Mr.TaterSalad

Joe Biden is orchestrating a global cabal while suffering from alzheimer's all at the same time.

We looked better than they did against Penn State is really my only reasoning for it. If you take last year into account, we beat them last year too.

Clemson ahead of Michigan is some bullshit. Clemson is fraudulent and I believe would lose if they played Michigan or Ohio State. I think Michigan deserves to be ahead of Ohio State as well.

I'm going to duck for cover after saying this, but the New York Giants have the 5th youngest roster and the Atlanta Falcons the 6th youngest roster.

As a Millennial, I sincerely hope that my generation and the Gen Z'ers show up in 2020 numbers (or greater) to protect our future. Please God!

Simon Rosenberg is one of the Democrats top data guys, at least he's being sold that way and sells himself as such. He's putting a lot of stock in the fact that he feels early voting is good for Dems compared to 2020 numbers. Seemingly an increase in early voting compared to 2020. Additionally, he is talking about how R leaning pollsters are flooding the market with R positive polling to bump the averages up in their favor. I admit that I like and am buying into a lot of what Rosenberg has to say as of late about the R wave not materializing like the media is predicting.

Does anyone else get the feeling, based on early voting data, that polls are woefully underestimating Democratic enthusiasm and turnout?

I'm probably being hyperbolic saying I don't know who left on the schedule they can beat, I admit that. They probably can beat the Panthers and Bears. However, the Patriots were starting a third string, rookie QB, making his NFL debut. They lost that game and got embarrassed in the process. Furthermore, this team struggles against mobile QBs as evidenced against the Eagles and Seahawks. While I recognize that the Bears are a generally terrible team and getting worse with all the trades they've made, they have the type of QB that this team struggles against. I don't think the Bears are by any means an automatic win.

Are we in tank mode now for the #1 pick? Is that what this is?

The Packers are playing like one of the worst teams in the league right now, so it seems. Hopefully the Lions turn around their 2nd half offensive woes and play enough defense to get by because this is a very winnable game. This might be just what the doctor ordered though for Green Bay though. Nothing would be more SOL then for the Packers to get a bounce back win against the Lions. Probably on some late game BS too. If we don't get a win here then I am really struggling to see where the next win comes on this schedule.

Mike Valenti and Rico Beard were shameful today. They literally excused violence and as you said, made it out to be all Harbaugh's fault. Some of the worst radio I have heard in a long while from them.

Sure. I take big opinions on things and sometimes I am wrong. I mean, I could take no opinion and just try to act like a water carrying contrarian all day.

What would it take for you to accept that Campbell is a bad coach having a bad season?

If the old board was still you could have seen my posts. I was calling for the Lions to draft any one of Tua, Herbert or Isiah Simmons. Tua atop my list over Herbert.

So now the narrative is changing from Tua is garbage to Tua is not? Garbage QBs don't succeed no matter who is around them. Nate Sudfeld wouldn't be 5-3 as Dolphins QB. Some of us wanted one of Tua/Herbert in 2020 when we drafted Okudah instead. We were mocked through Tua's 1st 2 seasons and basically told he wasn't any good. Looks like he's actually pretty good.

I thought Tua was supposed to be garbage?

Because he's a rookie head coach with no prior coaching experience.

If they do, and they may well, then the conversation changes. We can't predict the future and so we are where we are at and have to have discussions about it. If 1st and 2nd year coaches like Brian Daboll, Robert Saleh, Mike McDaniel, or Arthur Smith go 2-8, 3-7 the rest of the way then that certainly helps Campbell out and makes him not look quite as bad. If these teams continue to succeed and make the playoffs and Campbell's team continues to struggle then that makes him look worse. I don't think anyone is making any certainties or guarantees about where the Dolphins, Giants, Falcons, Jets will end up at season's end. Some fans, myself included, are just comparing the Lions 2nd year head coach to those around him because that's all we've got at this point. If we were 3-4 and you wanted to preach the patience game, I'd say that is more than acceptable. But we aren't. We are the worst team in the entire league with a 1-6 record. It's hard to preach and buy into patience when you are that bad and aren't seeing substantial, sustainable improvements across the board.

All of my posts here are just a long, convoluted way of saying that Dan Campbell and Aaron Glenn shouldn't be fired yet, but their seats should be real warm and their leash getting shorter and shorter by the loss. In the NFL, where teams like the Giants, Falcons, Jets, and Seahawks prove how quickly rebuilds happen, sometimes you don't get the long leash you would desire when you came in. I want Campbell to succeed, I want the Lions to win a lot, I want to watch winning football. I'm tired of being a miserable prick about this team and constantly having to search for the negative in everything. I hope Dan Campbell finds tremendous success during his time here, but so far, I'm just not seeing the level of improvement necessary to justify his seat not at least being warm.

According to Football Outsiders the Giants defense is ranked 27th in terms of DVOA and their offense is only 15th. Yet somehow, they are 6-2 and on track to be a playoff team. The Jets have the 19th ranked offense and 9th ranked defense and are on track to make the playoffs. The Falcons have the 9th ranked offense and are 31st in defensive DVOA and are on track to win their division and make the playoffs. Why are Daboll, Saleh, and Smith finding success and Campbell isn't? They aren't trotting out units that are significantly more talented or better across the board than Campbell is. Their talent level isn't way better than ours. They're starting Daniel Jones, Marcus Mariotta, and Zac Wilson at QB for God sakes. Sure, the Jets defense is better than ours, but our offense is better than there's. Furthermore, the other thing that can't be judged in a vacuum is Brad Holmes' player acquisitions as a GM. You can point the finger at Holmes for bad draft picks like Levi and Melifonwu. You can blame him for drafting Jameson Williams over Jordan Davis. You can say he stood pat on defense and brought back the same collection of poor performers from the prior season. But you can't just say that's all Holmes' fault. Those moves are on Campbell too. Holmes didn't draft in a dark room, alone, by himself. Nor did he run free agency that way. He consulted with Dan Campbell, Aaron Glenn, Ben Johnson, and all the positional coaches, scouts, player personnel people. I'm sure that if Campbell and Glenn weren't happy with the defensive players they trotted out last year they would have had every opportunity to speak out and demand more be done to fix this defense and bring more talent in on that side of the ball.

I have used the word improvement all season long and during the preseason. I wanted to see improvement among individual players, position groups, and the coaching staff. I think we've seen that individually among some players. I certainly think the offense as a position group has improved when healthy and on the field together. Here in my mind are the players who have either somewhat or substantially improve and those that have regressed or not improved. Improved: Amon'Ra St. Brown, Jeff Okudah (substantially improved), Josh Reynolds, Kalif Raymond, Kerby Jospeh (a little bit), Malcolm Rodriguez, Penei Sewell Regressed: Alex Anzalone (was he any good to begin with), Amani Oruwariye (he's turned into an awful player), Charles Harris (a complete ghost), DeShon Elliott, Derek Barnes, Michael Brockers, Will Harris For all the guys I feel have improved and the offensive improvement that has happened, it simply hasn't been enough to bring this team success or make the coaching staff look good. The other problem that Campbell has is that you can't measure him in a vacuum, you have to compare him to his peers. Unfortunately for him, some of his rookie/2nd year coaching peers like Daboll, Saleh, Smith, all have better records than he does.

If the defense is the problem, and by in large it has been, then why not fire Aaron Glenn and only Aubrey Pleasant? I would argue that this firing was done as a scapegoat. Optically, if Campbell had fired Glenn that would look worse for him than firing a position coach. And if you fired both of the coordinators you brought in, that means the pressure is really on you to be the next man gone.

I'm guessing MAGA will say he was setup by the crooked FBI just like the white men who tried to kidnap Whitmer were setup by the FBI.

I think it also speaks to coaching and schematic adjustments coming out of the half that the staff makes. The Miami game is only one game, so it cannot be used to draw a hard and fast conclusion about Campbell and this staff as a whole. But it seemed like to me that Mike McDaniel and his staff made defensive adjustments and shut our offense down. They also made offense adjustments and picked it up offensively. It's on Campbell, Ben Johnson, and Aaron Glenn to counter and adjust back. They didn't yesterday. I sort of feel like that was the story of the 4th quarter against Minnesota too.