Week Eleven: Jacksonville Jaguars (2-8) @ Detroit Lions (8-1)

[Sports_Freak]

In case anyone missed it;

[Motown Bombers]

6 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

In case anyone missed it;

Guess I'll actually have to do work tomorrow. 

[Motown Bombers]

[Motor City Sonics]

You start looking at the playoff seedings now that everyone has played 10

NFC

7 Washington @ 2 Philadelphia

6 Green Bay @ 3 Arizona

5 Minnesota @ 4  Atlanta

1  Detroit with the bye

 

AFC

7 Indianapolis @ 2 Buffalo 

6 Baltimore @ 3 Piitsburgh

5 LA Chargers @ 4 Houston

1 Kansas City with the bye 

 

Nobody really scares me.  The Lions, even without Hutch are better,  MUCH better than most of those teams.  To me the biggest threat was San Francisco but all that seems to be going right for us is going wrong for them.  

This team hasn't beaten Philly in a playoff game, but this team is breaking streaks constantly.    I think the only thing that stops the Lions is an injury to Goff,  or a series of injuries or something fluky. 

The Lions are the best team in the NFL and it's not even close. 

If Campbell had Jake Bates last year, he's not going for those 4th downs in that NFC Championship game, and they're winning that game.     

[Motown Bombers]

Lions would probably face Minnesota since Cousins doesn't win playoff games. 

[Motown Bombers]

Apparently Jonah Jackson was benched. Rams gave him big money, and he's been injured and ineffective when healthy. 

[MichiganCardinal]

33 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Apparently Jonah Jackson was benched. Rams gave him big money, and he's been injured and ineffective when healthy. 

For a characteristically smart franchise, they're bungling the handling of their offensive line.

They put the cart before the horse when they signed him, just assuming Steve Avila could start as center, since he did in college at TCU. Then when Avila was not a capable center in camp, they picked home grown Avila over Jackson at LG, and pigeon holed Jackson into a position he extremely rarely played here.

It shouldn't have come as a surprise that the big money guard you signed isn't a great center. But now they're stuck with one too many guards and one too few center.

[Jason_R]

My eyes may have deceived me but I thought I saw Jackson taking snaps at left tackle last week. You think he wishes he took the home team discount?

[Motown Bombers]

29 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

My eyes may have deceived me but I thought I saw Jackson taking snaps at left tackle last week. You think he wishes he took the home team discount?

It was probably Alaric Jackson. 

[Jason_R]

26 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

It was probably Alaric Jackson. 

Or Tito, or Jermaine. 

[Jason_R]

 

Jack Campbell gets a game ball. 

[TP_Fan]

Should be a good test next week. Colts looked decent on offense today against a bad jets team, but Richardson looked much better than pre benching.

Vikings and packers continue to every game, so got to keep winning to maintain the division lead.  

[Motown Bombers]

[RedRamage]

19 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Four leg prop bet

1 TD for Aman Ra St. Brown

1 TD for David Montgomery

Z gets a sack in the first defensive series

Lions over 30 points. 

Whaddaya think?    $10 riding on this baby !

So close...

[RedRamage]

18 hours ago, lordstanley said:

How are the Lions only the #7 offense in the NFL? Seem way more prolific than that. 

I think it's one of those things where the NFL is a small sample size and so various factors can influence those numbers. The Lions are a playing a "first place" schedule this year and happen to be in a division with two other very good teams. This means they won't have too many games where they score huge numbers because they are playing good defense.

[RedRamage]

17 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Williams speed is so effortless. 

I live right next to a park that is frequented by dogs. Lots of people bring their large dogs there to run and play. For a while there was a family that brought a couple of greyhounds who were retired race dogs. It was always fun to see them run. You'd get these poodle or shepherds or labs or whatever who would be pumping all out to run across the field or case a ball or just run with each other... then the greyhound would just bolt by them looking like they were running at half speed...like they were out for a casual stroll in the park why easily breezing past the rest of the dogs.

This is what it's like watching Jamo on one of those routes. The only thing that's going to prevent Jamo from being a sure fire HOF receiver is himself.

[RedRamage]

16 hours ago, KL2 said:

Yeah but we need to get him snaps against NFL teams 

Oh that's cruel man... that's just cruel.

[Motor City Sonics]

24 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

So close...

Oh well, it was only $10.   

[RedRamage]

16 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

America may get sick of seeing the Lions beat the snot out of every team they play. But we won't. 🤣🤣

We haven't though. Really it's only been three blow outs, this game, Titans and the Dallas game.

• Rams: 6 pt win
• Cards: 7 pt win
• Seahawks: 13 pt win <--You could try to argue this was a blow out, but really the Hawks and Lions were trading body blows the whole game. There was never a point were I felt "We've got this one sewn up. Now we can coast to the finish line."
• Vikings: 2 pt win
• Packers: 10 pt win
• Texans: 3 pt win

And even the Titans I would argue wasn't as much a blow out as it appeared. The Lions still handily won that game, but it was more that the Titans kept giving us a short field. To use baseball terms: It's not like we were stealing bases or stretching singles into doubles... they just kept throwing pitches down the middle of the plate and we kept hitting single after single after single and driving in runs almost by accident.

[RedRamage]

16 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

A mercy type rule?

Can't do that with how much money is wrapped up in pro sports these days. Can you imagine if you paid hundreds to great seats to a game like this and they just decided to end if after just 75% of the game was played? And that's just the smallest of issues:

25% fewer ads?
25% (approx) fewer concession sales?

And that doesn't being into question all the gambling implications.

[RedRamage]

15 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

38, 38, and 46. That's the point differential from the three blow outs. 47-9 against Dallas, 52-14 against Titans, and 52-6 against the Jags. 122 of those 159 points come from those three games.

If you take out those three games then we've got 185 points scored to 148. Or +37 point differential... which looks like it would be tied for 10th in the league (with the Packers).

Also on a side note, it looks like the Bills are over 100 now as well: 106.

https://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/stats/2024/points/diff/6/

[RedRamage]

12 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Goff said this was a checkdown.

https://bsky.app/profile/nickbaumgardner.bsky.social/post/3lb64ggekkc2t

51 got SOOO lucky on that too. If he hadn't just gotten the hand in there to trip up Gibbs that would have been a TD.

[Motown Bombers]

15 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

38, 38, and 46. That's the point differential from the three blow outs. 47-9 against Dallas, 52-14 against Titans, and 52-6 against the Jags. 122 of those 159 points come from those three games.

If you take out those three games then we've got 185 points scored to 148. Or +37 point differential... which looks like it would be tied for 10th in the league (with the Packers).

Also on a side note, it looks like the Bills are over 100 now as well: 106.

https://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/stats/2024/points/diff/6/

If you’re going to remove the Lions three biggest wins, you need to remove the Packers three biggest wins. If you do that, the Packers are minus 5. 

[RedRamage]

27 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Oh well, it was only $10.   

Just out of curiosity, what would have been the payout on a win? I avoid gambling like crazy because I KNOW I have weak will power and could easily get addicted to it, so I know very little about it.

[RedRamage]

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

If you’re going to remove the Lions three biggest wins, you need to remove the Packers three biggest wins. If you do that, the Packers are minus 5. 

I wasn't really trying to make any specific point... just found it interesting that three games counted for so much.

AND even if we took out those three games we'd still be 10th in point differential... that's pretty dang good. And your numbers with the Packers just re-enforces that. You take out our three best games and we're still in the top 3rd of the league. You take out the Packers best three games and you end up in the negatives.

Just for the fun of it I looked at the Bills, who are second in point different with +106. Take out their top three and they fall to +24... which would be 12th in the league. The Eagles (3rd with +80) would drop to +7, tied for 14th. So it definitely isn't a case of the Lions being that statistically odd with three big wins totally skewing things.