Mr.TaterSalad

Wide open and no one around him. Fields had time to make the throw too.

Finally a score. Ugly first half so far though.

Nah, they're winning today. I have enough confidence in Campbell and Johnson to right the ship and put up a solid offensive performance and go out and get the job done.

I don't believe this team is nearing the edge of the cliff, despite what some fans think and despite their less than great play 4 of the last 5 weeks. I think the Lions do it Cosmo Kramer-style today and TCB! That said, I still think the defense struggles against yet another mobile QB and struggles in the pass rush department. Lions 27-Bears 21.

Well then tell Adam Schefter to stop saying it too because that's where I got it from initially.

I don't want to keep talking about Chase Young after this. Young might be a total flop for the Niners and so be it if he is. I'm sure if he is we'll have a year's worth on condescending posts about "you wanted Chase Young and he sucks". If he works out for the 49'ers I'm sure little will be said. Unless he is a locker room disruption like an Antonio Brown or a really lazy player on the field, I see the trade as low risk/high reward for the them. They only had to pay him around $560,000 for the remainder of the year and give up a 3rd to get him. If he doesn't work out and the Niners don't resign him they are getting a comp pick back anyways. That comp pick is quite possibly a 3rd itself, which will replace what they traded away. If he works out they win big. If he doesn't and they choose not to resign him and they get a compensatory 3rd in return then it seems like their biggest loss will have been $560k and a few draft spots back in the 3rd round. It's a risk I was willing to take and others were not, fair and fine all around.

The worst team in the league that won't score 5 goals over their next 3 games after this. Ugggggghhh, gotta pull this one out.

Larkin with the go ahead!

How did that not go in???

What a wild second period. And now on the PK early in the third.

WTF!!!!!

Well damn, 3 goals in like a minute and a half. What a flurry.

This regime does. They wouldn't trade for Chase Young likely because of his motivation issues and wouldn't draft Jalen Carter because of character concerns. So if Suh has motivation issues and won't run through a brick wall everyday at practice or takes plays off he will be no bueno for this team.

Not to forget that he wanted to trade up from the second round back into the first to draft a player with back problems (Levi) too according to reports at the time. I like Holmes a whole lot, but it is clear he is willing to take the risk on injured and/or injury-pronged players.

Here is some non-Jason Isbell country music that I thoroughly enjoyed from 2023 and think are worth giving a listen to. Perhaps my favorite non-Jason Isbell/Weathervanes song of 2023 was The Wild by Gabe Lee. If you're into a modern honkytonk sound Mamma Coal's Dance Hall Crush is fantastic. If you're into Outlaw Country then you have to give Cody Jinks' aptly named Outlaws and Mustangs a listen. Margo Cilker's Lowland Trail is another fantastic song from 2023. Easier and Harder by William Prince is a short, but sweet song from 2023 that I really enjoyed. it checks in at under 3 minutes, but is so good.

One player I'd love to get here at Michigan is Julian Fleming. I doubt we're getting any Ohio State transfers. He'd add a nice wrinkle though to our offensive arsenal for next year.

**** Jauron is the only Lions HC in the Super Bowl era to ever go onto get another HCing job after having coached the Lions. Way to go ****!

Having Wayne Fontes as the winningest coach of all time is really sad and sorry for the organization. I think/hope when it's all said and done that Dan Campbell will be high atop this list. I think we're trending in the right direction for sure, so let's hope he can eclipse the low, low bar of Wayne Fontes.

Where's Gary Moeller on this list? He went 4-3 and had a winning record.

I always called him the Big Buck or Rasputin. I forgot all about Fontes' coke habit.

Wasn't the Run & Shoot Fontes' scheme that he brought in? I thought Fontes was the one who implemented the Run & Shoot with Mouse Davis and June Jones? The Andre Ware thing I get, that was an all time bad move, followed closely by bringing in Scott Mitchell.

Am I excited for thus, yes, it's Patrick Kane. How can you not be at least a little bit excited. But I've taken the time to actively and seriously temper my expectations. I in no way ever expect him to be what he was before the injury. His PPG days and 90 point seasons are looooong past him. But even if he gives us what he was in his last year with the Hawks I'd take that and be happy. I'm going to wince the first time he takes a big hit though or gets thrown to the ice. Let's hope that hip is healed and ready to go.

The Big Buck is still my favorite head coach of all time. I still believe with a better QB and a slight upgrade along some positions of the offensive line his Run & Shoot offense could have really thrived. Fontes had some great weapons on that team. Obvious among them is Barry Sanders. But he had Pro Bowl WRs in Herman Moore, Brett Perriman, and Johnny Morton as well. He had a three headed monster for a season or two at WR with all of them in place. It's really too bad Fontes, Russ Thomas, and Schmidt kept settling on terrible QBs to be their starters. Rodney Peete, Andre Ware, Scott Mitchell, were all terrible. For the Lions to give Scott Mitchell such a big contract was really an all time bad move for a franchise that has many qualifying all time bad acquisitions. Forget having Steve Young, Brett Farve, Troy Aikman or Jim Kelly (all of whom they could have had in the draft), with even a decent starting NFL QB Fontes' teams could have really been something. Oh well, that was my childhood in the 1990s.

A spineless loser who had the chance to do the right thing on dozens and dozens of occasions and chose not to. Your contributions were none to this country of ours and history will remember you for the spineless coward that you were and still are.

New Chris Stapleton music out this year with his single White Horse. As you would expect from Stapleton, it's raw, real, and amazing songwriting. Stapleton has perhaps the best voice in modern country music too.