lordstanley

Get ready for calls for an 8-team playoff: top 5 SEC teams + top 3 Big 10 teams.

Road games sometimes are easier to take as a fan on the radio. Unless the crowd mic is turned up way up, the home field advantage seems so less pronounced than when I’m forced to see the uniforms and stands with my own eyes, lol.

33-28

Indiana was trailing by 24 with 1:35 to go. Cut it to 10 points with 25 seconds to go. Would have been hilarious to see the 2-pt succeed to set up a scary onside kick.

Boo.

Habs lead. You CANNOT lose to Montreal at home.

Wings on their heels. Veleno takes a penalty.

Habs tie it. Just under 11 minutes to go.

Petry re-scores his 2nd goal of the season in the final minute of the period to make it 2-2 after 1. His “2-goal game” a lttile while back was knocked back to one goal the next day on a scoring change.

I'd be fine with that. As much as I hate load management in the NBA, I wish we could afford load management for the Lions' entire offensive line. It feels like Glasgow, Ragnow and Decker are just hanging on, really could use a bye.

I was picking up my daughter at the airport yesterday and a traveller noticed my Lions hoodie and started beaming. She was visiting Vancouver from Ann Arbor and said her husband has the exact same hoodie, how exciting it is to be a Lions fans these days, etc. It was a nice exchange that put smiles on the faces of both of us. Meeting fellow Lions fans in Vancouver is still rare enough that when you do, there's an immediate connection. And at my sports bar, people love to come up and chat about the Lions, as one said to me the Lions are such a great story they think it's neat to talk to a real-life, actual long-time fan as up until a couple of years ago we all tended to be in the closet, lol

Yeah I think of Lindy Ruff as being from the same coaching era as Marc Crawford and Jacques Lemaire, hard to see why he is still around. I remember Sabres already getting restless way back in 2015. Then when they secured the # 2 pick in 2015, in Jack Eichel, it was expected they’d have a brighter future. 9 years ago.

Posted this in the Red Wings forum as well.

I am still confused by last year's home game against the Bears when Williams was sacked and then the ball punched out of the end zone for a safety. Bears had to kick the ball to the Lions. But after a safety they are allowed to punt it if they choose to and they did so. High up, making it a jump ball. Lions recovered, but it seemed like this type of play gave the Bears a greater chance at getting the ball than they deserved. Was wondering at the time why the Lions couldn't call a fair catch then instead of letting it be a jump ball.

Saw this on Reddit today. Although I'm not sure if 5 out of 10 five and a half years after the draft is that unusual. Still, Kakko turned out to be such a disappointment.

Two wins in a row! Almost a streak.

I already realized how hard hit the Lions have been, but this shows how unscathed have been Minnesota, GB and Buffalo.

After getting screwed in the draft lottery again, Yzerman was still fairly productive. Lucas Raymond, William Wallinder, Theodor Niederbach, Cross Hanas, Donovan Sebrango, Eemil Viro, and Jan Bednar are all notables from this class. Uhh, fairly productive? Notables? Not one NHL game other than Raymond.

Yeah if the division is wrapped up but not the 1st seed going into the Minnesota game, the Lions basically would have two shots of advancing to the 2nd round of the playoffs - a) beat Minnesota and get bye into 2nd round; or b) lose to Minnesota and beat #7 seed in wildcard to get into 2nd round. So would have plenty of incentive to go hard against Minnesota and take care of business, no time like the present.

I see some parallels between this year's Lions' season and 2023 Michigan. Both dominant through the first half or more of what was shaping up to be a dream season and then got thrown a curveball that threatened to upend everything. With Michigan it was Stallions and Harbaugh suspension and media firestorm. With Lions, defensive injuries of course. Made each team's task much more difficult but not impossible. So IF the Lions are able to get through this, it will make for an absolutely legendary story. The Lions now are basically where Michigan was prior to the MSU game - had to defeat the Spartans, Penn St., Ohio State and Iowa to make the CFB playoff, then win 2 games for the title. The Lions need a 5-game winning streak to make the Super Bowl, with the games getting progressively tougher: Chicago, San Francisco, Minnesota, GB/Tampa/Rams/?, Philly?. Really tough, but not impossible. I can't wait to see how it plays out.

I would agree with that if the Lions had been getting complacent and fell into the trap of overlooking an inferior opponent and it bit them. But surely almost squandering a big lead on Thanksgiving needing bonehead time management to survive and then needing a last-second FG to beat GB were enough wake-up calls. Can’t imagine the Lions weren’t “up” going into a marquee matchup against Buffalo. Fact is, the Lions have given up a ton of points the past 2 1/2 games, not from lack of trying.

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