Mr.TaterSalad

Can't give up two pick sixes, plus a third turnover, and expect to win in a big game, against a top tier opponent like TCU. JJ's mistakes really hurt independent of the disgraceful officiating that occurred.

They just kept torched on big play after big play. Their secondary couldn't defend the middle and when they were going deep.

I still can't get over the Roman Wilson touchdown that wasn't. That was a total job.

Isn't great QB play what really separates Buffalo, KC, and Philly? If you put Goff on either of those 3 teams are they still in the elite class of the NFL? And doesn't that then make the case that if you want to be elite like those teams are that you have to move on from Goff? I'm not saying I want to move on from Goff, just that it's basically one player at one position that separates those 3 teams from the rest of the league.

Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse are two artists whose music I love. Many people love them on their voices alone. They sold many millions records and made lots of money on their incredible voices. While both Amy and Janis were weird and eccentric in their own ways and tried at different points in their career to push the envelope and be a bit provocative, I don't know that eithers career was built around the idea that the more pretend provocative they were, the more money they would make. I could be wrong about that, but it felt like their careers and success were more centered around the music they sang and less about some persona they had carefully developed, in concert with a record label and professional brand and marketing team. Lady Gaga is different because she wants her fans, or Little Monsters as created by her marketing team, to believe that she really is so eccentric and different than you and I are. That she likes wearing dresses made of meat and hatching out of egg shells. She also wants you to believe that she's Woodie Guthrie, and a huge advocate for change for the LGBTQ community and other causes. If LGTBQ individuals feels she is and want to look upon her as such an icon, then that is their right to do so and I hope they find happiness and peace in doing so. In my view though, she has developed a wrestling-like gimmick, no different than Stone Cold Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, or the Undertaker. Sure, there may be parts of that gimmick that are who she really is, but I doubt that most of her life is actually like the gimmick on stage that she and her marketing team have carefully crafted. With a gimmick or character crafted by a marketing team, it her career becomes less about just being a good pop singer, out to produce quality music and sell records and more about getting you to tune in or buy records because she might do something even more strange and eccentric next time you see her. I like a band previously mentioned here, and that is KISS. I enjoy the music and stage presence of KISS. Sure, there was a period of time where KISS wouldn't appear in public without makeup on to keep up the gimmick. But even then, did most fans in the KISS Army actually think Gene Simmons or Paul Stanley went around spitting blood and fire all the time? Gaga and her marketing crew want you to think she really does like being and acting that way, that she was born this way. When by all accounts, the lady behind the gimmick was a reasonably normal person growing up who created a character, unauthentic to who she really is, and then made millions of dollars off of it.

I think her voice is good enough, but I'm not blown away by it. I also refuse to believe the stories from her and her marketing team that she was too weird and eccentric to fit in high school and that she was always a social outcast. I think that was a construct to try and market her as eccentric later in life. Just as I don't believe she likes dressing in dresses made of eggs over easy and hatching or wearing one made out of chuck roast and ny strip steak. She's just trying to be a more eccentric version of Madonna because her and her marketing team thinks that's what will sell records. She's probably wearing sketchers and dockers while laughing at all the "Little Monsters" who thinks she's this weird idol.

Damn, Tommy Prine, son of the late John Prine, put out one helluva song.

Believe me, I don't want a TE in any of the first 3 rounds and I'll go nuclear if they waste a 1st round selection on the position. It's just that there are people in this organization, like Director of College Scouting Dave Sears and Director of Player Personnel Lance Newmark, who have been consistent figures in the organization when they have drafted 1st round TEs in the past. I'm not saying it was Newmark or Sears advocating for Pettigrew, Ebron or Hock, they just happened to be here when those picks were made.

It depends on their philosophy and how they want to build this team. I hate to say it, but Tight End is an option too. Someone like Michael Mayer TE/Notre Dame, Darnell Washington TE/Georgia or Dalton Kincaid/TE Utah become options as well. We know this organization, more than any other over the past decade plus, loves 1st round TEs.

Feels get very SOL like.

Two running backs, neither of whom are Christian McCafferry, and we give up 100+ yards to both backs. Carolina comes in with the 24th ranked offense and Sam Darnold at QB and we are down 24 points to them.

Also, where's Alim McNeil today?

Welp, we're not going to the playoffs. Not that I ever expected us to, but this late season rally was fun while it lasted

What is it about Sam Darnold and beating the crap out of the Lions?

Yikes, they are just running all over us.

Hey look, is that bum Brian Burns.

They have to get 7 on this drive given the way that Carolina's offense has dominated this game.

A total fraud that I cannot stand that everyone else seems to like is Stefani Germanotta aka Lady Gaga. I think Germanotta's an above average singer with average pop music. She is not as revolutionary or life changing force as her fans make it out to be. Nor is she some big time activist or wave making artist for change ala a Woody Guthrie, Marvin Gaye, or Loretta Lynn. More than that though, I am turned off by her phony behavior, phony activism, and outlandish behavior that copycats others around her and before her. Germanotta is just a 2000s Madonna wannabe if you ask me with equal or worse music. She tried to say she was some different girl in high school who just didn't fit in and was too weird for her classmates, but that's all manufactured, PR bullshit by her and her marketing team. By all accounts Germanotta was a normal, choir girl in high school. She only became weird and eccentric when she wanted to become a big popstar. Recording artists do weird and eccentric things all the time. KISS, from the conversation above, is one of those artists/bands. But Gene Simmons doesn't try to get you to believe that he really spits blood and fire everywhere he goes. Stefani wants her fans to believe that she really does hatch out of an egg or enjoys wearing a dress made of meat (which she stole from someone else I've ready). I think Lady Gaga, her marketing team, and record label execs have been counting the dollar bills and laughing at all the suckers they've conned into believing she's truly a different person and a revolutionary activist in the music industry. She is neither and is laughing at you with all the money she's made getting you to believe she is truly different.

As a fan who trends towards being overly negative, it's hard to put the SOL mantra on the backburner. Dan Campbell has made decisions this year alone where I find myself screaming SOL in the moment towards Campbell. But the fact of the matter is, that one team, with one set of coaches and players has little relation to teams of the past with different coaches and players. Other than being owned by the Ford Family and called the Detroit Lions, there isn't much in common between a Matt Millen assembled team that is coached by Steve Mariucci and a team assembled by Brad Holmes and coached by Dan Campbell. We all have to take 20-30-40 years of being jaded by losing and SOL and set it aside to judge this team independently and in the moment. And right now, in the moment, they are 6-1 over the last 7 games and are beating some good/winning teams in the process. They are playing good, not great, football on a consistent basis. They have weaknesses for sure and those won't likely be addressed or largely corrected here and now. But the fact that a Steve Mariucci or Wayne Fontes or Jim Schwartz coached team collapsed or underachieved to close out the season or in the playoffs has no bearing on Dan Campbell, this roster, and what they're doing now. Sometimes I enjoy laughing at this franchise and dunking on them. But I enjoy good, winning football even more than that, no matter how much SOL is ingrained inside me. Right now, this team is doing something I thought they couldn't do this year, certainly not after starting a pathetic 1-6, and that is make a real run at the playoffs. So for all my criticisms of Campbell's coaching decisions, him costing us a game here or there, the way the Aubrey Pleasant firing was handled, etc. this team is proving a lot of critics wrong, playing good football, and winning. I'm ready to stop bitching or worrying about them collapsing or screwing up for once and just enjoying what I see. Maybe it will turn out to be SOL in the end and they'll find yet another new way to lose and ruin the fun, knocking themselves out of playoff contention. But I'm tired of looking around every corner for the next SOL moment and waiting for the shoe to drop. Let's fucking go Lions!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought Darnold's numbers would look worse than Wilson's but when I looked them up he has an even higher QBR at 47% to Wilson's 42%. The one thing Wilson has to rely on though is a top 5 defense and Darnold does not. So we, Goff, should perform better against a worse Panthers defense and give Daronld less of a cushion to work with.

Sam Darnold is awful, this should be a win for the Lions. I know in the NFL that games are close all the time and upsets happen. But losing to Sam Darnold is not one I think happens. This isn't MNF against the Jets with Patricia as Coach where we make Darnold look like Joe Montana.

Who is an artist or band that everyone else seems to like that you either straight up dislike or don't understand what all the hype is about?

If Green Bay wins the next two games and we do as well, that season finale is going to be insane.

A sad day for America when a coup-de-tats happened and threatened the very foundation of our democracy. Now it is time for Merrick Garland the US Attorneys to do their job and bring justice for we the people, our Constitutional rights, and our democracy. Go get him Merrick!