buddha

if erod is healthy how many games do they win? 70? there are so many ways to respond to that question. the most obvious being that al avila should not have been allowed to make those free agent decisions because he was bad at his job. but that's more of a theoretical complaint, back in reality land, this is merely an admonition that papering over the cracks in a bad team by throwing money at slightly above average or average 30 year olds is not the best way to win at baseball. it never has been. and those 30 year olds are often about to become bad players. the tigers' problems are systemic in their player acquisition and development scheme, until they fix that, not even steve cohen would save them. well....maybe cohen would...

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/35292245/ranking-all-30-mlb-teams-biggest-free-agents-signed tl;dr were 26th! projected 66 wins. all that free agent money spent last year really paid off. not sure why they didnt do it again...

why were you happy when al avila was fired? you obviously think he assembled a very talented team.

youre funny, assuming anyone was actually watching this game.

so we'll trade for luka and then in two years we'll have to trade him because he wont re-sign with us. but for thosr two years we might be a couple games over .500!

i think the bears game is 60-40 with the lions getting a slight edge because theyre playing at home. their last game was right down to the wire. again, the bears are a very good running team and you just saw what the panthers did to the lions (and what fields did in the first game). the packers are just a better team, even with all their injuries. they outplayed the lions in detroit and the lions won because rodgers threw three red zone picks. that's lucky, imo. i give them a 25% chance in green bay if the packers need the game to make the playoffs. root hard for the viqueens on sunday. the lions are a very young team who has overperformed a bit in the second half of the season. i hope they keep it up, but im not expecting it. but i didnt expect them to beat the jets either...

i dont want them to draft a linebacker that high. get a more premium position.

the harbaugh speculation has already begun.

if theyre not going to go for one of the qbs, then it has to be a cb and a dlineman, right?

just to play devil's advocate, you dont think they were ever going to win 9 of 10 but you think they'll win 8 of 10? i dont know how these last two games are going to go, but i'd be more surprised by 2-0 than 0-2. 1-1 is the most likely scenario, imo. amd unfortunately that wont be good enough this year.

tua wasnt trying to be superman, he made turnover worthy plays like he's done all season, only this time the other team didnt drop the ball. that game was tua in a nutshell: cant throw downfield, makes bad decisions, gets bailed out by the two fastest receivers in football and a good game calling coach. lions running game has collapsed along with their oline. not sure if that's because of bad oline play or that other teams are selling out against the run and daring goff to beat them. whatever theyre doing is working. it would be nice to see more of jaymo. if that oline cant dominate the bears, theyre in trouble. on defense, they really need elliot back because the safety play in that game was brutal. of course, everyone on defense was brutal. cant keep contain on defense, cant cover receivers, cant keep gap discipline. it was a cornucopia of errors. the bears have a good running game and will shred them if they dont fix it.

take the over.

at this rate it might be 10-12.

its been a bad year for herschel walker, but at least he wont be remembered as being involved in the worst trade in nfl history anymore!

yup, tua still sucks.

i put the lions odds of making the playoffs at maybe 10-15%. washington, seattle, and new york have to lose more very winnable games than detroit. regardless, its been a great second half of the season.

absolutely. its been a great season, but expecting 9-1 to make the playoffs with this team is crazy. they can still make it, but its unlikely.

22-18

last week everyone on this board said the lions were the third or fourth best team in the nfc. after this game we'll all say theyre the worst team ever. welcome to fandom, lol.

its now 22-12...

next week's game thread is gonna be rough when the bears run for 400 yards on us...

imo, the panthers and lions are very close talent wise. the panthers have a better defense and the lions have a better offense.

game threads gonna game thread, lol.

melifonwu and kirby joseph have been god awful today. the secondary has been garbage for the last 3 or 4 games. bring back aubrey pleasant! lol.

okudah has been terrible ever since he got sick amd missed a game.