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My subdivision has 3 different households of Lions fans. They're all Michigan transplants & I live in IL, so maybe it's more common around here. But I agree, they're probably the most irrelevant franchise this side of Jacksonville. On a side note, my son's best friend is from one of those Lions families. I recently overheard him saying that Stafford will be in HOF someday. I secretly LOL'd.

Dane Jackson really impressed me yesterday, I'd have no problem with him being the CB2 the rest of the way. He's solid in coverage, and a very willing & fundamentally-sound tackler. When I saw the close-up of the injury, it looked like he just got cleated. Hopefully that's all it is.

Between Boettger & Winters, Ike is the much better player. I don't care about left side vs right side, if one of them plays, it should be Ike all day, every day. Mongo/Boettger at OG is light years ahead of Boettger/Winters. We need Morse to stay healthy.

He was benched in his rookie season for playing with a lack of effort, the final straw play was him casually jogging after a WR en route to a 47 yard TD. Even though he was cleared of the armed robbery charges, he clearly was surrounding himself with the type of people who get caught up in that sort of thing, and that's another huge red flag. I haven't seen him play, but based on his 40-time (4.57) & still being drafted in the first round, I have to assume he's a zone CB, I wouldn't mind Beane & Co taking a look & seeing if he's matured & has anything.

I'll never forget the excitement I felt when we signed Paup, it was like Christmas morning. Had a similar feeling when we signed TKO. Then the same with Diggs. I had tempered excitement with the TO & Mario Williams signings.

Remember all the shots Diggs took in Week 1? He surely does, and wouldn't finish the season if that was every game. Smart move to avoid getting hit by the 4 Sehawks closing in around him. He's got to be available to keep coming up with catches all game. He's being going out of bounds when it's the smart thing to do too.

Every point made in this thread is valid, but I'd say about 80% of the reason people don't watch ESPN anymore is the constant talk about politics & race. Depending on which hot-button current political event is happening, ESPN's coverage will be more about that actual sports. They've spent more air time on Kaepernick than anybody who actually still plays sports. If somebody digs up a questional tweet an athlete made when they were 16, it's a top story. A new coach gets hired, they'll talk more about race in coaching than the about the guy who was hired. Nobody cares about that stuff, people use sports as an excape from this crap in their daily lives, just cover on-field sports.

I had a grade 2 shoulder separation & I couldn't lift my infant son above my abdomen without extreme pain for at least a month. Even on a non-throwing shoulder, QBs still have to lift their front arm for proper throwing mechanics. If Josh couldn't do that without pain, it absolutely affected his mechanics, and that leads to confidence issues as well.

One thing to consider regarding having a dome is the effect of weather on player stats. Guys playing 5 games/year in high wind/rain/snow will typically have lower overall numbers than guys playing in sunny conditions or indoors. Over a season, this could mean the difference between being an All Pro or not, making the Pro Bowl, or statistical contract escalators. Over the course of a career, it be could be the difference in making the HOF or not. Imagine a QB is a borderline HOF candidate, and played his career in a bad weather outdoor stadium. HOF voters don't take weather factors into consideration, but mostly look at raw numbers. If he'd played in a dome, that could mean potentially 40+ more TD passes over a 15 year career. 40 more TDs puts a borderline candidate into "lock" territory.

I was in High School, already a Bills die-hard.

Something I noticed about Josh in the KC game that I haven't heard anyone mention, was that he wasn't stepping into his throws, any of them. Even the deeper passes were just flicked out there. I think it was due to traction in the rain, you could tell he was slipping a lot when he ran & tried to cut. I think he was worried about slipping if he planted fully on his front foot. Our turf is known for being slippery as it is. It looked like he was wearing hard plastic spikes, and I even commented during the game that I bet he'll come out in the 2nd half with rubber spikes, or at least different spikes. He didn't, and I don't think he had any confidence in his footing. Hopefully no more rain games...

Metcalf is very much like Calvin Johnson, physically. If Megatron had run the 3-Cone Drill & Shuttle at the Combine, he'd have pooped the bed too. He was smart to let teams judge him on his 40-time & college production. Guys that big & physical have extremely unique & valuable skillsets, but will never be able to make quick cuts like Beasley or Diggs. I think if DK had skipped the "agility" drills at the combine, he'd have been rightly drafted in the top-20. I also think you'll see a future shift in the perception of those drills for the big/fast freaks who won't be running the types of routes those drills are used to project anyway.

Diggs has 79 targets in 8 games with us, he had all of 94 last season in Minnesota. Being heavily involved keeps guys happy & motivated. He's a great teammate, but I can see anybody with elite skills getting down in that case.

I'm not sure why SI thought putting a husky golfer on the cover would sell magazines. I'm pretty sure the NFL has quite a few more followers than the PGA. Why not put Josh on there?

The Giants' OL is among the league's worst. Jones is forced to play hero ball a lot, I think he can be a solid QB with more development and better play around him. I don't see him ever becoming a star, but maybe a Stafford-level guy with a long career of being pretty good.

I think he'll be lucky to be able to continue working on an NFL staff once his dad retires. He's currently known more for his mullet (& being BB's son) than anything he's done as a coach.

Darron Lee scored a 31 on the Wonderlic, that would explain Frazier saying he has a high football IQ. For comparison, Edmunds scored 22, Klein scored 23.

That is big, Kittle would've had 12 catches against us. We can go all-in to stop the run without him there.

I honestly don't think it matters who their QB is, Jimmy G is league average at best, Mullins really isn't much of a downgrade. It's their running game that scares the bejeeezus out of me. They'll have some injured RBs back by then too, we'll be lucky to hold them under 150 yards rushing.

I can't think of a worse Bills LB ever, who was getting significant play.

He turned 26 last week.

Lee ran a 4.47 40, that's ridiculous for a LB. If he can tackle at all, he's an upgrade from Klein.

Can Matakevich play LB at all? He's played 10 defensive snaps for us this year, and only 16 for the Steelers last year. I know he's slow (4.81 40yd), but he had 493 tackes in college & won both the Chuck Bednarik Award & the Nagurski Trophy. He seems like a guy ideally suited for the 80s-90s NFL, but I'm surprised we haven't at least seen what he can do. He can't be worse than Klein.

The only reason I could see us adding an OT, would be to move Williams to one of the Guard spots. I think the OL would be much better with Dawkins-Williams-Morse-Feliciano-Nseke than any combo with Winters in it.

There's only 10 players shown in that still shot. I assume there's a WR wide on the right side that's not shown, and on the line. The WR at the top of the still is in the slot & off the line. Regardless, Gabe was even with the LT & the reply shows him signal that he's on the line to line judge. Really bad call.