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Was I just imagining thing or was there a pretty blatant facemask on Goff that didn't get call as well? I remember one time he was sacked and I thought it was almost violent enough to consider it a penalty for driving Goff into the ground, and then on replay it looked like the defender has his facemask.

I agree that the 9ers are better than the Bears. I would not have put the Bear above the Niners. But I also don't think I would have put the losing team 13 spots above the winning team. I know it's week 1 and I know that Power Rankings are meaningless anyway so I'm not losing any sleep over this or draft a letter to my congressperson about it. As for the Lions, they hung with the 9th ranked team forcing, putting up 35 points. They still lost and they still have a rep as a bad team, so I'm not expecting a super high ranking, but I think the 20-25 range is reasonable. Again, I'm not losing any sleep over the ranking, just saying I think it's wrong.

ESPN Power Rankings have the Lions at.... 27. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34580647/nfl-week-2-power-rankings-2022-1-32-poll-rookies-stood-week-1 I mean yeah they lost, but so did 14 other teams. The Bears who won on Sunday are still ranked 25. The team they beat, the 49ers, are ranked 12th.

If you're not picking Green Bay to win the SB every year from now on I'm going to hunt you down and beat you up.

It does lend itself to some nice nicknames though: Commies... 'Ders...

Isn't Philly supposed to be a dominate running team with "okay" passing? Seems like it's pretty logical that the secondary would look better than normal while the front seven looked worse.

He had a few really good penetrations, but whiffed on a few tackles. Like the Lions, there was a lot of promise there and something to build on.

That's really interesting. I never suspected that about you. You hide your hatred well I guess.

I'm not upset, no. Philly is the more talented team. (virtually) Everyone knows this. You need to take some risky shots, sometimes it doesn't pay off.

PARTYLY to blame. Some of the drops were all on the receivers, some of the drops are mostly on the receivers, some were on Goff and on the receiver.

I feel like Goff is partly to blame here. I know the old saying: If it touches your hands you gotta catch it. But it seemed like a lot of Goff's passes were just not in ideal receiving locations.

ftfy

So don't film the locker rooms.

Anyone see the Iowa-S.Dakota game? I wonder if something like this has ever happened before. Iowa's offense was NOT shut out.* Iowa's defense did NOT score a TD. Iowa's defense outscored Iowa's offense. Here's a link with the painful "highlights" to the same with zero TDs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPejgjoQqlo (*I suppose you could argue that the 'offense' did get shut out as the FG was scored by special teams, but typically when talking about the offense or points scored by the offense FGs are usually included I believe.)

But how much of that was because of Slater? Bob Quinn was with the Patriots from 2000-2015, only two losing season during that time.

And while we're on the topic of side notes: Was anyone else surprised at how little Ben Johnson was featured? Now I'm sure part of that was just that the Duce/AG part was very entertaining, but honestly it just felt like Johnson wasn't around.

Agreed... and the stuff they did show was very interesting to me. Showing a bit of the players themselves... some of the players families... how things like cuts down decisions are made... how Brad and Dan handled cutting players. That was very entertaining to me. On a side note: Does anyone not think that if (when?) Aaron Glenn gets a HC job that Duce Staley won't be gone in an instant as his OC?

There's probably truth there. I don't think we really saw any secret intel on the Lions in the show, but of course there's probably hours and hours and hours of footage that exists that we never saw, and of course there were parts that were blurred. A team may worry that if they are filmed each and every day that possibility of some of that film leaking out to the opposition would increase. Now, if the team itself was in charge of the filming, editing, and distribution that might lessen the chance of operational secrets getting out but then each team would have to have a greatly expanded media division and it's questionable if the revenue from a one hour a week show for each of the 32 teams would merit that increased cost.

If you're talking about things that are against NFL rules, why wouldn't the NFL want that footage? I mean I guess you could say they know rules are being broken and they're all okay with it (for example, baseball and steroids in the 90s). If you're talking about real illegal things... I would hope that the NFL would want evidence of that as well to get that out there. Maybe I'm just not understanding what you're trying to say.

Just finished the last episode. Damn man... that was very enjoyable watching hard knocks. I seriously wish they had something like this all season long. It was be so much fun to have a hour show each week between the games just showing some of the behind the scenes stuff. Mix in some of the highlights from the last game... What would be pretty much must see TV for me.

Yup... the correct answer is: D. All of the Above.

I honestly don't understand this. Boyle looked awful. It's not that Blough was that much better, but he was better. Why would you not try to get Blough back from the Vikings Practice Squad. I guess that assume that Blough wants to come back, but I think even the 3rd string QB on a bad team is preferable to practice squad on a semi-decent team, isn't it? Edit to make clear: I'm NOT saying that I want Blough or that I think he would contribute towards Lions success. I'm just just saying that I feel Boyle will contribute even less so if I had to pick between them I'm picking Blough.

Yeah, I mean a part of me says "Keep him around cause Sudfeld doesn't know the system and if Goff goes down right away we're be stuck with someone who doesn't know the team or plays." But realistically, Blough didn't look great after knowing the teams and plays anyway. Plus there's almost two week until the first game... Sudfeld should at least be semi-familiar with things by then, and if Blough is on the practice squad it's not like they could use him in a game in which Goff got injured anyway.

But, but, but... Sandra Bullock said LT was the most important.

That's like saying Crimea probably isn't am ideal vacation destination right now.