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CNN has it as their third story. Wedged between a story about how summer brings hot weather and the other mass shooting in Texas.

Yeah but Michael Badgley can’t throw the deep ball.

Signing Bates for two years makes me think the job is effectively his. It’s not a tryout against Badgley and Turner, it’s his job to lose. There is no incentive to release either Badgley or Turner right now, but I expect that Bates would have to perform exceptionally poorly to lose the job before the season starts.

Goff is also 2-0 versus Mahomes. Ball don’t lie. 😅

It’s a silly and artificially created vacuum (that I myself created), but yes. This is year four with Dan Campbell, Ben Johnson, ASB, 3/5 of the OL, and Jared Goff. You can add a few more that it’s year three and a few more with year two. There is chemistry and consistency there. A random swap for any other QB in the league, even the best in the league, would cause question marks for the chemistry amongst those pieces. I don’t think the NFL works in a way that you can take a really good QB and just insert him on another team and expect instant success. The offense has been built around and is designed to work for Jared Goff. Obviously outside that vacuum where I pretend to only care about 2024, I would take Mahomes over Goff.

I don’t think it is. Not for the 2024 Lions. It’s homerism in the homerism vacuum for sure. I am not saying Goff is the best QB in the league. I’m saying Goff is my pick over any QB to lead the 2024 Lions.

His value dropped into the range the Lions were hoping for after this first pitch.

I think a lot of QB rankings value mobility a lot, which is why we see players like Allen, Burrow, Lamar, and even Hurts consistently ranked ahead of Goff, even though the stats don't back that up. Those players might put up more points in your fantasy league, that doesn't make them better QBs. I don't think there is a QB in this league I would take to lead the Lions into the 2024-25 season over Goff. Not even Mahomes. Goff knows this team, knows this city, and he's the guy for us. Power rankings be damned.

Easy enough. Makes sense here.

Didn't the Dolphins forfeit a first round pick for tampering with Brady and Payton even though they didn't even sign either guy?? Not my circus, not my monkeys.... but doesn't seem exactly equitable.

I remember celebrating with my dad. I was still a kid myself, in middle school, and it wasn’t until I saw him losing his mind that I understood the gravity of winning the Cup. If I’d known the Detroit sports drought to come I may have savored it more. Alas. Go Lions(?)

Well, compared to last offseason, I'll take this scandal all day every day.

Exactly. Next time I’m asked in a job interview to tell about a time I faced adversity, I’ll bring up the time I threw my partner out a window. /s

RE Rakestraw, from Charlie Campbell. Source.

I expect Roger Goodell will spin the NFL wheel of punishments to determine his fate and it will land on a four-game suspension.

I feel like with the way the courts are moving on this, a player who wanted to transfer right now and play in the fall could probably get an injunction to allow it. I think transfer rules are heading right out the window.

That’s a great story. And it sounds like they did you a favor kicking you out. Facial recognition is a stadium-by-stadium thing. Madison Square Garden has it and has been involved in ongoing litigation about it because they are using it to ban attorneys who are on the opposing side of litigation, for no reason other that they are on the other side of litigation. I do think there are probably more standards in place with the NFL because of their relationship with Ticketmaster. Given that every ticket goes through Ticketmaster, even when bought elsewhere, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a master list of banned individuals somewhere, that makes it at least more difficult for them to buy tickets. Probably comes more into play with season ticket holders.

If JJ works out for them, this makes sense. You are effectively paying Jefferson your QB's salary during JJ's rookie deal. But this is just so much money to devote to one player at one position when the team surrounding him has some glaring issues. The Vikings can't decide whether to blow it all up or keep trying to patch holes in the bow of the ship (Viking puns, get it?)... They'll likely be stuck in purgatory for it. Methinks they will regret this.

If I’m Brad, I’m working with a PI right now to determine the veracity and seriousness of these allegations. McManus’s camp had previously said these were “demonstrably false” claims, which - if words mean anything - means something. The last good Lions kicker was a Bronco who ultimately was released due to off the field controversy (DWI). Will the next be the same?

I don't think they'll talk about it publicly, because I don't think the NCAA will like it. Anybody who can stand in the way of it happening won't know until it's a done deal, similar to how we didn't hear a peep about the USC/UCLA moves, and then overnight it was a done deal. They'll want to get the power players (Michigan, OSU, Alabama, USC, Georgia, Notre Dame, etc.) on the same page. Once that happens and the money is aligned in one direction, I expect it happens quickly.

I agree. There are a lot of bruised egos and hurt feelings that will need time to heal, and it's not going to be snap of the fingers back to the PAC-12.

A mildly interesting offseason watch. This dude (a Michigan native and Lions fan) creates videos at NFL stadiums generally centered around seeing how long he can stay before he gets "kicked out of" (asked to leave) a stadium, or - with college stadiums - videos where he tries to find unlocked gates and enter the stadiums. In everything I've seen, he's respectful, and while he tries to avoid personnel, he doesn't disturb anything, just videos the stadium, and leaves when he's told to leave. He gets formally ejected from Lucas Oil Stadium here, and this video provides a pretty interesting insight on what the process is for people who the NFL kicks out of the stadium. He had to pay $250 for a "four hour" training on appropriate fan behavior, and then pass a test, in order to be permitted back in not only Lucas Oil, but any stadium in the NFL. I've always wondered what happened to knuckleheads who run onto the field at a baseball game, or get escorted out for being too drunk. This is probably the answer.

As long as it's football, people will watch. It won't have the same allure as it did when it was Bo and Woody, or even Tressel and Carr. But that's been the case for a while now.

College football needs to die and be reborn. B1G + Miami, Stanford, Cal, and Notre Dame SEC + Florida State, Clemson, Virginia, Va Tech, UNC, and Duke Disband from the NCAA for football only. Let the other sports figure their own stuff out. Inertia will work itself out so that UCLA Golf and Oregon Tennis aren’t traveling to Happy Valley and Piscataway. 44 teams is a lot for a new pro sports league, but when you have teams like Rutgers, Illinois, and Vanderbilt amongst them, it’ll be okay.