buddha

bryce underwood made it very clear he wanted to get paid. and he did. every player is a one year rental. i'm more concerned about marshall leaving than underwood.

he's trying to say the play doesnt seemed to be designed very well. i guess.

i'm not panicking after one game. but i do think all the worries we had coming into the season were on display in that game. no pass rush. arnold isnt any better at cb. the interior oline isnt the same without ragnow and zeitler. the play calling on both sides of the ball isnt as good as last year. its only one game. and its a hard game too. the packers are legit. but the lions could not take advantage of the packers' weaknesses while the packers easily exploited the lions'.

if this game doesnt worry you a bit, youre either very young or you just started rooting for the lions. looked like old times in green bay. it reminded me of that turkey day game a few years ago where the packers just killed us. couldnt stop them all day. how long until dan campbell starts calling plays? week 9?

looking like a really ****ty sports weekend.

you've been saying this for years. just like you keep saying that michigan is going to give up football because the professors dont care about it. how much did larry ellison give them last year? michigan football is a money making machine.

we all know what happened. kwahi's amazing agent team was asking other teams to do the same thing and (they say) they declined. there is so much smoke here only true wilfully blind people like adam silver wont be able to find any rule breaking. kwahi wont get any penalties, fat be it for the players to take any responsibility. but the clippers should be fined heavily and stripped of multiple years of draft choices. speaking of which, do the clippers have any draft choices left? im sure the league is sweating how its going to come up with a creative way to rig the draft process to get the clippers a #1 generational player in the future.

college football has general managers now. where is the blame for whatever brain trust didnt add to michigan's woeful oline in the offseason?

i find it hard to believe people are blaming an 18 year old kid in his second start for this game! i think underwood has looked pretty good for a guy in his second game. oklahoma's defense is no joke and michigan's oline and receivers are. again. underwood is a bright spot for this offense. him and justice hayes are the only good things on the whole offensive side of the ball.

jim harbaugh giveth and jim harbaugh taketh away. we get a natty and a great end run against ohio state, but we end up with a program on probation and one unable to conduct a proper head coach search that have left it in a precarious position. moore is looking "more and more" (no pun intended) like a guy thrust into a position he was not ready to fill. an offensive line guru whose lines have been terrible for two straight seasons. a guy whose offensive play calling regime has been bad and whose decision making on 4th downs has been even worse. and now a defense that is reverting back to early last year's performance instead of late last years. the one thing he has been able to do is spend the university's (and larry ellison's apparently) money. they have locked down two straight recruiting classes in the borderline elite category, but followed it up with two middling portal classes, with no real helpful additions in the areas of greatest need: offensive line and wide receiver. so what to do? this season is going to look a lot like last season. with all signs pointing toward 2027 as the date for a championship run. if this year goes off the rails, moore might not have that long. harbaugh left a mixed legacy indeed. ultimately scaling the ultimate heights, but leaving the cupboard bare, jetting out of town in a manner that left the school little choice but to promote an inexperienced coordinator as his successor, and a program disgraced in the national media largely because of his inflexible personality's inability to compromise. 2023 will always be an awesome memory, 2024-2026 are likely to be an extended hangover.

well deserved.

this is the byproduct of paying the players. its now professional sports and is treating its customers like pro sports fans. i'm old enough to remember when michigan-osu tickets were all the same price...and the same price as michigan-northwestern. sigh. i'm going to go outside now and shake my fist at this passing cloud.

i thought about what you wrote when i read a piece on a new york times' piece about a lady taking her dream trip to disney and spending 1/10th of her annual income to do it. ruining the thing that made you great so you can squeeze extra profit out of it and at the same time make it only the experience of the wealthy elite.

why would they let him back? is there no one else to rent to?

nothing will happen. gambling, daring to question social orthodoxy, questioning whether china is an open society, those are the issues silver cares about. cheating to pay players MORE money? wont matter in two weeks. nba will "investigate" and we'll hear nothing more about it.

shams isnt a reporter, he's a hype man for agents.

we've had the same arguments here for the last two years as the rebuild has neared a playoff spot but not gotten over the hump. my confidence was hit by last summer's fiasco. we'll see if this year's crop of depth signings does better than last summer's.

i think youre dinging yzerman because youre a contrarian and its what you do. i wish yzerman had gotten lucky with a ninth round pick like avila did.

i hope belichick fails miserably. last night was awesome.

al avila took over the tigers one year removed from a playoff spot. in 2016 the tigers were a few games out of the playoffs after spending a ton of money on free agents. the tigers had multiple star players on the team to use as assets to rebuild the team. the idea that the red wings when yzerman took over were in the same position as the tigers when avila took over is revisionist history. its false. yzerman is not above reproach, but he's not al avila.

yzerman has been really good so far with the exception of last summer which was a disaster cluster**** of verlander for franklin perez, daz cameron, and jake rogers proportions.

the only reason g2 compares baseball to hockey is so he can do his "steve yzerman is al avila" routine. you cant compare sports rebuilds. and unless you want to say yzerman inherited justin verlander, jd martinez, nick castellanos, david price, ian kinsler...which he did not.

ricky leach, 2-10 for 30 yards with a td in his first game. lol. underwood will have more completions in 3 games than leach had all season.

manning was turfing throws to wide open guys, i'm not so sure that was matt patricia's doing. good win for the big ten.

asp is small. there is a much better chance he ends up shayne gotisbhere than erik karlsson. a third pair defenseman who runs the power play. kasper showed last year that he can be pretty darn good. i'd be real happy if bear ends up that good. danielson is tall. 2C would be a great result for him. that's why he's "ranked" higher than the other two: because he's bigger.