Mr.TaterSalad

Hard to believe it's been over a year since we lost the incredible Justin Townes-Earle. I've been diving deep into his catalogue of music a lot lately. The songwriter every songwriter should strive to be. The guys candle burned out too early but if the music he wrote was any judge, it burned bright as hell when he was here.

If Mike White keeps playing at a high level do you try and trade for either White or Zach Wilson if you're Brad Holmes?

It's not just where Hock was drafted, it's who was drafted after him and the team needs we had at the time and still have. We needed an edge rusher or someone who could get after the QB in the worst way and a LB who could cover in space. Brian Burns and Montez Sweat could have been that pass rusher we needed or Devin Bush that coverage LB.

Don't have to ask me twice. It was an awful pick then and an awful pick now. Brian Burns, Montez Sweat, Devin Bush and yeah, Ed Oliver, were guys that many of us were clamoring for on the board and across Lion fandom on the internet. I'd much rather have an edge/pass rusher like Burns or Sweat to build around than an average/above-average at best TE. The list of successful TEs taken outside the first round is long. In spite of what this organization seems to think, the position itself, is not one of the 5-6 most important on the field. Having an edge rusher who can get you double-digit sack totals and 30-40+ tackles like Burns and Sweat can is far more valuable than a TE who is going to get you 50-60 receptions, 750 yards and 2-4 TDs a season IMO. Furthermore, Hockenson was never this generational TE that the likes of Mel Kiper tried hyping him up to be prior to the draft. He was and is not Gronk 2.0. Even if you made Aaron Rodgers his QB instead of Goff I don't think he would be. He's a Heath Miller type of player at best and probably a Kyle Rudolph at worst. Watch a few Iowa football games and you can see he was very very good, but not generationally great.

We had two solid "for us" choices in Bernie and Warren and we went with the "less against us" choice in Joe.

You watched the trailer and discerned all that from it? Because I watched the trailer and thought it was about monsters that live in the woods and started going after people. The Village is a textbook bait and switch. It was advertised one way and you go into the movie expecting to see a horror flick and it delivers on it somewhat, until the end when it is all like "just kidding, this isn't actually a horror film." The trailer and the movie are not one in the same. One is false advertising and one is reality. I watched Robert Eggers A24 film The Witch, a Puritan folklore movie about a witch that lives in the woods. The movie was advertised as a horror movie. Guess what we saw in the movie, a ton of creepy scenes and a witch, actually several witches. We didn't watch a 1:20:00 movie about witches only to have the last 10 minutes be about something else entirely. And you know what, I was highly satisfied with The Witch and have watched it a half dozen times since. The Village to me would be like going to see The Witch and there isn't actually one single scene where the Witch actually appears in the movie and in the end, The Witch had nothing to do with the plot line. The Village was built up for months with trailer after trailer making it seem like it was an English folklore type horror movie about mysterious evil creatures or monsters that live in the woods and go after people. Except the movie was about none of that. Instead, the entire point of the movie was to create a big ruse at the end and swerve the audience. Um ok, you swerved us, but that doesn't mean the swerve was clever or good. I thought it was neither.

Why would you advertise the movie as a horror movie and then have it be something else if you weren't willfully trying to con someone. M Night Shyamalan is the movie version of a grifter. Both The Village and Lady in the Water are examples of his grifts. He and the movie studio sell the general public on the idea that they are buying a ticket to see a horror movie based on all the advertisements and then bait and switch in the movie. Hey, you thought you were going to see a horror film, just kidding, this movie is really something else. Imagine if you went to see Titanic and it ended up being a western, would you feel happy you just paid $10 for that ticket? That's part of Shyamalan's bait and switch grift.

I would have literally hauled off and punched M. Night Scamalan after watching The Village were he standing in front of me when I went and saw it in theaters. I felt so duped as a movie goer watching what I thought was going to be a solid horror movie only to be swerved in the last 10 minutes to find out it was all a big ruse and it was really a socio-phycological experiment. The Village to me is one of the worst movies of all time. Scamalan lost me after his Village con and I don't watch his movies any longer.

Did you follow all of the plot twists and who was supposed to be in what house? It finally occurred to me at the end of the movie that Emily never went to another house and we were likely watching the same Emily the entire time.

As mad as I am at Harbaugh and frustrated as I am about the game overall, I still think we got hosed on two key calls. This one below with Payton Thorne fumbling the football and the Reed catch that scraped the ground before he caught it. They called this a fumble on the field and had inconclusive evidence to overturn the call. This should have been left as a fumble call because you cannot conclusively tell when the ball came out versus when his leg/shin touched the ground. On the Reed "catch" I still think the laces of the football grazed the ground before he hauled it in. But I think the call below was worse and way more costly for Michigan.

There is bad and then 50 feet of s*** and then us today. The last time a remember a performance this bad by the Lions was during Patricia's first game on MNF against the Jets.

That's why I would want to get through 3/4/5/6 games first. If he's solid through a 5-6 game stretch as their starting QB I think it's worth seriously kicking the idea around. The difference between Matt Flynn and Mike White is the teams they were playing. Mike White is playing a good Bengals defense and Matt Flynn played us.

I would seriously consider trading a pick to the Jets backup QB for Mike White if he keeps going off like he did today. If White gets the chance to start on several more occasions, 3-4 games, and has performances like he did today against the Bengals, I'd be willing to trade for him and make him our new starting QB.

The Jets winning is great news for us. Another Jags and Texans wins would be solid as well. The more 1 win teams that get victories the better our chances become for securing that #1 overall pick.

I said at the start of the season that I wasn't going to be hard or overly critical on Campbell or this regime because of how new everyone was and how awful this roster was. That said, Campbell has made a number of troubling coaching mistakes and outright blunders. Anyone beginning to question his coaching IQ isn't really wrong because he hasn't given fans a whole lot of reason to think otherwise.

He has a zero 0% chance of winning out because he will get punked by Ryan Day and Ohio State. The guy should be relieved of his job tomorrow but I doubt that happens.

Most could except Harbaugh, he'd find a way to lose

We're going winless, I truly believe that now. I don't think this team has any ability to win a game. They can't score, Goff is perhaps the worst starter in the NFL, and they can't stop anyone from scoring. This roster is worse than the 0-16 team because at least that team had Calvin.

Touchdown Eagles. We're going to lose again today.

Are we trotting out that bit to try and defend Harbaugh now? I hope not. This loss was inexcusable given the lead they had coming out of half time.

I'm convinced Luke Fickell could turn this around, get it done here at Michigan, and compete with the big boys.

He has, other than once against Notre Dame, no real signature wins to speak of. The guy is a complete punk, who turtles up and turns into a pumpkin in big games.

Damn right, he has no business coaching another game at Michigan. He can't win big games or rivalry games. He can't win when he's a underdog. He can't develop a QB when he's allegedly a QB whisper. He rarely beats ranked opponents anymore. He's out coached at every turn. What is the point of keeping this guy around?

That's a step too far even for me. I want Luke Fickell. I'll do whatever it takes to get him here. Get his wife the Hope Diamond if you have to.