Early game thread

[haleyrules]

Damn that was nice pass by Wentz

That was an optical illusion!!

 

[Risen Star]

I guess this is where the Lions remember they're the Lions.

 

[MrPeanutbutter]

I didn't see him having a lot of success in Philly. Bad fit for him.

Chip Kelly is a bad fit for the NFL.

 

[mattjames2010]

Well he hasn't exactly been lighting up the NFL since he left Dallas. In fact he has barely had any 100 yd games sine he left Dallas.

He's not getting high carries outside of one game. 2 out of 4 games, he averaged over 7 yards a run.

 

[School]

Halftime pondering... Which X-Men would be best at football?

Gonna have to go with Nightcrawler.

 

[Trouty]

I didn't see him having a lot of success in Philly. Bad fit for him.

Because he's a north south runner, and in philly he was running out of the shotgun east west a lot. In tenn he is running north south again, albeit largely out of the shotgun, as Mariota has regressed and can't take a snap from behind center. But his runs are between the tackles where he feasts

 

[Jinxx13x]

I guess this is where the Lions remember they're the Lions.

maybe they have amnesia today or lets hope

 

[MrPeanutbutter]

Imagine if we had traded Ware a year early and gotten a bevy of draft picks. Sure we would've lost a good year out of him, but we could've rebuilt multiple positions elsewhere.
Now think about where we are at with Romo. Will you give up one or two more good seasons from him if you could get multiple draft picks and huge cap relief?

Trades in the NFL are weird. I'm not sure anyone would take TR.

 

[KJJ]

Then why do they keep getting rid of him lol? Despite how "all-world" he's been? The same reason we let him walk or he left. I believe we did offer him a contract but he was offered more elsewhere.

I'm not really sure what was expected here when we had Witten here. Should we have gotten rid of Witten?

Never said he was all world but he's had personality issues and he's been able to get more money elsewhere. It's not like he's warming the bench everywhere he goes, teams have been getting production out of him. He's averaging 16.5 a catch the season and has 3 TDs. Having Witten we should have never drafted a TE that high which is why these second round TEs have been failing with us. It makes no sense to draft a TE that high when you have a Jason Witten. We've tried two TE offenses attempting to use the second TE as an added dimension in the passing game and it hasn't worked. The emergence of Beasley in the slot foiled the plans the Cowboys had for Escobar.

 

[Trouty]

DET can't ******* tackle

 

[reddyuta]

called it,lions cant stop these screens.

 

[Jinxx13x]

FOUL marion barber rule dorial beckham green foul foul

 

[Carson]

DET can't ******* tackle

Like I said brother, fools gold. They build you up just to knock you back down!

 

[tyke1doe]

Lions defenders have lost the ability to tackle. He come the Eagles.

 

[ghst187]

He's not getting high carries outside of one game. 2 out of 4 games, he averaged over 7 yards a run.

Well I would've loved to have gotten a few more good seasons out of him here but he thought two more million minus Pennsylvania state income taxes was too tempting. Of course, I was fed up with his fumbles. I'd argue his fumble in the loss to Washington and the fumble in the playoffs cost us a shot at the Super Bowl in 2014

 

[drawandstrike]

Come on Lions, don't be the Browns from last week....

 

[Trouty]

Anybody else having trouble getting there stream on the sunday ticket app????

 

[tyke1doe]

Wentz is killing it.

 

[MrPeanutbutter]

Eagles are going to win this.

 

[Trouty]

We got a ballgame boys