Week 11: Detroit - Can We Have. A Normal Game?

[Don Ho]

Give it to Goins!

[ice grillin you]

Absolute buffoonery from nick

[ice grillin you]

Detroit v. the refs

[General_Failure]

This is some all time refball.

[Don Ho]

Oh my God that's a farging homer call.  Can't wait for this replay.

Oh my farging God oh my God that was farging the worst call I've ever seen in the NFL

[ice grillin you]

Terrible defensive PI calls have plagued the league for 20 years

[Don Ho]

Leave it to Seabiscuit!

He just sent me this text:

"At least you didn't lose a Superbowl from a call like that"

[Diomedes]

One bad call did not decide this game

Eagle D played out of their minds

[Don Ho]

Best defensive performance we've seen this season.  Even if the Lions got the ball back, Goff had nothing.  Vic had his number.

[SD]

Hurts needs to be better but pinning all the offenses problems on him is just ignorant and dumb

The o line run blocking is still dreadful. Part of it is injuries, part losing a grater like Bechton, part they're just not playing as a cohesive unit.

Because Saquan's been getting hit behind the line of scrimmage so frequently this season he's developed a bad habit of unnecessarily jump cutting in the backfield rather than straight hitting the hole.

The farging stupid penalties

Aside from Smitty the WRs aren't getting a whole lot of separation. Love AJ but he's not getting open. At least they're utilizing him on the slant even though it was covered pretty well. They need to get back to timing routes on the curl/hook routes when he takes it makes a move then gains extra yardage. That route is only there when hurts scrambles and not the staple it's been in the offense for years. Keep hitting Dotson or whoever on routes to keep  defenses from blanketing the main receivers.

Petullo is not only a bad play caller he doesn't know how to play game flow. I understand going to the well too often but he deviates drastically and it's just ugly.

It's pretty obvious the defenses point of emphasis is stopping Saquan...Bigsby's getting room to run. Moore wasn't creative but was smart enough to see the birds path to a good offense was focusing on the run. Stop giving a shtein about AJ and his targets and focus on the run again. They stop it so be it run it till it works.

Can't emphasis how nice it is to have adults back at end. Campbell's a year or two away from being great but Dean has been their best LB this season. I know they're up against the cap but I hope Howie can work out an extension with him.

Say what you want about Adoree Jackson but he's been solid the past month and thought he played his best game last night. Yea he got burned against Jameson Williams on that TD but so would 90% of dbs without safety help.

I would have been happy with a split these past two weeks but winning both is unreal. All the years rooting for the birds I can't remember a tougher schedule. At least it eases up a bit going forward

farg Dallas

[MDS]

im not sure what you do with dean going forward...hes super injury prone, you have jihad and they already paid ZB. but the man is just out of his mind right now. total season changer really, theyve taken another leap since hes been back.

speaking of leaps...im gonna leap off a cliff watching the hurts/patullo/sirianni triumvirate. one pathetic incompetence leading into another. any decent qb wins that game by 4 scores. but not our jalen! every call patullo had was wrong. wr screen? NOPE. swing pass to saquon? DOA. run on 1st? ZILCH. pass on 2nd and short? SACK. when the right call was made jalen couldn't hit shtein. the line couldnt block, and when they could, saquon was doing too much bullshtein. the wr's couldnt catch. or theyd just pick up a debilitating penalty - which all comes back to patullo and sirianni anyway. 

who am i kidding. hurts is a winner! 26 points in 2 games, got them w's. go birds.

[ice grillin you]

finally some talk circulating that the organization is becoming fed up with hurts

[PhillyPhreak54]

Link?

[Diomedes]

Rumor requires no citation.

Many people are saying that within the organization, people are getting tired of winning.

[MDS]

dgunn and set joyner both floated stuff...dgunn's stuff im assuming is coming from his dude bg or one of the other old timers in there since hes really out the game. and this is on top of russini's report from the weekend.

it gets me hoping if they dont win it this year, theyll find a way to get rid of him. howie isnt giving his ass an extension so we're around that time to pull a wentz. i had a zone out daydream where he traded both hurts and AJ, tanked 2026, and came into 2027 with multiple 1's, a franchise qb and cap space. and all it cost was 1 down year.

now if they do win, obviously you gotta keep it together and go for 3.