Jason_R

I could have done without that throw. Dangerous!

Fire AG!!!

Pretty sure it was Walker who got beat on that 50 yard bomb to Watkins. A better safety (CJGJ?) would have picked it off. Walker is a thumper in run support but is not getting it done in pass defense. Also, there was a Reddit post that claims CJGJ was getting into it with Joseph on the sideline yesterday. I couldn't make out who the people were in the video, but it was clearly a guy in a Detroit uniform going at it with a guy in street clothes.

Here is Hutch getting triple teamed. Seems like if they are dedicating three blockers to one player there is an opportunity for AG to make them pay by bringing pressure.

Goff's agent will obviously be looking for the biggest and best deal, but I feel like Goff has a career redemption arc that can only be completed in Detroit. He still has the chance to be seen as Detroit's franchise QB, the guy who finally got them a playoff win, even multiple wins over multiple seasons. But if Detroit moves on from him after next season, his age 30 season, the press will label him as a "journeyman" QB. His best long-term option is to stay with Detroit, even if his extension is not at the top of the market, even with Hooker waiting in the wings.

Goff is Jekyll and Hyde. If he has to run for his life it is going to get ugly. But if he has time to throw he can have games where he produces like a top tier QB. He’s been through these cycles before so I’m not concerned that he’s broken. I’m more concerned that Detroit pays more for its OL than any other team, they can’t get their starting lineup on the field, and they thought their best option at LG was a rookie who had laid an egg the week before.

It does seem implausible but the offense has looked out of sync without him. 31.5 ppg with him, 27.6 without him. But Goff’s worst games have been with Jackson on the sideline. Edit: On Sorsdal’s no good awful horrible Thanksgiving. https://www.mlive.com/lions/2023/11/lions-bench-rookie-ol-amid-struggles-to-contain-packers-pass-rush.html

Of those games Jackson only played against LAC. (And they scored 41.) Maybe he is that important to the offense. The defense was a massive rebuild and with the catastrophic injuries they suffered you have to lower expectations. That said, AG must manufacture pressure.

They played horrible two weeks in a row. Won one, lost the other by a TD. They need to get Jackson healthy and hold out long enough that Houston and CJGJ can return.

I just hope the Sorsdal experiment is over for this season. He looked awful again. OL was porous, Goff was running for his life and coughed up the ball three times in the process. Goff is like Jekyll and Hyde. When he is on schedule he plays like an MVP. When he is forced out of the pocket he is like Keystone Kops. Also the running game never got going in the first half. Less than 50 yards. They doubled that in the second half and actually started moving the all through the air too. Finally, I’m starting to side with the people who are running out of patience with AG. He got outcoached today. Johnson did too, to a lesser degree. They had this game circled on their calendar and Detroit didn’t. It showed.

Well, the fumble returned for a TD lost the game.

Goff was getting harassed all day. Three fumbles. You can’t ask your defense to bail you out week after week. Especially when you are as thin as this defense. After last week’s dismal performance by Sorsdal, they should not have started him.

Well that’s going to do it. Should have been late hit on 3rd down.

Pro Bowl LG is injured. Rookie backup wet the bed in the first half. Edit: over 90 yards rushing in a quarter and a half.

Kayode is looking good. It’s like a different offense this half.

Honestly the worst thing the staff did was start Sorsdal.

But if they had made it, as they have so many times under Campbell, he would have put his team in a good spot. After the team put itself in a bad spot.

Are we going to get a hold?

I was waiting for that fake. So was GB.

Hell of a battle by ASB.

Security guard.

Wait did AG try to tackle Lafleur?

Maybe MCDC challenged the defense’s manhood also.

Sorsdal out. OL back to mauling.

And Sorsdal is out of the game.