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And again but too low.

Jimmy G got hammered.

Then Dan Skipper came in and all you could see was a wall of gray that Gibbs ran behind.

Refs are always slow to blow the whistle when forward progress is stopped. Then they are inclined to let the turnover stand because it is automatically reviewed. Then if they don't have clear video evidence...

The guy is literally laying on the ground under a massive pile. Insane.

Oh Goff.

I would have run it too, but if ASB had hit a guy open by ten yards the point would be moot. In fact, we would be praising Johnson for scheming Raymond to be so open.

Well, on the backward pass to ASB, Raymond was open in the end zone by ten yards. Maybe they should have been conservative and run on 2nd down… then this board would have hammered them.

This is a team that could use the bye.

Has John Fox always been on the sideline? I thought he was in the booth.

Terrible decision by Jimmy G. And by Kerby J to bring it out.

Fighting for three inches and loses the ball.

I believe Lamar is now 16-1 against the NFC. That is insane. I take this stat to mean there is no player in the NFL like him and no scout team that can prepare a team to play him. On top of that, Baltimore was using Detroit as its measuring stick. They hadn’t played their best game yet offensively but did so against Detroit, which got outcoached and out-executed. Baltimore was not using Arizona as a measuring stick. Motivation matters in the NFL. You just can’t be dialed up to 11 every game. Finally, Baltimore is built for fall football outdoors. Detroit is not, especially without Montgomery. If Detroit meets Baltimore in a dome in Vegas for the Super Bowl, it will be a different game.

😮

Don’t look now… Denver up on KC, 21-9, midway through the 4th.

Hate the Seahawks.

MJJ is a class act. Hope all is well with him.

I know garbage time started early on Sunday but they didn’t give Gibbs many carries until garbage time. I think the staff feels like they need to protect him. But I also heard Gibbs marveling last week that he didn’t know how Montgomery handled that big workload.

They are shooting shots across Jaymo’s bow all the time. At this point he is a gadget player. But basically so is Gibbs.

TJ Hockenson looks like a Viking.

Gibbs ran for four on their first carry. I don’t know why they didn’t hand it off again. When they didn’t, and dialed up that weak pass to the flat, I realized they were playing scared.

His lack of mobility is part of it but the bigger issue yesterday was that Campbell went into the game basically saying we don’t have a running game without Montgomery and we don’t trust Gibbs. Then they demonstrated they don’t trust Gibbs. At that point it was open season on Goff. Montgomery has been their offensive MVP. Just like Gurley was in LA.

Carter sure looks like a fail on Holmes’s part, though the fail may have been Sheila’s. It wouldn’t surprise me if she (or her, Wood, Spielman, and Holmes together) made the decision that his baggage was not something they wanted connected to the franchise. In any case, the Lions could have used a player like him against Geno and Lamar.

John Harbaugh has been doing this for a very long time. And obviously coaching is in his blood. His crew dominated our crew. His long term plan for Lamar worked to perfection yesterday. If they were going to pay Lamar, they can’t treat him like a disposable running back anymore. They have to make him a passer. He hadn’t had a breakout game under Monken yet but yesterday was it.

He’s only played five games or something but he is already the heart of the offense.