Jason_R

6-9-2 For all the talk about the weak schedule, those weak teams are also thinking, “We can beat the Lions.” They are still weak up the middle and have an unproven and thin secondary. Offense should be pretty good, but where is the explosiveness with Jaymo out the first part of the season? If they hit eight wins the season will be a smashing success.

In three seasons, Sudfeld has appeared in four games. He is 25/37 (67.6%) for 188 yards with one TD and one INT. Passer rating of 77.3. So a substantial improvement over Blough and Boyle.

It’s astonishing that for a job that can pay $45 million a year there is so little available talent. And the talent gap between #1 and #21 (not to mention #41) is so vast.

Probably forgot he played for the Jets last year. Like the hosts on SiriusXM NFL radio tonight.

If Goff performs close to what MB describes, you keep him and draft a CB with your first round pick. And maybe with your other first round pick.

What’s messed up? Are you going to stop watching? Is anyone else? Star player was not convicted of any crimes but was suspended for 2/3 of the season and fined $5 million. Sure maybe he should have had his dick cut off, and maybe one day we will live in that utopia where we can get charged but not convicted of crimes, and get our dicks cut off anyway. But he still got a pretty big punishment without a criminal conviction. Why was he not suspended longer or fined more? NFLPA CBA. Who is blaming this on the NFLPA rather than the NFL? As far as I can tell, nobody.

Zebras won’t ignore a PI flag on a Lion in regular season. 😂

Jarrad Davis is in that room. Oof. First rounder circling the NFL drain, getting outplayed by an undersized 6th rounder.

Holmes seems to know that NFL teams pass 60% of the time and run 40% of the time.

The team should absolutely not trade for Roquan Smith. They need to save all of their draft assets for the possibility of trading up for a QB in one of the next two drafts. In the meantime they will have to hope to hold the lead late into some games and let Hutchinson ice a game or two with a strip sack, or churn out a few late first downs behind a punishing offensive line.

Yes, he should be taken out back and shot. /s

Dan Campbell is the coach I thought Mike Vrabel was going to be... and is.

It’s based on performance over the past two seasons. This, of course, is asinine in the NFL. And while it is admittedly slightly less asinine when applied to offensive lines, how does it apply in any meaningful way to a team like the Lions where arguably the best lineman has only played one season? I wonder how the QB rankings will look when they consider Bobby Layne.

The other day Sirius XM’s “Moving the Chains” show with Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller was at Lions training camp. They interviewed Campbell and Holmes, and in both interviews you could hear the consistency in their visions. They talk about grit and how they have gotten players who reflect this. They also interviewed D’Andre Swift who talked about it. The most interesting thing was the interview with Jared Goff. He sounded confident and in command. He said his goal for the preseason was to execute on his third and fourth reads. Sure, I’ll believe it when I see it, but I didn’t expect to hear Goff so dialed in. Jim Millet is a homer, but Pat Kirwan has always been skeptical of the Lions (and rightly so). I was surprised to hear Kirwan start to gush a little bit about Holmes and Campbell. They are building it the right way, and though he doesn’t expect more than 8 wins for the Lions this season, he expects them to be in playoff contention by next season.

No CBA for owners. And these owners… if Ross had gotten away with it, you would see the Wild West.

I still have them doubling last year’s record at 6-9-2. Jaymo will probably not be ready before Thanksgiving and I figure he will need a few games before the offense really starts to click. And I’m not sure we have the depth yet to weather the inevitable injuries. But the schedule looks somewhat soft so maybe the two projected ties end up as wins for 8-9.

Must have just happened. Is it dog sledding season somewhere?

Am I the only one who didn’t know the defenseman we just signed had a torn Achilles?

I've been thinking about this as Yzerman has prioritized size. I'm sure he remembers having been on "soft" teams and maybe he feels his talents would have been better suited if he had more gritty players around him from earlier in his career. When he finally has his roster of hulks, might he then be more likely to pick up a diminutive scorer like himself -- a Gaudreau, DeBrincat, Savoie?

Speaking of Cup contending status, let’s assume the playoff window opens for the Wings in the 2023-24 season. Who is going to be the Shanahan who they bring in from outside the team to put them over the hump?

Maybe I’m missing something, but as nearly as I can tell, the Klingberg rumor is just a speculation by a blogger based on the fact that the Wings have money and Klingberg wants it.

Yeah Chiarot is like 235 lbs. I think he is now the heaviest guy on the roster. This team is not going to get pushed around.

The other Detroit GMs need to hold an intervention for Avila. “Al, you have a problem.”

Yzerman is too proud to tank. And they will undoubtedly be a lottery team again for at least one more year. Maybe they get lucky after getting unlucky in 2020.

I, for one, love sites that look like they were optimized for Netscape Navigator, with pop up ads that pop up on pop up ads. I agree that the offense will surprise people, but probably not until week 7 or 8 when Jaymo gets healthy. But they also have a pretty favorable schedule.