MichiganCardinal

They’re not much, mostly flash bangs. They sure are loud though.

They’ve got fireworks all over the place. Don’t set the place on fire before next week

The pregame ceremony wasn’t much, just a video and spot lighting the banner to a standing ovation. They did set off two small fireworks though, which is a first that I’ve ever seen in Ford Field.

If the fruit of the Bill Belichick tree is rotten, and now the tree itself is dead too, maybe we should just uproot the entire thing and relocate it! What could go wrong.

Steitchen was not a good game managing coach to finish that game.

Underwood to L$U, as expected.

I think the first playoff game at Ford Field is a decent storyline in and of itself. They could push the “Stafford’s Return” story through the week on ESPN too.

I think Detroit-LA has all the storylines for it too

Anyone know when they announce the playoff timeslots? Lions are probably a contender for prime time.

He's not had a good night of following your advice. Apparently he is referring to some random Detroit media personality with 5800 followers who I have never heard of, who CJGJ thinks called him a bad teammate, which the dude denies. Whatever.

I really doubt he is re-signed honestly.

I get that he's a competitor, but you can't just reappear after rehabbing for 15 weeks and expect the team that's been rolling to bench one of their four or five best defensive players. Who cares who's out there next to you anyway, just go ball out.

Even before the injury, in his rookie season where he played 16 games (only inactive in week one), he was a pretty much total non-factor. Granted that 2021 team was a dumpster fire through and through, but the contributors today who were on that team (Goff, much of the OL, ASB, Alim) mostly all started coming into their own there down the stretch. You saw flashes of where they are today. I've never seen anything with Levi that's made me say, "yeah I see what Holmes saw" One sack and 15 tackles across 16 games as a rookie 2nd round pick didn't inspire confidence. Zero sacks and 3 tackles across five active games in 2023 says he won't be here next year... Is it possible without the injury we get a serviceable backup? Possibly. But a starter should be the expectation with the #41 overall pick. I'm not prepared to say that Holmes didn't miss on it and excuse it away by citing to the injury. I think he just whiffed. On one day two pick across three drafts, which is pretty dang good.

That's where I am at too. The Eagles are in shambles, I put that game at 50/50. But the Commanders haven't won a game in over two months. I'm sure they'll try to win, but they're just so totally devoid of talent and coaching, I think the Panthers might be able to beat them if that was the game on Sunday.

Ehhhh…. I’m ready to call him a bust. It’s debatable how much is injury related, but it’s his third season as a 2nd round pick and he’s a healthy scratch at the thinnest position group on the team.

Agreed. Even after Michigan won game one, I wasn’t super confident they could knock off the Alabama of college baseball.

I feel better than I did going into 2013 against Louisville or 2018 against Villanova, for what the cross-sport comparison is worth.

I wonder if they’ll do any sort of ceremony for it on Sunday. I’m sure they’ll nationally televise if they do, right?

I got an exact replica of that Axel Foley jacket for Christmas. I'm stoked to wear it on Sunday.

This is what I am leaning towards too, but I do think this year's PAC 12 is better than last year's Big 12. The 2022-23 TCU squad (which had already lost to Kansas State) probably doesn't beat Oregon twice. I also think this year's Michigan team is worse than last year's Georgia team. Though you're not claiming that M will beat them 65-7, so that's neither here nor there really. I have a really hard time seeing Washington getting Michigan to engage in a shootout. UW scored 31+ in 11 of their 14 games this season, which made up for some really bad defensive showings (42 to USC, 33 to Stanford, and 32 to Cal all stand out). Michigan didn't allow more than 24 all season, while also never scored less than 24 on offense. Something's got to give, and I seriously doubt Michigan is about to surrender 51 like they did to TCU. Even if Penix is on, I think Michigan will control the bleeding and take back the tempo of the game. It's worth pointing out again that Michigan's mistakes against Alabama probably resulted in 11 points of swing throughout the game, and they still won. They are just such a good and complete football team. Meanwhile though, you can't rule out Washington. They've been underdogs in three of their last four games. They are comfortable in this position. I won't make a prediction yet, but overall I do like Michigan's chances.

I'm good with that so long as that's where the MTF party is hosted.

I'm okay with a Sky Judge. I think the barrier there is what we saw when they made pass interference reviewable in 2019. It's just so incredibly hard to review subjective things like holding and pass interference, where the question is not "yes or no" or "in bounds or out of bounds", but rather "who contacts who" or "is that enough restriction". If I put 100 NFL officials in a room and play a clip of a pass interference that wasn't called, how many should have to raise their hands to say "yes this is pass interference" for them to reverse the call? 51? 75? 90? Each Sky Judge would have their own threshold to pass in order to flip a call like that, which I don't think is good for the game either, as we pause the game for a play to go into a black box that then tells us how to proceed. I'm not saying that the state of officiating is strong by any means, I just don't think there are easy solutions to many of the problems.

For those who are curious. He last called a Lions game when we played the Ravens in Baltimore. Before that, he worked Week 18 Sunday Night in Lambeau last season. He is also a professor at Texas Tech and enjoys long walks on the beach with his dog Fifi. I made one of those up, you can decide which.