RedRamage

I remember those days fondly when the Lions running back duo was Double-A and Double-Z.

This will be the first week since week 9 that has NOT seen only the Bears losing from the NFC North... Well, assuming that we don't tie with the Packers. Week 9: Chicago: Lost Detroit: Won Green Bay: Lost Minnesota: Won Week 10: Chicago: Lost Detroit: Won Green Bay: BYE Minnesota: Won Week 11: Chicago: Lost Detroit: Won Green Bay: Won Minnesota: Won Week 12: Chicago: Lost Detroit: Won Green Bay: Won Minnesota: Won Week 13: Chicago: Lost Detroit: Won Green Bay: Won Minnesota: Won

We just can't catch a break, can we? Dang it... shouldn't have said "break" with all the injuries we've been having.

There's a lot of good stuff in the subreddit today... this one I love:

I noticed that too, and the thing is that they probably get the play off honestly. It would have been close, but the the refs have been allowing pretty late snaps all game long so I think they would have let it ride. How much different would that ending be if they had two TOs?

Good point... that was a pretty blatant false start too.

Hopefully he's shown just enough to make the Bear's Brass think he's right there on the cusp of getting it figured out.

Yeah, that was a weak, weak, weak call. Nearly every time I think I see a horrible call on replay I go: "Oh, yeah... I see now." Or at least "Eh, that's touchy, but I guess maybe..." But this one? On the slow motion replay I kept waiting to see what it was called on expecting something more, but then the play was over.

That's very admirable by Jerry there. I fully support this action and praise Jones for his great logic and leadership. Now, how do we get Jerry together with Virginia McCaskey so that he can share this wonderful ownership decision making with her?

There's actually been some good news re: Jamo, it's just mostly stuff that doesn't get major traction. Now, I absolutely feel like Jamo has some maturing to do, both on the field and off, but he hasn't been all "party animal" and stupid 20-year old actions. Free Youth Football Camp Hands out Turkey's and Signed Footballs to Needy Families Hands out $100 to kids selling water and give free Thanksgiving meals with Detroit Police This is why I'm not nearly as worried with Jamo as I might be with other players who show immaturity. Certainly you've got a kid who gambles and doesn't know the full rules (even if the rule is stupid, it's still a rule), isn't following substance rules properly, does a dumb dive into the endzone, is out super late at night with guns in the car. But then you also have a guy who clearly cares about the fans, wants to help in the community, blocks like crazy on the field. So there's plenty of good there too.

Ah, okay... then yeah, I totally agreed with you in the moment too. He was definitely in bounds so if they were going to flag him for a late hit it would have been a crap call. But flagged for leading with his helmet was the right call.

Lions are aggressive on defense, that will often leave the door open for a running QB to hurt you.

Valid point... though I still won't put it past some of our past coaches to ignore the officials efforts. 🙂

What's quite impressive here is that the coaching staff was up on the rule book, knew that this was a problem, got the right people in the right positions and even ran a play designed to minimum the patch-work status of the left side. You KNOW that 5 years ago this would have been a situation where the Lions put in Skipper, got a huge positive play, and had it called back for illegal substitution.

I disagree... it was pretty clear Branch lead with the helmet there. That's a clear penalty and Branch needs to do better... and CAN do better too.

Didn't get the +33, but still a solid 18 points, which means we beat the south by more than the rest of the NFCN combined.

Looking at the wiki page more (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_draft) this person totally got mixed up and used the NBA contingency plan: The National Basketball Association (NBA) contingency plan activates if five or more players on a team "die or are dismembered". A special "disaster draft" would be held in which other NBA teams could only protect five players, so that quality sixth men would be available. No more than one player would be drafted from a team.

At least according to wikipedia, that's not a real rule. There IS a disaster rule in place but it's different. Short version: fewer than 15 players disabled: The team moves and stays at the top of the waiver wire for the season. If a QB is one of the disabled the team can draft up to QBs from other teams, but each team is allowed to protect two QBs... also that QB revert to the original team after the season. 15 or more: The commish can choose to cancel that teams remaining schedule. This moves the team to the top of next years draft and triggers a special draft (presumably in the off season) where teams can protect 32 players. If the commish does NOT cancel the teams schedule, the fewer than 15 rule applies.

Millen and Mornhenwig tried to do that too. Edit to add: Also we already do that... we've had St. Brown and Montgomery throwing passes, so... ya know.

No experience with SRO... but I just had to react... $277 for standing room only‽‽ Holy ****! I'm over on the west side of the state so it's not easy to get to games between the hours of travel the extra expense of fuel, parking, etc., combined with back issues I've had to many years I've never looked too close at getting tickets so I had NO idea they were so expensive! (For the record I've attended one regular season game and I also went for one pre-season game for the Lions. Plus I've been to one Panthers game at Ford.)

Tigers huh? Hmm... if Dan gets bored after winning the next 3 Super Bowls, maybe he'll want to coach the Tigers??

Hey, this is the obscure trivia about stats thread not the -- um... wait, sorry, my mistake. Carry on.

Okay... now that y'all got me going down this rabbit hole I decided to go all out... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passer_rating Go read that page for all the nitty gritty details, but short version is that there are 4 calculations made. Each calculation is weighted to give a result between 0 and 2.375. When the formulas were created a result of 1.0 would be league average based upon data from 1960-1970. I don't know why 2.375 is considered the "cap" but that's what they picked. If the result of any one of those four calculations is negative, it's set to 0. If it's more than 2.375, it's set to 2.375. Then you do this: It seems the inventors of the formula wanted 66.7 to equal average while 100+ was excellent and presumably 33.3 was awful. Still seem super dumb to me, but whatever. Obviously as passing has become a bigger and bigger part of the league the numbers have shifted up. In 2020 League average of 93.6. I will say that I don't think the designers ever intended that someone who hit the highest possible score had a "perfect game." I think they were just trying to set a cap to prevent a QB having one aspect of their game be super good and skew things because of that. So we shouldn't (imho) be using it to say that a QB had a perfect game. It would be more accurate to say his game was so good it topped the rating measurement system. But that doesn't really roll off the tongue. Here's the mark you need to hit for each equation to meet that 2.375 cap: 77.5% completion percentage 12.5 yards per attempt 11.875% TD/ATT (1 TD/8.421ATT) No interceptions It's also worth noting that fumbles, sacks, and rushing yards/TDs by the QB are NOT included in the calculations at all. A QB who had 18/25, 250 yards, 3 TDs and 1 INT gets a ratting of 126.6 while a QB who had 18/25, 250 yards, 3 TDs and 0 INTs, but 3 lost fumbles get a rating of 143.3. Why? Because this formula was very specifically designed to be PASSER RATING. Even though most of us talk about it like QBR or Quaterback Rating, it's not. QBR is an ESPN stat and it's totally different than this.