Does anyone think they will?
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Let’s put this in perspective. The Packers needed a last second field goal to win against a Lions team that has 11 starters on IR and a 12th starter off on bereavement leave. They are, indeed, the worst 13-3 team in NFL history. They dont look like a playoff survivor at all. I am guessing they will get bounced in their first game.
This may have been the perfect Lions game. They got to push the Pack around a bit, exposing weaknesses and still managed to secure the loss, holding on to at worst the 3rd pick in the draft.
I do like how they lost in true Lions fashion, though. They are forced to punt with 1:20 on the clock. The punt is great, putting the Pack back on their own 17. On the next play they pull off the famous lets get a personal foul so our opponent has a much better shot play. It was perfectly executed. A few pass plays later, the Pack is all set up for the game winner… which they almost but not quit bonk off the upright. Now that’s how you finish a must lose situation!
If the Patriots get bounced out of the first round by Ryan Fucking Tannehill I might expire.
“Super Bowl Contender” Cowboys fail to even make playoffs. Oh well back to Cabo Ezekiel.
As a St. Louisan I am well pleased that the Duopoly of Evil, Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke, didn’t make the playoffs.
Do you still have Bidwell hate?
I got over that. His son Michael started running the team and he’s a better fellow. Bill Bidwill was more frustrating than anything. He was cheap and didn’t like to pay his players or coaches. The team for the most part drafted poorly yet he never replaced his draft manager, He ran out of town the best coach the Cardinals ever had in St. Louis, Don Coryell. I never felt he lied the way Kroenke lied, however. I didn’t really fault him for moving the team though it made me unhappy. St. Louis refused to help him with a new stadium.
Probably for the best. He seemed in over his head. Mayfield seemed to go backwards, but that may have been because he was trying to do too much.
Yeah, Bidwell was up front and honest to the city of St. Louis and its civic leaders: he could not compete with other NFL clubs if the Big Red had to keep playing in Busch Stadium. The revenue lost on not having luxury suites, premium seating, etc. meant that he couldn’t compete with other clubs playing in stadiums with those revenue sources.
And he was right about that. 100%.
For the St. Louis folks, however, they had the owner of a football team who was making almost zero effort to put a quality team on the field. It’s very hard to ask for public money (which was how it was done in a lot of places in the 1980s) for a new stadium when the team is having almost farcical, joke drafts each spring, doing stunt casting for coaches (Bud Wilkinson. Really?) and generally running the operation like some sort of minor league Hooterville Football team.
And they were right about that. 100%.
And it didn’t help things that St. Louis City/County divide decided to rear its ugly head here (a recurring theme for Gateway City denizens.) The City wanted a downtown stadium. The County – who’d be putting up a lot of the financing for such a thing, were it to occur – wanted a domed stadium in Earth City (which would’ve been hilarious, because Earth City, which is an industrial park just on the other side of the Missouri River from St. Charles, completely flooded in 1993 and stayed largely submerged and dealing with traffic issues as a result until well into the football season that year.
In the end, the city did what they had to do, and played hardball with an owner trying to run a mom-and-pop team on the cheap in the emerging, modern NFL. The owner of that team picked them up and moved them to a better revenue situation.
And then the owner got really lucky by having a son who knew how to run a football team in the modern NFL.
Yeah, I get all that completely and agree. Those Jim Hart/Dierdorf/Dobler Cardiac Cards were fantastic. I still have a soft spot for them. Imagine if Coryell had then gotten OJ Anderson. Who wasted so many years Barry Sanders-like there. I miss the Football/Baseball Cards together in St. Louis.
It looks like that button is broken.
Maybe, but they’ve hardly pressed it.
Its broken. Need a new controller.
That I’ll agree with. Not happy with the play calling. I know they have plenty of injuries, but Wilson looks so lost out there, which isn’t normal. And pass blocking is better tonight than last week, thanks to Fant playing instead of Jones.
Surprised to have a chance to win this game.
Seahawks kill themselves with clock mismanagement.
The refs also killed them, deliberately, by continuing their petty rebellion against the rules that make pass interference reviewable.
Edit: I guess a case can be made this should be offsetting OPI and DPI, if the ball was in the air when the receiver charged into the defender…still not an excuse not to even review it.
