Jason_R

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?

🤷🏻‍♂️

Maybe that stop saved AG from getting fired at halftime.

Defense can’t stop mobile QB. Check. MCDC making aggressive calls out of pure anxiety. Check. Goff turning the ball over. Check. Recipe for no success.

I don’t know what kind of crap I’m seeing right now.

And if he doesn’t produce today he is not even guaranteed another chance this season.

Brodric Martin active today.

It is clearly Goff. (If you take Jonah Jackson out of the equation. 😉) Yes, he has had a couple of those games where it's felt like he is a deer in the headlights (with Jonah out), but then you step back and look at his overall numbers in those games and they are still good, with the exception of a few bad plays. But he is consistently executing the offense, delivering the ball with elite accuracy and touch. And last week against NO he did a really good job of buying time in a collapsing pocket.

Detached thumb? Might miss a game.

If there is another GM who traded up to pick two rehabbing players in the last three drafts, please let me know.

No, not every player is injured when they are drafted. And some GMs don’t go out of their way to pick players who are literally rehabilitating from surgery. Holmes traded up to pick rehabbing players Williams and Hooker in two of the first three years of his tenure. I also forgot he picked the rehabbing James Mitchell who has 229 snaps in two seasons. He has a track record.

McDermott is melting down.

I’m not saying Holmes likes injured players. What a weird fetish that would be. I said he bets on injured players which is exactly what you said. I just happen to think it is delusional to assume that there is zero risk in buying low. If there was zero risk, you wouldn’t be able to buy low. Holmes wants to buy low. It’s fine as a strategy and he might end up winning more than he loses. But his account is in the red at this moment.

Just heard Alex Smith on Sirius XM NFL Blitz talking about Philly’s defense. Relevant to Detroit’s defense. Paraphrased: “I can see when Philly’s opponents break the huddle what defense Philly is playing. They are arrogant. They think their DL is good enough to beat you one on one. They don’t mix up coverages. Any decent OC and QB can handle their vanilla scheme and pick them apart.”

You can apologize for Holmes all you want, and he deserves it since he is already Detroit’s best GM ever. But you can’t sit here and tell me that he doesn’t have a thing for betting on injured players. He does. And you can’t tell me that a guy coming off an ACL was not an injury risk. He was. Maybe his bets will pay off overall. So far they have not.

Nevertheless it is not zero, which Holmes and the medical team must have known. Also since Moseley is five years older than the oldest age in that database, it would not be unreasonable to assume that his risk for injuring the other ACL was higher than the 5-7% range The point is not that Holmes made a mistake in signing Moseley. It is that Holmes does, by now, have a track record of gambling on players with an injury history. Levi will need a miracle to avoid being a bust. Jaymo is in the middle of his second season and is still just getting settled. Moseley obviously didn’t work out. Hooker remains to be seen. There might be an argument to include Josh Paschal in this with the cancer surgeries in college. But even without him, Holmes still has a clear track record of taking chances on injured players.