MichiganCardinal

God DAMN is Ben Johnson a genius!! 4D chess!!

I’m okay with going for it on the one. I’m not okay with four straight runs.

Opposite experience for me when I think of Lions/Jets. I was there for MNF week one 2018, the last time these teams played. By “there”, I mean I was still in line at security (they implemented something new and it went terribly, everyone was there for 45+ minutes) when the Lions picked off Sam Darnold to start his career… Turned out that was the best play of the season. I was in my seat for the rest of the thrashing though! I remember booing after Stafford threw his 4th interception and thinking how worried I was if this was Matt Patricia’s debut. We lost 48-17.

Lions 20 Jets 9

I’ll predict that Wilson doesn’t make it the whole game and Saleh puts in Flacco after concern that his own offensive line will start collecting sacks

They should have re-signed Boyle and offered him to the Jets if Wilson gets hurt.

KOC and Saturday met at halftime and Saturday said “you know what’s worse than going down 33-0 at halftime? Blowing that lead in the second half.”

The Vikings tying to clinch the North would be very Vikings.

At halftime it looked like he might coach his way to the full-time job. No more.

That was soft. If Jefferson isn’t shaken up on that they don’t flag it.

30-0 now

In the event the Lions finish 4-0 and the Vikings finish 0-4, the Lions would win the North with a 5-1 divisional record compared to a 3-3 record for the Vikings. Probably unlikely but I wouldn’t take the possibility off the table.

Vikings are finding it difficult to score without their kneecaps. Down 20-0 to the Colts.

These are both very fair criticisms. I’ve never had a poor experience with them, but I also don’t have 30 years of experience with them. I meant more so that I find it very doubtful any doctor with MM would have completely neglected their duties in a way that seems to be being implied. This wasn’t some back-alley doctor. I’m hesitant to speculate… but I think it’s possible they misdiagnosed All’s injury in February, and then being it was in the Spring had very little interaction with him between February and June, when it was diagnosed properly. If that was the case, All has every right to be upset and I can’t blame him for transferring. It’s not as if we should be firing doctors though. Practicing medicine is hard.

I don’t think it was any one thing. It seems like it had a little to do with how Cade was treated (they were friends) and a little (possibly a lot) to do with his injury and how the UM medical staff handled it. This is a tweet from his father, quoting (a reporter who quotes) All’s private doctor. FWIW, it seems that All is refusing to (and/or wouldn’t be able to) allow UM doctors to respond. Which is his right, and I wouldn’t encourage him to do any different. (Though I would encourage him to stop talking about Michigan and let his game at Iowa do the talking)… Just taking it all with a grain of salt because who knows what the other side of the story is. Michigan Medicine is not substandard.

Do people not realize that this would happen to any defendant? “I’m on a business trip that day for the job you previously approved”, defense counsel requests adjournment, judge (that’s not a hard ass and doesn’t think you’re lying) approves and adjourns.

That’s my biggest gripe with the hockey rink on a football field. You can fit 110,000 in Michigan Stadium for Michigan/MSU or Wings/Hawks but good luck knowing what’s going on if you’re there. It’s a cool one-time experience but wouldn’t work long-term.

I don’t know y’all, Goff has been having a pretty good year.

I don’t think any team at the college or professional level would ever agree to share a sideline with the other team in a non-exhibition game. It’s a recipe for disaster. I also don’t think the capacity would be sufficient for anything above a low-level ACC team or an Army/Navy/UMass. It’s cool as an exhibition spot though.

Depending on your feelings about the Vikings, the Jets are probably one of the best teams we have played since either the Cowboys (Bills too, though they were missing Von Miller). I like our defense's chances at shutting down whatever QB is rolled out there. Given Glenn's propensity to blitz often, I like the chances we have of rattling him early if he's not at 100%. It's not crazy to think we could hold them under 20 points. The question will be the offense. Sauce Gardner is likely going to be able to do solid work at cutting off one of our weapons. If they pair him against ASB that should be a fun matchup to watch. I'd like to see us get Swift involved in the pass game, and possibly start working in Jamo some more, both in the pass and run game. A jet sweep to Jamo with the right blocking package could be lethal. We still haven't really seen what he can do with the ball in his hands and space to work with. Moving the ball will be difficult at times. This isn't going to be the cakewalk our offense had against the Jaguars. We can't pull what we did against the Patriots and give up when the going gets tough. Special teams may be a difference maker too, for either team. Scratch, fight, claw, and take our points when we can get them (@Badgley). Win 12-10 if you have to.

If M can do it again against Ohio State, we all might be in for a very interesting 2023 B1G Championship game.

I've made the comp before but I still see a lot of Kansas City Alex Smith in Jared Goff. The Chiefs blew it up in 2012 after going 2-14. They fired everyone and brought in Dorsey and Andy Reid. They had the #1 pick in 2013, but rather than doing the stereotypical thing of picking the top QB available (though there wasn't a consensus #1, this was the weird year where EJ Manual was the only QB taken in the 1st Round), they signed Alex Smith in free agency and took Eric Fisher at #1, the best tackle available. They had Smith for five years, and went 53-27 in that stretch, making the playoffs four times and finishing above 0.500 each season. I think if the stars aligned, they could have made a Super Bowl run with Smith, and it sure didn't seem like they were in any hurry to ditch him. After the 4th year though, the stars aligned in a different way, where a QB they had scouted as being pretty dang good fell to a spot where they could trade up and get him. That decision worked out pretty well, as Smith started for one more season, then Mahomes took his place and took them to the next level. I think a lot of the controversy with Goff amongst fans is the optics surrounding how he came to Detroit. He was shipped out of LA along with significant draft capital, and the season after they replaced him LA won a Super Bowl while Goff struggled on a 3-13-1 team. That screams "he's no good", regardless of whether it's true or not. It's not. Far more went into Goff's lack of success in LA in the later years and Stafford's immediate success in LA than meets the eye of that trade. And I think if Goff had been signed in free agency rather than kicked out of the last place he was at, a certain contingent of people (I'm not directing this at anyone here) would have a little bit different view of him.

A third matchup would be next year FWIW. I agree that I wouldn't like our prospects against them this year.

It took Ohio State three tries before they finally beat Clemson during their run. Could well be the same case for Michigan taking on Georgia. Jim has built this team to beat Ohio State and succeeded. Now he needs to adapt it to beat the SEC, which is a whole new beast.