It’s probably been mentioned but Detroit loses their OC and DC so we’ll see just how smart Dan Campbell really is.
I see an 8 or 9 win Detroit team next year.
@Packiderm posted:Any black Suburbans show up with guys wearing sunglasses?
The people setting off the fireworks were all Feds.
One other thing and yes I’m piling on.
All the people celebrating the aggressive and creative playcalling well, you run stupid, gimmicky plays like pitching to a WR who throws a horrific INT instead of just lining up and RTFB - you get what you deserve.
The simple fact is the Lions don’t know how to manage and handle the pressure and stakes in the playoffs. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. That’s directed at the myopic and obnoxious Lions fans that thought they were the 80s 49ers or the 90s Cowboys. You’re basically the NFC version of the Bengals without the HOF QB.
Congrats and enjoy the offseason frauds. All your recent dominance and you basically have one playoff win and a lot of heartbreak to show for it.
Pile on all you want.
Dan Campbell = Wayne Fonts?
The Detroit Lions when their trick plays aren’t working pic.twitter.com/JPhXpEbkIl
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) January 19, 2025
@packerboi posted:
Good morning Goldieboi! 😄
https://packers.timesfour.com/...6#729517625124115106
@"We"-Ka-Bong 19 hours ago
It's ok I know you were up all night celebrating the Lion Schadenfreude 😉🫡
And I remain a Goff skeptic (and feel somewhat vindicated this morning).
NFC North went 0-3, had 11 turnovers and didn't force a single takeaway. Three losses by 12 or more. Lost by 44 total points.
— Zach Kruse (@zachkruse2) January 19, 2025
All 3 QBs were their own brand of bad.
40 combined regular season wins -- all just a fart in the wind, as Ron Wolf would say.
Nothing is set in stone yet. But if this is the last run together for Dan Campbell, Ben Johnson, and Aaron Glenn in Detroit, it will have resulted in just two playoff wins.
— Jason B. Hirschhorn (@by_JBH) January 19, 2025
Barring an unexpected return for both coordinators, that's the legacy of the Campbell/Johnson/Glenn Lions.
@Tschmack posted:The simple fact is the Lions don’t know how to manage and handle the pressure and stakes in the playoffs. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. That’s directed at the myopic and obnoxious Lions fans that thought they were the 80s 49ers or the 90s Cowboys. You’re basically the NFC version of the Bengals without the HOF QB.
Very well said. There was talk this week from some Packer fans that they wished they had a coach more like Campbell than our current “beta.” Campbell is a swell carnival barker, but I’m not convinced he’s a great coach. There are many reasons that coaches like Belichick and Andy Reid have had great success (hall of fame QBs first and foremost), but showing off wild emotion is definitely not one of them. There’s plenty more I want from LaFluer, but acting like a roided-up middle school gym teacher isn’t among them.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:It has nothing to do with color commentary. If favorites for color commentary were a problem, Madden would have been fired for his gushing comments about Favre.
Brady has to meet with the coaches and players on each team. It's a gigantic conflict of interest to have an owner of a team meet with coaches and players of another team and learn about their schemes. The announcers get a lot of inside information.
From that link.
Fans.
That has resulted in a number of fans up in arms about a potential conflict of interest while Brady is in the broadcast booth for the Detroit contest. Here's what to know on the matter.
And, what a surprise, it's a Chicago sports radio station/talking head.
"I think this is absurd," 670 The Score's David Baugh said on Monday. "I don't want Tom Brady doing this game. He shouldn't be. This is ridiculous ... this is a total conflict of interest. If [the NFL] doesn't address it, it's going to be even more offensive. You've got to address this, somehow."
I get it, Chicago would like to get Johnson as their HC, but this just seems like a whining fan base that are questioning his integrity and professionalism. He said nothing last night to think he can't separate the jobs.
If the owners were concerned they wouldn't have approved his minority ownership. They know what Brady has meant to the $hield.
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I think a bit more credit should go to the Washington Football Team. They took it to them.
@Pikes Peak posted:I think a bit more credit should go to the Washington Football Team. They took it to them.
And it does.... Some of the clock management by the current lion coaching staff was not good yesterday. Everyone had an off day including the lion offensive line.
I see a lot of piling on and gloating about how bad the Loins were yesterday, but I think that game was really about Washington doing Detroit a favor. It kept their trophy case easier to clean without anything in there to clutter it up.
The Lions with 12 men on the field just handing the Skins a first & goal.
Why didn't the coaches call a timeout???!!?
That's a MLF level bad situation
@Phx Pack Fan posted:I see a lot of piling on and gloating about how bad the Loins were yesterday, but I think that game was really about Washington doing Detroit a favor. It kept their trophy case easier to clean without anything in there to clutter it up.
They can share housekeeping tips with Viking fans!
Forgot about this until just now, but the curse of Bobby Layne strikes again.
If you’re a Detroit Lions fan, you know about this one.
So this one’s for everyone else out there: the Detroit Lions have been an NFL franchise since 1930, when they were the Portsmouth Spartans. They became the Lions in 1934 and last won an NFL championship in 1957 before there was a Super Bowl.
This brings us to the Curse of Bobby Layne. Back in 1958, the Lions traded Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and an angry Layne allegedly declared the Lions wouldn’t win a title for 50 years.
Now, if that curse was a thing, it would have expired by now, right? And Peyton Manning and actor Jeff Daniels have been trying to get rid of it, too.
So … we’ll see this year if it’s gone.
Texans became the first team to ever lose a playoff game while out-gaining their opponent by over 100 yards and not turning the ball over.
Previous such teams were 49-0 in the playoffs.
@FreeSafety posted:Texans became the first team to ever lose a playoff game while out-gaining their opponent by over 100 yards and not turning the ball over.
Previous such teams were 49-0 in the playoffs.
If the Bills or Ravens do that to KC, they will move the record to 50-1.
@michiganjoe posted:And I remain a Goff skeptic (and feel somewhat vindicated this morning).
And Love?
Cautiously optimistic about Jordan (really premature to make any judgment on him due to small sample size).
