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Five Things to Know About Lions Starting Quarterback Tim Boyle

Lions quarterback Tim Boyle will make his first NFL start Sunday against the Browns, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

He will get the start in place of quarterback Jared Goff, who is still recovering from an oblique injury he suffered last week against the Steelers. It is unclear if Goff will be active.

Boyle is looking to lead the Lions to their first victory of the season Sunday. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. ET. Here's what you should know about the team's new starting quarterback. 

Boyle has thrown four passes in the regular season throughout his NFL career

Boyle has played in 11 games, but he has thrown just four career passes. All four attempts came in November 2019, when he entered during a lopsided Week 12 game against the 49ers

He went undrafted in 2018 after a college career at two schools

Boyle spent his first three seasons at UConn, playing in 25 games, but never starting more than four in any season. He then transferred to Eastern Kentucky, where he started all 11 games as a redshirt senior. At Eastern Kentucky, he threw for more than 2,100 yards and 11 touchdowns.

Boyle is familiar with the NFC North

Prior to joining the Lions, Boyle, 27, had spent the past three seasons with the Packers.

He is coming off an injury of his own

Boyle signed a one-year deal with Detroit this offseason but broke his thumb during training camp and had to miss eight weeks. In the lead-up to Sunday's start, he had to be activated off injured reserve in order to be available to play.

He could also start on Thanksgiving vs. the Bears

Depending on how Boyle performs Sunday, he could also be the team's starter on Thanksgiving Day against the Bears. The Lions play Chicago on a quick turnaround and, per ESPN, it is considered unlikely Goff will recover in time for that contest.
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The Lions plan to start Tim Boyle in Week 11 against the Browns.

Tim Boyle is a third-year player, who went undrafted out of Eastern Kentucky. He has four career passing attempts. It's probably not going to go great. Although, Jared Goff was horrible while attempting to play through an oblique injury against the Steelers, so Boyle shouldn't be seen as a major downgrade for the Lions' offense. Of course, this is a passing game that most recently saw T.J. Hockenson produce zero receiving yards, while D'Andre Swift had just five receiving yards. Boyle will take on a struggling Browns defense, and offers the Lions at least a glimmer of hope compared to an injured Goff.

SOURCE: Adam Schefter on Twitter

Nov 19, 2021, 1:20 PM ET
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ESPN's Adam Schefter confirms Tim Boyle will start the Lions' Week 11 game against the Browns. 

This was the safe assumption when Jared Goff was listed as "doubtful" with his oblique injury, but Schefter is reporting it is official. 27-year-old Boyle will be on a doomed mission vs. the Browns' decent-ish pass defense with nary a receiver to throw to. With the Lions operating as embarrassing 12.5-point road underdogs, Boyle is going to be in position to commit two-plus turnovers and take who knows how many sacks. Fire up Cleveland's D/ST. 

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Jared Goff

SOURCE: Adam Schefter on Twitter 

Nov 20, 2021, 11:51 PM ET
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ESPN's Adam Schefter reports it is "considered unlikely" that Jared Goff (oblique) is able to play in Week 12 against the Bears.

Goff is officially listed as doubtful for Week 11 but Schefter has already reported him as out. With the Lions playing on Thanksgiving next week, the short turnaround is doing Goff no favors. He'll likely be out until Week 13 but Schefter noted that the belief around the league is that Detroit's quarterback situation in this season and beyond is in flux. Boyle, who threw 12 touchdowns and 26 interceptions in college, seems like a longshot to change Detroit's long-term plans at quarterback. He could steal the job from Goff but his lackluster pedigree makes even that feel suspect. Boyle's presence makes the Browns defense and Nick Chubb the most appealing pieces of the Cleveland/Detroit affair. 

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Tim Boyle

SOURCE: ESPN

Nov 21, 2021, 8:51 AM ET
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Can’t imagine Boyle will turn out to be  lightning in a bottle, but on the other hand, it’s a very low bar to be worse than Goff has been.

 
Wow, am I ever starting the Cleveland defense where I've got them. Two leagues! Hahahahaha. 

Watch, he'll go 20-30 for 250 and a touchdown or two. 

 
Tim Boyle completed 15-of-23 passes for 77 scoreless yards and two interceptions in the Lions' 13-10, Week 11 loss to the Browns.

Making the start in place of an injured Jared Goff, Boyle's first career start went even worse than one could imagine, even though the Browns tried to give the Lions the win. Boyle was an interception-throwing vending machine in college and picked up right where he left off in this one while averaging a pitiful 3.3 yards per attempt. T.J. Hockenson accounted for 51 of Boyle's passing yards. Boyle is expected to get the Thanksgiving start against the Bears, but Detroit could reevaluate things after this performance.

Nov 21, 2021, 4:52 PM ET
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Bears D is banged up, and hasn't been great this year. Easy top-5 defense if Boyle is starting though. Lions would have literally been better off not calling a single passing play.

ETA: The Lions might be wise to just not have a QB this week if Goff can't go. Just 100% wildcat with Swift and Williams. 

 
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stlrams said:
He is in the nfl because he is 6-4, 230 lbs and has a cannon arm.  Besides he grew up right next to me.  
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Could he throw the ball clean over both houses?

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They didn’t ask him to do much of anything yesterday. Misread an option route to Swift for his interception. Not totally his fault, he didn’t play or practice for 11 weeks and other last week, he never had reps with the starters. Took a shot to Josh Reynolds who made no effort to make a play on th3 ball for interception #2.

I read where the Lions were DFL in average distance per pass (around 4.4 yards past the LOS on 23 attempts.) As with the Steelers game, they ran on 3rd & long (7-14 yards yesterday) at least 4 rimes. It’s a junior varsity game plan being executed by USFAs who are barely NFL caliber talent outside od Hock & Swift.

Goff threw a little yesterday and was limited in today’s walk through. Looking like Boyle will be the starter on Thanksgiving.

The defense is playing well and the O line is outstanding at run blocking. But man is that offense painful to watch. Rookie Amon-Ra St Brown is their best WR and he probably wouldn’t be in the top 4 on most rosters.

 
NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports Tim Boyle is expected to start in the Jets’ Week 12 matchup against the Dolphins.

This is what it’s come to. The Jets have finally pulled the plug on Zach Wilson — at least for one week — as they now move on to Boyle. Boyle threw for a whopping 33 yards on 14 pass attempts in relief of Wilson in Week 11, and will now have a chance to make his fourth career start on Friday against the Dolphins. Boyle is 0-3 as a starter over his career, and has thrown for 607 yards, three touchdowns, and nine interceptions on 120 career passes. It sounds crazy to suggest a quarterback other than Zach Wilson could be a major downgrade for all of the Jets’ offensive weapons, but that’s likely to be the case with Boyle now at the helm.
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BobbyLayne said:
Rookie Amon-Ra St Brown is their best WR and he probably wouldn’t be in the top 4 on most rosters.
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this is from two years ago but I just want to reiterate how terrible I am at evaluating Detroit Lion players as FF assets


Boyle is horrendous. Jets fans should be holding protests demanding the GM resign immediately for not making a move for a quarterback 10 weeks ago when they had options and the season could still be saved.
 
Rich Eisen
I can not believe what I just saw.

A 99-yard Hail Mary Pick Six.

Tim Boyle’s first TD pass as a Jet.
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Awful Announcing
Here's Jets QB Tim Boyle throwing a hail mary pick-six.

"Can you believe this?! That is insanity! That's as crazy as anything you'll ever see!"- Al Michaels

"If there's ever a play that embodies an entire season, this is it for the New York Jets."- Kirk Herbstreit
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Dizzy said:
On to Jeff Siemian
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Trevor, but point taken

at this point Saleh is just trying to give the defense enough hopium they don't completely pack it in

"well at least our quarterback won't lose the game for us now"

if you get them to buy into that for like six quarters you're way ahead than if you had stuck with Zach
 
greyhorse said:
Just got announced by Saleh that he's starting again next week. Wilson really must be in the doghouse.
Here's to hoping Boyle keeps the job until week 15 to face Miami defense again!
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Make sense. Saleh stayed with Wilson instead of improving his team. Might as well give Boyle the same unnecessary and absurdly long leash.
 
greyhorse said:
Just got announced by Saleh that he's starting again next week. Wilson really must be in the doghouse.
Here's to hoping Boyle keeps the job until week 15 to face Miami defense again!
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Now that he’s seen them once, he’ll make the correct adjustments in the rematch.

OK, I’m not buying it either.
 
I never seen a QB project that was just terrible in college, start in the NFL. Bold strategy, Cotton, I hope it works it works out for them.

The closest i can come up with is Matt Cassel. Cassel couldn't get on the field due to the high calibre competition at USC.

I am very intrigued by the Boyle experiment.
 
Donnybrook said:
I never seen a QB project that was just terrible in college, start in the NFL. Bold strategy, Cotton, I hope it works it works out for them.

The closest i can come up with is Matt Cassel. Cassel couldn't get on the field due to the high calibre competition at USC.

I am very intrigued by the Boyle experiment.
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Kudos to this kid. Was terrible at UConn and transferred to some small school, sat out a year, and played mediocre in his only season. But somehow made the Packers as an undrafted free agent. This guy has parlayed a below average skillset (based on NFL ability) into a job that is paying him over $1 million a year. We can all see that he's not fit to be an NFL starting QB, but that's why he's normally carrying the clipboard with a clean uniform and wearing a headset. His college major was "general studies", whatever the heck that is. So without this NFL backup career, he'd likely be working at some menial 9 to 5, paycheck to paycheck job.

But that's where the praise ends. I hope he convinces Saleh that he's better than Siemian and also Wilson. But does it matter? I think the takeaway from yesterday is to stream any defense against the Jets.

As an aside, I find it interesting that Aaron Rodgers is sitting shoulder to shoulder with Zach Wilson, continuing this weird bromance. Maybe Aaron was serious about wanting to take Zach under his wing, which is in direct contrast to his comments when Jordan Love came onboard. Different situation, I know. But shouldn't Aaron be trying to you know, help the ACTUAL starting QB for that week's game by giving him tips based on what he sees from his vast experience? Instead, it seems he would rather be shooting the $hit with a cap wearing pretty boy and likely talking about women in the stands and what club they're going to hit that night?
 
Donnybrook said:
The closest i can come up with is Matt Cassel. Cassel couldn't get on the field due to the high calibre competition at USC.
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If ever there was a “system QB” that parlayed their shot in a great system to a lucrative contract it was Matt Cassel.

Didn’t he win 10 or 11 games for the Pats when Brady went down? Went to KC & went 4-11, then 10-4 IIRC, but didn’t look good doing it.
 
Donnybrook said:
I never seen a QB project that was just terrible in college, start in the NFL. Bold strategy, Cotton, I hope it works it works out for them.

The closest i can come up with is Matt Cassel. Cassel couldn't get on the field due to the high calibre competition at USC.

I am very intrigued by the Boyle experiment.
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Small sample size lol.
 
BladeRunner said:
I have no idea why Saleh still has a job at this point.
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Salah is not the GM. O-Line is horrible. That leads to bad QB play.

Rodgers is hurt, Boyle has no skills and can`t play, Wilson has all the skills and can`t play. Good D but it can`t hold up with all the 3 and outs.
 
Hot Sauce Guy said:
Donnybrook said:
The closest i can come up with is Matt Cassel. Cassel couldn't get on the field due to the high calibre competition at USC.
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If ever there was a “system QB” that parlayed their shot in a great system to a lucrative contract it was Matt Cassel.

Didn’t he win 10 or 11 games for the Pats when Brady went down? Went to KC & went 4-11, then 10-4 IIRC, but didn’t look good doing it.
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Yep. He carved out a 14 year 65 million dollar career from that one year in New England. Well done buddy.
 
Donnybrook said:
Aaron Rodgers has been a terrible GM for the Jets, so far. Assuming he influenced the signings of Hackett, Cobb, Lizard and Boyle.
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I'm with you on this one. Reportedly had this list of needs, selling it with the "I won MVP twice" which he STILL employs weekly on McAfee show.

Who knows, Rogers may have had a hand in influencing the "no backup QB" plan NYJ went into the season with.
 
Da Guru said:
BladeRunner said:
I have no idea why Saleh still has a job at this point.
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Salah is not the GM. O-Line is horrible. That leads to bad QB play.

Rodgers is hurt, Boyle has no skills and can`t play, Wilson has all the skills and can`t play. Good D but it can`t hold up with all the 3 and outs.
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I'm really more talking about sticking with Wilson as long as he did. That's just gross negligence or dereliction of duty, IMO.
 
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