Jason_R

My point. There’s some stuff that is so egregious it deserves to get called out, in public.

I’m not saying I agree with Mahomes or Reid. I’m saying that other franchises make the NFL defend itself on pivotal calls. Detroit just lays there and takes it. Would Detroit continue to be the poster child for egregious missed or manufactured calls if the officials had to go to the podium and answer questions about these calls? Maybe, but maybe not, or maybe not as much. Remember, the NFL let KC get away with (IIRC) eleven illegal formation and false start penalties against Detroit before calling one. I don’t know why they feel entitled to avoiding flags, but I’d like my franchise to try what KC is trying for a change.

Hutch was not coached to go offsides. He jumped because he is pressing. They are all pressing because they don't trust one another. The coaches (Campbell) are pressing now because they don't trust the players, and are at the point where they are replacing players. Tracy Walker didn't get his number called yesterday. They picked up a new CB and gave him some of Jacobs's snaps. The players are all going to have to come together and decide who is on the ship and who is not and all pull in the same direction.

I'm still waiting for a Detroit coach to go up to the podium after one of these blown calls and simply point out that the officials had a bad day.

The players themselves said that discipline cost them. Hutch went offside on 4th and 13 and cost them a touchdown. He also apparently called his own stunt on another. The defense does not trust one another right now, the staff doesn't trust them, and the players don't trust the staff. There is more going on there than the public humiliation of AG would accomplish. My real question is why did Johnson/Goff keep trying to force the ball to ARSB and Laporta in the middle of the field when the Bears were clearly focusing on them?

It is interesting to see how teams who are used to getting calls go their way react when the calls don’t go their way. Queue up “First Time?” meme.

How do you know he’s not talking to the coordinators?

I need to push a little bit more. I’m just gonna need to be a little more irritable, which I can do that. --Detroit coach Dan Campbell, after the Lions lost their second of the last three at Chicago Sunday.

https://www.mlive.com/lions/2023/12/emotional-aidan-hutchinson-disgusted-at-crucial-penalty-in-loss-thats-on-me.html They are all pushing too hard.

ARSB: 9 targets, 3 receptions, 21 yards. (Two drops?) Laporta: 6 targets, 2 receptions, 23 yards. Took away Goff’s security blankets and he couldn’t get anything done.

Here’s the defense saying as much. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2023/12/10/detroit-lions-defense-has-officially-lost-our-confidence-and-swagger/71874273007/

He choked again. Sometimes his 4th down attempts are well timed to put pressure on the opponent. Sometimes they are when he feels pressure. Today's was the latter. It doesn't seem like anyone trusts anyone else right now. Everyone is pressing, and it all goes back to the Baltimore game when they could not do a thing to stop the Ravens. Well, they haven't been able to do much to stop anyone else since. I suspect that's what Campbell was talking about today when he blamed execution.

I haven't heard anyone say the Lions are better than SF or Philly. I have hoped they might end up with a better record than SF or Philly since those teams both had first place schedules and have tougher divisional opponents than Detroit. At the start of the season I had the Lions winning 11 games. With four games remaining, they are still on track to win 11. (I know there is a lot of handwringing, but I don't see them losing even one game to Minnesota, which struggled to muster three points against the Raiders today.) I don't see them being a threat to Dallas, but Denver is a tossup.

You just can’t come out every week and let the opposing team ram the ball down your throat. AG’s seat should be pretty hot right now. Jared Goff’s too. You can’t keep getting outplayed, badly, by QBs on their rookie contract.

Oh Goff.

Who jumped?

What a hit.

Turrible.

You gotta take what you get.

JRM. Defensive MVP today?

“Holding. Offense. Take your pick.”

Oh Goff.

😂 On further review that was a bad snap.

Can’t trust him for the long FGs… and now not for PAT?

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