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Hot Diggity! posted:Zimmer's scheme has been figured out. Lots of pre snap motion and play action kills it. Doesn't help that the defense isn't winning the one on ones as much, but coaches have started to catch on There's a little of this but in my opinion what happened last night was the Vikings were absolutely outclassed on the line of scrimmage. Like you mentioned, guys throughout the defense were not winning their one on ones. Goff barely faced a whiff of pressure the whole night, just sat back in an enormous pocket and picked apart the secondary. You also saw it on run plays where the defensive line was being shifted easily allowing Gurley to pick up 5 to 10 yards almost every play. Griffen being out is obviously part of this, but they need to get more production out of their D line. It shouldn't fall apart just because someone isn't playing. The Rams offensive line is very good this year, that's true, but the Vikings D line should be pretty good too and they need to start showing it a bit more. I'm not that worried about the Vikings, they should still be the best team in the division and I believe they'll start winning games like it soon. Easily 7-10 wins left on that schedule, but yeah they would've loved a better start I'm sure.
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Hot Diggity! posted:The BJ Raji pick six game. It owned. Rodgers' concussion in that game was the first of the four serious injuries he's suffered in his career; oddly enough, all of them happened in games against the Bears or Vikings.
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https://twitter.com/thelionswire/status/1045767804681678849?s=19 Ziggy out with injury, I'm shocked. 
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Acebuckeye13 posted:https://twitter.com/thelionswire/status/1045767804681678849?s=19 as soon as he signs with another team he'll magically be healthy and ill be mad as hell.
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UnlimitedSpessmans posted:as soon as he signs with another team he'll magically be healthy and ill be mad as hell. lol yeah I thought the exact same thing.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:https://twitter.com/thelionswire/status/1045767804681678849?s=19 He gone after this year unless we getting him cheap. No full time pay for part time play. And Davis is questionable? Yes, but what about his injury status?  They might just be a better team with him not playing.
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Styles Bitchley posted:He gone after this year unless we getting him cheap. No full time pay for part time play. Considering our linebacker depth I, uh, disagree.
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Does that mean if ziggy goes next season that the Lions only had Suh, Fairley, and Ansah for their rookie deals? Yeesh
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nerve posted:Does that mean if ziggy goes next season that the Lions only had Suh, Fairley, and Ansah for their rookie deals? Yeesh And Cliff Avril! Martin Mayhew was not a successful general manager.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:And Cliff Avril! Lions kinda dodged a bullet with Fairley and mayhaps Ansah too?
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Ansah is gone the minute the season is over. There's no way they keep a guy made of balsa wood and pay him big bucks anymore.
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Hizawk posted:Lions kinda dodged a bullet with Fairley and mayhaps Ansah too? Eh, Fairley had health problems, but he still would have been nice to have in 2015 and 2016 when our defensive line turned into jello.
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Yeah the combination of letting suh and fairley walk seemed to destroy the line and let opposing runners have a field day with the defense. I don't have any stats, only my anecdotal evidence watching games where I remember them being gashed by every running back they played against.
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If you want to know why Stafford got sacked so often last year: https://twitter.com/kmeinke/status/1045767798029512704
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It was probably the right call to let Fairley go, but I will always fondly remember the time we were playing the Bears, they got a touchdown in the 4th quarter and were going for the game tying 2 point conversion, and Fairley blew the play up in the backfield and did a fat man high step all the way to midfield.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Considering our linebacker depth I, uh, disagree. I have more faith than literally anyone else on the squad at this point than Davis. Harold, Kennard, and JRM have all been at least competent.
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https://twitter.com/SeedsofJake/status/1045121210047242240?s=20 Just let Rodgers be the offensive coordinator at this point.
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SKULL.GIF posted:https://twitter.com/SeedsofJake/status/1045121210047242240?s=20 Remember when we did the constant no huddle offense and how effective it was? I now choose to believe it was Rodgers passive-aggressively taking the offense away from fat Mike.
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SKULL.GIF posted:https://twitter.com/SeedsofJake/status/1045121210047242240?s=20 He was calling the plays back in the 2011 Matt Flynn game against Detroit, right? poo poo you guys may as well, it's not like he could do any worse.
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As a fan of an NFC North team that isn't the Packers, keep Fat Mike in charge of as much as possible for as long as possible.
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nerve posted:Does that mean if ziggy goes next season that the Lions only had Suh, Fairley, and Ansah for their rookie deals? Yeesh dont forget about stephen tulloch lol.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:He was calling the plays back in the 2011 Matt Flynn game against Detroit, right? poo poo you guys may as well, it's not like he could do any worse. I want the first simultaneous head coach and QB For what it’s worth, combining head coach and GM duties seems to have been a failure across the league. Let’s try something new
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Big Jay Cutler posted:I want the first simultaneous head coach and QB Fine, but only if you’re stuck with them after a Colt McCoy-esque shake and bake treatment. And yet, even he wouldn’t call a swinging gate like Washington did.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Fine, but only if you’re stuck with them after a Colt McCoy-esque shake and bake treatment. And yet, even he wouldn’t call a swinging gate like Washington did. Psh Rodgers has been chemically shaken after they started giving him Brett Favre’s vitamins Look at his eyeballs in that interview, man’s full of Gatorade ice pills
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:The Vikings will lose both games to the Bears. Tell us again how bad their offensive line is.
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SirPablo posted:Tell us again how bad their offensive line is. Which one?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:He was calling the plays back in the 2011 Matt Flynn game against Detroit, right? poo poo you guys may as well, it's not like he could do any worse.
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Leon Einstein posted:I honestly don't understand why they don't give him the reins. He was calling the plays in the second half of the Bears game that they came back from, wasn't he? Because it would admit that Fat Mike and/or Philbin can’t do their job properly and are unneeded.
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SirPablo posted:Tell us again how bad their offensive line is. Exceedingly
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https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1046113486537777152 god I miss him so much
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Acebuckeye13 posted:https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1046113486537777152 Still crazy he retired at 30. He wont get into the Hall likely because receiver stats are so blown up and his career was relatively short but so so so good
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He made the right call. There is no reason to break yourself for any team but especially not the lions. I miss watching him too though that dude was electric.
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I watched the highlights from his 2011 game against the Raiders the other day. He was just so freaking good. 
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I'm glad you're still getting use out of this since it's not allowed in UKMT anymore adaz posted:Still crazy he retired at 30. He wont get into the Hall likely because receiver stats are so blown up and his career was relatively short but so so so good My only Lions jersey is a Calvin Johnson one I bought after he retired because that meant he couldn't leave or betray me
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Optimus Nine will recreate Golladay in Calvin Johnson's image. ALL HAIL GALVATRON
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adaz posted:Still crazy he retired at 30. He wont get into the Hall likely because receiver stats are so blown up and his career was relatively short but so so so good Nah I think he will get into the hall. Consistently top 2 WR in the league for years and he has the Single Season receiving record.
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OxySnake posted:Nah I think he will get into the hall. Consistently top 2 WR in the league for years and he has the Single Season receiving record. The fact that he did it all while being on countless garbage-rear end Lions teams should really mean something as well. Like, teams would gameplan to shut down Calvin because he was literally the entire Lions offense most years. And they couldn't.
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There's clips of him just beating triple teams on jump balls and it's honestly impossible to do anything besides hope he mis times his jump
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