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At this point, he is going to have to move in with Dan Campbell. They could put cameras in Campbell’s house make a special edition of Hard Knocks. It would be like the TV show Webster updated for the 21st century.

Can you imagine a player getting coached by Dan Campbell taunting the crowd DURING A PLAY!?! Incidentally, I heard Mike Florio say he talked to Kalif Raymond after the game, and asked about the team’s success this year. Raymond said that ARSB insists on perfection on the practice field. Winning culture from front office to players.

He benched himself! Steichen must have had a dozen guys come to him and complain. ”Oh you need a breather? Take until the end of the season.”

The article was dated today! Not sure why the author would have put it out a week late. But it would be great to publish score predictions for games that already happened. 😂

We are headed into Week 9. No injury report as of yet.

Looks like rain Sunday in GB. Temperature should be in the 50s so no issue there. GB is the only team with a safety tandem as good as Detroit’s. Keep it on the ground.

Bad news when the center is calling out the QB in public.

Remember when everyone was complaining that Holmes was sitting out free agency and he waited until CJGJ fell into his lap on a one year deal for peanuts? Yes, he got injured and it didn’t work out, but Holmes did not bid against himself, even when the fans and media were calling for him to. Remember when everyone was complaining that he didn’t re-sign Jamaal Williams? Then he went out and signed David Montgomery for basically the same money (was it less?) and Montgomery ended up being the far superior player? Holmes is not going to build his team by trading away multiple draft picks for players whose teams aren’t going to trade them anyway. Crosby isn’t coming here. Garrett isn’t coming here. Hendrickson isn’t coming here. But he is on the phone to half a dozen teams gauging the market. They won’t make a deal that helps them at GB but I expect they will get someone at the deadline.

Zeitler has been in and out of the lineup over the past few weeks. It seems like the OL gets out of sync when they have to cycle in the backups.

Lowest graded on offense: OG Kevin Zeitler – 43.3 WR Tim Patrick – 44.5 WR Allen Robinson II – 51.1 OG Graham Glasgow – 52.5 LT Taylor Decker – 56.3 A week off seems to have left Zeitler rusty and the OL out of sync. I thought Patrick would get some action. Was out for almost every snap but he only got one target.

If one theme of this season is the MCDC revenge tour, they will definitely want to avenge their Thanksgiving day whipping by the Packers. Detroit went in a little complacent and let Jordan Love have a coming out party. The Lions got outplayed but they also got outcoached. It will be fun to see how they try to avenge that loss.

Eh… I’m not sure there are any lessons any other franchise could learn from the Lions. Hand off ownership control to the daughter of the former owner and poster boy for ownership ineptitude. Hire a former player for a job nobody could (or can) really define. Then hire a coach that wasn’t on anyone’s list of top coaching prospects for that cycle. Then hire a GM who wasn’t on anyone’s list of top GM prospects for that cycle. Then trade your franchise QB for a QB everyone was saying was washed up, along with some picks, to a team that believed it was just a QB away from a Super Bowl. This wasn’t a typical rebuild. It was not about draft capital. It was about a total reconstruction and realignment of the organization from top to bottom. And it was about some good fortune and good decisions along the way.

Everybody is worried about losing Ben Johnson but what about Dave Fipp!

https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-qb-jordan-love-groin-questionable-to-return-after-second-half-exit ”High level of concern” about Love’s injury.

“The Lions generated 262 return yards on six total returns, with Raymond earning 190 of those. The unit’s +196 return yards over expected is the most in a game since at least 2018 (previous high, +160), per Next Gen Stats. Toss in kicker Jake Bates netting a career-long 51-yard field goal, and it was a banner day for the Lions special teams unit.” https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-season-week-8-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-games

Is there any chance at this point that Goff will finish with more passing yards than Kalif Raymond has return yards?

Yeah, passing game looks out of sync.

Time for Goff to rest.

Where was the penalty?

We might have 50 by halftime! 😂

Let Rudolph cook!

Face mask is personal foul. Tacked on to end of play.

They do a good job of coaching their players and of acquiring talent. They aren’t going to make a panic move, but they are going to make a move.

When did he say this? Oh yeah, never.

Time to cover Ridley.