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Texans smash Lions as focus turns to Matt Patricia's future with franchise

Detroit — Stick a fork in this Detroit Lions team, they're done.

This time, a national-television audience got a firsthand look at Detroit's ineptitude in a 41-25 Thanksgiving Day thrashing at the hand of the Houston Texans.

The defeat, the team's fourth in five games, now shifts the focus to owner Sheila Ford Hamp, who must decide whether to make the fan-appeasing decision to fire coach Matt Patricia over the long holiday weekend or allow him to be, seemingly, a lame duck through the end of the year.

After getting shut out for the first time in 11 years last weekend, the Lions wasted little time getting on the scoreboard in this one.