RedRamage

Anyone know if the Lions have received the apology letter yet on the "interception"?

Kudos on the Ref here... he saw what looked like a woozy ARSB and he did the right thing by pushing him off the field. He's not a doctor, he's not trained to do a full diagnosis. He saw something suspicious and he took immediate action. This is the RIGHT move for the ref. Now, if the medical professional make a mistake, that's another story. But on the field that was the right thing to do.

Outside of some team giving you a stupid crazy offer, I agree with this plan.

I think you're forgetting some free agents that Holmes brought in that have made significant contributions: Charles Harris and Jamaal Williams, for example, where big impact players last year and have also contributed majorly this year. Anzalone and Raymond have also been regular contributors while not really star players they have done their part. Josh Reynolds was also a mid-season pickup who's been a good addition to the team.

In fact I seem to remember some people being very upset that Fields wasn't taken.

I don't think these two posts are logically consistent. In one instance you are saying that the fact that Holmes missed on three is what makes it bad, but then you're also saying that each pick is independent. It feels a little bit like taking 5 At Bats for a hitter in a game and saying that he struck out on the 2nd, 3rd and 5th at bat, so it was a bad game for him while ignoring the home run he hit in his first at bat and the single he got in his 4th at bat. That's not to say that I'm pleased that Holmes appears to have whiffed on the other guys, but if you only look at the bad things without considering the good, then yeah... Holmes, or any GM, is going to look very, very bad.

Last game was the first time I really worried that Campbell might not be the coach of the future. Obviously he's had bad games many times already, but that game was the first time I felt like he didn't have a good handle on the players or on the game. This week I want to see a better game plan, I want to see the players giving it their all for him, and I want to see progress. If we see all that and still lose... I won't be happy, but I'll at least feel better then I did after the Pats game. If we don't see any of that and we lose, well, then Campbell's seat is getting hot in my opinion. I love the guy and I love how he motivates the team, but that HAS to translate to wins on the field or it's all for nothing. I don't think there is anyway he gets fired this season. And I'll frankly be a little shocked if he gets fired before the 2023 season starts even if he finished with 3 wins again. But, if he gets 5 wins or fewer (outside of losing Goff) I suspect his seat will be very, very warm come 2023. I could see him getting fired halfway through 2023 if this year ends up a bust and if 2023 doesn't start off hot.

Officially, no. Unofficially, yes.

I guess it'll depend on how the season and off season goes. I mean, if he heals up and has a good off season I expect they'll give him a shot in 2023 to prove all the haters (aka: RedRamage) wrong. And that's what they should do. But if the needle continues to not move on him all season long and all off season long, then yeah, I could see him being cut.

Just my opinion and I really hope I'm wrong.

Have we heard any update on Saivion Smith? It was such a weird injury.

Completely random post... while lookup receivers for the above post, I found out that the Giants have a receiver named Darius Slayton. Which of course means that Darius Slayton might be covered by Darius Slay in an upcoming game. (But probably not.)

I suspect it would be rather hard to find a WR that has fewer receptions and yards than Golladay. EDIT:I looked it up... of WR that have played at least two games so far there are eight who have fewer receptions and fewer yards than Golladay: Phillip Dorsett Bryan Edwards Tutu Atwell Juwann Winfree Montrell Washington Tylan Wallace Jeff Smith Cam Sims

That's a bit insulting to the Big12 conference.

Look, I don't want to down play people who are probably much smarter than me with football knowledge, but this feel a little bit like Jack Elliot:

Without trying to put too many words in Sport_Freak's mouth, I think he's saying that giving up the initial momentum can be detrimental to the team. Given our bad defense it's likely the opposing team will go down and score meaning we'll have to play catchup. How important is or isn't is obviously up for debate. I don't think it's that terribly important personally, but who knows.

My guess is that fans are waiting for the other shoe to drop. As much as we're all hoping that yesterday was just an "off day" for the defense, we're worried that the offense has just been lucky and it might all come crashing down if we start talking about it. Add that in with what KL said... that we're still losing and it's hard to get excited about too much when they're 1-3. And then just the natural human tendency to complain about the bad things rather than celebrate the good things.

I really hope I'm wrong, but I've all but written Levi off. It's entirely possible that he ends up coming back, being productive, and even being a star. I seem to remember some issues with a certain QB and injuries in his first couple of years. So again... hoping I'm wrong but I'm just not expecting anything from him.

Dude, can you promise me that there will be someone else in the house when you watch next weeks game? If the Lions lay and egg defensively like this did yesterday I'm going to be worried about you.

Here's some other idea that are swimming in the back of my head... just throwing them out there... no idea if they would work or make sense, but here they are: Add another bye week (not my idea, read it somewhere else). As much as I hate bye week when the Lions have them, it makes sense to have more rest time and it extends the length of the NFL season, which I suspect the NFL would like. Expand the roster? I'm somewhat unsure on this one... I don't want to see watered down talent, but would a bigger roster mean more substitutions and less hits per player per game? Snap limits? This might be SUPER controversial, but especially if we had bigger rosters might the NFL be able to put in a limit on the number of snaps for players per game? Soft-sided helmets? No idea if this makes sense, but it seems to me that a rigid helmet do as much to protect the player as the padding inside it does. I guess it helps spread out the impact a bit, but I wonder if they were able to develop a helmet that did this without being so rigid on the outside how that would change the game. Thursday games only after bye week (or first week of the season). This would mean fewer Thursday night games, which the NFL wouldn't like. But the extra bye week would help. I would allow Friday night games later in the season after HS football is done, without a previous bye week, as a compromise. (This would mean the Lions and Cowboys always have a bye the week before TDay.) Impact sensors in helmets?

I dunno... I'm not a doctor either, but I don't think A-Fib is the same as a concussion in the sense that I don't think i'ts generally causes by impact nor is as susceptible to repeat after the first incident. So I don't think there's the same danger, but again, not a doctor at all so just my best guess. That said, I do think there needs to be some level of medical personnel that are outside of the teams... heck, maybe even outside of the league, that have the power to step in here and say: "A-Fib is not a joke and not something to just ignore. Until we can run some tests and know that you're not on the verge of this happening again, you're sidelined." I just don't know exactly how to structure something like this. Football is a violent sport and some players will always be playing with some level of injury, so you don't want a medical staff that is too sensitive. But at the same time you need obviously need someone with the ability to step in who is not answerable to the team and maybe not even to the NFL.

Sure felt like more than 30! Every time it went for 8 yards or more.

Did Hutch do anything in this game?

At least the offense showed up??