RedRamage

For those of us who are gambling idiots, can you explain how a parlay works and what the advantages are vs. just "normal" bets? I have no intention of getting into gambling because I know that I'm a very weak willing soul with things like this and I would get addicted in no time at all. But I hear about parleys all the time and I'm just curious how it works.

I remember that Crowell play. Just one more great Lions memory. 😢

I think this is a very valid comment and it the appropriate rebuttal to my "sour grapes" attitude of "Well, we expected them to lose anyways, so..." I think we've all been trained to view the team as a bad team for a long, long, long time and so "well... we expected them to lose anyways, so..." But we shouldn't just expect that nor really accept that as fans. This one hurts a bit because it was clearly winnable and they found a way to lose. It would have been a nice statement game. Looking back 3/4 of a day later and I was probably just trying to psych myself out of feeling upset.

This. Before the season most of people put the Lions at 6-8 wins... not quite good enough to be average. The Vikings are an above average team so you'd expect them to lose. That's not to say I'm happy about it... I think they could have won if they'd just played a little bit better. But I guess I didn't expect them to win.

I think it was the wrong call to go for the FG for two reasons: It's unlikely he makes it, giving the Vikings short field position. But even if he does make it that doesn't stop the Vikings from winning on a TD. I think the choice there should be been between a punt and going for it on 4th down.

I think this was a complete team loss. I think you can point to problems everywhere. Goff wasn't perfect (though not bad either), choose to not run more seems puzzling to me. Receivers weren't getting open regularly. Injuries were piling up. The DL got very little pressure. #24 was sucking it up big time and the secondary in general wasn't great. ST made a number of mistakes (missed FG, less than great punts, take the ball out of the end zone and getting tackled before the 25-yardline too often). I honestly don't know that there was any one area that played really, really well... maybe the OL I guess??

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesotavikings/comments/xk2cqi/this_is_the_lions_division_and_were_all_just/

Any references to knee caps?

Yeah it was 100% a joke at TripleSe7en's expense.

https://www.nfl.com/voting/rookies/ Now, it's a fan vote and there's no limit to the number of times someone can vote so it's pretty meaningless, but I suppose it's cool that he made the list at all.

Did he use to stare at you when you sat in the stands... signaling that he approved of your posts online?

Well, I'm a believer. Against the Lions: Passing: 18/32, 56.2% for 243 yards, no TDs, no INTs, QBR of 80.6. Running: 90 yards on 17 att (5.3 avg) and a TD Against the Vikings: Passing: 26/31, 83.9% for 333 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, QBR 108.7 Running: 57 yards on 11 att (5.2 avg) and 2 TDs Hurts ran on the Lions a lot more. I didn't watch the game with the Vikings so I don't know if they were keying on stopping him from running more or if this was just a case that they didn't need to because Hurts had no problem passing.

Detroit vs. Everyone* *Including the Lord Almighty

Geez man... is there any QB you will NOT compare Goff too favorably?

I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves... it was a solid win, but: 1. There were still times when the offense and defense looks bad. 2. The Commanders aren't a great team. So I think it's early to starting printing the playoff tickets. Vikings will be a big test. if we win there next week... I might say we need to fire up the printer.

We should see if the Rams want to trade QBs and if they'll throw in some first rounds picks with their QB seeing as how ours is better.

Feels like you're saying that Goff is better than Jackson. 🤮 I don't understand how you could think that.

Was I just imagining thing or was there a pretty blatant facemask on Goff that didn't get call as well? I remember one time he was sacked and I thought it was almost violent enough to consider it a penalty for driving Goff into the ground, and then on replay it looked like the defender has his facemask.

I agree that the 9ers are better than the Bears. I would not have put the Bear above the Niners. But I also don't think I would have put the losing team 13 spots above the winning team. I know it's week 1 and I know that Power Rankings are meaningless anyway so I'm not losing any sleep over this or draft a letter to my congressperson about it. As for the Lions, they hung with the 9th ranked team forcing, putting up 35 points. They still lost and they still have a rep as a bad team, so I'm not expecting a super high ranking, but I think the 20-25 range is reasonable. Again, I'm not losing any sleep over the ranking, just saying I think it's wrong.

ESPN Power Rankings have the Lions at.... 27. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34580647/nfl-week-2-power-rankings-2022-1-32-poll-rookies-stood-week-1 I mean yeah they lost, but so did 14 other teams. The Bears who won on Sunday are still ranked 25. The team they beat, the 49ers, are ranked 12th.

If you're not picking Green Bay to win the SB every year from now on I'm going to hunt you down and beat you up.

It does lend itself to some nice nicknames though: Commies... 'Ders...

Isn't Philly supposed to be a dominate running team with "okay" passing? Seems like it's pretty logical that the secondary would look better than normal while the front seven looked worse.

He had a few really good penetrations, but whiffed on a few tackles. Like the Lions, there was a lot of promise there and something to build on.

That's really interesting. I never suspected that about you. You hide your hatred well I guess.