2015-16 NFC North/NFL thread

[tower912]

New OC, new line coach, playing for jobs.  But the lions will still find a way to blow this.

[wadesworld]

New OC, new line coach, playing for jobs.  But the lions will still find a way to blow this.

There will be no blowing this one. And unlike last time when you tried everything you could to give the Packers the win, the Packers will not be refusing to take this one. They'll just be straight up blown out of this one.

[wadesworld]

JC Tretter, Lane Taylor, and Don Barclay. Holy smokes. Can we just put Tolzien in and save Rodgers's career tonight, please?

[jesmu84]

Here come the Packers. Or, Here go the Lions.

[jesmu84]

Wow

[Tugg Speedman]

Unbelievable

Saved the season

[rocky_warrior]

New OC, new line coach, playing for jobs.  But the lions will still find a way to blow this.

Bad bad bad time for a penalty.  (from a guy used to watching the Browns snatch defeat from the jaws of victory....like on Mon night)

[DegenerateDish]

That game had a ton of twists and turns, probably best Thursday night game I can recall.

Kudos to the Pack for getting up off the mat early and saving their season, pretty eff'ing clutch, ton of credit for not quitting tonight.

[drewm88]

Just the way we drew it up

[🏀]

Unb.

[rocket surgeon]

talk about heart attack pack.  just think if they would have pulled off the win in carolina, against chicago(as they were outplayed in both) and add it to this one??  have to admit they caught a break on the facemask call, but them is the breaks heyna?  hard to say if this gives them a jolt because they can't win the rest of their games like that.  offensive line is even more beat up and their receivers still can't get open.  here's hoping rodgers is able to escape with his life, BUT

                                    GO PACK GO !!!!!!

[tower912]

New OC, new line coach, playing for jobs.  But the lions will still find a way to blow this.

Bump.  The question is never if, the question is how.  And they never fail to innovate.

[rocket surgeon]

Bump.  The question is never if, the question is how.  And they never fail to innovate.

didn't see the time you entered this at first-good call!  if i would have known this, i would have watched the whole game, but my heart couldn't take anymore.  a guy has only so many tv's to throw out the back door

[tower912]

Detroit was the better team for 60 minutes.   Being the Lions, they found a way to make the game 60 minutes and 10 seconds.    They are a cross between the Washington Generals and Wile E Coyote and Charlie Brown trying to kick the football Lucy is holding.    You know they are going to lose, the question is how the anvil is going to smack them and leave them on the canyon floor.   I was watching the game at the fire station and I just started belly laughing after the Hail Mary.   They had found a way.   And we had started trying to figure out how they were going to do it at halftime.    It is almost a parlor game.   How are they going to blow it today?    Will an official ignore a batting the ball out of the end zone rule?    Will Aaron Rogers extend the game by selling a facemask call?    Who knows?    But it will be creative. 

[MU B2002]

That may be the easiest hail mary ever.  Yea the face mask penalty was borderline, and the officials missed a hold, but bad officiating is the new standard. 

[tower912]

He was open.  As the ball started down, there wasn't a defender within ten feet.   And he wasn't the only receiver open.   All of defenders had drifted too deep into the end zone.   Worse than when they showed all of the defenders with their back to the play on Rogers scramble.

[MU B2002]

Saw an article today that Caldwell wasn't expecting a hail mary, and they had drawn up a defense to combat a lateral style play.  But thankfully they had the sidelines covered...

[tower912]

At the end of the day, same old Lions. 

[jsglow]

He was open.  As the ball started down, there wasn't a defender within ten feet.   And he wasn't the only receiver open.   All of defenders had drifted too deep into the end zone.   Worse than when they showed all of the defenders with their back to the play on Rogers scramble.

It was horrid coverage.  Biggest guy on the field catching what amounted to a thrown punt with absolutely nobody marking up on him.  Richard Rodgers is known for his hands.  And to rush 3? The Pack had just run multiple vertical routes.  Once Aaron broke contain and could launch into the throw there was a real chance.

But as Packers fans let's not go overboard.  Our offensive  has been playing terrible football for 2 months.  Last night should have been a season dagger.  Miraculously, it wasn't.  But they need to find themselves in the next 10 days.  We need to probably go 2-2 to make the playoffs.  3-1 with a win over the 'Queens will almost certainly win the division.  But this is a team that had legitimate Super Bowl aspirations at the beginning.  Still a very long hill to climb.

[GGGG]

Detroit was the better team for 60 minutes.   

I would say the Packers were the better team the last 20 minutes or so of that game.  The Packer defense kept them in that game by only holding them to two FGs after the first quarter. 

But I'm with glow.  This team still isn't really good...at least playoff good.  It will be nice to rest ten days, but the receivers still suck, Lacy is still fat and the OL is a bit of a sieve.  And the final four isn't easy with road trips to Oakland and Arizona and a home game v. the Vikings.  They will make the playoffs, but my guess is as a WC.

[MerrittsMustache]

Saw an article today that Caldwell wasn't expecting a hail mary, and they had drawn up a defense to combat a lateral style play.  But thankfully they had the sidelines covered...

I can understand that strategy in theory, but the real issue was that there was no secondary read for the sideline defenders. IOW, once they read that it's going to be a Hail Mary, they either need to rush the QB or drop back to the goal line. Instead, the Lions basically played with 9 defenders on the most important play of the game.

This game could either be a springboard for an underachieving team or it'll be a flukish win against a bad team.

[MU82]

I don't think that facemask penalty was borderline at all. The defensive player had his hand there and gave it enough of a tug to make it pretty obvious, especially to a ref standing about 10 feet away. It was an easy, obvious call.

FWIW, I am agnostic on both the Packers and Lions. Couldn't care if either of them ever wins or loses a game (unless they are playing my Panthers).

[MU B2002]

I don't think that facemask penalty was borderline at all. The defensive player had his hand there and gave it enough of a tug to make it pretty obvious, especially to a ref standing about 10 feet away. It was an easy, obvious call.

Lol.

Agree to disagree.

[NavinRJohnson]

I don't think that facemask penalty was borderline at all. The defensive player had his hand there and gave it enough of a tug to make it pretty obvious, especially to a ref standing about 10 feet away. It was an easy, obvious call.

Correct. Had it been called in the second quarter, nobody would even remember it. Only reason its getting attention is because of the circumstances - obviously. QBs are protected to a fault, but that same call absolutely would have been made in the second quarter. Head turned on the play. Gonna draw a flag every time. You can argue whether or not it should be, but it's going to be.

[MerrittsMustache]

Correct. Had it been called in the second quarter, nobody would even remember it. Only reason its getting attention is because of the circumstances - obviously. QBs are protected to a fault, but that same call absolutely would have been made in the second quarter. Head turned on the play. Gonna draw a flag every time. You can argue whether or not it should be, but it's going to be.

Personally, I don't think it should have been called...because I wanted the Packers to lose.