Nate7474

Division games are hard.

I never expect trades in the NFL and Holmes background make its unlikely he ever is going to be very aggressive outside of the draft with draft picks.

Yep same as against the Packers/Chiefs/Vikings. We have an interior OLine problem and its bad.

Giving way to much respect to their defensive line. Montgomery only 6 carries which is basically what he complained about Morton doing.

I would like to take the opportunity to look back at my post from earlier in the week.

Its windy/cold and he has pressure coming up the middle. I'm unsure why we are running those longer routes. Id like to see less posts that are working away from the QB and more crosses and digs.

The only loss that was unexpected was the Vikings and before the year started we would've assumed we would lose to the Ravens. We are basically at the exact record I expected. The schedule this year is just flat out hard.

A lot of season left, don't overreact. This game has almost no bearing on if we make the playoffs and most fans had it marked as a likely loss the day it was announced . If they win their division games the rest of the way they will be in.

I don't believe that it should be outlawed but it needs to be fair for both sides. If the offense gets to push a player then the defense should be able to as well. If the offense is allowed to put their helmet in the neutral zone then the defense should to. Then it needs to be reffed correctly, the NFL allows offensive lineman to get away with starting early to much.

Id rather he be in as odds are they score anyway. save a little if we even want to try and score.

I know this makes me old even though I'm not even 40. The football coach in me hates TD celebrations.

Pressing by over coaching right now and playing tight. No need to go for a fake or the 4th down the prior series right now. In these conditions its better to start to try and gain some field position.

I know its what we do but I didnt like going for it there. Even less so that it was a run up the middle with two backup guards and Glasglow with the less powerful RB.

Good teams tend to wake up the next week after not looking good. The Eagles are going to come out looking much better than they did this week. They also can put a lot of pressure on the QB and we did not look very good against similar attacking style defenses in our 3 losses this year. Could Campbell calling the offense help with that, I sure hope so. I could easily see us winning or losing this game and I don’t think either result changes our season hopes much. Getting another hostile road environment under our belts can do nothing but help in the long run.

Don’t tell him that we already see enough bad screen plays.

I'm just catching up but it looks like Minn is just throwing a gap blitzes and stacking close to the line of scrimmage. Goff and the offensive line are having a hard time figuring out protections.

I’d offer QO to Flaherty and Torres and try to resign Finnegan as well from last year’s team. I’m probably trading some players like Ibanez, Malloy and Jung even if it’s not for much just to clear space. As far as additions I’d like to bring in a 1 year SP and a lefty bullpen arm. The big acquisition I’m making is probably Bichette for 7-8 years near 200 million to play SS and 3B over his career here. The big question is Skubal and I’d probably trade him if you get the right offer but then you need another SP. I’d love to watch him another season but I don’t see anyway that he resigns here and to only get a draft pick back and still need to replace him would be tough.

Obviously Holmes has a great eye for talent but I do think there’s more to it when getting players to the Probowl. How many years did the Lions have top picks and very few probowlers. It seems to me that successful teams that bring in new players thru the draft have an easier time of developing players then the teams that might bring in more athletically gifted players to bad situations. The key is really developing an entire culture of winning and forcing players to get on board or move from the teams expectations. People talk about the parity of winning in the NFL but to me it seems like there’s a group of 7-10 organizations that are always drafting lower and always winning for decades it seems. Are the Lions going to become one of those? Who knows and the next few years are going to be very telling for that as our players get more expensive/less effective and need to be replaced. What Holmes and his staff along with Campbell have done in such a short time is truly remarkable. I look forward to seeing how they go about maintaining this momentum.

Ha! I’m still not even sure what he challenged.

He literally didn’t but that’s ok it doesn’t change my original opinion that a lot of his challenges are blatant that he is going to lose. Now I may watch more of him then other coaches giving me a recently bias because when looking up the stats on it since he’s been a head coach he is right at league average.

Actually he lost that challenge as well as he challenged if it was a catch. The nfl then did a spot review and gave the Lions back their timeout and challenge and that was called correctly on the field they wouldn’t have needed to challenge.

Whoever he trusts he needs a new one. He’s got to be the worst head coach at challenges since he became a coach.

Goff struggled against Bowles defense. Doesn’t see blitzes at all. Carbon copy to last year.

I see what you did there……..

Great job of blocking there by the whole offense on that run.