Mr.TaterSalad

WHAT THE FUCK!!!

What the hell was that? No one within a mile of that throw.

Holy shit!!!! We got really fortunate there.

I should not be yelling at the TV this much against Illinois.

Who needs to when you are this wide open and marching it down the field like this. They want to go for the kill shot on Michigan.

A great turn by Bell off the punt and we can't capitalize with 7 to tie it. Really needed 7 there.

WTF kinda play call was that?

Jesus God, we have no passing attack.

It really dampens my mood seeing our offense look this bad against Illinois.

I guess I hyped myself up on the idea that we could make this game out of reach by halftime and bench our staters in the 2nd half. Michigan once again started a game offensively flat. That can't happen next week

Hallelujah, Corum is up and walking around on his own. That's a good sign.

My optimism is shattered. I actually felt good about where Harbaugh and Michigan were positioned. With Corum going down I'm feeling so dispirited now. 😫

Scott Harris is dunking on Al Avila right now and I love it. You get the very best of both world's. You get to rid yourself of bad to mediocre players and laugh at the previous regime while it's happening. I think it's certainly becoming more clear about Scott Harris' desire to construct a team that controls the strike zone from the mound and the plate.

They sure like those judges and Supreme Court Justices he got to appoint though, including I'm sure Mr. Robison whose now suddenly critical of Trump. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

If you've never heard Steven Wright do standup then you might or might not be missing out. Every time I play Wright for a friend or tell a Wright joke I get mixed reviews. Some people laugh and find him to be very clever and some don't get what's so funny.

If Republicans come to the table in 2024 with Trump as their nominee and only having done a bunch of investigations on Biden, his family, Anthony Faucci, etc. they will get wiped out. Short of a catastrophic economic collapse or 9/11 sized tragedy, they will pay a heavy political price for having no agenda and only spending the last 2 years acting like a bunch of goons.

Not at all lol. It's merely the point that the entire defense, not just the secondary was playing poorly and not executing.

I think their constant investigations, while inflation remains high, are going to seriously backfire in their faces come 2023. I suspect their investigations will end up more politically unpopular than Biden is now. This will be a Newt Gingrich in 1998 level failure by McCarthy.

Nope, not yet. The only thing that will get me to call for his firing is if this season goes off the rails and he reverts back to his worst tendencies. If guys regress or stop improving and this team loses 7 straight or 6 of 7 to close out the season then we're back in hot seat territory. Was I frustrated last week when it looked like the Bears game was getting out of hand? Hell yes, as most everyone here was. Did I overreact when it looked like the Bears were about to run away with it after going up 24-10. Yeah, maybe. But his team didn't quit and battled back to tie and win it in the end. Props to Campbell for keeping his guys in it.

Two things can potentially be true at the same time. Aaron Glenn shouldn't be fired yet and a given person doesn't want him fired, while still thinking that Pleasant was ultimately the fall guy instead of Glenn.

Did I say I wanted Campbell fired?

When the offense was struggling as a unit last year they didn't fire the WR coach or RB coach, they fired the OC Anthony Lynn. Let's be honest, we have struggled at every facet of defense this season outside of Hutch, Rodrigo, and Okudah, not just the secondary. Our front 7 has struggled sans Hutch and we have struggled against the run. We're bottom five in the league in sacks and QB pressures. Our LBs sans Rodrigo have looked terrible and out of place in coverage. And yes, our secondary has struggled, which can fall at Aubrey Pleasant's feet. But the remainder of our defensive struggles do not fall at Pleasant's feet, they fall at Glenn's. Does Pleasant not get any credit though for turning around the career of Jeff Okudah? I guess not. At the time Pleasant was fired the Lions had a 28.8 percent blitz rate at that point of the season. And yet, were still bottom five in sacks and pressures. How's that on Aubrey when Glenn's blitz packages weren't getting home? Let's be honest though, they couldn't fire Glenn because if they did, that would be another significant strike on Campbell having to fire both of his coordinators he hired. So even though we struggled as an entire defensive unit, someone had to pay the price and it was Pleasant and not Glenn.

I get that the Ravens controlled most of that game, but the Giants fought all the way until the end and won. I feel however that just as Campbell deserves credit for bringing this team back against the Bears to pull out a win, Daboll deserves similar credit for keeping his team in it and rallying back in the 4th quarter to win against the Ravens. The Giants were within one score of beating the Cowboys. We weren't even within two scores of the Cowboys. They looked competitive and we did not. The Giants may well prove to be frauds, as the Jets and Seahawks might too. The reason I focus on the Giants and Jets the most though is several reasons, Seahawks are different because of Pete Carroll and their GM John Schneider having been there for a long time. First, those were two teams thought to be in similar stages of the rebuild as the Lions and early season indicators are that they are ahead of us. I knew our rebuild would likely be a 3 year process given how bad this roster was when Campbell and Holmes took over. Analysts and experts had the Giants and Jets rosters in similar situations and both teams have come out and been surprise teams thus far. Second, it would be one thing if both of these teams were winning with elite-level QB play, but they aren't. Neither Daniel Jones nor Zach Wilson/Joe Flacco are out performing Goff. They are at best as good as Goff, but potentially worse than Goff and they are still winning games in spite of that. We had a top 5 offense through the first 5 weeks of the season, in a league predicated on offense to win game, and came out with one win. Third, they are being coached by two guys I wanted here in Detroit over Campbell in Daboll and Saleh. Neither Daboll nor Saleh has had to fire a coordinator yet. Campbell already had to fire one and scapegoated Aubrey Pleasant in lieu of having to fire Aaron Glenn. I didn't hate the Campbell hire and I don't hate him as a coach now. It's just frustrating when you see two teams that most analysts and experts had pegged to be competing for a top 5 pick along with us, instead in the playoff hunt midseason. It's also frustrating when you look at the offensive stats of a team, allow yourself to buy in as a result of that offensive production, and then have the rug pulled out from under you by a terrible defense and coaching mistakes. I want the Lions to win on Sunday so me and other fans can shut up about the Giants and Daboll. Then, I want to go and beat the Jets so we can all shut up about the Jets and Saleh. I want them to win because I'd like to see them make the back half of this season interesting and maybe make a shot at the wildcard playoff spot. When you lose to a coach that is having more success than your guy and someone that people (myself or otherwise) wanted in Detroit, it just makes it that much harder and more frustrating. It also brings out all the second guessing and finger pointing, see, we should have hired "Coach X" over our guy.

I'd be just fine doing that!

I think Campbell beating the Bears got him over the hump of must win games to save his job. If Campbell had lost to a pathetic Bears team I think he'd be in a lot more hot water this week and moving forward. He beat a team that he should and his guys hung tough and came back to deliver a nice win. So I think Campbell for now has himself in a safe position. As far as draft position goes, if you want CJ Stroud or Bryce Young or Will Levis, chances are high, at least at this point, that you're going to need to be in the top 5-10-15 of the draft to get one of those players. So you either end up their because that's where your record puts you or end up there because you traded a bunch of capital to move up. I want this team to keep improving and simultaneously would prefer us to move on from Goff with a new QB, on a rookie wage scale. I don't hate Goff and don't think he's been a huge problem for us, sans 1-2 games this year. I don't mind trading up to get a QB if we think one will be equal to or better than Goff: Stroud, Young, Levis, whoever. I think the rookie wage scale and small cap hit is enticing if the guy you draft ends up being as good or better than Goff. When you look at a team like the Dolphins, Tua may not be any better on paper than Jared Goff in the end. Where the advantage comes in for them is having the rookie wage scale that Tua is on so they can load up their roster and spend big to get guys like Tyreek Hill and Terron Armstead. One day soon they'll have to open the check book for Tua, but they can cross that bridge when they get there.