buddha

almost every nfl qb can throw the ball 50 yards in the air. the question is can he do it accurately and on time. is he scared? is it a 50 yard duck floater? does he handle pocket pressure? can he identify the open receiver and hit him in stride? in the first part of the year goff was awful and the answer to almost all those questions was "no." at the very end of the year, he looked better. more comfortable in the pocket. he was still throwing ducks, but he completed a lot more of them. not a big number of downfield shots, but enough. he looked average. competent. but not really good and certainly not like a top qb. the lions have lots of guys who are ok, or decent, or good on their best days. but they could certainly be helped if they improved those players. and a better qb would make the team better too. if they can draft a potentially better qb next year, they should definitely try to do that. or get a better one on the trade market.

im not fighting with you, i just remembered the argument against iuds from before. i dont agree with it.

i think the reasoning being those are devices that "kill" a fertilized egg, which includes iuds. im not sure if that's factually accurate about all iuds, but that's the reasoning. they had the same arguments in those exception to obamacare cases where some religious institutions didnt want to pay for certain types if birth control that acted to destroy a fertilized egg. again, i dont knownif that's true about iuds, but thats the reasoning. theyre not banning condoms.

what types of contraception?

he's already better than stockton. did you ever see stockton play like paul played yesterday? its paul and magic.

so how are you going to hide luka on defense?

chris paul is so good.

how did faedo look? the box score and gamecast makes it sound like he got lucky not to give up more runs.

just a reminder to fuck the leafs.

i think fields was outside their timeline. he needed to rebuild the roster first. get most everything else set then bring in the qb on a rookie deal. let him learn for a year, then make your moves for free agents to finish the build. that's why i think they'll go qb next year if they dont have to sell the farm to do it and there is someone worth taking that high. he sits for 2023 while goff plays on a decent deal, then they get off goff's deal after 2023 for nothing and let the new qb roll. and have oodles of salary cap space to play with if they need a qb or cb or a star player to supplement. if they took fields, they'd be halfway through his rookie deal before he could takeover and they'd be without a building block at a prime position like sewell. that's the plan. lion-dom sometimes gets in the way...

meanwhile, in chicago the hits just keep on coming.

goff's contract will also be up in a couple years. it would be nice to have a ready replacement on a rookie deal rather than having to extend goff for $10-20 millon or give up assets in a trade or take someone else's failed project.

one thing i do like about this team ia that they are building up the lines. i know its passe in the nfl to build through the trenches and now everyone wants to build inside out, but football is still a game dominated by very large men who can do very athletic things. the lions look solid on the oline and now have some young pieces on the dline. i think that's a positive. if i'm looking to next year's draft, the obvious needs to finish off the foundation are qb and cb. even if you like goff, having a young, dynamic qb could take the team's future in a great direction.

i thought parker and jacobs played well last year. walker was decent too. that said, the back seven is still an issue. dt is an under the radar issue too, but there we have to hope levi improves. brockers may be finished in the way ngata and harrison were when they were here more than one season. the new scheme may help, plus the additions on the edge should obviously help too. the seattle game and the eagles game were reminders of how it can go really wrong for this defense if they cant stop the run.

i dont know if melifonwu ends up at corner. he played some corner last year and got burned pretty badly. but he waa coming off an injury and was a rookie, so plenty of time to grow.

in 2020 he was in the bottom 3rd of the league in yards per pass thrown and he had robert woods and cooper kupp. they were good, right?

he's a lot like nakobe dean. people were concerned about nakobe dean being too small to play in the nfl without being injured, well, rodriguez is the same height and weight as dean. theyre both small and fast. hopefully he can put some weight on and be a player in a couple years. he profiles out a lot like JRM. that's not a bad outcome for a 5th round pick if we get that out of him.

goff had one of the lowest yards per pass thrown in the league last year. there was a lot of checking down, dinking and dunking. i think a lot of that is on goff and - as has been mentioned - why the rams moved on from him during the season and then traded him for a qb who throws downfield quite often and quite well. that doesnt mean goff cant succeed, but it is a potential red flag for his future success in pushing the ball downfield. we all saw goff last year, we dont need to pretend he was good. he wasnt.

okudah was bad before he got hurt, then suffered a devastating injury and missed an entire season. if we get anything out of okudah at this point its a bonus.

ohio state ad proposes that college football break away from the ncaa, with its own set of rules. he still gives lip service to the idea of "academic requirements" which 1) ha, osu academics; and 2) i guess you have to do some sort of lip service to that and still have it mean something to be associated with the school. i mean, $3 million for a wide receiver? all power to you, but for old guys like me, it really takes the shine off the college game to hear stuff like that. just make it the minor leagues and call it a day.

lol. the opposite of barrington: pilsen.

i wasnt. i assume from your postings that you think they're all racists so the fact that they are would mean you think they're real christians. lol. i think urban christians and rural christians have more in common than you might imagine, even if some vote for trump and some for bernie.

what was your case again? that i dont know "real" christians? i'll let them know. most of them are really racist, does that make them "real" to you?

speaking of grifters, here's rick wilson.

i come into contact with christians all the time. evangelical christians even. half of them are dyed in the wool bernie sanders supporters.