Mr.TaterSalad

They stuffed him! Great play by the Rams D.

That call only happened because the outcome directly effects the Lions.

Look at the Dolphins/Jets from earlier. Adding the extra playoff team thus far has lead to pathetically bad football in week 18.

INTERCEPTION RAMS!!!!!!!

Damn, TD for the Seahawks. Great TD though by Smith to Lockett.

TOUCHDOWN RAMS!!!!!

Let's stomp out Green Bay's playoff chances baby!!!

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The NFL adds an 8th team, Seattle loses to the Rams, Lions beat the Packers, Seattle and the Lions make it to the NFC Championship lol

What happens if the Lions are in the NFC Championship game and they want to use Ford Field?

I have no clue who Kayley Bishop is. Maybe just a YouTube music star? But she did a dynamite job covering Like a Rock by Seger here. One of the best women artists I've heard doing Seger.

Harbaugh dug is own grave deeper on this one by lying about what he did and didn't do. The cover up is worse than the crime sometimes.

Or against Urban Meyer. **ducks**

What evidence is there to show that the GOP in the House will get pummeled in 2024 if this keeps up? If Trump is on the ballot, the data shows us that the GOP actually over preforms in the House relative to expectations. 2020 and 2016 are both examples of this. People have very short memories, this will be yesterdays news come election time 2024.

If Whitmer wants it, it is hers at this point. No one would beat Whitmer in a primary election. If she doesn't it will be a free for all. I think any of the statewide candidates would have the most name ID and could potentially start with the biggest advantages there and in fundraising. So Garlin Gilchrist, Jocelyn Benson, and Dana Nessel would all have the advantage of statewide name ID. Garlin Gilchrist might be the strongest candidate of the three given that he is a candidate of color. This is all depending on if he wants this or to succeed Mike Duggan as Mayor of Detroit. I don't think Mike Duggan will go for it as he wants to be Governor after Whitmer from what I've heard. Dana Nessel doesn't have any real baggage, even though the media and pundits likes to pretend she does and that she's controversial. I think Nessel latest election result over DePerno proved she's plenty electable statewide. Jocelyn Benson was the top vote getter of the major statewide candidates and she is a strong fundraiser. She would be another really strong choice and would play well with white suburban women and college-educated progressives I feel. Debbie Dingell and Elissa Slotkin will be the two strongest Congressional candidates in the race I think. I might throw Haley Stevens in there as well. Slotkin is probably a better candidate than Dingell, except for the fact that Debbie has the Dingell last name. Rashida Tlaib likely won't run and isn't electable statewide unfortunately due to her religion and the number of Islamophobic people out there, including in her own party. The Oakland County Jewish vote won't go for someone who speaks out against the apartheid state in Israel. As well, Rashida is just too controversial for too many people to win a statewide election. Shri Thanedar is a snake and would once again pretend to be a Democrat and go for it as well. If there are enough strong women in the race, I could see Shri winning that primary on 15% of the vote with all the vote splitting that could end up happening. Any of the State Legislative candidates simply don't have enough name ID or clout to make the jump to Senator yet. While Mallory McMorrow raised over a $2 million in this last election for herself and the Senate Caucus in Michigan, this primary is going to be a $10 million or more race IMO. Can she get there? Maybe, but there will be other candidates that I think have an easier time doing so. Garlin Gilchrist, Jocelyn Benson, and Andy Levin would be my personal top three choices for who I'd want to vote for. My power rankings for the Senate seat would be as follows. These are not my favorite choices, just who I think ranks out as the strongest candidates for a statewide Senate seat. Gretchen Whitmer (far and away if she wants it) Garlin Gilchrist Jocelyn Benson Elissa Slotkin Debbie Dingell Dana Nessel Haley Stevens Shri Thaendar (Could win if 3-4 women start splitting votes) Mayor Pete Mallory McMorrow

So you don't think Urban is coaching in a big time program again? I do believe he will be back somewhere, at some point. Asshole or not, he's had too much success not to be coaching again.

While Mike Hart or Sherrone Moore would be Michigan's first black Head Coach, I will be disappointed if they just go next man up and don't interview outside the current coaching staff. That's what you meant of course by first black member. 🙂

The topic on 97.1 the Ticket today is will the Lions draft Michael Mayer, TE out of Notre Dame, with their second 1st round pick. UGH, here we go again! 😞

I feel that if you have a rockstar assistant coach that's been with your program for a while, achieving sustained success along the way, like a Brent Venables at Clemson, then you have to interview external candidates and can't focus solely on internal guys. How would promoting Jesse Minter, Sherrone Moore, or Matt Weiss be any better than when Lloyd wanted Mike DeBord promoted to replace him after he left? Not that looking outside and hiring Rich Rod worked out, it didn't. But hiring Les Miles would almost certainly have worked and promoting Mike DeBord would have likely flopped. I feel the same way if Minter, Moore, Weiss, Hart, whoever were to get promoted as they haven't had sustained success with the program as an assistant like a Venables had in Clemson. Promoting from within feels like a program that isn't doing its due diligence to hire the best candidate possible. Look at Wisconsin, they didn't just promote Jim Leonhard, they went out and made a big time hire and got Luke Fickell. If Harbaugh leaves I know we won't be so much as contacting Urban, which is a mistake. The even bigger mistake though would be to promote from within IMO without interviewing at least a couple of external candidates. If they do a round of interviews and decide the best candidate comes from within then that's fine. They just can't limit themselves to someone already on the coaching staff and not interview anyone externally.

If you want to win in college football, hiring Urban Meyer gets you wins. The guys is 187-32 with a lifetime winning percentage around .850. He is a scumbag and treats people like shit, but to my knowledge he has not broken any laws or had serious NCAA violations ala a Rick Pitino or Steve Fischer/Ed Martin, Jim Tressel or Joe Pa. Are you looking for smoke out of the Vatican to anoint a new Pope or are you looking to win football games and hoist national championship trophies? If you want the latter and you are serious about winning, Meyer has to be at the top of your list if you are a big time program. It doesn't matter if you are a big time program in the Big Ten or any power 5 conference. I know that Michigan won't such much as pick up the phone and call Urban if Harbaugh was to leave. I doubt he'd even answer if he saw Warde's 734 area code on the caller ID. But I can guarantee you with 100% certainty if Harbaugh left and by some miracle Meyer did come in and we won a national championship, no one would care about his past any longer. No fan or person in the athletic department during the trophy presentation, whether attending the game or watching on TV at home, would be thinking to themselves "geez, I wish we wouldn't have hired that scumbag Urban Meyer, this really taints our national championship win." They'll be knocking back beers, partying and celebrating that Michigan won it's first national championship since 1997. If Meyer wants to coach again someone is going to hire him and he will likely win wherever he goes next in college football.

I'm guessing this is related to personal conduct off the ice no?

I agree that it would not even be in the realm of possibilities that Michigan talks to Urban. That said, if I were Warde Manuel I would absolutely extend the invitation to Urban Meyer to interview to replace Harbaugh. In spite of all of his problems, of which there are many, he does what you expect of him most, win. Is Urban a jackass? Yes, of course. Does he treat his players and coaches like shit? It seems that way. Does he have a history of "getting sick" and/or leaving programs in a lurch. Yes, he's done that multiple times now. Should he be lap dancing with young women at the bar? No way. But does he win at the collegiate level everywhere he goes? You bet he does. As you said, if all you care about is winning then you'll hire Urban Meyer. I think Michigan cares more about that and sees themselves as above hiring or even interviewing a guy like Urban and thus they won't do it. That's a shame, because winning is very important and Urban sure does win a lot.

I have to admit that I am now disappointed that Wisconsin hired Luke Fickell already. At first I was excited for them because the Big Ten West desperately needs better programs and I think Fickell could bring Wisconsin back to being a strong program. But now, if Harbaugh does leave, which seems likely, Fickell would have been the perfect hire for Michigan. Oh well.

Condi Rice is going to war to get the candidate she wants and they'll probably just bomb out in the end after feeling cheated and lied too.