RandyMarsh

One more thing I will say about yesterday is that it sucks that we lost but I did like how the team and Goff responded after the devastating pick 6. I feel like in the past we would've just folded after that but instead Goff responded with a perfect drive and then the defense played its best series of the game. Too bad it was all for naught but still I do think them bouncing back like that instead of just laying over and dying should be noted.

It's September 17th and we still have not been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs/division title yet! Progress??

Ugh the Giants have come all the way back to tie it at 28. Aside from the Packers and Bears losing this has been a disastrous day of football for me.

I mean naturally after a loss you're not going to be as optimistic as you were before the game but my feelings about the team are no different than they were this morning. I still think they are the best team in the division and in that 2nd tier in the conference behind Philly, SF and possibly Dallas. Basically they are a good team but flawed team but considering the division and conference in general that may be good enough to make a deep run in the playoffs if things break your way.

lol brutal, I think he had a PI against him as well too. Just confirms how much we need Mosely back and/or questioning not taking a true corner(I consider Branch more of a safety) with any of our picks.

The Seahawks use a ton of multiple TE sets so giving up yards to them is to be expected, maybe not as much as we did but when you run as many plays for them as the Seahawks do you're bound to give up your fair share. In regards to Campbell without actually watching isolated film on him it's hard for me to say how much or little blame he should receive.

Sounds like he's gonna be out for awhile. Only time I remember noticing him thus far this year was earlier today when he was in coverage chasing down the TE.

Now 20-0, it won't make up for the Lions loss but seeing the Giants get smoked by the Cardinals sure would go along way to making me feel better about this football Sunday. God do I hate them!

The Rams after dominating the Seahawks last week are currently hanging tough with the 49ers 10-10 late in the 2nd quarter. Perhaps people(myself included) wrote the franchise off too early after the injury laden bad season last year. Maybe with a healthy Stafford they are still a legit threat in the NFC.

To me you go for the TD even if it means leaving them time on the clock. I'd rather be handing them the ball up 4 with 30-40 seconds left then having to attempt a 40 yard FG to send the game into OT.

For the record my argument about going for the TD was not that they should've went for it on 4th down as I agree in that scenario you have to play it safe and try for the FG. My argument was seemingly how they slowed things down after they got into FG range, like they didn't want to make a mistake and were content for settling for a FG. I of course don't know if that was truly their mindset or not but that's how it came across to me. That is the part I disagreed with and I'm not just singling out the Lions here, I'm talking about in general, I see it way too much in the NFL and I never liked it.

If the defense dominated and they lost 10-3 with the only TD being given up was a Goff pick 6 people would be overreacting about the offense and how terrible it is and how the league is geared towards offense and they can't even score a single TD. Anyway despite my posts I'm not acting like there isn't anything to be concerned about but they are 1-1 after 2 games with the 1 loss being in OT. I'm not gonna overreact one way or another, if they string together some more losses then I will start to be real concerned. I will say the lack of pass rush has disappointing but the bright spot is that rush defense has played alot better, today they held one of the better 1-2 pair of RBs to under 3 yards a carry.

Bad defense and poor execution is why most teams lose their games. I mean if you play good defense and execute well you generally aren't in position to lose the game.

I do agree with this, I did not like the decision to basically play for the tie at the end at all. For starters a FG isn't guaranteed anyway and for another I'd rather not take my chances in OT where a coin flip is so important. I'd rather try to control my destiny and win the game in regulation.

Well we can chalk up the Packers as pretenders since they lost to the Falcons today cause you're not allowed to lose games in the NFL anymore.

The Jalen Carter argument is stupid, we all know why the Lions didn't draft him and it wasn't because they didn't think he was a great player. You can't fault a team for not drafting a guy who they feel has character concerns and motivation concerns. If we drafted him and he turned into a lazy slob who takes games off people would be bitching and moaning about it for years.

Packers trailing Falcons late, GB can't afford to lose this one or else their season is over and they will be deemed worse than the Falcons.

Breaking news NFL team loses a game, time to write off their season.

Vatai injured, drink!

Absolutely brutal grounding call, I don't know if it was technically a penalty based on the rules but if it is then thats a stupid rule.

Not every play is set up or called to be a big gain, you call certain plays to set up your opposition for plays down the road so just cause the Lions run for 2 yards it doesn't mean that was a bad play call. It's no different then a pitcher in baseball throwing what appears to be a waste pitch but in reality he is throwing it to set the batter up for the next pitch(es).

Shocker a big call goes against us.

I always forget when GGs even started so I was afraid to mention any guys pre 70s, I'll have to remember that they been around longer than I thought.

I got 7/9 today as well. Should've stopped after the whiffing on the first question of 30/30 and 200 hits. Trying to go for the rarity I said Kinsler but he topped out at 190 hits. Also missed the middle square of 40+ HRs and Gold Gloves. I'm terrible with GGs but I knew Goldschmidt has won a bunch in recent years and I thought he hit 40 atleast once but nope he topped out at 37.