 0-2 and won the Super Bowl. Both of their losses were bad, and their second came against Green Bay at home. "It's hard to reference this one compared to this place, but if you look back at what the Giants did last year, they started 0-2," Raiola said. "Same thing. I know people are going to say we're not the Giants, this and that. I already know the answers. But it puts some belief back in. When you think about it, the Packers smoked them up there."

--Defensive end Dewayne White says the Lions' struggles aren't the coaches' fault. "It's the players," White said. "You can go out there with the simplest game plan, and if the players go out there and play that game plan play in and play out, you're going to be OK. But when the players mess up, it's going to show up on film."

--Raiola understands the fans' frustration. "You sit around all year and you wait for season and then we give you this," Raiola said. "All I can say is, it's going to get better. I'm going to go out there and play my (butt) off. Everybody else is going to play their (butt) off. We're going to make something happen. You can believe what you want, stay with the team if you want. But that's what I'm talking to the guys in this locker room about. It's about us. The fans have gone through this long enough. We can't promote anything. We've got to show them. We can't just talk about it, what we're going to do to fix it. We've got to go out there and win. That's what they want."

BY THE NUMBERS: 114 -- Sacks taken by Lions quarterback Jon Kitna the previous two seasons under offensive coordinator Mike Martz, now the offensive coordinator in San Francisco

QUOTE TO NOTE: "Our job is to make them happy, and we're not doing that, and I fully understand that." -- Coach Rod Marinelli, on the fans' reaction to the Lions starting 0-2 after seven straight losing seasons.