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The Vikings trading for Stafford would be stupid. They only have a 1st and two 5ths in 2025, and Darnold looks better than Stafford.

What did those nerds ever do to you??

I mean, I'm nothing but a vote in an important state and I did my part. Harris definitely shouldn't sit around though, I agree with you there. I think she's doing the right thing by going into Texas and campaigning. Georgia didn't flip on its own, or overnight. The six battlegrounds are obviously important, but if you flip one Texas, it's effectively game over. You're only four electoral votes away at that point. Pick just one of the six. And candidly, if you flip Texas, you're probably winning all six anyway. From the 5000-foot view where I sit though, I'm skeptical it will flip quite yet. I'm also skeptical of the electoral integrity of the Texas infrastructure if it's close.

I'll believe TX is going to flip blue when it happens. Cruz is vulnerable though. He's so damn unlikeable.

Yep. A player today who did exactly what Jamo did would be suspended two games. So he should have two games in the bank!

Don’t they owe Jamo two games anyway? His gambling that got him suspended six games (later reduced to four) is now just a two-game suspension. They should just call it even.

Probably both the best OL and DL in football.

If I wasn't a season ticket holder, I'd probably be right there with you. I like being able to mix it up throughout the season, having a couple night games and Mondays mixed in. I have my 1pm kick routine that I love, but it's nice to mix it up over the course of a season. For that matter, every road game could be a 1 or 4 kick and I'd be good with that.

I think there are some terrible people in every fan base. No fan base is small enough to avoid it. There are definitely more bad people in some (Eagles, Raiders, Browns) than others (Bills, Jaguars). I tend to think that the Lions fall into the latter category, but I have rose-colored glasses on in that assessment. I've been to over 30 games at Ford Field in the last four years, from the blowouts in 2021 to the playoff wins last year, and the worst I have seen was two Lions fans getting into it after one called the other trash (spoiler alert: they were both trash). Even when I saw drunk Bucs fans at Hockeytown Cafe being obnoxious after the week two game, running around the party deck with a Bucs flag, people just ignored them or reminded them of the Divisional Round.

Compare that with 2022 Detroit: 16x Sunday 1pm, 1x SNF (flex)

Two games for PEDs?! For that few games it’s going to be something incredibly stupid I already know.

Lions are also already on SNF in week ten against the Texans. That would be back to back weeks.

This just happened in Georgia-Texas this weekend, but was even worse because they picked up the flag after like a five minute delay because Texas fans were throwing bottles on the field. Talk about positive reinforcement!

An SF defensive back needed to lay him out at the tail end of the run. It sounds bad and would start a fight, but that’s what he’s asking for running like that. I don’t think there’s a way to write this out of the rules. The boundary lines are what they are. Just need to let him get smoked at the edge of the boundary and not have it be a penalty. He’s a runner, he’ll be treated like one. And also a note for Adam Schefter - the “Magic of Mahomes” this year has more picks than TDs through seven weeks. Tied for the league lead in interceptions.

I don’t think Tennessee is good enough for this to be a trap game, even if the Lions did overlook them. There’s just no one of note on offense for them. They’ll try to run with Pollard but when that doesn’t work, because it never works against the Lions, they’ll be forced to throw with either Levis or Rudolph, and that’s a recipe for disaster (for them). Trap games come against 6-11 or 7-10 teams. Good enough to win most games, bad enough for it to not matter. Tennessee is closer to a 3-14 team. Just bad.

Technically true. The Lions were 3-4 against the Houston Oilers though.

NFL Week Eight Power Rankings Pre-MNF Kansas City Chiefs (6-0) Detroit Lions (5-1) Green Bay Packers (5-2) Buffalo Bills (5-2) Minnesota Vikings (5-1) Houston Texans (5-2) Baltimore Ravens (4-2) San Francisco 49ers (3-4) Pittsburgh Steelers (5-2) Philadelphia Eagles (4-2) Washington Commanders (5-2) Seattle Seahawks (4-3) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-2) Chicago Bears (4-2) Los Angeles Chargers (3-2) Atlanta Falcons (4-3) Cincinnati Bengals (3-4) Indianapolis Colts (4-3) Arizona Cardinals (2-4) Denver Broncos (4-3) Dallas Cowboys (2-4) Los Angeles Rams (2-4) New York Jets (2-5) New York Giants (2-5) Miami Dolphins (2-4) New Orleans Saints (2-5) Cleveland Browns (1-6) Las Vegas Raiders (2-5) Tennessee Titans (1-5) Jacksonville Jaguars (2-5) New England Patriots (1-6) Carolina Panthers (1-6) Lions have beaten 5, 12, 19, 21, and 22. Lost to 13. Have games against 29, 3, 6, 30, 18, 14, 3, 4, 14, 8, and 5 to go... Nobody said it's gonna be easy. They'll sure be battle tested by January.

Part of the equation too is who will be making the decision. It's probably fair to say Warde would not hire another Harbaugh. I think the general alumni/donor base would be fine with a Harbaugh, because Harbaughs are associated with winning. If we are replacing a non-winner, winning will be the most important characteristic of a hire. But who knows. Maybe Sherrone shocks the world and beats OSU in Columbus. That would save the season for him.

This is an insane stat.

Why do you feel that they have a smaller window than SF? Seems to me that Holmes & Campbell are just as good as Lynch & Shanahan... The core is in place and has largely been locked down. So long as the draft picks we have (even if we trade some away) continue to develop into serviceable players, this is sustainable for the foreseeable future.

COTY is a weird award because you have to win when it's unexpected. So if you improve gradually like the Lions, it's ships passing in the night. Looking at the last ten years of winners though - Ron Rivera, Bruce Arians, Ron Rivera, Jason Garrett, Sean McVay, Matt Nagy, John Harbaugh, Kevin Stefanski, Mike Vrabel, Brian Daboll, Kevin Stefanski - maybe it's best Campbell doesn't win it. Of all those winners, John Harbaugh is probably the only one happy right now.

Jay Harbaugh will get a long and serious consideration.

This. As soon as his body begins the motions of a slide (upper body moving back, leg curling up) he is down. It is usually two or three yards behind where he actually first makes contact with the ground.

I think this is more a byproduct of being so aggressive in man coverage than it is the defensive line. If the opponent runs four or five receivers twenty yards downfield, we are going to have six or seven defenders twenty yards downfield. And with the possible exception of Branch and/or Joseph, they are largely locked onto their man. They're staying on that receiver's hip, ideally checking back to see if the QB takes off, but not at the expense of leaving a gap in coverage. So if the QB escapes the pocket, it's either on a lineman to shed their block and take the QB down or for a near defensive back to recognize the breakdown, shed his receiver, and pursue. Unless you've got a very mobile QB like Lamar Jackson or Justin Fields, it's not a sustainable game plan, because more often than not you don't have every defensive back 20 yards from the QB when it breaks down, so you're depending on your less athletic and much more fragile QB to break a tackle to gain anything more than five yards. Might be an unfortunate component to man coverage once or twice in a game, but obviously Aaron Glenn is okay with that side effect.

Look, it just added a little flavor to the win. What fun is blowing everybody out?!