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Goff has gotten up gingerly a few times. He’s taking hard hits. Atlanta is a really good 4th quarter team. Can’t let up, need points on this opening drive.

Was that Nelson? Couldn’t tell from the seats.

Tough outcome for Brian Ferentz last night in Happy Valley.

I expect a close one. Atlanta is better than many give them credit for. I think the offensive line will be just fine, and both teams will rely heavily on the run game. Zonovan Knight 2+ TDs is +15000, just throwing that out there. I could see him being the goal line back. I think the better team finds a way today after turning the game over last week. Detroit 34 Atlanta 30

Is this where Marvin Harrison Jr. turns into Jaxon Smith-Njigba and is never heard from again?

🤷‍♂️ I get the argument. In today’s college football and today’s Big Ten though, I’m not sure Michigan deserves to go to the CFP if they’re 11-1 anyway. I’d rather watch the fanbase implode on a national stage. It’s more fun.

Rooting for Notre Dame is nearly impossible, but **** Ohio.

Sounds like he’s active. Hope he proves a point and shows why he should stay on the active roster.

Anthony Richardson too. Shocking.

I agree they’re banged up but I’m not writing this off as a loss already. On the offense, Glasgow was signed as a 6th starter. I’m not worried about the drop off from Vaitai to Glasgow. If Decker can’t go, Nelson is a downgrade no doubt, but he also mostly held his own last wwwk notwithstanding a play or two. ASB is most concerning, because we don’t have a lot of depth there. If they won’t let Gibbs run through the tackles there might be some drop off from Montgomery to Knight/Reynolds, but not enough to make a win a loss. On the defense, Walker is probably a week one starter on nearly 31 teams. We need Harris to step up and do his job, but that’s not a new need. Our depth is bending, I don’t think it’s broken like it was against the Cowboys last year.

I wonder how different the vibes here would be if the Lions had won a coin toss last Sunday.

In fairness he has like 10+ years of baseball experience and one year of hockey experience. But I think it’s fair to think he will be the analytics guru and Harris will be the communicator and negotiator.

He comes from the Chicago…. Blackhawks.

What I would give for this injury report.

S'mores over top of this dumpster fire helps numb all pain

Is the problem coaching, personnel, or both? Against the Chiefs the Lions bothered Mahomes all night. They never got home, though they came very close multiple times. Mahomes was just able to evade and avoid the sack each time. Against the Seahawks, the one they got was really the only time they came terribly close, and it was more a coverage sack and a bad decision by Geno Smith than anything else. I tend to think it’s both. Glenn seems insistent to focus on coverage, doesn’t blitz, and hopes that good coverage will give someone on the defensive front enough time to win one-on-one and make something happen. But they’re not, or at least on Sunday they weren’t. And if they’re not, you have to adjust, because eventually someone will get open. Charles Harris is not playing like a starter, let alone a captain. I haven’t heard his name called even once through two weeks. We learned last year around this time that Hutch can’t do it on his own. When he was given the emergence of Houston across from him is when both showed how good they could be. I’m not saying to fire Glenn or that wholesale changes need to be made. But we can’t afford to start 1-6 again, and real evaluation needs to take place of how to fix the pass rush if this Sunday looks at all similar to last Sunday. Chase Young missed the season opener but collected 1.5 sacks in his season debut. But of course the Commanders have started 2-0 and probably think they’re good, so he’s probably not on the trade block for anything reasonable.

It’s actually encouraging there aren’t more names on this list, like Vaitai and Montgomery. Hopefully means they will be back sooner rather than later.

I think Campbell said it’s not expected to be season ending, but he’ll miss some time. It will be telling if he’s put on IR this week.

Hey now, that’s Mr. 12 wins and going to the NFC Championship to you! 😆 But no, not really. I had them starting 1-2 and finishing 11-3. I think Doug Karsch put it well yesterday that a lot of people had the Lions going 10-7 without losing 7 games. It happens. It shouldn’t have happened against Seattle in the context of how that game played out, but they lost in OT without touching the ball. That happens sometimes to good teams. I still think they can go 5-1 against the NFC North and go 5-4 or 6-3 against the Falcons, Panthers, Bucs, Ravens, Raiders, Chargers, Saints, Broncos, and Cowboys. I will say, if this injury situation gets much worse I may start to adjust my prediction. I think we are very nearly at the breaking point where we need the injury report to be showing guys getting healthy, not losing more long-term.

It looked like a season ender, if not a career ender. The number and severity of injuries this year across the NFL have been mind-blowing. I'm not sure there is anything they can really do, I'm sure the turf change would help some, but not stop it completely. It's bad for business to have guys like Rodgers and Chubb suffer season ending injuries, so I'm sure the NFL will act in any way they can to prevent that kind of stuff in the future.

The SOL discussion is predicated on what SOL even means, which isn't consistent. What is a message board anyway if not 90% tangent? 😆

Who are you conceding the division to?

I think you're very right about the top. I sure hope you're right about the bottom.

I thought he handled it perfectly until 2nd and 6 at the Seahawks 23 with 26 seconds left and two timeouts. At that point, you're in position to both score a TD and leave the Seahawks with little time to respond. When that short pass play to ASB went incomplete, he chose to give Patterson an easier field goal rather than stretch the field a little on 3rd and 6. That turned out to be a 38-yard field goal instead of a 41-yard field goal and I think this was the wrong decision. I'm not saying to "take a shot", because that's not the type of offense that we really run. But I think a high percentage route on 3rd down picks up the first (instead of the 3-yard pass that Seattle basically was surrendering), and then you have at least one timeout and are about 15 yards from the end zone. That gives you at least two passes to the end zone before resigning yourself to a field goal.