UGB: USELESS GREEN BAY: GBU Thread.

[edindetroit]

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[froot loops]

That was sweet.

[Mainevent]

The Lions know that they are good.

This is one quietly cocky SOB. Ha!

Was definitely one of the wettest games, from the standpoint of water, that we’ve ever seen.

[edindetroit]

[whatever_gong82]

When I get home from work in a few hours, I'll post some of the Athletic and Freep/News articles.

[SnowMeiser]

During the Miami/Buffalo game, Poyer had pretty much the exact same hit as Branch did and yet he wasn't ejected Hmmmmmm. Someone in NY is a packer fan. Previous years, the Lions may have folded, but these days I feel they rallied around it and won.

Sorry I can't find a clip to attach

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[El Axe]

Played without Jamo, BB, Paschal & Rodrigo, who will all likely return next week. Looks like we will add Za'darius Smith. Maybe get Cominskey in a few weeks

Quote on Cominsky back on 8/29 when he was placed on IR:

"I don’t have a crystal ball in terms of when it will be, but we’ve had enough conversations that we feel good and we know the player well enough how he’s going to attack his rehab that we feel good that hopefully later in the season, that we’ll have him really probably right when we need him," Holmes said.

[NewOrleansLion]

This is a quote from the guy who couldn’t snap the ball to his QB today:

”"I feel like the team that executed today won," Jenkins said. "The best team didn't win, honestly.”

Genius.

[Marko69]

Sheila: “Great win, Dan.”
MCDC: “Yeah but those a$$holes in NY. I’m gonna kick their a$$ in the presser, man!”
Sheila: “The hell you are NOT! Now put this NFL sweater on and keep your mouth shut, ye hear! BE NICE!”
MCDC: “Awwwwwww! Hmmmph! Ok then!”

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[Iron Lion]

G: MCDC's insistence on the cleats reminds me of that road game at Philly under the Schwartz where he seemed to not give much consideration to it, and the 2nd half our D had no footing whatsoever.

Kerby's pick-6 of course. Effectively ended the game, and then the Gibbs run in the third was the nail in the coffin. The halftime hangovers of last year (which kept us out of the Super Bowl) seem to be gone.

Stating the obvious but this coaching staff is simply phenomenal. We pick guys up off the street and put them out there and they are playing clean efficient football.

Not sure if this belongs in the "good" or "bad" but we've been outgained by 150ish yards in each of the last two games and yet won very comfortably each time.

B: The pass rush. Hopefully we don't just trade for one guy. Get at least two decent guys. Give up 3rd, 4th, and 5th if you have to.

U: The BS ejection.

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Lions make a statement on misty grounds of football royalty: They're the class of the NFC

Paywall article from the Freep.

Shawn Windsor
Detroit Free Press



GREEN BAY, Wis. — They can take your soul at home and on the road, in the dry and in the deluge, and they’ll do it during the day or night.

They enjoy this business of marauding through the division that used to torture them, and it’s even sweeter when the hometown crowd files out shaking their collective head.

You can almost hear them saying it.

Really? The Lions?

Yeah, the Lions.



The new bullies of the North. What other fanbase is taking over stadiums and chanting the name of their quarterback as the seconds wind down?

No one, of course. That privilege is all yours, Lions fans, and it happened once more on Sunday, with the last resolute blow a slide by one half of the Lions’ two-headed attack at running back. David Montgomery took a checkdown pass with 2 minutes left and slid near the 10-yard line, and Jared Goff got to kneel it out from there as the Lions beat the Packers 24-14.

There was no reason to score — the message had long been sent.


These Lions are where their rivals used to be, and if you want more proof of this new world order, check out what happened Sunday afternoon at Lambeau Field, where the best team in the NFC played smart, mostly mistake-free football in the driving rain and vise-gripped its hold of the NFC North.

Yes, the best team in the NFC. That’s clear after they outflanked and outperformed the Packers from the moment the game began.

The Packers used to do this to Detroit on the regular, find ways to win even when they weren’t at their best and wait for the Lions to beat themselves. Well, that doesn’t happen to the Honolulu Blue anymore.



They’re a different outfit, with goals that crystallize by the week. Twice now, these Lions have gone on the road and knocked off their chief competition in the division. And twice, they’ve made a statement, which is this:

We can win in many ways, and if you’d like to self-implode, have at it.

The Packers nearly doubled the Lions in yardage and scoring chances and tripled them in foolishness. Yes, the rain contributed to Green Bay’s misery, and surely the drops. Six, by my count, though perhaps there were more.


Never mind the bungled snaps, there were three of those, including back-to-back mishandled snaps that stalled yet another drive. The Lions happily took advantage.

If the game were won between the red zones, then the Packers would have an argument, but it’s not, and the Lions, once again, made the plays near the end zone.



No sequence was slicker than the end of Detroit’s first drive, when it faced fourth-and-5 from the Green Bay's 5, and Dan Campbell kept his offense on the field.

Campbell had no plan to let Jared Goff snap the ball. Instead, he and his offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson, called for Amon-Ra St. Brown to motion along the line of scrimmage, and then for Goff to reach his hands toward the center from the shotgun spot.

The reach worked. Green Bay bit. The Lions moved half the distance to the goal. From there, on the 3-yard-line, Johnson called a sideline end zone route to St. Brown.



He ran out toward the flat, stopped, turned back for a moment, then kept going toward the sideline. He faked his defender back to Milwaukee, and when the defender recovered, St. Brown had position near the sideline.

Goff lofted it into the only window he could. St. Brown leapt, dipped his toes into the grass, and gave the Lions a lead they never gave away.



The two-play sequence was both high chess and gutsy, and it made sense, because so is the team and so are the coaches who lead it.

Campbell talked about Lambeau as a kind of cathedral and late fall football as the kind the Creator envisioned. He guessed the game — "America's Game of the Week," if you believe the network that broadcast it — would come down to a single play.

Or mistake.

Or savviness.



It might have, if the Lions weren’t so good at making multiple defining plays in games like these, and a good thing, too, because it’s easier to hide the plays that might have been defining in a different way, such as when Brian Branch got kicked out of the game in the second quarter.

On second-and-20, Green Bay’s talented-but-uneven quarterback, Jordan Love, threw down the left sideline to Bo Melton and missed him.



Branch led with his helmet before trying to turn away at the last moment. He cracked Melton head-first and was called for a personal foul before later being ejected. When the news was announced in the stadium, Branch sprinted to officials to protest, and when he finally backed away, he flipped the double-bird in the air.

The refs called another unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. The Lions lost another 15 yards.


Branch will surely regret the flipping of birds, but probably not the passion that led to it. He is as quiet as they come in the locker room, and just as fierce on the field. He is partly why the defense has made enough plays in the absence of Aidan Hutchinson, among others.



But he is not the only one making plays, or capable of making the play. They come from everywhere, at anytime.

Sunday at Lambeau was the latest proof.



Contact Shawn Windsor: swindsor@freepress.com. Follow him@shawnwindsor.

[DanO]

"Branch will surely regret the flipping of birds,"
---------------I doubt it. If they lost yes. Not now. It was a well deserved gesture.