The Detroit Lions Win A Game
I’ve never seen the NFL award someone a pity “___ of the week” award before. Jared Goff won NFC Offensive Player of the week. He threw 3 touchdowns and one INT against the Vikings in the Lions first win of the season. Did Jared Goff really deserve that award? Stafford threw 3 TDs in a Rams drubbing of the Jaguars. Brady threw 4 TDs and a pick, and 50+ more yards. Maybe the NFL is tired of giving Brady awards. In any case, we likely just saw what will be the highlight of the Jared Goff era. The Lions might win a few more games with him, especially if they keep him around as a stopgap next year, but I’m not sure any of them will feel quite as sweet and redemptory as this win felt.
Poor Goff is a tragedy in some ways. He was a bad QB drafted by a Jeff Fisher squad that didn’t do him any favors. Sean McVay came in and suddenly the Rams offense worked with Goff, and Goff got absolutely none of the credit. I’ve never seen a QB get less credit for success than Goff did. The dude got to a Super Bowl, and even then he was just McVay’s puppet. I don’t think the criticisms were unwarranted and I honestly agree McVay was the driving force behind that turn, but I still felt kinda bad for the guy. No respect at all. He still had to make the throws.
The Rams paid the man, but then dumped him for an aging dude from Detroit who never won anything meaningful. And now he’s stuck on a junior varsity roster so bare that a college team might actually stand a chance on it. Goff has been awful all year. Bad enough that the Lions might have actually had a couple of wins before this game. But hey. He got 2 minutes to deliver a game-winning drive and by golly the man did it. The Lions have won a game.
I hope they give Dan Campbell a real chance and let him build something. The dude is genuinely really likable as a coach and nobody is going to be good with a team like this. As it stands, the Lions remain #1 overall for the draft, and this is a bad year to need a QB. With how tough this team plays, I fully expect the disgraceful Texans to have it by year’s end but we’ll see.
For a minor point in Goff’s favor, apparently he’s dating an SI swimsuit model that Ian Rapoport is thirsty for.
Believe it or not, I’ve seen a lot of Lions wins over the years, but I have rarely had one like this that left me on Cloud Nine three days later. This win single handedly reignited my love of football after a very tough year watching my team constantly punch themselves in the dick over and over and over and over and over again
Lots of fans have been giving Lions fans shit about not acting like we have been there before, and to all of you, I say: FUCK OFF. We haven’t been there before! But Sunday was a glimmer of hope that MAYBE, just MAYBE Dan knows what he is doing and this plan is starting to come together.
How dare you doubt Dan Fucking Campbell!? You should have known better!
Bill Belichick wouldn’t be able to field a competitive team with this roster. Dan Campbell needs a few seasons before we can judge him.
Sean McVay really seems like the second coming of Mike Martz.
Call me naive, but I feel like that Raport didn’t really care how hot that girl was. He really liked her reaction.
*Rapoport
* Fapoport (HT Dave of course)
Big W for Jared Goff off the field tho
Goff comes across as someone who could be the next Alex Smith. He could be solid on the right team but he will rarely ever be truly spectacular. Then again, I didn’t expect him to be that good coming out of college.
I was just thinking The Draw Play needed more bikini drawings and Goff’s girlfriend looks even better than the Bill Belichick version I was imagining.
…. or Urban Meyer grinding on a bikini clad Belichick.
WHICH IS A LOCK TO BE THE CARTOON BET WHEN THEY MEET IN WEEK 17
Thank you for not putting the Broncos on Turd Mountain.
Also, RIP DT. :'(
I gave up on Goff when he couldn’t even shave himself for draft day: https://twitter.com/jaredgoff16/status/725807911457398790
Side note: Apparently “Rain City Bitch Chickens” is a thing: https://storeca.barstoolsports.com/products/rain-city-bitch-pigeons-hockey-jersey?variant=40627741720760
The best way to describe Jared Goff is that he won’t elevate a bad situation but he won’t hurt a good situation either. And to this point in his career, he’s either been in a very good situation or one of the worst in football with very little in between.
Dan Campbell is likable as a coach? Which part? The utter disaster both places he’s been a head coach? The overly hyperbolic testosterone-fueled nonsense he spouted in Miami and in his opening press conference at Detroit? His lack of grasp of the rules at times? I think you meant to say “insane” instead of “likable”, or else.. Did you also find that turd of authoritarian Tom Coughlin “likable” too, as he screamed at players whenever he made bad coaching decisions, and insisted on everyone being unnecessarily early to every meeting, and in his followup act in Jacksonville where the NFLPA had more complaints from that team than from the entire rest of the league combined over multiple years?
Fucking weird to me to take such issue with the fact that I like Campbell by comparing him to Coughlin, who he seems nothing like whatsoever and my opinion of who has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Coughlin was an asshole hardass jerk of a coach who only showed his softer, more likeable side when he thought he was going to get fired. Campbell is a man of loud positivity. Does he speak macho testosterone language? Yeah, so do a lot of coaches, it’s football, that’s kind of the culture. As a man, Campbell seems like the fit dude at the gym who is always giving other people high fives and rooting them on, and it might be a little cringe but how can you despise someone rooting for you like that?
His capabilities as a coach and gameday decision making is fair to criticize but he’s also working with an absolute trash, garbage roster and the Lions are still fairly competitive each game. I think he deserves a few years to build something and if he doesn’t, well let him hit the curb. He’s more likeable than most coaches in the league tbh, his challenge is going to be translating that likeability into wins, which he hasn’t done yet, but he’s hamstrung for now.
Poor use of tone by me if that ready as taking such an issue – I just haven’t seen the likable side of “Man” Campbell (as LeBatard’s podcast called him in Miami), so that was meant more as genuine surprise than taking an issue with it. If he reads to you the way you describe, I can see liking that guy too. That’s just not the read I’ve gotten on him, and having grown up in Lions country, the mere fact that the Ford family hired him makes me immediately question him.
The Coughlin comparison is only because I know the Giants are your team, so I thought maybe you like that kind of coach. Would seem inconsistent with what else you’ve shown of your personality on here, but inconsistency like that hasn’t been rare the last 5 years, so my apologies if that came across as *assuming* you like Coughlin just because you liked the team he coached. I realize 2+2 does not always equal 4 in that equation. I definitely have an issue with people like him who take a little bit of power and use it that way, and some of Campbell’s actions have read that way to me. I hope I’m wrong about him and you’re right – I just didn’t see it that way and was shocked to hear someone call him likable.
Coughlin was hated by his players because he was a jerk to them. Nothing Campbell has done makes it seem like he is a massive jerk to his players and they all seem to like him.
THE LIONS WON tho rip dt
Also doesn’t help that Goff basically turned in a Kerry Collin performance in that SB, those were some of the worst drives I had ever seen.