RedRamage

Refs getting nervous... the Lions fighting for it and they're worried.

Man the OL is looking sad tonight.

How much you wanna bet it comes back as incomplete?

CRAP

Can someone explain to me how ARSB always gets so open?

Dammit Glenn... such a bad play caller.

Dallas is a very good team and it's on the road. This wasn't going to be an easy game. Now, so far they're playing much worse that I'd expect, but a loss here is sorta what I expected.

How dare Glenn call a play where Dallas gets aware with a blatant hold and the Vildor falls down.

Penalties against Dallas?

Holy crap is iffy on fire!

It's gonna be like that tonight, eh Refs?

That's my feeling as well. Against the Saints he really went off... 140 yards. Outside of that he's only averaging 47 yards per game. Now, if he gets another game over 100+ yards then that makes it much easier, but I don't see that coming.

It's possible... It's hard to know what's really driving the player. It might be the contract, it might be the change in scenery, it might be that he's just gotten lucky injury-wise this year, it might be that the Lions being only able to get the value from him that they did being a wake up call that he needs to up his game... likely it's some combo of all of that. Next year will tell us more of course.

It this scenario this week? I'd probably play it a bit differently if it was this week or against the Cowboys or the final week.

This one's for you @Motown Bombers

ThatsGoodSports post game video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtvqPtz34jM

We don't actually know that. He's never had a chance to do it.

FTFY

I did not know that. I think a better solution is possible... but as I said, the fact that it a fair catch signal isn't missed more often means I'm probably looking for a solution without a real problem.

What Randy said... lot of times the returners try to fake out the kicking team when it's close to the endzone. I'm pretty sure it happened later in this very game.

I've always kinda thought the fair catch signal was weird. It's can be such a quick signal and it's different for different guys... I'm honestly surprised it isn't missed more often. It seems to me that there should be some auditory signal of some sort, but I guess the fact that it isn't missed more maybe means there doesn't need to be?

I also saw after I had already replied that later in the thread many others said the same thing, so I guess I didn't really need to post that, but oh well... 🙂

I don't think so... on the reply you can see he was tracking the ball when Raymond was signaling fair catch. I think he genuinely did not see the sign.

The best theory I've heard is that Payton wanted more time to watch the replay to decided if he wanted to challenge the call or not. Wilson snapped the ball too quickly.

Actually the percentages seemed to go down with age, not up. Obviously it's just a calculator, not a perfect predictor. And yes, it's not zero, but my point is that it's not very high and injuries in football happen all the time. I won't avoid someone based solely on a 5% increase in major injury. And while Holmes does have a history of history of acquiring injured players I still don't think a 5% increase is that much. Obviously it's one of many factors that need to be considered.