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It's always been a football town.

If I had to guess, this will be done.... eventually. I think as Harbaugh wanes from people's minds and Moore begins his legacy, people will eventually look back and make this move, very quietly. It might be a year or two from now, but he'll get them back. Giving them to Harbaugh was an emotional move done as a middle finger to the NCAA, it's not based in logic.

This is quality content that is well worth a 3rd round pick. I'm upset I didn't think of this one myself, need to do better.

Wasn't there though? This WaPo article I found from two days before charges were announced included this quote from McDonald, "Those who do not do that [responsibly secure their weapons] should and will be held accountable", and in the same speech to the media, she basically announced that charges against the parents were imminent. If they wanted to go to Canada, why didn't they? The second she said the above on 12/1, they could have driven straight to the border. They weren't charged yet, there was nothing stopping them. They were arrested in Detroit on 12/3. I don't know. We might not agree on specifics here, but the whole thing stinks to high heaven. It never should have happened if there was some sense of sanity at the highest level of government. As a society, we apparently value our toys more than our children. Even if they're guilty, will it really help? How many school shootings have happened while they were awaiting trial? Instead of change, it's just school shooting -> thoughts and prayers -> "we have to do something!" -> doing nothing -> school shooting -> thoughts and prayers.... I don't think this case will change that one way or the other.

They might throw Hart a bone and give him the OC title. I'm sure Moore will call plays but the title and raise might help to retain him. If Hart has a future as an HC it's very likely in the college game anyway.

Jared Goff would spit it out on the feet of the defensive line and smile at them.

I haven't seen this yet. It would probably change my opinion if it comes in at trial that they were leaving him unattended for days at a time. I'm not convinced they were fleeing the country though. They were hiding for sure, but the shooting was on a Tuesday, they were charged late Friday afternoon, and they were arrested on Saturday morning in Detroit. If they wanted to flee, they had family in Florida they could have gone to, or they were free citizens to cross into Canada until charges were announced on Friday. It was really the first thing that annoyed me about the prosecution in this case. They knew they were going to charge the parents by Wednesday or Thursday. The parents had attorneys by then too. Instead of handling the case professionally and arranging for an arraignment like every other case where the defendant already has an attorney, the prosecutor waited and did a 4:00pm Friday afternoon press conference (after the court was closed so they couldn't be arraigned that day), announced the charges to the media (before the defense attorney), and then practically stepped off the podium and said "we can't find them, they're running!" to get widespread media coverage. They were arrested less than 12 hours later. Of course they weren't in Oxford, they'd have been hanged like Salem witches by the angry mob. But they were only 45 minutes south. It worked though, the parents have been in jail for over two years. Neither Rittenhouse or Casey Anthony got that.

The defense just didn’t ****ing execute.

“he” is Matt Patricia if that wasn’t glaringly obvious.

I don't see it as a real 2A thing. They were Trumpies, but a lot of people in Oxford are, and a lot of them would prefer a public hanging of these parents as opposed to this trial. On the FOX News angle, her kid murdered white school children in Oxford, not BLMers like Rittenhouse. She's no hero to anybody. [side bar, maybe this is why I stay out of the politics section......] I'm just not sure this is the way to go about it all. I feel like the problem is legislative and systemic. The fact they didn't break a single gun law is baffling to me, and it's not even fixable with a blue House, Senate, and Governor, because of federal blockades the second you breath the words "gun reform" near the Capitol. This case though.... I've worked in child welfare, I've been a foster parent, and I've worked with severely mentally ill kids before. I've seen first-hand how some of these kids can be sweet, seemingly "normal" teens in one minute, to terrors in the next. She wasn't perfect, she probably could have done more.... but involuntary manslaughter? That precedent scares me. She didn't pull the trigger. He was a fully functional - though mentally ill - 15-year-old who absolutely knew what he was doing that day. I will say though too that I really don't like the prosecutor in this case. Karen McDonald is slimy, and is gunning for political gain (no pun intended). I don't believe a word that comes out of her mouth. When she runs for whatever office she's going to run for, she may be the only candidate who could ever get me to vote for a Republican.

I thought I remembered this being a thread. Anyone following the Crumbley parent trial in Oakland County? It’s been a drama filled case so far against the mom and they’re just getting started.

That's it! They had the NFL on FOX intro playing in the background through it as well live, and it was goosebumps hearing them gear up for this first in a lifetime (NOT once in a lifetime) game.

Ben Johnson almost wasn't the play caller in 2022. I don't think Campbell announced that Johnson would be calling plays (as opposed to himself) until the lead-up to week one.

I can't imagine he accepts that position before he knows what Ben Johnson is doing. The timeline is the same, Engstrand can't take a job before the season is over either.

I wouldn't count out Dan Quinn from either of those jobs. He's gotten second interviews in both spots. I do think Ben Johnson should be considered the favorite for the Washington job, and Vegas agrees. He's -225 for Washington.

We now have more posts in this thread than the entire Lions-Panthers thread from this season. And there are still about 54 hours until kickoff.

I think I will feel like banishing to the Shadow Realm any posters who would dare bring up such a horrid scenario on the Friday before the NFC Championship Game. 😉

When I first got these Lions season tickets in 2021, I remember talking to people about a hypothetical NFC Championship Game at Ford Field. In a far off dream-like hypothetical kind of old man way, not a "really Jordan Love?? we were that close!!" kind of way... I remember saying that I would entertain possibly selling my really nice tickets for a ton of money and then buying some nose bleeds with part of the profits.... Having been within a game of it though this year? No way. Any sense of financial responsibility went out the window. I was overjoyed when the Lions were pulling money from my account for the divisional round. Who needs groceries when you can go to a Lions home playoff game?! In six years though? I might be back to my hypothetical solution. I kind of hope so, because it will mean the novelty has worn off some. We'll see. I do think baseball is a little different with it being up to 3 or 4 games, rather than one win-and-you're-in game.

The Karsch and Anderson intro this morning is getting me hyped up. I’m so excited.

Undefeated in the all whites, in games not officiated by Brad Allen

I believe they will do a light practice tomorrow, fly out tomorrow night or Saturday morning, and do a walkthrough on Saturday afternoon. Typically, Wednesdays are a warm-up day, seeing how injuries feel and such, Thursdays are their most “real” or hardest practice of the week, some continuation of that on Friday depending on the week and game plan, and then Saturday is a walkthrough.

I think Glenn will have close to a complete defense next season too, assuming he doesn’t get a gig. It will be interesting to see how much he can get out of them. Campbell will have developed more, Houston will be healthy (or we will be in August and told that he’s close), and I would suspect they would go get him a corner and more line help. It has the potential to be the best a Lions defense has been in quite sometime.

He just needs to not tackle Deebo, and then they'll call him clean.