Mr.TaterSalad

Billy Strings is the shit! He did his jam Dust in the Baggie just sitting on a couch with a cellphone recording and still blew me away!

If you like real, traditional, honkyhonk-style country music like a Buck Owens or George Jones you'll love Charley Crockett. He put on a killer show at the Majestic tonight!

A great presentation from former Bill Clinton/Barack Obama polling and data guy Simon Rosenberg on why things are better with Dems in office and how Dems can do a better job messaging in the future to win more.

Fox Sports Australia: Match fixing, bribery claim rocks opening World Cup game between Qatar and Ecuador What a disgrace this entire thing has been. I refuse to watch the World Cup this year.

That's where I am at with him. He never had more than two tackles in any game prior to this and look average against the run. He had a solid game and I hope this is one of many to come. It would allow us to address other needs on defense if McNeill is a real interior presence on this line.

50 degrees and 53% chance of rain is what I see now. If it turns into a wet, rainy, sloppy game, I would presume that favors our style of play offensively.

Ohio struggled almost as much against Maryland in the first half and 4th quarter as we did against Illinois. They sort of pulled away in the 3rd quarter, but let Maryland back in a little in the 4th. So I'm not as worried about the performance against Illinois as maybe I should be given how Ohio looked against Maryland. I really think if Corum and Edwards are healthy that we can play bully ball and run right at them. Their run defense didn't look good against Indiana and Northwestern. If the run game is working early I expect that to be a big problem for them as it was last year.

I was PLEASANTLY surprised at how well they did containing Barkley. I really thought we were in for a 100+ yard, multi TD game from him and our Dline stood up to the test and shut him out.

For anyone doubting Hutch and having hoped for one of Walker or Thibs, he certainly looks the best of the 3 rookies. Hutch has been coming on strong the past month and is proving why we took him #2 overall.

Yeah, instead the Fox punt sails into the end zone and they start with better field position. Lions D keeping it contaiend so far on this drive though.

Damn, Goff got lucky on that one.

And yet today we still manage to look really good.

Alright, go score here and show you're the better team!

Great pick by Hutch. This dude is good!!!

I guess we can add starting RB to next year's off season list.

What the hell happened to week 1 Swift?

Saquon Barkley struggling, no problem, we'll just run Daniel Jones.

Holding negates a great run by Goff.

I am going to reiterate for anyone that needs to hear it this, but I am not calling for Aaron Glenn or Dan Campbell to be fired. I do not want them to fail to be proven right in some "Oh, they should have hired Brian Daboll or Robert Saleh" moment. I want them to succeed and I want this team to succeed. While I am a very cynical fan, and often look for the negative angle in things, I want this coaching staff and team to succeed. I want to root for consistent, playoff winning football for once in my 35 years on this Earth. I think you are correct, AP both deserves credit for Jeff Okudah and criticism for Amani Oruwariye. Oruwariye has very clearly regressed this season and that may be on AP, the player himself, or both individuals. This firing may not have completely been a random name, drawn out of a hat, in order to fire someone for the sake of public accountability being shown by the team. It may well have been due to how poorly our secondary was playing. I do wonder though why Pleasant was chosen over other position coaches and Aaron Glenn. At the time Pleasant was fired the Lions had a 28.8 percent blitz rate at that point of the season. And yet, were still bottom five in sacks and pressures, in spite of being in a blitz heavy package created by Glenn. Our blitzes were not getting home early on. This went along with an awful run defense that ranked in the bottom 5. We had a run defense that had given up an average of 154.9 yards per game and couldn't stop the run. So why fire AP over D-Line coaches Cameron Davis or Dave Corrao? Our non-Rodrigo Linebackers couldn't and still can't cover in space, get beat over the middle of the field, and don't do well against the run. Alex Anzalone, who continues to start week after week, looks awful on the field. So why fire AP over Linebackers Coach Kelvin Sheppard? No one sans, Hutch, Rodrigo, Okudah, and an injured Tracy Walker looked all that impressive on our defense. When the offense looked bad as a unit, Lynn paid the price for it, not a position coach. When the defense looked bad as a unit, Pleasant, a position coach, paid the price for it, instead of Aaron Glenn. I just can't help but think that was scapegoating in order to protect Campbell from having to fire yet another coordinator. If the argument is that Aaron Glenn doesn't have the raw talent yet to work with on defense, don't Pleasant and all of the position coaches deserve the same leeway?

Gonna laugh real loud if Tua Jr. and Maryland can pull this off.

Let's go Maryland!

He literally saved our season!

What are you smiling about Harbaugh? You looked horrible down the stretch and called an awful game towards the end trying to throw it at the end instead of running it. You got the win, but it was as ugly as they come. Not the way you want your team to look heading into Ohio State.

Are you kidding me? He called a timeout that fast?

This is coaching malpractice!!!