RedRamage

SOP just doesn't have same ring to it though.

With a win in game 144 the White Sox are now at 33-111. The '03 Tigers were at 37-107, so 4 games ahead of the '24 Sox. The Tigers managed to get 6 more wins in the last 18 games of the season so the Sox will need 10 wins to tie the '03 Tigers or 11 to get ahead. So far the White Sox had accumulated just six wins since the All Star break, so I can't say as it seems terribly likely that they'll get 10 in 2.5 weeks. The absolutely best the White Sox can do now is 51 wins. Even if they win out and the Marlins and/or Rockies lose out, the White Sox will still finish 3 games behind those teams.

Floating out the idea here to have a Weekly non-Lions game thread. I thinking this would be a good place to talk about the other games rather than just general NFL thread. Here's the list of Week 2 games: Thursday Bills @ Dolphins Sunday Early Chargers @ Panthers Saints @ Cowboys Colts @ Packers Browns @ Jaguars 49ers @ Vikings Seahawks @ Patroits Jets @ Titans Raiders @ Ravens Giants @ Commanders Sunday Late Rams @ Cardinals Steelers @ Broncos Bengals @ Cheifs Sunday Night Bears @ Texans Monday Falcons @ Eagles I'll be mildly interested to see how the Vikings fair against the 49ers and I'll be interested to see how the Pack does without Love. I'll probably actually try to watch part of the Bears game.

But if both teams have a chance to have their offense on the field, then it's not sudden death. I think what you're saying is that both teams should get a shot and if one team is ahead after that, that team wins. I don't necessarily hate that idea honestly. It keeps it as close to regular football as possible and actually provides some incentive to NOT take the ball if you win the toss. But, what do you do if the teams are tied after they've both had possession once? Does it go sudden death then or does each team get a guaranteed offensive chance again? If the idea of guaranteeing each team gets their offense on the field in OT is to be more fair, why wouldn't we do the same if they tied after the first attempt?

That was really a killer there... That one just HURT because there were at least 4 defenders who could have prevented that from being a long YAC and they all missed or ran into each other.

Easier to understand for one. Is a team winning by more than 4 points? If yes, game over. If no, keep playing. Nothing about: If the first time gets a TD, then they win, otherwise the other team gets a shot. If the second team gets a TD they win. If the first team didn't score at all, then a FG wins it for the second team, but if the first time got a FG and the second team gets a FG then the first team gets another shot and they win if they get any points. You also eliminate situations which I think are "cheap wins" like the teams trade FGs then the first team gets a sudden death win on a FG. Or if the defense gets a safety the offense still needs to go down put up some points to win it.

He got a LOT of practice with that his first 12 years in the league so he knows what to do.

You mean the drive where they hardly threw the ball? Why isn't St. Brown getting the ball? Why are they running on first down all the time! 5 first downs and they ran the ball all 5 times! Horrible play calling.

Hindsight being 20/20, but a FG to end the half would have saved my heart a lot of stress.

A new season and an old push for my simplified OT rules. Now, in my personally opinion the best OT rules would be to simply play a full "5th" quarter and the game it over when that qtr is done. But, I get that the NFL doesn't want that. I'm not sure if it's because of concerns with players health or wanting the excitement of sudden death or some combo of both, but here is (yet again) my proposal for simplified OT rules that: Keep the excitement of sudden death Easier to understand for teams/fans Stays close to the NFL's current rules Stays close to "real" football (ie, don't reward changing philosophy like just trying to get a safe FG like the old OT rules did.) The proposed rules are this: A 5th qtr is played and a coin flip is used just like current rules are. Play stops at the end of the qtr OR if at any point one team leads by 4 or more points.

I didn't HATE the font... I get that they were doing for a unique font that was distinctly Lions... but I also can't say as I love it either. Again I get what they were going for and I think it mostly work with the name, but numbers were "meh" at best.

Wow... um... maybe it's not a good thing there's still time in the game?

Still time in the game obviously but... ouch.

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Oh, for sure the field wasn't great and it definitely was a factor. But it wasn't the only factor.

I actually watched most of this game and I wasn't overtly impressed with either team, which is good for the Lions has both these teams were considered contenders. GB lost despite a fumble and 2 INTs from the Eagles. As for Philly? Hurts seems to be still making poor decisions. So this is a pretty much a best case senario for the Lions... GB loses, both teams look questionable. Having said that... this is the first game of the year and I expect to see some rusty players. I expect we'll see from rust from the Lions as well so I don't want to put TOO much emphasis on one game of lackluster play. As for Jordon Love: I don't wish ill-will on any individual, but I also am not going to be upset if this give the Lions an advantage this season. I'm quite sure no team out there was upset that the Lions secondary was a MASH unit last season. I doubt any other team's fan said: "I just wish the Lions didn't have so many CB injuries so that we faced an even better team." Well... maybe the Raven's fans did.

Wow... yeah, that's a tough call there. I suppose it depends on how you're classifying your dislike. Dislike of the player or dislike of the person? If you're talking the person it's hard to argue that Sutton isn't the worst given the alleged incident with his woman. But just as a player, CJGJ get it for the reasons you listed here.

Well... now that I did a bit of digging, this might not be the correct information. See here: The Cliff Notes version: The Grand Rapids Rustlers (or maybe Rippers??) did exist in the Western League, but moved to Omaha, and then folded. A separate team that was originally from Columbus moved, very briefly, to Grand Rapids, then to Cleveland.

I will add for the record, it seems like Rice is handling this correct now. He's admitted his involvement. He appears to have cooperated fully with police. He willingly turned himself in when a warrant was issued for this arrest. Since the accident he's done the right things from what I can see. Hopefully this is a good life lesson for him that will be expensive for him, but ultimately doesn't appear to have causes serious injury (or death) to anyone. It's not his fault that the NFL hasn't decided to suspend him and he certainly shouldn't feel some obligation to self-suspend himself.

(Responding here instead of in the Lions-Rams game thread) I hadn't heard anything on this so I had to look it up. Holy crap, how is this not getting more attention? From wikipeida: On March 30, 2024, Rice was the driver of a Lamborghini Urus involved in a high-speed hit and run crash on North Central Expressway in Dallas, while racing another driver in a Chevrolet Corvette. Four other vehicles were damaged in what Dallas police called a "chain reaction collision" after the Lamborghini struck a retaining wall. Video obtained by The Dallas Morning News shows five men disembarking from the Urus and the Corvette and leaving the scene on foot without checking on the occupants of the other four vehicles. Two of those occupants were transported to a hospital, and two others were treated for minor injuries at the scene. I mean you've got street racing, not the worst offense ever... but then it does get worse because there's a crash involving innocent people. And then to top it off they leave the scene without even checking on the other people. And yes, the case is still pending, but there's really no question here that Rice was involved. He's even admitted as much (again from wikipedia): On April 3, Rice met with Dallas police, and in a statement sent to the Morning News, he said that he takes "full responsibility" for his part in the collision. There's no way this shouldn't be something the NFL looks at and says it's unacceptable behavior. I know it's not fully apples to apples here, but Sutton got an 8 game suspension for his domestic assault. The biggest difference being that he INTENDED to harm the woman where as Rice didn't INTEND to hurt others. But the end result is Rice did a dumb, illegal thing that led to people getting hurt AND afterwards he walked from the scene. How is that not even worth 1 game suspension??

The White Sox picked up a win on Wednesday making them 32-109. The '03 Tigers after game 141 were 37-104. From here through game 156 the Tigers only picked up one more win so now is the time for the White Sox to try and gain some ground. The Tigers finished the last 7 games with 5 wins though so the Sox will need to gain some ground and finish strong if they want to get ahead of the '03 Tigers. The absolute best the White Sox can finish right now is 53 wins. Right now there are only two teams with fewer than 53 wins beside the Sox: Marlins and the Rockies, both with 52 wins. If those two team collect one more win or the Sox lose one more game it will be impossible for the White Sox not to have the worst record in MLB and we're not even though the first full week of September.

I don't think we can even call it a game of inches anymore. I think it's the right call that he was out of bounds but my goodness... that's a fraction of a inch over the line there. This is like if the dude is ONE shoe size smaller he's inbounds. Wow.

I totally missed this when it was announced but apparently the NFL is allowing players to wear the soft shell guardian helmet "wraps" in ga me this year. https://news.sportslogos.net/2024/04/28/nfl-will-allow-players-to-wear-guardian-caps-in-games/football/