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I kind of feel like that would be the Lions’ respectable starting point, while Goff’s people would be significantly higher.

I got on an elevator to get up to my organ level drink rail seat. It went down first, and Chris Osgood hopped on. Another two employees were chatting about the patch and asked him what he thought. He played it political and said “I try to stay out of that stuff I can barely keep track of myself.” Then getting off he jokingly asked the usher directions to the press box, said it was his first time here at LCA.

Literal trash.

Heading to the game tonight, so if we lose the streak I'll take all blame.

Yes, it was very good. I will likely return with my girlfriend for another viewing, or wait for it come out on streaming.

Alright you were right, I loved it

I thought the mini-movie was good. They only showed the highs though. Completely skipped the Cowboys game and ended in the locker room of the Bucs game. Which.... fine, okay.... but not including them in a season mini-movie doesn't mean they didn't happen. I think the Cowboys game was a defining game for the regime. It said that we are still the Detroit Lions and the NFL is still going to **** us when they get the chance. We have to be that much better, that much stronger, and that much more resilient than any other team if we are going to reach the kinds of levels we aspire to reach. And I think the 49ers game will be a defining game for the 2024-2025 season. The bar has been set and it's been set incredibly high. What are you going to do to reach it? What are you going to do to surpass it? What are you going to do to win it all?

I'll be watching this premiere "live". Anyone else?

Live look-in on MTB* rewatching the playoff games: *all of us

The thought was that the Chiefs would only be able to keep one of Sneed and Chris Jones. We'll see if that plays out, the cap increase may change that.

I loved the original. The remake came out when I was a kid and was downright frightening for me. I thought the 1970s version was whimsical, mysterious, and a little off-putting, but in a charming "adults know best" way, while the 2005 version aimed for that and landed on plain creepy and uncomfortable. I didn't like Depp at all (in this specific film) and the Oompa Loopas were the stuff nightmares were made out of. Nope nope nope. I think I was more than a little unconsciously concerned that 2023 would continue down the path of 2005 and lead me into a decade of therapy, which is why I passed on it. But if I can bill that therapy to you, maybe I'll give it a shot later this week. 😉

Lions are releasing a 2024 Season Mini-Movie on YouTube tonight at 8pm. Given the quality of their media team I expect it to be very good.

I can't remember where I read it (it might have even been here), but I thought I read that even if Josh Reynolds was re-signed, it would be in a slightly reduced role as a WR3 because they feel like Jamo will be the starting WR2 entering next season.

MCDC at the podium:

I watched the Oscar Nominated Shorts for the Animated category. Feels like the Yoko Ono/John Lennon short (War is Over) is destined to win on name recognition alone. I thought it was good not great. I really liked Ninety Five Senses and my girlfriend loved Pachyderm (the symbolism of which went two miles over my head until she told me afterwards what was actually happening). Movies out right now are all rather uninspiring though. I've got a week off from work and went to look at what was playing. Nothing even remotely interested me. Glad to look at this thread and see a Deadpool 3 is coming, that's one I will go out of my way to watch. Both the trailers GoBlue posted look good too, why can't those be out now? 😆

Stumbled into "Boy Swallows Universe" limited series on Netflix via recommendation while bed-ridden with a stomach bug this morning and finished all seven episodes today. Probably an all-time favorite for me.

Dealing with a bout of god awful food poisoning today. I was talking to a friend who’s a doctor and he asked if I had had this before. Told him I haven’t felt this bad since January 28th.

Forgot about the noon start but figured this was a good sign.

Good teams build through the draft. Desperate teams build through free agency.

Shouldn't have ran so much on 2nd down.

I don’t think Young meets the character prerequisites set in place by Holmes and Campbell.

That sounds right. Like I believe that the road project last year on State St. was all Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County, but the buildings themselves (and parking lots) are the U.

I didn't say anything about need. Since when are institutional monies spent on need? Drive a quarter mile down Hill and you can go from an $18 million dollar project for more housing at the old Elbel Field, to knocking fillings out and getting concussed by the pot holes outside the Ford School. I might be conflating A2 money with UM money, but the point remains. It's a cult thing. I bet he gets a statue.

With Harbaugh now gone, I think it's pretty low. They're going to make him into the sacrificial lamb. I expect the eventual consequence to be along the lines of forfeited scholarships, a short postseason ban (probably for 2024, when they are about to go 7-5 or 8-4), and a multi-year show-cause for Harbaugh. I expect a lot of back room winking to Harbaugh too, and that he'll get his statue next to Bo about ten years after the dust settles from all this. Historically, the NCAA only vacates wins when they rule a player who was ineligible to have played in those games (usually for taking money and being deemed retroactively to have lost their amateur status). The only deviation I can think of from that was when they made Penn State vacate all of Paterno's wins for the Sandusky scandal - and those were later returned as a part of a settlement agreement. Taken alongside Charlie Baker's "fair and square" comments, I think Michigan will come out of this just fine. I will say that I think had Michigan gone through with their litigation against the Big Ten and secured an injunction (and Harbaugh coached those three games), then the NCAA could have plausibly argued that Harbaugh himself was ineligible for all games coached after imposition of the suspension, and vacated all of those wins, including the Natty. But the way it played out, I'd be surprised if they vacate anything.

He's got some clear anger issues that go beyond the sport of basketball. If the ridiculous fight against the Lakers in 2021 didn't show that, this sure does.