RedRamage

Honestly I think it wasn't that much of a snub or anything... The Lions played horrible against the Pack. They beat up the Bears, but... it was the Bears. Then the Ravens are a great team with SB aspirations as well and it was a road game for the Lions. I can't find too much fault in the talking heads picking the Ravens.

Ehhh... I dunno. I don't know if I can ever view SOL as a positive. I totally get what you're saying here and I appreciate it, but when the initials are SOL it's always gonna be a negative thing for me.

Yeah, the way the game started on the ground was not encouraging, but they certainly produced by the end of it!

Stupid coaches...

Oh yeah, they absolutely can. I was worried that the Lions were going to be out classed by the Ravens, but they've hung with them and shown that they are every bit as good a team.

Not that I want to be "that guy," but it seemed like we had a number of bad calls/non-calls... The helmet to helmet on Goff, the "hold" on the punt, which didn't look like a hold at all to me, a non-call on a pretty obvious hold on Anzalone.

I actually am surprised. Because this isn't season ending IR... just out for like 4 weeks or so. The fact that they aren't ruling out him coming back is very surprising.

I'd be okay with that. I mean, I'd rather a full TV crew so that replays would sync and all that, but if the only option would radio synced up I'd be okay with it. And yes I know that technically I could just play radio audio while watching TV, but it's not quite the same and means I'd be stuck with going back to watching live instead of being able to do it on tape delay and fast forwarding through commercials.

One more thing I forgot to mention from yesterdays game: I did NOT like St. Brown's TD celebration. I'm sorry if all you young whippersnappers thought it was funny or cute or whatever. But let me tell you straight up: It was NOT funny. It was NOT cute. I mean crap man... my heart can't take stuff like that! For the love of all us older guys who are in horrible shape are just one greasy hamburger away from the heart attack... do NOT do something like that again!

The NFL disagrees with you:

I know it would cost more, which is why it'll never happen. But I also think it would be well within the NFL's budget to handle it. If they can do it for MLB they can do it for NFL. It helps now that the Lions are better. But I'm sure we all clearly remember the years when the Lions were the red-headed step-child that no one cared about and we'd get the same cliched stories (did you know that Stafford and Kershaw were on the same team in highschool?!?!?), wrong names, and bad information from the announcers, etc. I don't want the announcers to be complete homers, but I also wouldn't mind a Detroit focused announcer team who'll at least have accurate information about the players I care about and won't repeat the sale old tired crap all the time.

I'd say a home and away crew. I'd give the home feed to anyone not in the away team's immediate area, but for that matter do all three if there's demand for it. I think it wouldn't be too hard to figure out a way to allow people to pick their feed too.

I just really, really wish it was possible to get a local crew for each team. I mean come on... it's 2025 with a gajillion streaming options. MLB does team specific crews for 162 games x 30 teams (almost... there are some national games of course). Why can't we have a local crew for just 17 games?

But does have a reach... quite a good one.

It felt like we had the D-Team (or worse) again yesterday. I remember a handful of mis-pronounced or wrong names said. And I remember the color guy saying after the 4th down stop: "This is as good as a turnover!" Yeah... because that's what it is! It's a turnover on downs.

As much as people shouldn't have overreacted to one loss on the road against a good Packers team, I don't want people to overreact too much to one win at home against a bad Bears team. Don't get me wrong, it was a SOLID win, but it was against the Bears, so I won't say I have 100% confidence back... yet.

Just for the fun of it I compiled some numbers from the 7th innning: Hits: 5 Walks 4 HBP: 1 Outs: 3 Ks: 0 56 pitches where thrown by the Yankees, of them the Tigers swung on 19 of them... About a 1/3 swing rate... but honestly that was only because Hill (the third guy in) started throwing strikes. Before Hill came in 36 pitches were throw with 9 plate appearances. The Tigers swung 7 times. Less than 20% of the pitches offered by the first two pitchers were swung at. Hill accounted for 1 hit, 1 walk and all three outs. That means that the entire Tigers team came to the plate before a single out was recorded. Cruz and Leiter both had infinite ERAs in that outing.

Can judge BJ on one game anymore than you can judge Campbell on one game. I seem to remember a lot of people thinking Campbell was in over his head his first year in Detroit. (Not saying Johnson will or won't be a good coach... just saying it's too early to judge.)

The only thing worse than Lions fans overreacting to a loss is non-Lions fans overreacting to a loss.

Well what do you expect? Patullo has lead his offense to an average of 24 point a game this year. So far Morton's offense hasn't even been able to score!

I agree... I just think it's also a immature thing to do. Spitting in general as some sort of dominance display is stupid. I also expect Parsons to make a comment about it. Something like: "Trying to get your opponent ejected is for the weak, it shows you can't beat them straight up."

Apparently Dak spit first... kinda. It's very clear that Dak deliberately spat towards Carter. It landed near his feet, which was what I suspect Dak intended to do: Now this is in NO WAY trying to excuse Carter's actions. Instead I just wanted to point out that Dak also had the maturity level of a little boy by spitting towards Carter.

"Trick plays are for people who can’t beat you straight up." Running that through google translate and I get this: "I'm not a very smart player and easily fooled." Is there anyone here who speaks "little bitch" and confirm if that's an accurate translation?

Yeah, this should be the default response to any article from him.