fortdetroit

Yes, his teams have been so bad over the years. Here are the league rankings of his scoring defenses he has had to work with since joining the Ravens: 1st, 3rd, 19th, 2nd, 3rd, 2nd. The one season in his career he didn't have a friggin top 3 defense and it was ONLY below average, he missed the playoffs, what a surprise. I've sure all of those top 3 defenses required tons of dragging by Lamar just to get to the playoffs. It's hard to win games when your defense gives up an entire 17 points for sure.

The Lamar Jackson stuff is hilarious. I was talking about QBs who can carry their teams. That’s a Rodgers, Brady, Peyton, Mahomes type. Jackson does not fall into the same category. He’s had an elite defense for years but always loses in the playoffs because he plays like ***. No thanks.

There are typically only one or two QBs in the league at any given time who can truly carry a team. If you hold out for ONLY those types of guys you’re most likely going to be searching for a QB for 20 years.

The Lions had the worst defense in the league in 2022. They went 9-8 (same record as Love last year). To end that season, Goff had an 11 game stretch of 18 TD/1 INT, 260 ypg, 104 rating while the Lions went 8-3. The only games the Lions lost during this stretch were a 4 point loss to Miami where the defense gave up 476 yards, a 3 point loss to Buffalo on a last second field goal, and a loss to Carolina (bad) where the defense gave up 320 yards rushing and 570 total yards (lolz).

Baker is definitely cheaper, but is also clearly a tier below Goff IMO. and I like Baker.

Sewell legit has a chance to go down as one of the best linemen in NFL history.

Hilarious that in his athletic prime he ends up going for a 6th round pick after we had to listen to bears fans and other fields fanboys try to gaslight us into thinking he was a good qb for the past 2 years.

All his high TD% tells me is that he has to rely on running it to be able to move the ball down the field because he rarely passes the ball. Oddly enough, if he was actually a good reliable passer he would have more passing attempts and less rushing attempts to move the ball, leading to his TD% looking “worse.” What’s more impressive from a passing standpoint? Fields leading an 80 yard drive that ends with a passing TD where he goes 3/4 passing for 28 yards? Or Fields leading an 80 yard drive than ends with a passing TD where he goes 8/10 passing for 70 yards? It’s option 2, despite his TD percentage being less than 1/2 as much as option 1 and the example illustrates why his is artificially inflated as a RB masquerading as a QB.

A higher TD% for a guy that doesn’t throw much doesn’t mean much IMO.

I don't really understand why Lamar was considered this huge MVP frontrunner in everyone's minds. In the convo? Sure. Frontrunner? Never understood it given his stats. Seems like it's only because his team had 13 wins, but didn't he also have the best defense in the league? Idk, doesn't make sense to me. Josh Allen had 15 more touchdowns than Lamar Jackson did. :shrug:

I would argue the opposite about his talent actually. He has little talent (relatively speaking) when it comes to the most important aspects of being a QB. Athleticism and talent aren’t the same IMO.

He already got a 3rd year. It would be his 4th.

It's amazing they are only giving up like 21/22 PPG over their last 7 games, despite an opposing receiver going for 150+ like every game lol

That’s basically what Dan Campbell said the other day. Ie he’s willing to leave his corners 1:1 and risk giving up big passing plays (which have definitely happened recently!), but the hope is it allows them to do more things, bring more blitzes, to help get that one game changing interception or sack they need to end a drive. “In the past six games, the Lions are averaging over three sacks a game and 1.5 interceptions per game. Campbell says that’s baked into the DNA of their defense now—we’ll cede some plays here and there, but counter with game-changing individual plays.” “That, to me, has got to be what we’re about. Those are the principles,” Campbell said. ***“Look, we may get hit on a couple of things and I know, for me, I’m willing to give up something to get something.*** And sometimes things may happen, but that’s okay because it’ll pay dividends by the time you hit the fourth quarter.”

The Lions shred the blitz this year. Goff led the league in passing yards vs the blitz and was 2nd in TDs.