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Backup QB is not a position I intend to think about for the next three years. Unless Hooker is taking a knee or handing the ball off to Craig Reynolds up 31. At that point I’ll be enough beers in to have a good laugh at his name again.

I don't like him because of the anti-science self-righteous BS. I don't believe in him because of everything else you said. I also wouldn't be surprised if his rushing recovery last year to get back in time for the playoffs set him back in his recovery. A torn Achilles is effectively the worst injury you could possibly suffer as an athlete. You don't just rush recovery to come back four months later.

It just feels to me like he’s eschewed the steps that make any other aging QB great in favor of hot takes and pseudoscience. If it works for him, more power to him. But I don’t think it will.

I thought Inside Out 2 was well done. Speaking as someone who appreciates diversity in art and understands the significance of representation…. I think the diversity of a girls youth hockey team in Northern California may have been a bit overplayed. And the protagonist got totally jobbed on a penalty. For what? Interference? Roughing? She was shooting the puck! The sports realism is worse than Air Bud. Anyway, yes, it was a good movie.

I can’t wait for the Jets to go 7-10 this year.

In a vacuum, I think the decision to kick is correct in each of these situations. Obviously games aren’t played in vacuums, but I have a tough time criticizing the decision making. I know people here would have been very critical of Campbell had he has gone for it on 4th and 6+. And the decision would have been universally ridiculed in another universe where they don’t convert the 4th and then get within field goal range down 4 on their last drive. Criticizing their offense for not converting though? That’s fair.

The outside thing shouldn't be a huge deal, at least in 2024. Green Bay (11/3), Chicago (12/22), and San Francisco (12/30) are the only three outdoor stadiums we play in. Arizona and Houston have retractable roofs, but Arizona's will almost certainly be closed in the September heat and Houston almost never opens theirs (they claim it's to contain crowd noise). Speaking of crowd noise, that may be a factor. There are a few fewer people attending UFL games than NFL games.

In fairness, those weren’t obvious “go” situations. Monday Morning QB says, you lost by one you should have pushed it more. But without looking it up, they were all 4th and moderate or 4th and long situations where I think Campbell would have kicked it too. There weren’t any 4th and inches on the 2 where they kicked it. credit to Detroit’s defense for not breaking in the red zone. One of them I think Stafford was even hurt for and couldn’t have been in even if they wanted to go for it.

I think Brady may be the exception. But he's the exception to a lot of NFL "rules". We will never know, but I think Goff's recent success with Detroit undermines the notion that Stafford was the one thing they needed to win the Super Bowl. Not to say Stafford isn't really good and didn't lead his team to instant success. That did happen. But I'm not positive it wouldn't have happened with Goff; or rather, I'm not positive QB was the "problem" in LA. It was more complicated than that.

Consider it, sure. We don’t need three kickers, new rules or not. I don’t think Bates makes it past waivers to the practice squad though. Badgley probably would. Turner almost certainly would.

CNN has it as their third story. Wedged between a story about how summer brings hot weather and the other mass shooting in Texas.

Yeah but Michael Badgley can’t throw the deep ball.

Signing Bates for two years makes me think the job is effectively his. It’s not a tryout against Badgley and Turner, it’s his job to lose. There is no incentive to release either Badgley or Turner right now, but I expect that Bates would have to perform exceptionally poorly to lose the job before the season starts.

Goff is also 2-0 versus Mahomes. Ball don’t lie. 😅

It’s a silly and artificially created vacuum (that I myself created), but yes. This is year four with Dan Campbell, Ben Johnson, ASB, 3/5 of the OL, and Jared Goff. You can add a few more that it’s year three and a few more with year two. There is chemistry and consistency there. A random swap for any other QB in the league, even the best in the league, would cause question marks for the chemistry amongst those pieces. I don’t think the NFL works in a way that you can take a really good QB and just insert him on another team and expect instant success. The offense has been built around and is designed to work for Jared Goff. Obviously outside that vacuum where I pretend to only care about 2024, I would take Mahomes over Goff.

I don’t think it is. Not for the 2024 Lions. It’s homerism in the homerism vacuum for sure. I am not saying Goff is the best QB in the league. I’m saying Goff is my pick over any QB to lead the 2024 Lions.

His value dropped into the range the Lions were hoping for after this first pitch.

I think a lot of QB rankings value mobility a lot, which is why we see players like Allen, Burrow, Lamar, and even Hurts consistently ranked ahead of Goff, even though the stats don't back that up. Those players might put up more points in your fantasy league, that doesn't make them better QBs. I don't think there is a QB in this league I would take to lead the Lions into the 2024-25 season over Goff. Not even Mahomes. Goff knows this team, knows this city, and he's the guy for us. Power rankings be damned.

Easy enough. Makes sense here.

Didn't the Dolphins forfeit a first round pick for tampering with Brady and Payton even though they didn't even sign either guy?? Not my circus, not my monkeys.... but doesn't seem exactly equitable.

I remember celebrating with my dad. I was still a kid myself, in middle school, and it wasn’t until I saw him losing his mind that I understood the gravity of winning the Cup. If I’d known the Detroit sports drought to come I may have savored it more. Alas. Go Lions(?)

Well, compared to last offseason, I'll take this scandal all day every day.

Exactly. Next time I’m asked in a job interview to tell about a time I faced adversity, I’ll bring up the time I threw my partner out a window. /s

RE Rakestraw, from Charlie Campbell. Source.