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Have to wonder if Harbaugh knew what the outcome of this little experiment would be, but thought he needed to do this for JJ to “earn” the job from the guy that just won us a B1G Championship.

Pioneer sucks this year. Clarkston or West Bloomfield on the other hand…

More breaking news live from Ann Arbor…. Hawaii sucks.

After the delay, people were practically giving their tickets away like candy. I picked one up, will go for a little bit until I get bored.

News from the locker room is that the delay is actually because Harbaugh is biting his finger nails and staring indecisively between McNamara and McCarthy, won’t let the team take the field.

Steady rain in Ann Arbor right now. Lightning is about 10 miles southeast of the stadium right now. Not sure if it’ll delay kickoff.

That L may speak nearly as much for Ohio State as it does Notre Dame.

I feel like all (or at least the vast majority) of baseball’s rule changes in the last 20 or so years have been in effort to gain new fans and have resulted almost exclusively in the isolation of those fans that remain.

Speaking of which, the Lions are now in position for the #1 overall draft pick next year!

I would say all of the above. The Rams objectively lost more talent than they brought in over the offseason, the Bills are going to be really good (especially on defense), and funky things happen on week one.

I'd be perfectly okay if they put him on IR and announced he was getting Tommy John after the game. I love the dude, and wish him long-term personal success but..... a draft pick is a draft pick.

I would add Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow, and Blake Bortles to the list. No championships, but deep runs.

I thought it was interesting how little Holmes and Campbell managed to reveal while simultaneously making it look like we were an open box. All the way down to the schedules on the powerpoint (on a player-run practice!) being blurred out. There was no training camp play, or strategy, or conversation that the Eagles or anyone could use to their advantage in preparing for week one. The public can watch Hutch dance and sing his heart out to Billie Jean, but the cards are extraordinarily close to the chest on anything resembling the processes behind a football decision.

I think you might be thinking of USC to the Rose Bowl. That's about a 14-mile drive, same as USC to UCLA... UCLA is somewhere between a 25 to 35-mile drive to the Rose Bowl, depending on the route. I plugged it into Google Maps just now out of curiosity, and it shows as a 28-minute drive (at 9:00pm there), but I have to imagine that on a football Saturday in a bus, that timeframe can at least double. I take your point as well about the older UCLA students taking over bars, but that excludes at least freshmen and sophomores, and I'm not sure that vibe is the same as the stereotypical Big Ten campus, where the house parties and fraternity parties are much more lax about a person's age...... Granted, from my own experience, if there is a will there is a way..... In any event, I agree on both of your last points. SoFi feels inevitable, maybe even by the time they are joining the B1G. It will maybe feel marginally less empty without all the empty and covered seats?

UCLA's campus is a good 30 miles of LA traffic from the Rose Bowl. Think about the good percentage of students in Ann Arbor or East Lansing who will tailgate, realize it's 12:15, stumble into the game, get bored by halftime, leave, go drink some more, and pass out by dinner time (at home with any luck). Can't really do any of that when you factor in an hour-long bus ride to get there and an hour-long ride back... Only the most die hard of student fan is going to go to those games, unless the team gets really good. And they haven't been to the Rose Bowl (game) since 1998.

Yeah I’m not sure he’d even be promoted if Goff went down. They could very well just keep him on the practice squad and find a free agent backup. If he sees regular season action again as a Lion, I’ll be surprised.

I think if you look at the 21 starters that don’t play QB on every NFL team, the Eagles would be top 5-10 in terms of pure talent. They’ll only go so far as Hurts will take them for sure, and I am not a Sirianni fan, but we’ve seen mediocre to worse QBs lead deep runs in the playoffs before when they’re surrounded by a playoff roster.

How are we bickering already? Campbell hasn’t even won a toss and elected to receive yet!

Openers always do well. Last year against SF was by far the highest attended game. I think you add in Hard Knocks, general excitement, and an opposing fanbase that travels well and Ford Field will be popping.

Week one is always such a crapshoot. I am interested to see whether the "unorthodox" practices in conditioning and full tackling in training camp pay off for the Lions. I think they'll contain Hurts. They did a really good job last year of containing Lamar Jackson. The run though.... the Eagles 2nd and 3rd string RBs walked all over us last year. And I am not sure what has changed for us. The offense should be clicking on all cylinders... I'll predict a close, high scoring game. Eagles 41 Lions 37

A good case for why the preseason maybe shouldn't even exist. Football is too violent to be doing it without a solid reason and purpose. Vaitai was our best preseason lineman per PFF too. He would be eligible to return in week five if healthy, so the line could all play together if they stop breaking on us.

Not that I endorse it... but there are a plethora of less-than-legal streams available online as well if you trust your antivirus and don't mind semi-frequent interruptions and a couple billion pop-ups.