Week 18 Gamethread
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His dead cap hit in a pre June 1 trade is….99M, ie, negative 66M cap hit. In the extremely unlikely event they could manage a post-June 1 trade, it’s a break even cap wise.
It just won’t work because they’ll need to make moves in the key FA period while operating with his cap hit….only to trade him for almost no savings?
That extension tied them to him through next year.
That last one was totally on him. Too low. He rushed it. The one that he always used to make, which should have been a TD to Jones was left short. He's lost it. And to make matters worse he looks to me in his movements that he's petrified of getting hurt.
That quick snap on the first third down of that drive was huge. They punt there and this game maybe is over. Pretty good drive there.
What a dumb play, hands to the face on the outside right in front of the ref. They couldn't ignore that, and it papers over Rodgers flinging it like safeties don't exist.
The lineman was nodding his head and not disputing it, which should be the case. He had his hand up into the facemask for like a 3 count and as they were rotating towards Rodgers with the ref looking right at the scrum.
Someone needs to do a study how often there’s a bailout penalty on teams with a better record/league darlings
Yup that was the icing, if it stayed steady without any change in position maybe it can slide. The head judge was certainly animated in discussion like "are you sure?" which is good, make the official explain the rationale with such a big play at stake.
No, I get it. See the graph above where they get exponentially more advantageous officiating than even the supposed "darling" Patriots. They do seem to get all the breaks, then choke at the end (49ers one season and Giants during the 18-1 season.)
Edit: I meant Bucs instead of 49ers since that was the other home NFC championship team, but I suppose you could call the Niners a choke since they let the inferior Garoppolo beat them while attempting a whole 8 passes.
Yep, and teams can wait decades to find that top 5 QB.
That's why I love the way San Fran has approached building their team. They built the defense and offense, and then went and got their QB (Lance). Lance obviously got hurt, but he was the first QB they've taken in their first 104 picks since Kaepernick in 2011.
They took CJ Beathard in the 3rd round in 2017, then Lance in 2021 and then threw a dart at Purdy with the last pick in 2022. Their only QB selections in 11 years besides those guys were Jeff Driskel in the 6th round in 2016 and CJ Daniels in the 7th round in 2013.
That's the model teams that aren't bad enough to have a top 3 pick need to have, IMO.
Yeah that’s what I was reacting to. 3 shit moves on one play while a guy is down with a head injury.
Gotta love these Lions. Eliminated from the playoffs not long before kickoff but playing their butts off to keep the Packers out.
Good on the Lions powering through even after being eliminated. Through the bluster, Campbell has the players believing and it feels like this franchise is going in the right direction.
