Mr.TaterSalad

This team looks awful today, I'm almost every way but their run defense and special teams.

I was about to explode with anger, but great job St. Brown getting the home for the TD.

You can't do that Branch.

Winston carving this defense up early.

If Goff can't count on St. Brown to be reliable, we're in bad shape.

Yes. That's why we wanted a move made at the deadline. The interior of the line looks bad and Taylor Decker is playing hurt week after week.

St. Brown, my goodness.

Nice to see the Giants won't be able to run the ball today. Good recovery drive by the defense.

Are we going to lose to a guy who stole crab legs?

Are you ****ing kidding me right now? What a disaster of an opening drive for the defense.

Annnnnnnnd Hutch jumps

First play, ugh

Lang seemed surprised by it himself and wondered if running more deep routes, fade routes, could help the Lions gain a few more penalties.

(Edited out). Remember, this is exactly what they voted for.

People need to pump the brakes on their enthusiasm for next year. Do I think Democrats take the House back? Yes. Do I think they will have a 10-15 seat majority? Possibly. Do I think they are going to blow out Republicans and gain 50-60 seats on a single cycle? No. The country is simply too polarized for those types of wild swings we used to see in House elections of years gone by. Furthermore, Democrats aren't winning the Senate. I love Sherrod Brown. I wish Democrats ran more populist progressives like Brown across the country. But I feel Ohio is too far down the Republican rabbit hole now to win and they aren't winning it back with Sherrod Brown. I also don't think they're winning Alaska, Iowa, or Maine in the Senate. Everyone predicted Susan Collins was cooked on 2020 against Sara Gideon. Not only did she win, not only did she overperform polling expectations, she blew Sara Gideon out by over 8 points. I tend to think Collins holds on again. Mainers like her labotomized way of thinking and speaking it appears and whatever folksy charm she has to offer. Without Maine, it will be impossible to take the Senate in 2026 and very hard in 2028.

TJ Lang read a stat on Friday on Valenti's show that I thought was both interesting and concerning. The Lions offense hasn't caused one, single, defensive pass interference this entire season. TJ said he went through all the game logs and verified that the offense hasn't caused a single DPI. He attributed that to how off the passing game has looked and the lack of deep route designs this offense hasn't been running. That's shocking that through 10 have we haven't caused one DPI.

LaPorta being out is significant to this offense in both pass catching and pass blocking for Goff. I think Goff lost a security blanket over the middle and a reliable 6th blocker up on the line. This team believes in the next man up mentality, so hopefully Brock Wright can step right in and not experience too big a dropoff.

Does it bother you at all as a fan, or make you impatient with Cossa or Yzerman, that Wallstedt is currently on the NHL roster and looking good for The Wild? Wallstedt is a guy Yzerman passed on for Cossa and he was believed to be the more NHL-ready goalie at the time.

Jesper Wallstedt was drafted by The Wild in the same draft as Cossa. Wallstedt is already on the NHL roster and has played in 7 games this season so far with a 2.20 GAA and a .926 SV%. Meanwhile, Cossa has played in zero games this year and doesn't look to be getting called up any time soon, if at all this season. I don't know if this is more of an indictment on Yzerman, Cossa, McLellan, their developmental system, or a bit of each.

The same voter who voted for Epstein Pedo Donald Trump. No one voted for Larry Summers. You voted for a child pervert who walked in on teenage girls changing at a beauty pageant and is named countless times in the Epstein files and was Epstein's best friend.

Trump had 4 kids by 3 different women. I guess 5 crosses a line for Lolic, but 3 does not.

I agree largely with what you are saying here about the wall of teams not existing this year. That said, they still have to get through Florida. Once Florida is healthy, I expect them to return to being the top of the division. As well, I still see Montreal as slightly ahead of us, even if they aren't at the moment. We will see how they fare over the next few months as far as being better or about the same as us.

Speaking of selfish, me first folks, our President is the ultimate example about this. One of the least generous, least charitable, most narcissistic, solipsistic people on the planet. A man who has ripped off people with phony charities and charitable scams. A man who also been divorced multiple times and cheated on multiple wives. You don't seem to have a problem with that.

While I think the Wings are off to a nice start, I think the warning signs are there for another collapse. It would not surprise me at all to see a month of hockey and a 15 game stretch where they go something like 5-10/4-10-1 and come crashing back down to Earth and end up in the 9th or 10th spot in the East and on the outside looking in for playoff seeding. I think this team, on paper talent wise, is a step or two below Carolina and a healthy Florida team. I also feel like they are still slightly behind teams like New Jersey and Montreal, even if their current record doesn't dictate that. As for what I feel the warning signs of a collapse are, I feel it is related to goaltending performance, scoring depth, defense, and penalty kill. Right now, Cam Talbot at 38 years of age has a .897 SV% and a 2.64 GAA. I don't think Talbot sustains that throughout an entire season and I think his GAA pushes up closer to 3.00 as it was last season. Furthermore, Gibson doesn't look good so far this year and until he turns it around, I think that becomes more of an issue as we get later on into the season. The other issue I see is the lack of scoring and point producing depth on this team. The top line of DeBrincat/Larkin/Raymond has combined for 69 of the teams 163 points the season. If you put their second line as Kasper/Compher/Kane, that line only combines for 18 points. Right now, we lack scoring depth at the Center position and a Center who can truly and adequately man the 2nd line. We have a 4th line Center in Compher playing up on line 2. I'm going to leave Nate Danielson out of this conversation because he is still a developing rookie, so it's not fair to judge him right now. Anyone not named Patrick Kane or DeBrincat playing with Compher or Copp as their Center on the 2nd or 3rd line isn't exactly lighting the world on fire. AN injury to Larkin, even if it were only for a handful of games, would be catastrophic to this team. Would we even win a game if Larkin was out of the lineup for anything beyond a game or two? Third, I still don't believe in this defense yet nor the penalty kill. I think this is still a bottom 10-12 defense, when it comes to playing actual defensive skills like clearing the puck out of the zone, getting it swept out from tight corners, blocking shots, and killing penalties. On the PK specifically, I believe we rank somewhere around middle of the pack in-terms of PK%. I wonder what our PK looks like (how bad it looks) when Gibson is in net and not Talbot. And if Talbot's performance even drops off a tiny, little bit, what does that do to our PK% overall. I hope the winning keeps up. I hope this is a sustainable model towards the playoffs. I hope we stay fully healthy. I hope Talbot keeps playing like this and doesn't experience a dip at all. I hope we don't have a 12-15-18 game stretch where we collapse and have a losing record that takes us out of playoff position. I'm just not sold yet, given the actions of this team from year's past and the aforementioned points above.

I really hope Carly is one of those people with a hyphenated name to begin with.