Jason_R

I agree it was a BS call but it actually was the call, the refs actually gave the ball to the other team, and the NFL actually called it a fumble in the stats. Some of the play calling rules on here are insane. You can’t run on 2nd down, but you also can’t pass if it’s 2nd and short, you need to be unpredictable except when you should be predictable, but you can only be predictable if you have certain players on the field. Anyway, though I don’t like the backward pass at that spot in the field, none of this matters if ASB hits Raymond wide open in the end zone, and nobody would be complaining if the refs had whistled the Reynolds run dead when he ended up at the bottom of a pile and stopped his forward progress.

You can post in protest, but the refs called it a fumble and the Lions lost the ball. And yes, I know most of this board wants to pass on every down and every bad thing that happens is from running, except Goff throwing a pick or taking a sack, both of which could be avoided if they just pick Mahomes in the next draft.

A fumble inside the five. A 70+ yard pick six. These two plays arguably represented a 21 point swing. Score TDs on both drives and don’t give up seven, and you have a 40-7 game.

Oh dear lord.

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.