Mr.TaterSalad

Wasting a time out there.

Eric Ebron that you???

Well damn!!!

In game panic mode setting in! I take back everything I said about not wanting to draft a QB! Not really, but this is the type of lackluster performance that lets doubt creep back in.

Ugggggh!!!!!!

See what saying nice things about this offense can do!

Gotta get that one Swift!

Who needs Will Anderson when you have James Houston???

Damn, James Houston is a great find! Dude is a beast!

Great play calling that drive!

RAYMOND!!!!!!!

33-0, they look like a team in free fall at the end of the season now

I saw this on YouTube today and for two seconds of my life thought that they were bringing back Frasier as a dramatic TV series.

Like Wayne Fontes coaxing a winning streak out to save his job in the 90's, these boys are on a roll and should win on Saturday. With all the key pieces missing for the Jets and how good this team has played the past month I think we are going into New York and winning. A win against the Jets sets us on the course for the playoffs as I think we have a real shot to win out against some very bad opponents.

No, I wouldn't want to do that. We are just in a unique situation this particular year given all the draft capital we have to make a move that nets us both an elite defender and starting QB on a rookie wage scale. I trust Brad Holmes and I am all for keeping Jared Goff at this point if that's what the front office and coaching staff decide. He's played well enough to stick around. It is just food for thought to think of other scenarios like this.

I read a stat (the stat itself was from 2018 I believe, so it may be dated now) that said in the last decade no Super Bowl winning team has ever had one player take up more than 14% of the salary cap. Goff right now takes up 14.3% of our cap space. Luckily for us, Goff's cap % falls under 14% over the next 2 seasons. That stat alone doesn't justify taking a rookie QB and having the rookie wage scale, but it is food for thought.

I don't think the QB you take has to be better than Goff, rather just as good as Goff. You certainly hope they are better though if you are taking one. My reasoning though for being as good as Goff is the benefit of the rookie contract that comes with a Young/Stroud/whoever. If you can move on from Goff in a year and have 2-4 seasons of a QB on a rookie contract, playing at least as good as Goff is now, I think there is some merit to that. Let's say you drafted CJ Stroud and in 2 years time he proves to be as good as Goff or only slightly better, but you get Goff's $31 million cap hit off the books, minus the $5 million in dead cap if he's cut or traded, I think there is benefit to being able to have that money available to you for 2-3 seasons and load up the roster during the off-season. The rookie contract is the game changer we never were able to have under the Matt Stafford tenure. All this said, if someone like Will Anderson or Jalen Carter was a game changing, all pro player on defense, I wouldn't pass up on one of them just to have the benefit of a rookie contract. I'd probably take one of them. Though the argument could be made that you can get the best of both worlds by trying to find a Chandler Jones or Khalil Mack type of player to trade for while drafting your QB, thus giving you both a game changing defensive player and the benefit of a QB on a rookie contract.

I think this is a lousy hire for Purdue. As Hong said, who the hell did Illinois play and look good against besides Michigan? This seems like the type of hire that gets you to a string of 5-7 seasons and then he gets fired midway through year 4 or 5. Would Bill O'Brien have been a good hire for Purdue? He's got Big Ten coaching and recruiting experience and success. He understands the midwest and is back in college football now with Alabama.

Great! I'll gladly write in my apology vote. At his point, with Goff looking the way he is, I feel confident that we can pass on Young, Stroud, Levis, whoever in the 1st. Maybe he comes back to Earth next season, maybe he doesn't. But if you have a good thing going, no need to change it up at this point.

Where is the, I wanted to draft a QB in the 2023 draft check box option for people like me?

It's like the first half and second half of the season flipped completely in the NFL for some teams. The Falcons, Giants, Jets, Seahawks had decent or good starts to the season. Now, it's the Lions, Commanders, and 49'ers all rallying back to close strong while all of them are crashing back down to Earth.

How is this the same team that got blanked by the Patriots and was historically bad on defense to start the season? What a turnaround by this team and coaching staff.

WOW, a damn good game by this Lions team and coaching staff.

This will be easily Campbell's best win of his career assuming we hold on.

WOW, never saw that coming. Great wrinkle there by Ben Johnson going to Sewell.