OT: NFL Monday night - Discussion - who will the Lions face - Philly or Tampa

Not watching.  Thinking “Wood 'drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth.”

What happened to the Eagles the past month?  They look horrible

TB

Um, not Philly so far. 

Dropped passes you don't even see in high school.

And Big 12-level defense.

I think Lincoln Riley is there and he approves of Philly's defensive effort so far.

Lions should be a 5-7 pt favorite over the Bucs.

Eagles are going to have make massive changes in offseason. Absolute collapse.

I guess importing the Georgia defense straight to the pros doesn’t quite transfer with the same results 

Well, assuming this goes the way it's going, not sure if there's much to take away from Tampa beating Philly. They've seemed like an up-and-down team and their run in to the playoffs shows that - struggles with New Orleans and Carolina and a win against Green Bay.

I suppose you can't ask for more than drawing a 9-8 regular season team in the Divisional Round, especially one you already handled on the road.

Does Philadelphia actually enjoy playing football for money?

tampa winning, likely to stay that way.

take-aways so far:  tampa can't run the ball.  defense is okay.  not lighting anything on fire.  i'd say its a great draw for the lions.

interestingly, with G-bay seemingly so hot, they have to go to SF to play the niners.  could be we actually have the easier draw after all, even as the 3 seed. 

Ric Flair is in attendance.

Give me the Eagles in a close one so we can face fat ass Pencil Patricia in Ford Field

Can’t say I’ve watched many Eagles games this year (outside of the two against the Giants) but hot damn that defense is straight garbage.

Neither of these teams look as good as the Rams but our pass defense better work on some things this week.  I assume the extra day off will help us.

Is Connor Stalions at the game?

End of career Brady equals prime Baker Mayfield. Sounds about right.

After GB knocks of the niners, guess who's hosting the NFC championship game??!!  GO LIONS!!  Wings on a little roll as well.

Side by side comparison shows that a 28 yr old Baker Mayfield's season numbers are comparable to 78 year old Tom Brady's last season numbers.

Gotta love that vintage Matt Patricia tackling

The Eagles collapse is shocking. Apparently there has already been behind-the-scenes positioning to cast blame before the game has even been played. I haven't actually seen much of them since things went south, but the noise around the franchise is pretty remarkable for a team that looked ready to win Super Bowls and looked really good even at points this season. 

FWIW every time I see a bad defense in the NFL, and I remember that Mike Macdonald has the NFL's best defense and Jesse Minter has college football's best defense, I am delighted at what we had this year and a bit uncomfortable because it's hard not to think that Minter is going to be in demand for a pro job if he wants it. 

both teams' receivers are also allergic to catching well-thrown passes.  dropsies. 

TB just tried to do the Mr. Brightside thing. It was weak at best.

Eagle vs Tampa Bay playing our Mr Brightside in stadium.

That’s ours man.

Just heard Mr. Brightside being played in the stadium in the background of the broadcast.  In the immortal words of Spoonie G:  they bitin' my shit, man.

"Mr Brightside" playing in Tampa just now, and the fans were singing along. No one tell Sparty!

It's a fun song to sing along to, everyone else thinks so, you just hate it because Michigan fans have had the most fun doing it, and made it a thing. Such sad, pathetic people.