Jason_R

Since I was hard on Hutch yesterday.

They gave up three sacks. Awosike is struggling in pass protection.

I don’t think they are in full tank mode. Kafka is auditioning for a full time HC job. He wants to win. Going for the TD was an indication of how little he trusts his defense. Also firing his DC is an indication of how little he trusts his defense, and how much he is not in tank mode.

Yes, that’s right. I was struck watching the Rams last night how big of a part that was of their offense. I didn’t watch even half of the game but saw four or five designed rollouts. I think one was unsuccessful but the others went for pretty good gains. Since the OL is not giving Goff the time he had in the pocket last season, it struck me this could be a way to take some pressure off, and maybe to get some players other than Gibbs and ASB involved in the offense.

The doc on Twitter who comments on the Lions' injuries thinks ASB has some kind of wrist or hand injury, and found a play where he thinks it happened. Obviously this is just speculation, but it makes more sense to me that he has a physical issue than that he and Goff are out of sync, especially since these are legitimate drops where the ball literally hit him in the hands and he did not come down with the catch. But I get the out of sync comment in the sense that the whole offense is out of sync. I get why they are riding Gibbs and ASB, but it feels like they are doing so as security blankets because they no longer feel like the offense is no longer dictating the pace of the game to defenses. When they need a big play, they go to their reliable (?) receiver and explosive back. I still think the team is leaving something on the table by ignoring Montgomery. They have got to get him involved and run play action off of him. It was an ugly game yesterday but they pulled it out. Reinforcements should come on the defensive side soon. Davenport should be back Thursday. Hopefully Arnold and maybe Joseph will be back on Thursday. The OL will have to grit it out with Awosike for a few more weeks but Mahogany might be able to return against the Cowboys. Then the team gets ten days before playing the Rams, so hopefully they will be rested and ready for their playoff preview game.

McVay gives him a lot of designed rollouts to move the pocket and keep the defense off balance. This is something we don’t see with Goff. Maybe he’s too slow, but Stafford isn’t a burner either.

Stafford is dealing tonight.

The offense actually looks pretty good when ASB catches passes.

They deserved to lose but they have the best RB in the NFL.

Rush three please.

Horrible call

What the hell just happened with taking the final timeout?

Do they only call holding against the home team?

They have their hands around Hutch’s neck too.

Oh FFS

Hold against McNeil there. Multiple holds uncalled, again.

Let Winston be Winston.

F****** pathetic. Hutch is worthless today.

PATHETIC

Looked like Hutch was limping a bit.

It feels like the staff came out not confident in the offense and hoping the defense could play overly aggressive and come up with an early splash play. Did not work that way. It was good to see Gibbs break one. I still believe the offense needs to run more through Montgomery. He is capable of explosive plays too (70+ yarder vs. Ravens) and it feels like the offense gets swagger from blocking for him.

Nice hit.

This team misses Joseph and Arnold badly.

Let Winston beat you. No blitzing necessary.

PATHETIC