MichiganCardinal

Both the Raiders and Giants would be the 2009-2020 Detroit Lions with Matt Stafford. If his goal is making another run, he's better off staying put.

Successful day. I'll be in Section 131 Row 5 next season.

Today is the most underrated important day of the year for Season Ticket Holders: Seat Relocation Day! Will I sit next to criminally insane people again next year? Will Ford Field construct a Tiger Stadium style pole directly in front of the seats I choose? Most importantly, when we win the NFC Championship next year, how far of a run will it be to take down the goal posts?

I just want to know what "some semblance of an answer" means for a question that sounds like it would have a fully correct answer.

Sounds official.

Don’t think they won’t do Dallas if they think they can get away with it.

If this was the audio heard on TV last night many more people would have enjoyed it. The audio feed was really bad and I couldn’t understand a word he was saying. Which made it a terrible performance.

I think last night was as much an indictment on KC’s offensive line as it was an endorsement of Philly’s defensive line. As much as the broadcast was drooling over Fangio, when your players are just winning one-on-one battles, you’re going to have a good time. I think we see KC take a step back next year. Their defense will still be good, but the offense is one man, and he looked pretty human this year.

I won’t be celebrating no matter the outcome. The douchiest coach of all time is winning right now, not to mention CJGJ.

Lions-Eagles should have been for the Super Bowl. Chiefs have been overrated all year.

29-11 lead in SOG but down 4-3. Feels like the right decision by McLellon by pull Lyon.

30 goals for 30 years, it’s only right.

Couple weeks to think on this one

Happy Birthday to me! Go Wings!

I agree. That would be a killer home schedule. Of course, the Lions were much better on the road this year than at home, 8-0 versus 7-3, so maybe it's a blessing in disguise. They haven't lost a regular season road game since Decker reported as eligible against Dallas.

It's the only decent non-divisional home game too, don't take that from us! The Cowboys, Bucs, Browns, and Giants are the other four coming to Detroit. Yawn.

I agree with this too. I think I take more of an agnostic lens to it, at least in the early stages. There’s four sides to these stories: the athlete’s, the victim’s, the media’s, and the truth. I don’t think I’m prepared enough for many of these cases to make a judgement on where the truth lies until a lot of it has already played out.

I agree, and I am cynical too. Brandon McManus lost millions for alleged harassment that the NFL didn't find violated even its vague and amorphous personal conduct policy. Yet he settled that lawsuit for what I can only presume was a ton of money... On the extreme end of things, Trevor Bauer countersued his accuser after she made a false claim. She was recently charged with fraud and theft by extortion for her fake claims of sexual abuse she made against him. But, that being said, I think the system is setup in a way that encourages real victims to seek a money grab too. As you said, the criminal justice system isn't designed to "do good" for the victim, so why should the victim turn to the criminal justice system if the threat is now gone?

The real secret is that criminal "justice" doesn't actually do anything good for victims. Get dragged through the mud on a he-said/she-said by million dollar defense attorneys, and that's if the prosecutor takes the case in the first place. All for what - probation? Multi-million dollar settlements and permanently scarring their reputation is worse to these athletes than settling a criminal trial. The burdens of proof also set the entire system up to make those money grabs easier than pursuing criminal charges.

Trading for Garrett would be a 180-degree move from Holmes' history.

Tucker was one of the worst kickers in the NFL last year. Only Jake Moody and Dustin Hopkins had a worse FG% with 25+ attempts. They'll release him because it kills two birds with one stone. They can claim a holier than thou position on the conversation (even though if the accusations had come out a year ago they'd have been the first to call for a hold on judgement). And then they can try to recoup money, despite him being under a large contract (for a kicker) through 2027. Win-win for the Ravens, even though they're no better than the rest.

As I said when I originally posted about Shaw, I trust that Dan Campbell knows more than I do. Shaw to me is more of a “leader of men” type than an Xs and Os offensive coordinator or position coach. And maybe that’s the relationship that he and Morton have. Morton is the brains, Shaw is the implementor. In his last four years with the Cardinal though, their offense ranked 85th, 56th, 113th, and 109th. And the year he ranked 56th was the COVID-shortened year. There was no talent on the roster, don’t get me wrong, but he didn’t exactly scream “offensive mastermind” to me either.

Yes, but his fall from grace was significant. Stanford hasn't recorded more wins in a season than their prior season since 2014 to 2015. There's more to that than Shaw, but 99.9% of Stanford fans believed his firing was two years overdue. 12 to 10 to 9 to 9 to 4 to 4 to 3 to 3 (Shaw fired here) to 3 to 3.

I love David Shaw as a person. But when you get the nickname David "Up The Middle" Shaw amongst the students at Stanford (who largely know nothing about football), I can't help but laugh when you get hired as a Passing Game Coordinator. I hope Dan Campbell knows more than I do. He usually does.

It’s an academic exercise because I don’t think the Lions have any interest in trading him. Arguendo, somewhere between a 2nd round pick and a 6th round pick. Hooker fell to the 3rd because of his injury. So a clean slate rookie Hooker was probably worth a 2nd. Even though we know nothing about his development, I doubt the same is true NFL-wide. It’s not as if there is a literal bubble around him. People talk. If he’s shown NFL potential and a team is interested, they would know his worth, though the lack of snaps would make it still a massive risk. But again, a trade now makes no sense. You would be selling low to create a hole on your roster. “But maybe the draft pick would turn into a backup QB we could develop!”