RandyMarsh

Also its pretty lazy to just assume the Rams don't win that SB even if they had Goff. Yeah Staff played better than Goff that year but Goff was playing as well as any qb in football at the end of that season and the Rams had about as easy of playoff road as you could get in that years playoffs. They either played vastly inferior teams(by playoff standards) or heavily injured teams, there's really no reason that a Goff led Rams team couldn't have beaten those teams as well.

Virtually every game a team will have a guy spring free multiple times and either the QB just doesn't see him or they miss the throw. Afterall even when open deep routes to the sideline aren't exactly layups, for reference next gen stats had the one in the 4th to that rookie receiver as a 40% expected completion percentage so missing a throw like that isnt some fluke thing. With that said I still think we need another reliable corner even once Branch comes back.

Of course there's got to be some bad news. Oh well if Gibbs comes back along with Jonah Jackson I think we'll be passable there.

I know some of those 2nd and 3rd down run plays can be frustrating but I look at them as body blows, you're just wearing down your opponent with each one and setting them up for later on. There's a reason we started picking up plays in chunks late in the third and early 4th and the was a combination of their defense getting worn down and them being cognitive of the run. To sum it up we all like to score on every possession but against a defense like the Bucs that just isnt realistic, sometimes you have to be methodical and play the long game and that's what the Lions did yesterday.

13-3 in their last 16 with 2 of them being a loss in OT and on a last second FG.

JAMOOO!!!!!

Id like to see some more pre snap motion in the second half with maybe a jet sweep or two to try to throw off this TB defense a bit.

Per Birkett, Montgomery is questionable to return with a rib injury.

Jesus that was one of the best blocks from a WR/RB I have ever seen!

I don't agree with it at all but the only thing I can think of is that they were hoping to catch the Bucs off guard and pick up atleast 4 or 5 to set up a 4th and short.

I was too young to watch Harbaugh play but in my 30 some years of watching Michigan he certainly has the most talent that I have seen save for maybe Drew Henson. Yeah they haven't played anybody this year but there's a saying "scout the player, not the opponent" and doing that you can see the ability of McCarthy. You see him throw darts moving to left(TD against Nebraska comes to mind), throwing lasers in the crease, moving around in the pocket well, ability to pick up yards scrambling, ability to go through progressions and arm strength to throw balls in tight windows. Basically everything you look for in a QB.

I meant even taking him out earlier than he would in a normal blowout win.

I just hope Jim is careful with JJ, if it's a blow out I'd take him out the first chance I get cause I wouldn't put it past Sparty to take some cheap shots on him.

BTW I did that "Playoff Predictor" on ESPN where you can pick how different outcomes would play out and according to that if Michigan loses to Penn St. or OSU but still gets to the conference championship and wins it they have like a 60% chance of making it, if they lose to 1 but don't get to the Conference Championship that number plummets to just 23%. Not sure how the tiebreaker would work if all 3 teams end up with 1 loss but as of now it seem pretty imperative that Michigan wins that if they were to lose to one of those teams. Also if for some reason they were to lose to somebody other than them two but beat both of them and finish as a 1 loss conference champion their chances are 89%.

I really hate the fact that there are only 3 good teams in the B1G and the fact that we don't face 1 of them till November. Don't get me wrong I love seeing blowouts but my favorite part of watching Michigan or CFB in general is the feeling of those big games and we obviously haven't had any of those yet.

The contract is bad enough but you then have to also account for the draft capital they gave up just to have the right to give out said contract. All things considered it Could very well end up being the worst transaction in NFL history and that includes the Hershel Walker trade.

That TCU win doesn't appear to look so impressive now after they lose back to back games against Iowa State and West Virginia. Aside from that Colorado needed double OT to beat Colorado State, barely beat a terrible Sun Devil team and got blown out by the two good teams they faced. Not gonna deny that they aren't better than last year but it would be hard not to improve over that team but it seems that the national media was a bit premature with their crowning of Deion being this savior and second coming of Vince Lombardi after a few wins to start the season.

Gibbs, Branch, Jonah Jackson and Paschal all ruled out. LaPorta questionable. Good news is that St. Brown is back and Decker and Ragnow practiced without restrictions so they seem to be close to 100% after playing banged up most of the year.

So Greene's injury was entirely due to that diving catch? I was under the assumption that it was his throwing arm and it had a ton of stress built up on it over time and that catch was the last straw. Finding out that it wasn't his throwing arm throws that assumption out the window. Has to be the first time ever, atleast at the major league level where a player tore his ucl from an impact play like diving on the ground.

The Lions installed new turf at their practice facilities this year, wonder if that has anything to do with the injuries? Remember that we dodged a bullet with the CJGJ the first day of camp where he went down with a non contact injury as well. I know they installed the same at Ford Field as well so that's prob not the case but perhaps not all of them are the exact same,idk prob just random injuries but just throwing this possibility out there.

To me at this point Goff, Hutch and Sewell are the core guys who I want to keep at all costs long term. Id like to keep St.Brown long term as well but I think he would be easier to replace then the core 3 I mentioned so he wouldn't be as much of a priority for me, McNeill falls into this as well. You're not gonna be able to keep everybody but fortunately we have a little time before we are forced to choose who we don't pay and by then hopefully Brad will have already drafted a guy(s) could be the replacement.

On the subject of JV for those that give a crap about stuff like this(I personally don't) yet another deep postseason run will almost assuredly mean he will be going into Cooperstown town as an Astro or at the very least will probably end up being remembered by people as an Astro and not Tiger.

I think Tampa has a pretty good roster and the only reason I didnt give them a chance this year was their qb play but if (big if) Mayfield continues to perform at or near the level he has been playing at there is no reason they can't be a 9+ win team, especially given their division.

It is hard to win on the road(even if there should be a lot of Lions fan there), especially against a decent team. Of course if the Lions do end up losing Sunday people won't remember this fact, it'll be all doom and gloom because to some fans they expect you to win every game in the NFL despite predicting you to lose 5 or more games throughout the season.

I think there is benefit for a team like Michigan to play a quality opponent, maybe not so much in the expanded playoff but how things are currently. Reason being that theres a good chance they will need to be undefeated to make the playoff due to their schedule which means that everything will hinge on the outcome of the Ohio State game. Now if they scheduled an elite opponent early and won they then could afford to lose to OSU cause they'd have that elite win to fall back on. If they lose to that elite team its not a season killer, you just have to run the table and beat OSU to get in, basically the same as you have to do now anyway.