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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/

Pointless trivia of the day... did you know that the Cleveland Guardians actually originated in Grand Rapids? They were originally founded in 1894 as the Grand Rapids Rustlers with the Western League. in 1900 they moved to Cleveland and changed to the 'Lake Shores,' then the Bluebirds in 1901, the Bronchos in '02, the Naps from '03-'14, then became the Indians in 1915.

I'm guessing the 33rd Team will only be marginally successful, then Brady will join and it will be fantastic and everyone will consider Belichick the greatest analyst in NFL history. Again... sorry... I'm just in a bad joke mood this morning I guess.

No wonder he wanted out of Detroit so bad... Sorry... it was too easy... I couldn't let it go.

Update: 24 White Sox = 31-108 03 Tigers = 37-102 The Tigers just finished a 3 game winning streak. They would go on to lose the next 6 games meaning if the White Sox win the next 6 games they'd be tried with the 2003 Tigers. Teams now need 54 wins to guarantee that they don't finish with a worse record the the White Sox this year. The Angels and Athletics have both passed that mark meaning only the Marlins and Rockies (both at 51 wins) are still in the danger zone.

Update: 24 White Sox = 31-103 03 Tigers = 34-100 The nationals can no long finish with a worse record than the White Sox. Leaving 4 teams mathematically still "in danger" of sucking more than the White Sox this year: Marlins (48 wins... need a combo of 11 games, either Marlin wins or White Sox losses to be safe) Rockies (50 wins... need 9) Angles (54, need 5) Athletics (58, need just 1)

I so, so, so wanted Cornejo to work out. I was rooting for him big time. I had been a Tigers fan a bit in the 80s, but sort of stopped following them in the 90s. I really got back into it around 2000. It took my young son to see the Tigers Caravan one summer and he had a little interaction with Cornejo so I instantly became a fan. I remember him being talked up so much as the next great pitcher for the Tigers.

Another bit of useless data... If the WhiteSox won out the rest of the season... if they won every one of their remaining games they'd end up 61 and 101. There are only 5 teams right now who could end up with a worse record than that. In order to ensure that the WhiteSox don't pass them, these teams need to win things many more games: Nationals: 2 games Athletics: 5 games Angels: 7 games Rockies: 12 games Marlins: 14 games

Compared to the Angels and Athletics? Much less "out of it." Games behind the division leader: Tigers: 9 Athletics: 14 Angels: 16 Games behind the final WC slots: Tigers: 6.5 Athletics: 16 Angels: 18 If you're noticing that those two teams are further behind the WC vs. division leader just be aware that is NOT a typo. The AL West kinda sucks this year. The Central has three teams that have a better record than the best team in the West. The Tigers would be only 4.5 games out of first place in the West. Shoot, if we could just not consider the White Sox, the Central's winning percentage is .543. Even with the White Sox the central is at .481. The West? 0.465. The Central has a team with over 100 losses already and yet we still have a combined better winning percentage than the west.

The Tigers just beat up on the White Sox leaving them at 31 and 101. It's made me wonder: Could the WhiteSox top the '03 Tigers in loss total? The 2003 Tigers, at 132 games played, were at 33 and 99... so a robust 2 games over the White Sox right now. To not top the 03 Tigers the White Sox need to win 12 more games out of the remaining 30... this would give them 43-119, same as the Tigers. Here's their remaining schedule: vs. Texas (3) - Probably out of the race vs. Mets (3) - 3 Games Back in Wild Card @ Baltimore (3) - Probably in the playoffs, but fighting for position @ Boston (3) - Probably out of the race vs. Cleveland (3) - Fight with Royals for lead of Central vs. Oakland (3) - Way out of it. @ Angels (3) - Even more way out of it. @ Padres (3) - Probably a WC team, fighting for position. vs. Angels (3) - Still way out of it. @ Tigers (3) I do find it interesting that we might be the ones to push them over the limit in that last series. Only 4 of the series look like they are against playoff bound teams, but none of those teams look like they've locked up positioning so they won't be coasting. It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next month.

I'm not saying it's nothing... cause obviously it's something... but we're also talking about practice here. Any thing that's more than a little "ouch" moment they're going to be extra careful with. It's not like Sewell needs reps to get up to speed with the offense or learn the play book or whatever... he's a Pro-Bowl caliber going on his third season with the same staff in place. Slight discomfort? Get him off the field and check it out to be safe. Again, I'm not saying it's nothing and don't worry. But I am saying: Don't panic just yet... let's hear what the staff says after they get a chance to look at it.

Well, me for one. Honestly I'm not sure why you assume that most people have done this? It's frankly disturbing that you'd assume this. I'm a bit put out that you'd state something like this because when I did it, it was a domestic flight and therefore totally different.

Yeah... I think you did.

Thanks, this is really cool. I was looking at the injury listings on pro-football-reference, which are nice charts, but it's great that someone is trying to put a number on it and taking into account the importance to the player/position. The Lions rank is about what I expected... middle of the pack. Nothing substantial that makes you think the Lions pissed in God's cereal, but also nothing so good that makes you think Holmes made a deal with the devil. I will say that I think they are under-estimating the importance of the QB, and they seem to admit that as well: "...while Cincinnati showed the limitations of the AGL formula: they ranked third in lowest AGL but of course their most substantial injury was to starting quarterback Joe Burrow." I think Minnesota is another example of that. They were starting to build some steam last year until Cousins got hurt, then it all fell apart. But Minny is still ranked in the middle of the pack in AGL.

While technically correct, I disagree on dodging it. We did not have many that we lost of the whole season, but we had some key players who missed substantial time: Cabinda - 12 CJGJ - 14 Houston - 14 Jacobs - 5 McNeil - 4 Mosely - 16(.9) Paschal - 5 Vatai - 11 And these are just the bigger names. I'm not include Sudfeld or Knight or Zylstra or Nelson (all double digit games missed). And again I'll point out... where were we the weakest last year? Secondary... where the projected starting CB was out for pretty much the entire season and the projected starting safety missing 82% of the season. We started Vildor in the NFC Championship game for goodness sake! This also doesn't include that we lost Marvin Jones because he stepped away from the missing 11 games or that Jamo was suspended for the first handful of games. I'm not trying to say that the Lions had it super bad injury-wise. I know that there were other teams that had it worse... MIN, for example. But I don't think the Lions got super luck in the injury front either.

I don't think we dodged the injury thing. Perhaps other teams got hit worse, but the Lions had quite a few injury issues. OL, for instance lost 9 games among the 5 starters (Decker 2, Jackson 5, Ragnow 2) and the defense really had some key injuries: CJGJ 15 and Mosely 16.9. There's a smattering of other players who missed a few games here and there included ARSB (1), Monty (3), Anzalone (1), etc, but especially that secondary hit was huge. Our secondary was the weakest unit last year easily and it was missing two big name free agents who were supposed to help it for nearly the entire season.

I'm probably one of the bigger Bates slappies here (just look at the UFL thread), but a 64-yarder in practice doesn't mean much. Don't get me wrong... I definitely LIKE that he has a big leg, but kicking in practice vs. in game where the opposing team is barreling in on you and there's pressure to make it... that's what counts a lot more. Bates mostly seemed to be able to handle this in the UFL well, but there's always the question of whether the added mental pressure of doing in in the NFL will be too much. I mean he's on a (nearly) $2M contract over two years. This is life altering money and if he's successful he can expect even more.

I want him to go to which ever team will do better with him. I don't really fear the Browns or the Pats right now, so I'd prefer that the 49ers get a lower pick (as a result of the team he goes to finishing with a better record) in whatever draft picks they're getting back. I will say that I'm surprised that there are two trade deals worked out (from the 49ers end). This actually gives Aiyuk some leverage with the teams. I don't know if this is common and I've just never heard of it before or if the 49ers are trying to be nice to Aiyuk or what.