Jason_R

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If Goff was holding on to the ball trying to push it downfield and getting sacked or stripped we’d be after him too. NYJ are a good defensive football team.

Ragnow with another hold. Yikes.

How did Swift not pick that up?

Ian Eagle gets it. Campbell does not want to make the big mistake.

I’m sure Campbell is having Johnson call a conservative game. Let Wilson make the mistakes.

Well, the Jets have a good front. At least two holds were the backup guard.

Is that four holding calls on the day? That’s as much of a reason for the team’s struggles as Goff.

Yea yes yes yes yes.

I believe that was Jarrad Davis getting turned around in coverage on the big gain before the TD.

At this point, the worst that could happen is that they end up exceeding my preseason expectation (six wins) by one. But they very easily could win out and sneak into the playoffs one year early. Now if Minnesota loses out and we win out, and we win the division, that will be both awesome and hilarious. It’s all gravy from here.

But if you watch it on a 3” screen it’s 👌🏻

This is a good point. More broadly, who knows what the Texans will do. Is there a more unpredictable franchise in the NFL?

Yeah, his numbers deteriorated… along with Gurley’s knee and Cooks’s concussions. We all saw him play his way out of LA. It wasn’t all his fault but clearly he was a reclamation project when he got here. He will never have the arm talent of Stafford or the physicality of Allen or the speed of Jackson or the creativity of Mahomes. Yes Goff has proven he can look lost behind a porous line with no weapons (like Brady and Rodgers), but he’s also proven he is good enough with the right pieces around him to put up top ten QB numbers. There aren’t a lot of guys you can say that about. If I thought there was a can’t miss, generational talent this draft like Trevor Lawrence was said to be, I’d want the Lions to take him. I prefer to go into next year with Goff and a top five DL pick as opposed to the same mediocre defense and a lottery ticket under center.

Why would they release him when White is one hit away from a collapsed lung and Wilson is nearing bust status? They may set him loose in the off-season, but not now.

No “steady decline.” Instead, this season, with a solid OL and full complement of weapons he is performing very near the level of his two great years with the Rams incidentally, those years Gurley had nearly 2,100 and over 1,800 yards from scrimmage, respectively. It’s almost like there are more variables than just the QB.

Imagine being AP in an interview. “So Detroit had the worst pass defense in the league when you were DB coach, then became one of the best pass defenses after you got fired. Why do you think that was?”

One does not simply sleep over at the hospital for kicks and giggles.

Nobody is automatically assuming anything, but Holmes knows as well as anyone that sometimes the value of the players available is less than the value of the pick. Anyway, he has done a great job of giving himself roster flexibility for next season.

Holmes was also on a staff known for trading away draft assets for the right player. So if he doesn’t think the right player is in this draft, it wouldn’t surprise me to see him trade away assets in 2024/25/26 drafts to get a QB.

Holmes was on the staff that traded up for Goff in the draft, and he traded for him again with the Lions. He believes in Goff. With Goff’s performance this season there is no reason for Holmes to reach for a QB. Also with the team’s overall play Holmes has the luxury of talking the best player available in each of the five picks he has in the first three rounds. They will seriously upgrade the defense and get depth at guard and RB. At this point the key question for next season is not about the QB. it is about the OC. Will he stay or will he go?

Lions have 45% chance to win against the Jets according to his board. These kinds of odds are absurd, IMHO, but it doesn't help the Jets that their QB is spending tonight in the hospital. Also Quinnen Williams may not be 100% next week.

Holmes has this team set up to win the division and host a playoff game next year.

Disappointing.