RandyMarsh

Yeah, I often think back to that game against Chicago in the first week of the year last year and how exciting the offense looked. They were running up and down the court finishing with highlight reel plays. Haven't replicated that performance nearly enough the past year and a half.

That's the play I was talking about in my previous post, so sweet, was only half watching so didn't realize it was to Ausar and not Duren like I thought.

Meant to post it at the time of the play but I loved the off the backboard lob from Cade to Duren early in the game. That was sweet! Waiting to see somebody post a highlight of it on x.

I don't know if its true or not but I've seen some people say that many of those tickets they sold to Viking season ticket holders at a discount are already back on the market. Good chance that many of those tickets either end up being sold back to Lions fans or not used at all.

Aside from the hits themselves what makes it even more brutal is that so many of the stadiums were multi purpose ones where you played on concrete with just a sliver of carpet, how any of those guys could walk post career is remarkable.

Yeah good teams lose a coordinator(s) virtually every year and nobody ever bats an eye at it, yet with the Lions for some reason people treat it like it's a death sentence. It's like nobody wants to accept that the Lions have a great roster, GM and Head Coach. They have to think of some reason why it's all gonna come crashing down and since the coordinators aren't going to be here long term they have to point to that.

I believe it was Chris Canty but somebody on ESPN today was talking about Mike McCarthy going to the Bears if he gets fired by the Cowboys. That would be a homerun hire for them if you ask me!

Basically, it's just going to come down to their red zone defense. If they can hold teams to a 25% rate or less there is a good chance they win so long as the offense plays like it should. When you score 30+ a game and force teams to get 4+ TDs you can get by with a bad defense so long as you get fortunate in the red zone......and don't give up a long TD play. Make teams go all the way down the field and hope they either make a mistake or struggle once the field gets congested near the goal line.

If Michigan got Riley Leonard I wouldn't rule out them being in this spot. They still lose to Texas and likely Oregon but I think they have a real shot to win the rest of the games. If so having wins against USC, Washington, Indiana, Illinois and OSU with your only 2 losses being to top 5 teams probably gets you in the playoff.

BTW the game drew over 22 million viewers making it the most watched MNF game of the season and among the 5 most watched since 2006. Not bad for a "meaningless" game featuring a team that nobody outside of Detroit supposedly cares about.

Just saw a stat on X about Gibbs, through 2 seasons only 2 RBs in NFL history have averaged more yards per carry than Gibbs, Clinton Portis(on those unstoppable Denver rushing offenses at the time) and the one and only Jim Brown.

05-6 Pistons made it to 37-5, Cavs would have to go 8-1 next 9 to match it.

Matt Miller of Scouts inc.put up his article today on ESPN about what players he'd give 1st round grades to and he to didn't have any qbs. He said they'd all be behind Caleb, Daniels, Maye and "even McCarthy" if they were in last year's class.

I went on a tp style rant that night except it was on the officials and not so much the Lions coaches or players. I know this cause it showed up on "memories" feed on Facebook the other day. There were like 10 posts I made ranting about the officiating with a couple aimed at the Lions. Reading it back the other day and I was like "damn can't believe I used to get this riled up."

Just thinking that we had a very similar situation to this 10 years ago in Lambeau. I don't think it was for the 1 seed but the winner did get the division and a bye, where as the loser was forced to go on the road for the 1st round and likely entire playoffs. We of course lost and had to go to Dallas. This time the game is at our place though so hopefully the results will be different.

To be fair I don't think Michigan beat THIS OSU team, I think it did create it though. This is honestly the type of team I was expecting to see all season when you looked at their roster. It took us embarrassing them for it to come out.

Flores would be a fantastic hire for the Bears and absolutely the right pick.

Get the team to start playing better along with Ivey looking better then something like this happens. Kinda reminds me of Brandon Jennings like 10 years ago, I remember he was coming off a 20/20 game and it looked like he was turning the corner a bit and the team may actually have something with him only for him to then tear his Achilles and essentially end his career. Let's hope it isn't nearly as debilitating as that was.

Looking at the potential brackets and whomever loses next week may be better off if they were the 6th seed vs. 5th. With the 5th you're going on the road against either TB/LAR who are kinda a wash IMO, but then if you were to win that game you are guaranteed to play on the road against whoever wins next week. So you're playing a team for the 3rd time this year and 2nd time in 3 weeks but you know it's on the road. OTOH the 6 seed would either face Philly or get to host a home game against GB/Washington. To me just having the chance to host a playoff game would make the 6 seed more desirable.

Since that 5th INT against Houston Goff has thrown 22 TDs to 1 interception.

Last 13 games the Lions have scored 40+ in 6 of them.

That 2nd down throw to Williams had a chance to be big, unfortunately it was a rare bad throw by Goff.

Yeah even with all the injuries this is just pathetic, I don't expect them to even be average, hell even a little below average is ok but if not for the illegal pick play that wasn't needed you're probably looking at giving up 5 TDs on 5 drives. Just no excuse for that no matter how banged up you are.

When you can score like they can you will always have a puncher's chance in the NFL playoffs but they are obviously going to have to play near perfect on offense and just hope once the field gets condensed by the goal line they can hold the other team to a FG atleast a couple of times.

Dumb play design, have Laporta and St. Brown running routes right next to each other on the short side of the field.