RedRamage

Grok is wrong.

My thing is to do my utmost to leave the emotions in the game itself... especially when they lose. I have a distinct memory a handful of years ago, after yet another Lions loss, of thinking: "Wait, if the Lions had won... would I be super giddy excited and feel like my whole week was made? No? Then why am I letting a lose make me ultra grumpy and pissed off and taking it out on my family?" So now I let myself feel whatever emotion I want during the game, but then when the game is over I remind myself that a loss means nothing real and tangible to my life.

Some of it can be explained as emotions in the moment. I don't usually post much during the game, but I'm certainly shouted stuff at my TV as I'm sure we all have. I've always hijacked the Las Vegas catchphrase: "What's said during the game stays as 'during the game.'" That said, it is possible to go a little too far in a gameday thread.

Now that's a nickname I might be able to get behind.

I noticed that as well. I think a lot more of this stuff happens that the average fans doesn't really pick up on. I only noticed this because it happened like three or fours times in short order before the 4th down play.

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.