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Wow boys, that was something else. I gotta admit, I got a bit emotional when the kneel downs happened. Just so many years/decades of frustration, hopelessness etc. culminating in what happened tonight. The best thing is that this is just the beginning, it's a very young team that's ahead of schedule so there's a much higher ceiling than what we're seeing now. It's going to fun watching Philly-Tampa tomorrow night knowing that they will be coming to Detroit for the divisional round. Also, the fans chanting "Jared Goff" then him coming out on fire like he did and capping it off with that final pass to Amon-Ra has to feel amazing for him. Give that man his flowers, or in this case many millions this offseason.

This shouldn't be surprising. Stafford returning to Detroit is THE biggest story of this matchup nationally.

Yes, you should be but on the flip side your dedication is commendable. I refuse to watch one minute once Cade went down and I wasn't watching a lot even when Cade was healthy.

I'll repeat what I've been saying all season.... Monty Williams is the worst thing to happen to the Pistons since the great Bill Davidson passed and that slimy car salesman looking snake Tom Gores bought the team. The team was bad the last few seasons but at least there was a team that worked hard, competed and had young players that were developing. What we're seeing this season is none of this, it's just a giant black hole of hopelessness and I stand firm on my stance that Monty Williams is a big part of that reason. It's a bad roster but there's no way that an NBA team should be THIS bad. They were a lot better last year, without Cade.

It doesn't absolve McVay of blame for what he did to Goff but Goff's struggles is what paved the way for this trade and became a franchise changer for the Lions so I'm good with how it played out. If Goff continued to play the way he did earlier in the McVay tenure, the Lions would have likely been stuck with Teddy Two Gloves and that one high 1st rounder or whatever the proposed Denver trade was so... Thank You Sean for breaking Goff's confidence. In terms of the Rams, they won a Superbowl. That's an auto win for them no matter how it played out but it's largely irrelevant how the Rams did for this Lions fan.

It's not foolish, it was a win win trade. The Rams and Lions both got what they wanted out of the trade, end of story. Rams for short term success and Lions for long term success.

And that also includes the season which Goff had to endure a torn down roster and Anthony Lynn.

Yes, he needs to be away from Monty Williams immediately. In fact, I would send any young player worth a damn to the G-League just to keep them away from the Monty Williams Black Hole of Suck until he's fired and if that takes a few years so be it. Just get them away from him before they're ruined forever.

This isn't taking into account impact in the running game where Hutchinson is a MAJOR factor. Don't know about the other two but I have a hard time believing that many in the league or as impactful as Hutch against the run.

St. Brown cared, a lot. He made a big point of saying how "hot" he was about not being selected, the man thrives on being overlooked. He's very much in that Michael Jordan mold of insane competitor that looks for any little reason to be extra motivated.

Chargers

Sure but I think most people will pick the Rams

It will 100% be. It's just a matter of Saturday or Monday Night.

The Rams are a horrendous matchup for the Lions especially without LaPorta in there to keep up in an inevitable shootout. Experience factor is big time in the Rams favor also. The one positive is that the Lions will have a chip on their shoulder because most will pick the Rams to win this and understandably so, so hopefully they take on this underdog role and use it as fuel.

And it was two awful incompletions by Lawrence to seal their fate. I loved Trevor coming into the draft but he's starting to get into that overrated category.

Well... Lets go Niners, Packers (ugh) just in case one of Philly or Dallas wins. Otherwise, lets go Skins and Giants.

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I think the LaPorta loss is a critical blow to their playoff hopes especially when you have this garbage defense we're watching today. Imagine Stafford and those weapons against this secondary? Or even Love? And then you don't have LaPorta on offense to consistently put up points on like every drive? Oof

Severely diminished. It was like a 10% chance of getting the 2 seed but Campbell is aggressive by nature so this is the downside of it. Now they lost arguably their most important offensive catalyst outside of Goff of course on a team that almost completely depends on their offense to win games.

Is it? There are 3-4 close wins that could have very well been losses without him. He's made MANY critical catches and for a QB like Goff to lose his security blanket is a big blow no matter how you cut it, not to mention how critical he's been in the running game. I just don't see how they overcome this loss unless the defense wins some games.

I truly believe the Lions are a .500 team without LaPorta. I can't see how they win more than one playoff game now and if they draw the Rams, that's likely a loss. He's been THAT important to them this season.

Yep, game is already a big loss.

Losing LaPorta is an absolute disaster. He's key to pretty much everything they do in the passing game. Unreal

That's the thing, besides the fact that this is a 3-32 team and the primary objective should be developing potential core young players, it's not like the players ahead of Ausar and Sasser are earning their minutes. Killian with a big fat 0 on the scoresheet despite playing 17 minutes, Livers is a 3 and D with a 3 that's disappeared and D that isn't that good anyway. These guys have been in the league a while by now, we know what they are at this point so what's the point of wrecking Ausar and Sasser's confidence by benching them for the sake of playing these guys who bring nothing to the table anyway and have no upside to be more than what they are now? Burks and Bogey I get in a sense because the Pistons are so shooter starved but even with them, they're liabilities when the shots aren't going down and should be limited when they have an off shooting night yet Monty continues to play the hell out of them even when the shots aren't falling. If we're going to have to suffer through a 3-32 season, at least let the young guys play through their mistakes instead of force feeding us old guys and young vets who have no future here. Just a bottomless pit of hopelessness this season mixed in with Gores and Weaver spewing verbal diarrhea when they do speak and to top it off one of the worst drafts that I've ever witnessed in my 3 decades or so of following drafts with literally no prospect that looks like anything more than a good role player as of right now, never seen anything like it. Seriously, who is any good? Ja'Kobe Walter looks interesting, that's about all I got really.

Monty Williams... That's all

Ausar with 8 minutes and a +3 while Livers gets 22 minutes and a -7 Sasser with 6 minutes and a +4 while Hayes gets 16 minutes and a -4 Livers and Hayes with a combined 5 points. Somebody try to make sense of this. The Pistons have had a lot of dark eras since the "Going to Work" years but a 3-32 team that isn't interested in developing key young players has to be the worst by a longshot and this coach is a big part of it.