Hongbit

A solid guy. Coming back after back to back pro bowl seasons and he doesn’t blast the organization. Quintricia really f’d that one up.

Wednesday practice doesn’t mean as much as it’s common for teams to rest a vet or someone with inured status. DNP tomorrow will be a big deal and a Friday DNP often leads to an early Out call for Sunday.

I’m not the biggest fan of some of the PFF stats but this one is very interesting. Tells quite a bit. You can see which OL are trash and which QB needs to do a better job releasing the ball to avoid knockdowns. No surprise Rodgers and Brady are some of the best at avoiding it.

The emergence of Okudah is one of the best Lions stories in years. Finally, a 1st rounder that started slow who was able to break out. I can’t remember the last time it happened. He’s playing at a pro bowl level right and it’s great to see. It’s a big deal for the future of the team to have a legit #1 corner as one of the boxes already checked.

See you next Tuesday

Their defense is awful. This should be another high scoring effort even without Swift.

It’s a point of emphasis this year on calling illegal contact when a DB puts hands on a WR starting his cut. They don’t even have to push or re-route them. Amani had some type of brain freeze yesterday where he just couldn’t stop doing it. I’m not ready to give up on him. I think he had a really tough game and completely lost his focus.

That play never should’ve happened. There were a number of times in the 4th quarter where they were unable to make a play to win the game. I see it as a sign of progress for this regime that fans are frustrated to lose a game they probably had no business winning in the first place. It’s not the SOL apathy out there. People are seeing progress and an overall rise in talent from this team. I really think they can compete with anyone in the league. It’s still probably an 8+ loss team but I don’t expect any massive 28 point blowouts and that includes Thanksgiving.

The irony is that his mistake yesterday was not being aggressive enough. He needed to go for it rather than settling for a long FG. My biggest issue other than that call was Aaron Glenn not benching AO. He needed to come out and get replaced with Will Harris.

FFF

In many ways the parlay is a sucker bet. The odds are nice but it’s damn hard to put 3 or more winner’s together. Who am I kidding, even a 2 teamer isn’t easy. Commanders killed 2 parlays yesterday where I got the other 2 legs. Need NYG -1 tonight to avoid the same fate.

Jimmy showing some love for the Lions.

It appears Mac Jones has a high ankle sprain and will be out a few weeks. Lions will probably see Brian Hoyer in 2 weeks in New England.

I’m not buying lack of depth as a factor. They were the better team for most of the day. They had many chances to put the game away. It shouldn’t have come down to asking one of the Hughes Bros. to make a play.

Lions open 6.5 favorites at home against Seattle.

This was a tough one for me. It doesn’t matter that this was never circled as a win on all of our season predictions. They played better than the Vikings today and should’ve won, yet when crunch time came they gave it away in all too familiar Lions fashion. This is exactly what Brad and Dan have been preaching all off season about not doing. It was about changing the culture and building a tough, gritty team that can overcome and find ways to win these type of games. Dan talked about it at length on Hard Knocks about creating a winning mentality that makes good on the one or two key plays to win games at the end. Sucks to have them in this exact situation with a chance to take a step forward only to find out that not much has changed with their end game mentality since last season.

They played well enough to win this game. Some very poor play calling decisions on crucial plays along with the choice to try a 54 yd FG at the end ultimately lost this one. Not just Campbell either, AG has to own this one big time too. Inexcusable to not take out Oruwariye and let Will Harris play.

Tough call. Do you run and take it down to 1:25 seconds and punt back to MN or try to get the game winning 3rd & 14 completion?

One 1st down

Poor play design. Weak side run leaves JW to beat 3 guys.

I don’t like the difference between what’s a PI or holding call on the Lions and what they aren’t calling on Patrick Peterson.

Big drive here. Let’s use some clock and get 6.

Amani have a tough half.