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Lowest graded on offense: OG Kevin Zeitler – 43.3 WR Tim Patrick – 44.5 WR Allen Robinson II – 51.1 OG Graham Glasgow – 52.5 LT Taylor Decker – 56.3 A week off seems to have left Zeitler rusty and the OL out of sync. I thought Patrick would get some action. Was out for almost every snap but he only got one target.

If one theme of this season is the MCDC revenge tour, they will definitely want to avenge their Thanksgiving day whipping by the Packers. Detroit went in a little complacent and let Jordan Love have a coming out party. The Lions got outplayed but they also got outcoached. It will be fun to see how they try to avenge that loss.

Eh… I’m not sure there are any lessons any other franchise could learn from the Lions. Hand off ownership control to the daughter of the former owner and poster boy for ownership ineptitude. Hire a former player for a job nobody could (or can) really define. Then hire a coach that wasn’t on anyone’s list of top coaching prospects for that cycle. Then hire a GM who wasn’t on anyone’s list of top GM prospects for that cycle. Then trade your franchise QB for a QB everyone was saying was washed up, along with some picks, to a team that believed it was just a QB away from a Super Bowl. This wasn’t a typical rebuild. It was not about draft capital. It was about a total reconstruction and realignment of the organization from top to bottom. And it was about some good fortune and good decisions along the way.

Everybody is worried about losing Ben Johnson but what about Dave Fipp!

https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-qb-jordan-love-groin-questionable-to-return-after-second-half-exit ”High level of concern” about Love’s injury.

“The Lions generated 262 return yards on six total returns, with Raymond earning 190 of those. The unit’s +196 return yards over expected is the most in a game since at least 2018 (previous high, +160), per Next Gen Stats. Toss in kicker Jake Bates netting a career-long 51-yard field goal, and it was a banner day for the Lions special teams unit.” https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-season-week-8-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-games

Is there any chance at this point that Goff will finish with more passing yards than Kalif Raymond has return yards?

Yeah, passing game looks out of sync.

Time for Goff to rest.

Where was the penalty?

We might have 50 by halftime! 😂

Let Rudolph cook!

Face mask is personal foul. Tacked on to end of play.

They do a good job of coaching their players and of acquiring talent. They aren’t going to make a panic move, but they are going to make a move.

When did he say this? Oh yeah, never.

Time to cover Ridley.

OL struggling so far. But let Mason Rudolph cook and things will turn out OK for the home team.

Lions might score 50 today. This game will be a good chance to get Tim Patrick some reps.

Arden Key wants to get traded to Detroit.

He had melanoma in college. Did he have a new pre-cancerous lesion removed? That's pure speculation on my part, but it could explain things.

Sorry for them but Hutch was having a DPOY season and on pace to break the sack record.

Hate to hear but it is not near as big of a loss as Hutch. That said, they highlighted his replacement, Quesenberry, getting tossed around like a rag doll. Too bad for Darnold that he can only operate with a clean pocket.

I thought Mahogany got mono in the offseason but had been cleared for practice. He is listed as full practice on this week’s injury report.

Goff and Stafford are also very experienced, high IQ players. Tell them where the open spot on the field is going to be and they will get the ball there.

He took an adderall at the team hotel.