Motown Bombers

It's funny, everyone says blitz Goff and he'll get rattled despite being excellent against the blitz. Hurts is bad against the blitz. He's also reverted to his 2021 self and not the 2022 self. He took a safety when the line of scrimmage was the 8 yard line. He drifted so far back and then try to roll out of it and took a safety.

This pass chart by Hurts against Tampa is wild. Nothing in the middle of the field.

The interior of the Bucs OL is weaker so you may want to try to have another pass rushing type DT like Levi but I would still activate Houston over Levi.

I would inactivate Levi. They added him to the 53 so they must plan on playing him soon. He could have went back to IR if they had no intention of playing him.

The Lions are on this graphic.

McNeil has been really underrated this year.

I feel confident this won't happen against the Lions.

Really good practice report. Probably only Raymond will be out.

If the Lions win the Super Bowl, they should give McVay a ring.

Stephon Gilmore is a free agent. He's getting up in age but he was still good. Would come on a short term contract. Would be a nice stopgap if you draft a young CB.

A 26 year old who hasn't even thrown a pre-season pass probably doesn't have much value. It would be less than the pick used to draft him. Might as well keep him and develop him into a backup.

If Houston is anything like he was last year, this is going to be big. Imagine that 3rd and 16 the rams converted if the Lions had Houston and Hutchinson able to just go all out pass rush.

The Vikings also were good against the run and blitzed a lot and the Lions hung 30 on them in back to back games. The Rams defense also isn't far behind Tampa in run defense. Tampa actually gives up more passing yards per game than the Lions. We already saw Goff carve up this defense. He's good against the blitz. The blitz needs to get home.

The Lions also didn't have Brian Branch and Jonah Jackson in that game. It was also a road game. One good thing about this matchup is that Tampa is the worst at running the ball. The Lions can play more 3 safety looks and keep safeties over the top. They also don't motion a lot which the Lions struggle with. Tampa reminds me more of Denver. Minnesota ran a similar offense to the Rams since Kevin O'Connell was the OC with the Rams. I think Tampa's lack of motion and run game benefits the Lions. Tampa is also terrible in the red zone and the Lions looked pretty stout in the red zone. Goff did fine against Tampa's blitz just like he did against Minnesota and Denver who blitz a lot.

Tampa was 3-1 and 1st place in the NFC South. How are they playing a lot better? Mayfield was playing well going into that game. They beat Carolina 9-0 and got waxed by the Saints in a clinching game heading into the playoffs.

I also feel like if Purdy was a 1st round pick or Trey Lance he would be way higher on this list.

Orlovsky is weird. He is such a Stafford guy but such a Goff hater. Probably upset Goff did something in Detroit his boy didn't do in 12 years.

Here is the Rams defender going at Laporta's knees. They already know he has a bad knee. The defender also has the sideline. He doesn't need to take Laporta to the ground. This isn't an open field tackle attempt. He just needs to bump him out of bounds. Instead, he dives for the knee.

It's the NFL. You can't go high so what else are you supposed to do? Even Vikings fans didn't cry as much as Rams fans.