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It will 100% be. It's just a matter of Saturday or Monday Night.

The Rams are a horrendous matchup for the Lions especially without LaPorta in there to keep up in an inevitable shootout. Experience factor is big time in the Rams favor also. The one positive is that the Lions will have a chip on their shoulder because most will pick the Rams to win this and understandably so, so hopefully they take on this underdog role and use it as fuel.

And it was two awful incompletions by Lawrence to seal their fate. I loved Trevor coming into the draft but he's starting to get into that overrated category.

Well... Lets go Niners, Packers (ugh) just in case one of Philly or Dallas wins. Otherwise, lets go Skins and Giants.

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I think the LaPorta loss is a critical blow to their playoff hopes especially when you have this garbage defense we're watching today. Imagine Stafford and those weapons against this secondary? Or even Love? And then you don't have LaPorta on offense to consistently put up points on like every drive? Oof

Severely diminished. It was like a 10% chance of getting the 2 seed but Campbell is aggressive by nature so this is the downside of it. Now they lost arguably their most important offensive catalyst outside of Goff of course on a team that almost completely depends on their offense to win games.

Is it? There are 3-4 close wins that could have very well been losses without him. He's made MANY critical catches and for a QB like Goff to lose his security blanket is a big blow no matter how you cut it, not to mention how critical he's been in the running game. I just don't see how they overcome this loss unless the defense wins some games.

I truly believe the Lions are a .500 team without LaPorta. I can't see how they win more than one playoff game now and if they draw the Rams, that's likely a loss. He's been THAT important to them this season.

Yep, game is already a big loss.

Losing LaPorta is an absolute disaster. He's key to pretty much everything they do in the passing game. Unreal

That's the thing, besides the fact that this is a 3-32 team and the primary objective should be developing potential core young players, it's not like the players ahead of Ausar and Sasser are earning their minutes. Killian with a big fat 0 on the scoresheet despite playing 17 minutes, Livers is a 3 and D with a 3 that's disappeared and D that isn't that good anyway. These guys have been in the league a while by now, we know what they are at this point so what's the point of wrecking Ausar and Sasser's confidence by benching them for the sake of playing these guys who bring nothing to the table anyway and have no upside to be more than what they are now? Burks and Bogey I get in a sense because the Pistons are so shooter starved but even with them, they're liabilities when the shots aren't going down and should be limited when they have an off shooting night yet Monty continues to play the hell out of them even when the shots aren't falling. If we're going to have to suffer through a 3-32 season, at least let the young guys play through their mistakes instead of force feeding us old guys and young vets who have no future here. Just a bottomless pit of hopelessness this season mixed in with Gores and Weaver spewing verbal diarrhea when they do speak and to top it off one of the worst drafts that I've ever witnessed in my 3 decades or so of following drafts with literally no prospect that looks like anything more than a good role player as of right now, never seen anything like it. Seriously, who is any good? Ja'Kobe Walter looks interesting, that's about all I got really.

Monty Williams... That's all

Ausar with 8 minutes and a +3 while Livers gets 22 minutes and a -7 Sasser with 6 minutes and a +4 while Hayes gets 16 minutes and a -4 Livers and Hayes with a combined 5 points. Somebody try to make sense of this. The Pistons have had a lot of dark eras since the "Going to Work" years but a 3-32 team that isn't interested in developing key young players has to be the worst by a longshot and this coach is a big part of it.

I don't believe that was Weaver on the pod because I don't see 50 million "umms" in the quote.

The Shaqtin' segment cracks me up but this one was particularly hilarious. Also, good god is Killian bad but we knew that already.

I could live with Evans and Nacua over Amon-Ra, it's pretty much a toss up, but Stafford over Goff is bogus. That was a reputation selection.

Schefter is a shill and Florio is a known Lions hater so nothing more to see here. In any event, I just have a hard time caring about the screwjob anymore. What's done is done and nothing is going to change with the league (and it's not just the Lions, bad reffing has screwed a lot of teams) so.... on to Minnesota.

The Lions are going to play most of the starters, they still have a shot at the 2 seed as much of a longshot as it is. What I'm more intrigued about is who their 1st round opponent is going to be. The Rams are playing a Niners team that truly has nothing to play for and the Packers get the Bears at home and while the Bears are vastly improved, that's a winnable game. It looks like Rams-Lions is destined to happen, the way the Lions and Rams games unfolded this week and the Niners now having nothing to play for because the Eagles blew a big lead to the Cardinals of all teams at home. Stafford playing his first playoff game in Detroit is destiny. The Football Gods are willing it into existence.

It was really nice to see them get that monkey off their back, just wish it happened sooner so that ghastly record wasn't on the books. Cade playing like a star in the last 10 games or so, I know he's 29 so probably doesn't fit the timeline but Siakam to pair with Cade and Duren would be a really interesting trio if they were miraculously able to land him somehow.

Oh I didn't forget that one but they scored anyway so it doesn't get talked about but it was an egregious non-call. Even Aikman was baffled

Also, Dan Campbell exploded at the officials. He NEVER does that so that must tell you something

Hutch was unreal, his best game as a pro. Shame it was wasted but also very encouraging that the defense played well against a top offense.

I'm not sure he gets in on a good throw even, the defender was there. The throw didn't help though. It's just Ben Johnson trying to be cute, almost worked with Decker though but just like with Campbell the cuteness (aggressiveness) can be a blessing and a curse.

I have so many thoughts about this game, I don't know where to begin. I can't even blame the refs really, the Lions beat themselves in so many ways. This game was right there to be had and the likely #2 or even #1 seed and they fumbled it. Campbell going for it on 4th and 5 earlier in the game instead of kicking the FG, the Barnes whiff (WTF was that?) that led to the Lamb TD, Goff with some needless throws, throwing to James Mitchell? to win the game? Ugh, I went into this game with a relaxed mentality because the 3 seed was in the back pocket but this one really stings. They made their path to a SB a whole lot more difficult and it didn't need to be that way.

Now THAT'S how you call a drive outside of, again, the dumb 3rd down draw play from the shotgun. This is the Lions defense, a running team that sets up playaction.