MichiganCardinal

27th last year and now 28th this year. 5-2 win over MSU to make it this go-around, after MSU beat them in OT for the B1G Championship about a week ago. All those appearances but it's been a minute since they last won it all in 1998. Made it in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2018, 2022, and 2023 without winning two more. They've actually only even made the championship once in that run, 2011. Sounds like they're due!

I don’t believe for a second that Chris Ilitch had nothing to do with the pizza prop.

While this looks bad, Rice has options available to him. He can either (a) hide out with Cam Sutton, or (b) blame it on his interpreter.

I wonder if there might be a calculus to possibly keep four special teams players on your active roster instead of the three it is currently. Instead of looking at the roles as field goals, kickoffs, punts, holds, long snaps, what if it could be divided further into long and short field goals. It feels like if you combined Badgley’s XPs with this dude’s distance you’d have a killer NFL kicker. And for the (rare) situations where you have a kicker pull a hammy, you don’t have to put in Suh to kick an extra point. Roster spots are sacred on an NFL roster obviously, but at the same time, you had guys like Antoine Green and Khalil Dorsey who were active for most games but rarely saw the field. Could it be worth keeping one of them on the practice squad for? Probably not. And will never happen. But #OffseasonThoughts.

I'd be surprised if they didn't allow them to break their contract for an NFL deal. Otherwise I expect a strong contingent of the fringe talent they attract would stay at home, stay healthy, and wait to get a call for a private workout.

I don’t give a **** if he’s Henry Rowengartner, give the dude a contract

DO NOT ALLOW THAT MAN TO LEAVE THE BUILDING

And LOOK how well that worked out! /s

How often does BH give a three-year contract?

He's not worth that.

It would make sense, but he's got to stay healthy. He came in from VaTech with injury history, and fresh off an ACL tear, so he wasn't expected to be an immediate contributor in 2022, but he then had a hamstring injury in 2023 and finished the season on IR after getting hand surgery. He's played in 29 games over the two seasons, so clearly they don't hate him. But he's also only got 13 receptions and 1 TD in those 29 games, so they also don't see him as a weapon in the pass game. Compared to 31 receptions and 5 TDs in 31 games for Wright. I will say when Brock Wright went down with the injury to end the season, Mitchell's snap counts increased from an average of 5.7 per game (that he was active) across the first 14 games, to 24/game in weeks 16 and 17 without Wright, to 46 in week 18 when we were without Wright or LaPorta for most of the game. So they didn't mind putting him in there as the backup to Wright (or LaPorta), it's not like he was getting past up by Firkser.

It's an interesting choice, but I wouldn't be all that shocked if he's allowed to walk, depending on the offer sheet. He's a fan favorite but he's also a primarily blocking tight end. Blocking tight ends grow on trees.

The Lions forum is prepared to offer you a multi-year contract for this quality level of post.

Not to be that guy but this offense is only on pace to score 162 runs this season. Not to be that guy but this pitching staff is currently on pace to give up 0 runs this season.

SWIIIIIIING AND A MISS HE…. GOTIM ON STRIKES.

This draft is really deep at WR. None of the top three (Harrison, Nabers, Odunze) will make it to #29, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of Thomas, Worthy, or Legette make it... If BH is in love with one of them they should get within striking distance of a trade up too. In a normal year, they'd each be top-15 prospects, especially Thomas. Coleman is a prospect who is probably good enough to take at #29 too, though I've seen him mocked in the early 2nd.

I usually admire the Steelers organization, but Patterson is 33. This is a case of trying to be the smartest guy in the room. They'd probably be better off putting Fields back there.

With how quickly plays happen, and the "penalty" to an injured player of having to sit out the next play, I doubt it would. They'll want to do their celebration for the big play and get ready for the next rather than fake an injury. It's not like the "late" hits out of bounds where they'll go flailing into a bench to make it look like a much bigger hit than it was. At least I hope.

It looks like during a conference call with reporters last week Troy Vincent "strongly implied" that it would be treated similarly to the illegal use of helmet rule, where it is more often a fine and letter penalty. ESPN. If I had to guess, it's going to be - similarly to the use of helmet penalty - not called unless it results in an injury to a key player. That said, I also wonder if this penalty is actually going to be even all that effective at getting these out of the game. This penalty most often comes when the defender is in "chase mode", where if they don't do something to stop the ballcarrier, it will be a touchdown. If a corner has a choice between picking up a fine and (maybe) a 15-yard penalty or giving up a touchdown, they may select the former in a real-time, game-time decision. In that sense too, I don't think this will be a game-changing penalty in the way defensive holding can be. The 15 yards will come after a first down has already been picked up more often than not.

I agree, though I think it goes to show that behind-the-scenes guy is only as effective at his job as the football guys are. He wasn't very useful to the fan experience until we got good again. He was named President in 2015 but wasn't really impactful until 2021.

If he thinks he can just hang out in Michigan and avoid it, they'll extradite him when (not if) they eventually catch up to him. It's not like the police in Michigan are looking for him (though they might knock on his door if Florida asks them to), but no one runs forever. And if he's arrested in Michigan he'll almost certainly be in custody longer than if he just returned to Florida to be arraigned.

What a moran.

My understanding is that while this is going on the books as a 15-yard penalty, the officials are going to be told that this is designed for postgame enforcement in fines, plausibly suspensions for egregious behavior. If so, I'm whatever about it because it's more of a coaching mechanism than it is something that will change the game. If we start seeing nonsense penalties regularly called that impact the game, I'll be pissed. It feels like this is just already covered by unnecessary roughness penalties. FWIW, the Lions proposal providing a coach with a 3rd challenge upon one successful challenge (instead of both) was also approved.

If he says yes, the police probably give him a call and put him in an uncomfortable position. If he says no, he's lying. He's spoken to him.