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Yes. Yes it is.

We did? Teams rarely move even merely decent OL-men at the deadline, let alone good to great ones. So what if the cost started with out 1st rounder for one of those guys? Do you still make the trade, or nah?

Remember when Howard Roseman and the Eagles traded for no one at the deadline last year and won the Superbowl?

Yes, he kicked it low. No idea if there was a problem with the spot or if Bates just kicked it poorly.

Vikes are the better team to this point, and by a very wide margin.

Can't give them easy points like that.

LaPorta game...

That's less than I thought they'd have to pay to sign him, so I love it.

This is how Glenn is, though. He got testy with the Detroit media all the time, even after wins. That's not a problem when you have a personable HC like Campbell in charge, and your team is winning, but it might be when you are in charge and your team is losing. And your team is in NY.

I agree, but teams generally don't move good O-linemen. If they can even get a serviceable-to-good older vet, though, I'd feel much better going forward.

Mr. Rigged Pot.

Gibbs picked the perfect game to go all Barry in.

Yeah, and this doesn't bode well for the "NFL make-right opportunity," either:

No, not if the circumstances described in your post actually happened: a phone call from a casino sports book to an NFL exec demanding a scoring play be overturned, and the NFL exec capitulating and making it so is leaked to the public. Bribes only work in an evidence-controlled environment of plausible deniability. The moment control over the evidence is lost and deniability becomes implausible, the jig is up. In your hypothetical, the NFL would be exposed to the public as (to some extent) fake, and that alone would seriously damage the legitimacy of the brand as a "sport" in the minds of it's audience, but even that pales in comparison to legal implications they'd face over match-fixing. Again, we're pre-supposing that the incontrovertible evidence is made public. The outrage would be uncontainable, and the feds would absolutely have no choice other than to step in and take scalps. It would destroy the NFL.

Were that to happen, it would be a national scandal and the NFL big-wigs would be looking at federal prosecutions. Goodell and others would face serious prison time. It would be the biggest sports scandal in the history of the world. No way this would just be glossed over.

Man, I'd hate to be a banged-up Bucs team coming into Ford Field to face a pissed-off Lions team the week following a bitter Lions loss that featured several controversial calls and no-calls that ALL went against Detroit, sparking copious national media attention and outrage. This has "refs make-up game" written all over it.

He's literally the only player Harris could possibly have been talking about. There's no reading between the lines -- he was clearly talking about Melton.

I feel like Branch's actions have allowed Hutch's foolish late hit to fly under the post-game radar, which it shouldn't. KC would've had 3rd and long on their own side of the field, and Hutch gave them 15 yards, a fresh set of downs and momentum that they didn't earn. The drive ended in a TD. He's not taking nearly the amount of heat that he deserves, IMO.

The contention that trading Skubal -- and the opportunities that doing so opens up -- necessarily remove the Tigers from 2026 playoff contention is what I disagree with. Stating it as fact. I disagree with that.

No one here knows the answer to that question. I think the majority here is in the camp that that would prefer if the Tigers can sign Skubal long term during the off season. The disagreement is in what the team should do in the event that they can't.

I think you have to trade him before training camp if he doesn't sign before then, because A) you risk him getting injured before the deadline, and B) you have a larger pool of suiters in the off season. The longer you wait, the less you're likely to receive in return for him.

Good for Dan.

What did he do?

Packers also only have one loss, btw