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Ben to the Bears

Still not the time or place to put the decision and execution in Jamo’s hands. Totally unnecessary when they were moving the ball well without trickery. No reason to be desperate.

I don’t think Ben was the problem, but I do think the Jamo pass was a disaster of a decision that ended any realistic chance of comeback. the decision to pass on 3rd and 1 ended up being wrong, but was defendable.

No, that one would still be stupid. Down 10 needing to score for any realistic chance, with the weapons the Lions have and they way they were able to move the ball, you don’t have a wr having to make a decision to pass or throw it away. the end round and Montgomery shovel pass to St Brown are the ways the lions got there,-safe plays with very little risk of disaster-not WR throwing passes down 10 at the end of the 3rd quarter

And a version of Meadows that wasn’t close to the Meadows when he came back up. (And Tork to an extent). As well as Greene and Carpenter out for extended time at the same time. I don’t think we will ever see another comeback like August-September, but hopefully we don’t see performances like April-mid July either. We finished close to the top end of where I expected going into 2024, (77-85 wins) just took a crazy way to get there.

Isn't it only of the $20.5 mil that the schools were going to be able to allocate themselves? Still huge, especially for group of 5 schools, but doesn't change anything from the current system does it?

As far as the 9 sacks, a fair amount of that is on Darnold and O’Connel. Darnold held on to the ball way too long and O’Connel kept calling slow developing plays even though he saw for 2 weeks Darnold wasn’t processing well.

We’re signing Jose Ramirez! 53. Jose Ramirez, C/OF, Venezuela (Tigers) Athletic enough for catcher and cf. high baseball IQ, good swing decisions, uses whole field. And these are ranked by projected signing bonus. So Rodriguez is projected to sign for the 4th most $ 61. Carlos Benavides, C, Venezuela advanced catch-and-throw skills for his age. …..Benavides is a righthanded hitter with a line-drive approach and doubles power.

Or swoop in and sign some of the Dodgers or Padres International FA's like the Pirates did.

Then you get the Packers fumbling the opening kickoff.

I did some looking at this season’s drives for the Lions 1st drive of game: TD on 6 FG on 2 INT on 2 -1 play and 5 plays 6 punts: 4-3 and outs, 1-6 play snd 1-7 play drive 1 drive ended on downs after 4 plays:Fake punt after MN So scored on 8 drives, 6 drives without a first down 2nd half first drives TD on 8 FG on 1 Int on 3 drives: 1, 2, and 3 play drives 1-11 play drive ending on downs 4 punts: 2-4 and outs, 1-5 play and 1 6 play drive so scored on 9 drives, 1-11 play drive ending on downs, 5 drives without a first down. 2 extra TD’s in 2nd half, another long drive, but also an extra int

Well in the CFP, both Ohio State and ND had scores at the end of the half and got the ball back to start the 2nd. ND scored again, Ohio State didn’t. The “middle 8” has been key to ND this postseason. I don’t see it as losing a possession at all-is it possible to end up 1 possession less? Sure. It’s also possible to end up with 1 more possession. To me it’s more about are you more confident in your pregame preparation or your halftime adjustments. Are you more confident in your offense at the start of the game or the 2nd half? I wonder what the stats are of teams scoring on their first possession of the game vs 1st possession of the 2nd half?

While I do agree to an extent, Michigan is so in Day’s head (and thus the whole team is tight- see 2 missed field goals, picks, etc) I don’t think the results are necessarily the same against any other team. I say this as someone who’s been a lifelong Buckeye fan who is going to be rooting for the upset as the only team I’ve come to root for more is ND (since my son is a graduate and his fiancé graduates this year)

I believe we actually would forfeit our 3rd pick (2nd round) and would not lose international money as we receive revenue sharing.

As someone who grew up a Buckeye and has a son who is a ND grad, this is getting quite interesting.

Keith has shown power in the minors though, so I think they believe it's there.

Michigan is just so into Day’s head. He coaches completely different against them than everyone else.

For someone who is looking to sign his last big contract and isn't going to be a Hall of Famer, does it matter to them what counting stats they put up? Or is total $ and fit/chance of winning more important? Meaning, if a number of Bregman's home runs become doubles in Detroit and his slugging drops but OBP rises, does that really matter that much to him if he's looking for a 7 year deal to take him to age 37? If he can only get a 4-5 year deal I get it, but if Detroit would match the Adames deal which added 1 year at the same rate Houston offered, He isn't likely to get another big deal after that one anyway.

Maybe. There are a lot of players with elite skill who never really make it, especially QB’s. He will definitely get many chances because of his undoubtedly extremely rare skill level (maybe costing many coaches their jobs along the way) i have been concerned drafting him.

Maybe, but he doesn't seem to have any real football awareness. Reports are didn't even know they only needed a field goal to tie on Thanksgiving Day. Many of the sacks he's taken show no awareness. He has elite skills which have always gotten him by, but does he have the head to be more than a talented athlete?

Thank you for the correction. That’s is considerably better especially drafting in the position we do.

And Walker costs us our Competitive Balance pick which is the 2nd competitive balance pick and I believe will be pick #31 based on what Edman said with the Mets, Yankees and Dodgers dropping 10 spots and the 2 picks for players winning awards.

According to everything I’ve read, the Lions have all the tiebreakers, so they can go 3-1 and lose any and still have the #1 seed.

Because it was already done.