I don’t know how the season ultimately ends, but I am stunned by the level of disrespect our team is getting. The national narrative has decided, based on a small, flawed sample size, that it was all Ben Johnson.
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Which is to our advantage. Our team is the Incredible Hulk if Banner went green based off of disrespect rather than out of rage.
If the Lions are kicking ass the game day threads are awesome. If we are struggling or it’s a close game then it’s almost unbearable. My advice would be to use it however best works for you. It’s also hard to keep up sometimes because of the amount of replies and the den freezing up.
It depends. Does another team go up 3-0 on their first drive? If so, it’s doom and gloom the rest of the game, even when the Lions go up by a score or two.
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Haha sometimes. That’s why Nate created the Rage room last year. 
it was special thread to yell and scream in.
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I honestly dont remember that at all. I promise ill be better this year.
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Ill try
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but, there is flaming, click-bait, and rhetoric trash talking to, I’d say it doesn’t add up to much bud.
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Agreed. I expect us to have an excellent overall season. Again I don’t know how it will end - once the tourney starts anything can happen - but we will be quite good. With injury caveats, naturally.
Which is the whole point of the video for me. Our Lions finally did everything right. Two seasons of true greatness.
And it didn’t matter cause we’re cursed. The absolute worst of luck when it comes to injuries.
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I think it’s bad when we are making mistakes, the teams are really close on the scoreboard, our staff is calling the same old shit, the team isn’t really playing well together, we are getting burnt defensively , OR when an official is either trying to steer the game, OR making WTF calls—it is really bad in here-then.
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I don’t buy this argument of course. At the same time I just piled a bunch more data into my OC profiles on my app/site and Ben Johnson is #1 of all current offensive architects. 
Though small sample size guys tend to get a bump bc they’ve avoided the rotten injury riddled no QB kind of seasons which tank the rating. Johnson, Coen and Monken are 1,2,3 with Reid 4. Need to finish off my HC that called plays spreadsheet. The makes your eyes bleed part of the “job”. So that may move it a bit. For instance I know I already have a couple early Shanahan OC seasons misattributed to him when Kubiak was calling plays. But regardless Ben will be way up there and it’s not a SSS fluke like Ken Dorsy’s one Josh Allen carried season.
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Soooooo, pretty much the whole time the Lions and this board have been in existence? 
It does feel like that.
And I agree, if Arnold gets away with a slap on the wrist, comes back with the Jets or Bears or whomever, plays his ass off, and relishes going up against the Lions to prove a point…we are most emphatically still under the curse.
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I think it’s pretty clear Ben is a good offensive mind. Is he a good head coach? TBD, but his first year was excellent. He/they also caught a ton of breaks re: injury and one-score games/comebacks/turnovers - but teams that have good seasons usually do. Matt Nagy did too his first season. So we’ll have to see if it keeps up, but I have no reason to believe it won’t.
But that is independent of us and Dan, especially last year’s version, when everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and we STILL had a winning record. One of only 2 this century of teams who lost so many minutes to injury. The other? The 2024 Lions. Every other team who had so many injuries - including 3 Shanahan teams - had TERRIBLE seasons.
But that’s not very good content, so nobody mentions it.
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The Bears were very lucky. They will come back down to earth. Bank on it!
I’m not going to bank on it. But I will hope on it.
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Agreed, they were lucky. Not as good as their record said.
However they were also well-coached, and can add talent. I think they’ll fall back to earth some as well, but I don’t expect them to be bad unless injuries hammer them.