Grahamburn
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Luckily no creamsicle this time around.
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2025 Detroit Lions: Game 1 Lions vs Packers. (9 Viewers)
- Thread starter Da Guru
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BobbyLayne
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Rams-Lions averaged 38.5 million viewers across all platforms, the most-watched prime-time show since the Super Bowl.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Would imagine Tampa Bay will go with the pewter pants with white jerseys. 5-2 in that combo, only 2-2 in the all whites.
Detroit (Campbell) is very superstitious, they’ll wear the blueberries again. 6-0 with the Honolulu blue on blue with blue socks.
kutta
Footballguy
I love it when you post this stuff
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
@Leroy Hoard are we being disrespected here?
- 49ers +175
- Ravens +290
- Bills +500
- Chiefs +700
- Lions +900
- Buccs +2500
- Packers +2500
- Texans +2800
The Bills are probably the most overrated and the Packers are probably being the most disrespected.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
That is going to be a parking/traffic disaster for RedWing fans.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Hopefully next season the go with the new blue helmet with the all blues. Ditch the dirty greys forever!
massraider
Footballguy
SPIN on Instagram
The way the entire crowd in Detroit started rapping “Lose Yourself” in unison after the video board showed @eminem on the screen. Lions on the...
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Lions fans reaction after Eminem appears on the JumboTron
ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
I always loved the metallic silver numbers on their uniforms in the '80s. Is it true they had to ditch them because opponents found it distracting?
Capella
Footballguy
The Lions blue on blue are horrible. Change the pants!
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Yeah I think next year they have big changes to the uniform (I think, not sure but thought they announced that) and the blue helmets will match up better.
Does anyone know if the new alt helmet will become the new full time helmet? With the retro logo...
I like the alt color rush, still have a Kerryon and Slay Jr in the pajama gray, but seems to be a minority opinion.
One thing I have never bought is a road white. We're going to two games next year, one in Detroit and one away.
Def need more swag.
Sheesh, when I was growing up, even though I loved the team, I would cringe when I would see guys wearing Lions jackets or license plate holders or any Lions man cave stuff. Lions gear seemed kind of lame. Dude....do you ever travel? You know this is a poverty franchise? Low key loyalty, alright, that's me, but going all in when you know they're never gonna change? Just stick to jerseys bc it's just sad you identify with failure.
Probably why I gravitated to U of M and Bo Schembechler, at least I was supporting one winner.
But since the kids came along in the late 90s, I've been Lions only, not enough time to follow all the sports I did when it was just me. Grateful we saw two amazing World Series teams, three NBA Finals champs, four Stanley Cups, Michigan football + basketball. Always had our fair share of titles. But the Lions were a big ole hole in the heart lol.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
8 straight wins wearing the blueberries the last two years.
Think they went undefeated in the icy whites (white on white) last year and were 4-0 in them this year until the Greek tragedy in Dallas.
EDIT: also haven't lost in the color rush grays; so all three same color combos are undefeated
Their other four losses, they were wearing mix and match - Blue top gray pants, white top blue pants, et al.
Not saying there's anything to any of that but if it makes players doubt avoid it, if it gives them confidence roll with it.
Capella
Footballguy
Yea the Bucs did this shtick in 2021 - something like 5 straight playoff wins in the white tops and pewter pants. And then Bowles gambled on a stupid blitz with 50 seconds left and Stafford hit Kupp for 50 yards and the clothing didn’t matter.
BobbyLayne
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Ford Field officially topped out at 133.6 decibels during the Lions first playoff win in over 30 years.
This would place Ford Field as the 4th Loudest NFL Stadium in recorded history.
This would place Ford Field as the 4th Loudest NFL Stadium in recorded history.
- Arrowhead Stadium, 2014: 142.2 db
- Lumen Field, 2013: 137.6 db
- Caesar’s Superdome, 2013: 136.6 db
- Ford Field, 2024: 133.6 db
Hard to believe those numbers. 9 dB is like an order of magnitude more sound power. 6 dB in SPL corresponds to a doubling of sound power. 142 dB is louder than most jet engines. I am guessing they were measuring a peak SPL level versus an average/rms SPL measurement today.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
MCDC presser
- Can’t think about what we’ve “accomplished”, we got 3 more, have to just lock in
- Bucs are a better team than when we faced them, but so are we
- TB is kind of similar, started off good, hit a rough patch, now they’re one of the hottest teams
- Bowles keeps them steady, never panics, they’re playing with a lot of confidence
- There’s things we do we’ll never go away from but the sledgehammer on the steel door ain’t gonna work. They got Vita Vea, we want to be smart but we’re also not going to drop back 50 times.
- Our defense has to show up
- All the reliable guys have to be reliable: Monty & Gibbs, Saint, LaPorta. This is a championship defense & we need everybody involved.
- Talked about the role of having three mental health specialists available to both the players & coaches.
- LaPorta was impressive, wasn’t 100% but he contributed, & feeling a lot better this week. If we thought he could have a setback we wouldn’t have put him out there.
- Had a funny story about going to scout an OU TE and Baker came out in flip flops. But he’s the ultimate teammate, great leadership.
- Kerby Joseph - he’s not a dirty player but we do hit people.
- We spend a lot of time going over situational football, especially with the young players. “If so-and-so does this what are you going to do.” Get them thinking about it so when the moment comes in game they know what to do.
TartanLion
Footballguy
I was wondering about this and was going to try and research it so thank you for this and for your continued work to this thread !!
msudaisy26
Footballguy
If anything the Ravens are being disrespected. Everything else is pretty close.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Just thinking back over the last week and what was probably the best football week ever for the people of Metro Detroit and the state of Michigan. Michigan Wolverines winning the National Title and the Detroit Lions winning a playoff game for the first time in over 30 years. 
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
| Player | Position | Injury | Wednesday* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Ragnow | C | knee/back/toe/rest | NP |
| Kalif Raymond | WR | knee | NP |
| Alex Anzalone | LB | shoulder | LP |
| Brian Branch | DB | knee | FP |
| James Houston** | LB | ankle | FP |
| Kerby Joseph | S | knee | FP |
| Sam LaPorta | TE | knee | FP |
| Brock Wright | TE | hip | FP |
The Lions conducted a walkthrough on Wednesday. Practice participation designations for that day are based on estimations.
** Currently on Reserve/Injured
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
UPDATE
Alex Anzalone reached out to the two brothers. Chopped it up with them and gave them two tickets from his allotment.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Fire up Chips!
So happy to see how much progress Luke has made this year after a rough stretch his rookie year. Goedeke + Wirfs are every bit as good as Decked & Sewell, if not better. Your tackles are 25 and 24, set it & forget it for the rest of the decade.
Luke played
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
PFF OT Grades
- Pass Pro
- Wirfs 1st
- Decker 7th
- Sewell 9th
- Goedeke 12th
- Run Blocking
- Sewell 1st*
- Wirfs 7th
- Decker 9th (t)
- Goedeke 9th (t)
- Overall
- Sewell 1st
- Wirfs 3rd
- Decker 6th
- Goedeke 11th
Grahamburn
Footballguy
Great game if you're a fan of line play!
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
I’m a huge OL nerd, I can’t see coverages until I get the All 22 midweek so I always focus on blocking schemes, how often we run gap counter or duo or double tap to the second level. Pass pro protection gets really complex, I love the chess match.
I never watch the ball, I’lll catch it on the replay.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Love it. He gets in other teams heads.
ETA - I get you, @Da Guru (#blueskimask) - but that’s what you get with CJGJ. He ain’t changing and Campbell lets his guys be themselves. Authenticity is a huge part of their ethos.
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Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Maybe, just don`t see the need at this point. Kind of stupid as Mayfield had his best season ever. Tamps was projected as a 4-5 win team and now is in the second rd of the playoffs.
ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
All this talk of moons and uniforms is superstitious nonsense. Everyone knows the only relevant factor is whether I’m wearing my lucky Lions cap, which I forgot to put on before the Dallas game but kept on throughout the wildcard, even though by the end I was lying in bed in my boxers.
You’re welcome
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msudaisy26
Footballguy
Anyone can talk trash after they win. Doing it before is more difficult.
King of the Jungle
Footballguy
Agree, I am a let your play do the talking. Good response on the subject from Mayfield.
Mayfield & Chatty
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
POV walkabout video
Walk up to the Stadium from over by LCA, walking in between the stadiums, about 20 minutes of the pregame atmosphere, warmups, the Jared chants, booing #9, Penei firing up the team, Chad Smith drumming, the light show, Dan Miller calls, Eminem, MCDC videos, player introductions.
So happy @kutta made the pilgrimage, guess the rest of us have to settle for living vicariously.
Last 20 minutes is in game and postgame.
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Oh, dude put timestamps in his description:
Video highlights:
Walk up to the Stadium from over by LCA, walking in between the stadiums, about 20 minutes of the pregame atmosphere, warmups, the Jared chants, booing #9, Penei firing up the team, Chad Smith drumming, the light show, Dan Miller calls, Eminem, MCDC videos, player introductions.
So happy @kutta made the pilgrimage, guess the rest of us have to settle for living vicariously.
Last 20 minutes is in game and postgame.
EDIT
Oh, dude put timestamps in his description:
Video highlights:
- Fans cheer Packers touchdown over Cowboys on the big screen: 6:47
- Calvin Johnson sighting: 7:23
- Jared Goff enters the field to a thunderous roar: 12:10
- Stadium erupts in "Jared Goff' chants: 13:20
- Stafford and Rams run onto the field to chorus of boos: 13:45
- Penei Sewell hypes team up in final pregame huddle: 15:37
- Chad Smith of 'Red Hot Chili Peppers' performs on field: 17:02
- Rams introduced to field: 18:05
- Lions entrance video: 18:35
- Lions player introductions: 20:05
- National anthem: 24:12
- Coin toss: 26:15
- Opening kickoff: 27:17
- David Montgomery rushes for Lions first touchdown: 29:32
- 'Forward Down the Field': 30:10
- Barry Sanders introduced to Ford Field crowd: 30:42
- Fans get loud for the defense: 31:35
- Lions defense makes stop on third down to force FG: 32:50
- Jahmyr Gibbs rushes for Lions second touchdown: 33:24
- Eminem hypes Ford Field up with appearance: 34:00
- Stafford makes huge conversion on 3rd-and 15: 35:10
- Seven Nation Army: 35:49
- Goff connects with Sam LaPorta for Lions third touchdown: 36:05
- Lions defense forces a punt: 36:42
- Fans chant "We Will Rock You": 39:37
- NBC booth: 40:45
- Jared Goff's final kneel down to clinch Lions victory: 40:55
- Postgame celebration in final 7 minutes of this video.
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msudaisy26
Footballguy
Depends. If we are talking this year I would put Lamar at the top and Goff behind Stroud and even with Purdy.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Awesome.
Hard to see the field intensity when watching on TV. This gives you a little more insight.
Years ago my boss at Ford who was the regional VP got field passes for a game against the Bears and asked me if I wanted to go. Hell yes!!
At the time both the Lions and Bears were no good but we were able to stand about 15 yards down from where the players are. There were 8 of us total but we did not know the other people. Before the game they came over giving us instructions. Basically it was don`t get closer than 3 yards to the sidelines, and most importantly "NEVER turn your back to the field when they play is live, start moving back if the play is coming toward you"
On TV the game looks physical, but when you are down on the field it is much faster and more violent. The players never quit pursuing when chasing a play. These vids give us a better feel of the actual game.
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Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Good work Bobby!
Wish TV would show some different angles like these vids. On the LaPorta TV I was thinking Goff was throwing into a tight window, but from behind you can see Goff waiting and LaPorta breaking free!
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
What I love about that play is the Rams rolled their coverage right into the primary and Jared stays so calm; almost 3 seconds before he pulls the trigger bc he had to wait on Sam to come across. Easy peasy, they were torching #97 (Hoect) all night long.
Bucs are going to be a tougher challenge. They match up well.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Ram players have told former Ram QB Baker Mayfield that Ford Field was the loudest stadium they ever have played in.
So just how loud was Ford Field on Sunday? It hit 133.6 decibels, which broke the previous record for the Lions' home stadium by over 5 decibels, according to MLive.
So just how loud was Ford Field on Sunday? It hit 133.6 decibels, which broke the previous record for the Lions' home stadium by over 5 decibels, according to MLive.
So yeah, it was pretty deafening in that building on Sunday.
massraider
Footballguy
Jared Goff's splits vs. the blitz @FantasyPtsData
When Goff is not blitzed:
Completing 70.8% of his passes (+4.7% above expectation) for 7.9 YPA and a 108.6 passer rating
Goff’s 108.6 rating – when he’s not blitzed – ranks 2nd-best behind Brock Purdy (115).
When blitzed:
Completing 61.5% of his throws (-2.0% below expected) for 7.1 YPA and a 78.4 rating (30th-of-41 QBs)
** Over their last 10 games, Tampa Bay is blitzing their opponents on 47% of their pass plays
When Goff is not blitzed:
Completing 70.8% of his passes (+4.7% above expectation) for 7.9 YPA and a 108.6 passer rating
Goff’s 108.6 rating – when he’s not blitzed – ranks 2nd-best behind Brock Purdy (115).
When blitzed:
Completing 61.5% of his throws (-2.0% below expected) for 7.1 YPA and a 78.4 rating (30th-of-41 QBs)
** Over their last 10 games, Tampa Bay is blitzing their opponents on 47% of their pass plays
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Any James Houston update?
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
James Houston activated.
www.prideofdetroit.com
Lions EDGE James Houston activated from injured reserve, could play vs. Bucs
The Detroit Lions have activated pass-rushing specialist James Houston from injured reserve, making him eligible to play Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
www.prideofdetroit.com
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