I’m concerned about what will happen when they pull that shit in a game where it actually could make a difference. In a tight game where we don’t have a 24 point lead, a run of three or four bad calls could very well still influence whether we win or lose.
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Yep. Several of my friends that have long known I was a Lions fan but didn’t care outside of some jokes are now paying very close attention. Most all are rooting for the Lions when not playing their team.
I don’t know where you live, but I live in Madison and the Packers fans here are relentless, unforgiving and delusional. I’m not talking any smack though, I just keep sending them pictures:
There’s a party at Lambeau
Scene at Lambeau at 8 am this morning
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Several times I’ve been told by people visiting Eugene from that part of the country that it reminds them of Madison, Wisconsin.
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My greatest hope is that eventually they will start to hate us. It means we’re winning and beating up on their teams.
Until you’re widely hated, you just haven’t arrived yet. It takes time though.
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If CJGJ gets healthy and is extended he’s capable of speeding up that timeline 
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Watching a “Get Up” clip right now and the opening segment is “What happened to Jordan Love and the Packers last night” as if the Packers were supposed to win.
I’ll tell you what happened, a much better team kicked their ass. That’s what happened ya wankers.
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They are similar, Eugene, Boulder, Madison, all fun cities. Personally, I’d take the mountains over the midwest.
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I’m not worried about any asterisk talk. Sure, not having Alexander and Bakhtiari hurt Green Bay. Their run game and pass blocking would have worked better with Bakhtiari out there. Alexander is their top corner. It really doesn’t matter though because what cost them the game last night was their run defense, or lack of it. Our line and TEs made their front 7 look like pins getting hit by bowling balls. On Monty’s longest run Ragnow was so far down the field that he ran out of guys to block. Alexander isn’t helping there unless they really want him trying to muck it up with offensive linemen who will rag doll his ass. The Lions ended the game with over 200 yards on the ground and a near 2:1 time of possession advantage. That’s why the Lions won.
There is all kinds of fly-by analysis of the Lions. More and more are educating themselves on DC and the team, but there’s still a lot of folks (like injury-report guy yesterday) who literally have zero measure of the team’s pulse.
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Yeah. Boulder is similar but it’s quite a bit more affluent than Eugene, and I think Madison. Tons of money in Boulder.
He’s going to be a hell of a decoy.
I can see that, there is a fair amount of money in Madison from the law firms surrounding the state capital, 4 hospitals, Epic Systems and a ton of biotech.
They’re talking to the Duke HC now…but if you rewind it a few minutes…they just finished a long lions segment. Man, the entire crew was hyping up the Lions.
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Gotcha. Yeah, Boulder has an emerging Biotech scene as well. We’ve got a ThermoFisher Scientific Branch but bc we don’t have any research hospitals nearby Eugene is not ideal for the startups. Our municipal government is also rather stingy with tax concessions.
It looks like Madison’s GDP per capita is about 2x Eugene’s while Boulder is 3x.
We’ll just keep kicking Assterisk.
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GREAT post @StormGuyNovi . I DO think though, there is a chance to ‘break in’ to the ‘preferred’ tier of the NFL. I think the ‘Legion of Boom’ Seahawks pulled it off, and the Chiefs did it once the league realized how good the Mahomes+Reid combination would be.
It just takes sustained games like this. Where we play MULTIPLE prime time games, and look dang good doing it. If we play well on Monday Night Football and Thanksgiving, and win those, the narrative may begin to shift.
The team is young, and could string together a good run of years moving forward. So, I think that its POSSIBLE we get elevated into the upper tier. But it probably won’t be this year. We would need to continue to perform in the prime time games, and make noise in the playoffs. THEN, maybe we can see some of this BS stop happening next season.
It may also help us that the BS is SO clear. Like, the Juwaan Taylor alignments/false starts from the Chiefs game. The free play after the game clock expired yesterday. The shoulder pad which is somehow a facemask. Etc. When the ‘rules guys’ are calling it out on national broadcasts, that can make a difference. I just hope we get a fair shake when we are in late season games, and if we make the playoffs.
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2 quick answers to points.
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NFL put the Lions vs the Chiefs to open the season due to the following the Lions are getting from Hard Knocks. The NFL anticipated that the Lions would be the gritty, loveable losers that would put up a decent fight but eventually bow to the champs, and their golden child, Patrick Mahomes. They did not anticipate the Lions actually winning. That was still a game they allowed blatant cheating to take place until the very end of the game. Remember on that final Chiefs drive, the Lions were winning. There is no way those calls get made if the Chiefs were winning. Chiefs would be protected at all cost. So instead, after the Lions win, it’s all about those asterisks baby.
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You can indeed break into the upper tier. You just have to have something they want, a marketable commodity, especially at QB. Mahomes. Tom Brady. Josh Allen. Aaron Rodgers. Even Lamar Jackson. (but not due to his throwing…)
Fun excercise. Let’s say the Lions do win the Super Bowl this year. Watch how fast the NFL media talks about how they KNEW Jared Goff really WAS that guy. It will happen.
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