MichiganCardinal

That's frustrating. They knew a pass was coming and only sent two, and he was still open for the first.

Wish I was right about a better play call though!

Chark had a step.

I like the play call, especially heading into the quarter. Give me Ben Johnson with a chance to draw something up.

Two downs to get the six yards here.

Swift is tip-toeing at the line and dropping passes. Makes it hard to justify keeping him long-term.

Guess we can buy calls today.

Looked like the RT moved early on that.

When they're that open, just toss it into centerfield and let him go get it.

Who says Goff can't go deep? 🙂

JAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That was stupid coaching on the Vikings part. If you're 10-2 and you should be the better team, why are you being aggressive early in their house. Make the Lions drive the field. Go make em pay - put up 6.

I think Jared Goff has turned out to be the perfect QB to rebuild a team with. He has his limitations, but he will very seldom lose you a game. If you put pieces around him, he will succeed and you will win games. Might he be the QB you go all the way and win a Super Bowl with? Not if you ask the Rams. That doesn't mean you can't win in the interim though, even long-term, while waiting to catch lightning in a bottle with a Mahomes, Allen, or Rodgers in a spot where you can take them, place them in a position to succeed, and not have to completely mortgage any future chance at success. You don't have to force the issue with drafting a QB you aren't in love with the way the Jets, Texans, and Panthers may need to do right now.

All told..... probably true. I respect the shit out of you life-timers.

They definitely could have done a lot worse.

I despise the "SOL" criers more than possibly anything else in the sports world. Not necessarily everyone who uses it in nomenclature. We all know what it means and it feels like a thing. I just can't stand people that you never hear from or see from on a day-to-day basis that pop out from the woodwork after a tough loss with their "SOL har-dee-har" BS, but that you know will be claiming how they've been a fan since birth, and stuck with them through it all, when we ever win something meaningful. It's taking nonsense like the curse of Bobby Layne and using it to throw in the face of die-hard fans every time we lose a close or heartbreaking game. There is nothing same-old left of these 2022 Lions. Down to the ownership installed in 2020 (notwithstanding the last name and genes she inherited from arguably the worst owner in professional sports history). Even the half-century of ineptitude suffered at his hands wasn't because we were the Lions, it was because we had a terrible owner who hired terrible GMs, who put out terrible rosters of talent. With that said, it's not that I think a loss would be SOL. It's that I think it's okay for the Lions to lose and for it to not be SOL.

I love the optimism, I really do.... but let's not forget this a very young team, with a lot of players who are outperforming their abilities by a clear margin. They're playing a good team tomorrow. You don't go 10-2 if you're not a good team. And good teams tend to play really good when they've heard that they're not good for a whole week. If they do lose tomorrow, it may just be losing to a better team, rather than SOL.

I think the Raiders lost that game far more than Baker won it, though the final drive might say different. They have the Packers, Broncos, Chargers, and Seahawks left. I'd be surprised if they won two of those and not surprised if they went 0-4. I do think the highest they are looking at is #3 now though, I doubt Chicago wins another.

Raiders gonna Raider

Brees is a lock. Roethlisberger will be controversial. I’m not as sure. Jury is out on Stafford. Probably not if he retires this off-season. This isn’t the NBA.

All these stats are nice and all, but I think everyone is neglecting the seldom known fact that Matthew Stafford went to high school with Clayton Kershaw.

We sure have come a long way since that Patriots game thread.

As bad and incompetent ownership goes, Shahid Khan is a whole 'nother level. He has truly no idea what he is doing. His background is in engineering and he owns the Jaguars for fun and money. Which is great and all, but he also operates the football side to the nth degree without knowing what he's doing (WCF anyone?)... Hiring Urban was a disaster that I'm sure quite a few teams could have seen coming (including the Lions and Falcons). Baalke was a terrible GM in San Francisco who drove everyone he worked with away (including a pretty good coach named Jim Harbaugh). Jim Caldwell was going to take the job in Jacksonville, but wouldn't do it with Baalke there. Same with Byron Leftwich. Rather than look at the man driving his top candidates away, Khan looked elsewhere for a coach. I'm not sold that Pederson is a great coach. There is a reason Philadelphia canned him, and I don't think he is the next Andy Reid. If Lawrence turns into the franchise altering QB he was projected to be, Pederson will probably look pretty good for it. Baalke is unlikely to help that cause though and neither will Khan. If they ever repeat the magical run they did in 2017, it will be despite their owner.

I hope he’s a bad interviewer and has a stupid petty criminal history that keeps him as mystifyingly “unhirable” as Eric Bienemy.

I thought it was quite ironic that he lamented about the media not covering the story. Sir. You are the media. I lasted two minutes before I turned the station. It’s just inflammatory nonsense.