RedRamage

Quoted for Truth. There's LOTS of potential there, no doubt. But so far it's only potential. Because this trade was so involved with draft picks it needs to be grades the same way drafts are graded: After 3 years or so. That said, given how well Goff has played (at least last year) I would say just one of those players becoming a star player makes it worth it to us, and there's definitely potential for more than one of those to reach star status. I will say the "Stafford won a SB" part isn't really apples to apples... what I mean is if the Lions don't win a SB in the next 3-5 years that doesn't mean the Lions lost the trade. Football is too much of a team sport and depends on too many factors to say that one key player (or even three key players) are the sole reason you win or don't win a SB.

Yeah, it was a touch watch... those many penalties really screwed up the rhythm of the game. The Panthers are quite undisciplined as well. Part of that might just be non-NFL caliber players, but they shoot themselves in the foot soooo many times I starting calling them the SOLs in my head. Again, the Panthers are by no means a good team (like, even a USFL good team) so I wasn't expecting much, but still a bummer to see them lose. I predict whoever win the south today will easily take the championship next week.

Honestly with how bad their OL especially is and how many stupid penalties they've committed all season long but reaching the playoffs was more than they could have hoped for. Still a bummer... Lions still have the last playoff victory for Detroit football.

Game over... Panthers stopped on their first 2 tries while Maulers were successful. Maulers win it. 😞

OT Rules: Each team gets 3 tries from 2yd line. Each score = 2 pts. After 3 tries team with the most points win. If still tied, then sudden death.

Panthers move down the field and get a FG to tie it up. Overtime.

Maulers with the TD, 39 seconds left. Point after is good, Pitts with a 3 point lead. Panthers have two TOs left.

Now 4th and goal from the 7.

Sooooo many penalties at the end of this game. Maulers with an illegal snap takes a TD off the board. 3rd and goal.

Maulers hurting themselves... False start, incomplete, False start... 3rd and 16, then Panthers PI gives Maulers a 1st down. 1:08 left.

And then a stupid penalty after the play gives the Maulers good field position. 1:58 left.

Panther's with a huge TD strike that gets called back on a Facemask... ...then the facemask call gets over turned and the TD is good! Panther's with a 4pt lead, 2:04 left.

Panther's miss their FG, Maulers come back and get a FG. Maulers up by 3 with 3:15 left in the game.

Maulers try a fake on 4th and 1 mid field and the Panther's hold! Turn over on downs.

Pits ties it up in the top of the 4th qtr.

Anyone watching? Final minutes of 3rd quarter and Michigan with a 7 pt lead.

Now is the time to do it! There's a lot of hype and excitement all building up (which means the Lions will fall flat on their faces and piss us all off again).

The Lions are dragging you back in, aren't they??

You can't carry it forward... like if you're under the cap by $10M this year, you can't have an extra $10M next year. What you could do, I suppose, it restructure a current players deal. For example: Anzalone is due (in base salary): 2023: $1.2M 2024: $6M 2025: $6M I suppose in theory they could restructure it so his base salary is (again, using $10M in cap space as an example): 2023: $11.2M 2024: $1M 2025: $1M This would be kinda like moving $5M from this season to each of the next two, but there's a danger here. If Anzalone plays well in 2023 and you want him back for '24 and '25... he might hold out for more money saying that $1M is too little to play for. The team would argue that he's really getting $6M for '24, but that he just got paid upfront, but a selfish player might still say he's worth more and you better pay him... What's he got to lose? You already paid him $11M last year so he's sitting pretty and if he's really improved his play some team will pay him if the Lions get fed up and cut him (seeing as his cap hit would be so low). For the record, I don't think Anzalone would do that if he was in this situation, but he potentially could do it, which the team needs to take into consideration if they wanted to do something like this. It might be smarter to do this over a number of players... like move $1M from 2024 to 2023 for 10 different players.

I like it... but then I've always kinda liked that old school logo.

One super nice thing: The row my son and I were in was mostly empty, so he sat in seat 1 and I sat in seat 3 and we both and plenty of space to spread out a bit. That's one thing I hate about going to games is being packed in tight on both sides. Here it was no problem.

Pretty slim... They had the upper deck closed of course as well as the endzone sections. Even then I'd say maybe 1/3rd... 2/5ths of the lower bowl full? You can kind of see in my picture the stands on the opposite side. That's pretty much how it was in the whole lower bowl. That said the crowd definitely seemed into the game once the Panthers started putting up some points. Some good cheering and people paying attention. One odd thing... if you've watched any of the games on TV you see that they show Mike Pereira on TV when they're reviewing calls so you hear him while discussing with the on field refs. What I didn't know is they also play that on the scoreboard during the game and they pipe in Mike over the PA system so you hear and see it in the stadium. I kinda liked that.

I wouldn't be shocked if something like this happens, but I would seriously dislike it if it did. I mean I'd be thrilled with Jamo only getting 2-games, but I'd seriously be upset if it came because the Lions agreed to do Hard Knocks. That's straight up tampering with the game there. That's not quite on the level of the refs being on Jerry's Party Boat, but it's dang close. The rumor is that the Lions got the draft because they agreed to Hard Knocks last year. That I have no problem with. That's off the field stuff. That doesn't effect on field rules or players or whatever. But you don't trade favors for reduced suspensions.

I was at the game! Surprise Father's Day gift from my son. We had a lot of fun. The Panthers are NOT a good team, but fortunately no one in the USFL North is a good team so they did just enough to get into the playoffs. Not a single team in the north has even a .500 record, while no team in the south has a losing record. So the Maulers and the Panthers (both 4-6) will be in the playoffs will the Gamblers and Showboats (both 5-5) stay home. I'm not expecting the Panthers to do much... they lost both games to the Maulers this season. But who knows? Maybe they'll make a run. Their OL still sucks. They have no running game. They got only 84 yards on the ground and more than half of that (48) came from the QB on play-fakes where he ran instead of passing. Still, a win is a win and I'll take it! Their first win at Ford Field too. Playoff game is on Saturday, 8:00 in Canton, OH. Looks like it'll be on NBC.

YES PLEASE!! I loved it last year. Would love to see it again.