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Can Skip play defense? Asking for a friend.

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Hard to outscore a team when you lose the toss and go three and out to start.

Aaron Glenn is losing job opportunities by the drive

Until he falls flat in the AFC Championship Game again

Throw the 15-play plan in the trash, but 7 here and it’s a whole new game.

The defense looks like it just learned that a QB is allowed to run too

This feels like the first game where we will be missing Hutch

Playoff Atmosphere. It’s crazy in here. (that was sent before the game)

Detroit 30 Buffalo 24

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At 410, a helicopter from Minneapolis will deliver 4000 cubic yards of snow, seeking to avenge the MetroDome roof collapse. Ford Field holds, but an intern left a window open. CBS refuses to postpone the game. Both teams playing in snow above their eyes leads to a return to old school football. Lions 0 Bills 0

Do we finally get some help today? With the win over Green Bay last Thursday, Green Bay would need to go 4-0 and Detroit 0-4 to be caught. Feels extremely unlikely. Notwithstanding the Packers, only the Vikings and Eagles stand within striking distance of preventing Detroit from clinching the one-seed. Steelers @ Eagles today at 4:25. Go Steelers. This is the Eagles toughest game remaining, with a weird back-to-back-to-back divisional schedule to finish the last three games of the season against the weak NFC East. A Lions win today and an Eagles loss today all but eliminates the Eagles from one-seed contention, as it would require the Lions to go 0-3 in their last three. Bears @ Vikings tomorrow at 8:00. Possible trap game? Minnesota has much tougher look-ahead games on the horizon against Seattle, Green Bay (possibly for the 5-seed and the right to go to Tampa or Atlanta instead of Seattle or LA), and Detroit. It took the Vikings overtime to beat Chicago when they played three weeks ago. That said, hoping the Bears can act like a competent football team is likely an exercise in futility.

I think of this game a lot, with respect to attendance. Ford Field was empty for this game. Entire sections of the 300-level were empty. A ton of Vikings fans too, enough that they were able to get their dumb SKOL chant going quite often. Flash forward to now, those empty seats cost like $400.

I agree, though I think he made the right call in that game. There were 28 seconds left, 4th and 1, down 3, two timeouts. Even if you pick up the first, you're probably kicking it three plays later to tie the game. If you don't convert the 4th, you lose. As opposed to Green Bay, where if you don't covert you're probably going to OT.

The Bills/Lions game from 2022 is being replayed on NFL Network right now. I never appreciated just how ugly the home grey uniforms were until we upgraded to the current blues.

Am I allowed to question why Army/Navy needs its own day to play football and the playoffs don't start today? Or is that sacrilege like asking why the NFL needs to honor veterans with a standing ovation at every single game?

Ten years ago, Thursday Night games were my favorite to attend. I could usually pickup tickets for less than $50 in the hour or two before game time. Still get the prime time feeling but not at the MNF price.

With Anzalone, Iffy, Rakestraw, Kalif, JRM, and maybe even Hutchinson still to come.

Selfishly I care a lot about the in-person experience. I know I would never have Lions season tickets if it was an outdoor stadium. My interest in being comfortable outweighs my interest in seeing them in-person. But I really love seeing them in-person. It just sounds miserable to have eight or nine home games, and for two you’re sweating your butt off, two you’re getting wet, and two you’re freezing your butt off. There’s also the competitive piece to it, Buffalo will never host a Super Bowl. Though I’d love to see them host a Draft.

It would make a difference to their having to host a home game at Ford Field every few years, but your point remains.

They're already at a disadvantage practice wise too, having six days off to our nine. Good thing they're building a new stadium. Also without a roof.

Same here. If I didn't work I would get bored, and probably end up blowing it all.

He should probably retire. Like today. I'm sure the 49ers can recoup their money on his current contract. He's breaching his contract if he's not injured.

The Lions offense was not clicking in that game. Since they've started firing on all cylinders (whenever you define that as being but certainly after week two), they haven't lost a game. The Rams offensive line is still a mess. They've benched their blue chip free agent Jonah Jackson after they realized they didn't have a role for him, and have lost games to the Bears (in week four) and Dolphins (in week ten) this season, and have been smoked by the Eagles at home just a few weeks ago. If they're playing at their best, they're a playoff team, and no playoff team is an easy out. But I would expect a third rematch to be along the lines of what the Lions/Bucs game looked like in the Divisional Round last year, where it's set at a -6 to -7 spread, and if the Lions play their game, they win it far more often than not.