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Considering the tournament…

Considering the tournament hasn’t even started yet, wanting Warde to hire someone right now would mean choosing from guys whose team missed the tournament. No thanks.

The downside is that, as we…

The downside is that, as we’ve seen, it’s harder for Michigan to get transfers than other schools.

After watching Iowa State…

After watching Iowa State destroy Houston in the Big 12 championship game, it’s hard not to want Otzelberger. They were 2-22 just 3 years ago (0-18 in conference play!) and now they’re a 1/2 seed in the tournament and Big 12 champs. I’m sure he used transfers to usher in this turn around, but that’s probably going to be true of any coach out there. And it’s not like ISU is a destination for the best transfers out there.

I mean no offense by this,…

I mean no offense by this, but I just don't get this take.

Making Smart a top-3 paid coach is telling him that he 100% needs to win starting next year. There would be no patience. 

And I don't see what Smart has done in his career that merits being a top-3 paid coach anyway.

It would be interesting to…

It would be entertaining to see Bill Murray at Michigan games.

That would be the definition…

That would be the definition of an underwhelming hire. Cincinnati never did anything in the tournament under him and UCLA went 16-17 this year.

Tony Petitti is going to try…

Tony Petitti is going to try to turn this into another in-person scouting scandal, isn't he?

So it turns out there are…

So it turns out there are benefits to firing an ineffective head coach mid-season. Who knew?

“This far” being the only…

“This far” being the only words in this comment that matter.

The number 1 argument for…

The number 1 argument for Moore was that it would allow this coaching change to not be like every other coaching change.

He was supposed to keep almost all of the coaches and keep the culture intact.

Now he has to rebuild the culture like any outside hire would have had to do. Don’t pretend this was expected when he was promoted.

TIL Michigan had a game last…

TIL Michigan had a game last night.

The sad thing is I'm not even mad about the loss. I'm 100% disinterested in Michigan basketball. If *they* don't care if they win or lose, then why should I?

Except McAfee went to West…

Edit: Deleted comment because I'm guessing this was referring to Hawk and not McAfee.

Moore the next time he walks…

Moore the next time he walks into Schembechler Hall:

This isn’t an instance of…

This isn’t an instance of coaches on Harbaugh’s coaching tree going elsewhere. This is Harbaugh uprooting his entire tree and taking it with him, leaving the place he claims to love completely deforested. 

*That* is not the reality of football.

It will if his kneecapping…

It will if his kneecapping his hand-pick successor sends Michigan back to the Bad Place.

The #1 argument in promoting…

The #1 argument in promoting Moore was that this wasn’t supposed to happen. You can find thousands of comments (including from me) saying that keeping Moore keeps the staff intact so that it’s not a total rebuild.

To see the same people who argued that now act like it was inevitable that Moore would have to rebuild the staff like any outside hire would have done is giving me whiplash.

I knew it was a bad sign…

I knew it was a bad sign when the Pistons won earlier today. Selfish bastards. 

Also an awful way to end the…

Also an awful way to end the season considering the draft is going to be held in Detroit. Instead of being excited for it, it's going to be ho-hum at best, especially if the 49ers are celebrating a Super Bowl victory.

49ers, Cowboys, and possibly…

49ers, Cowboys, and possibly the Packers will be bigger favorites.

This is probably going to be…

This is probably going to be the first year since I was, like, 6 when I don't watch the Super Bowl. I just have no heart to watch it. The media coverage of Mahomes, Kelce/Swift, McCaffrey, Purdy will just be too much to take. Especially given the fact the Lions would be there if the entire team didn't shit themselves in the 2nd half.

I was okay going for it the…

I was okay going for it the first time up 14 considering the % chance he was going to miss. But on the second time when they were down by 3, you have to take that chance. You have to take the potential 3 points starring you in the face. You can't lose with the possibility you could have tied it with a makeable field goal hanging over your head.

How this season will be…

How this season will be viewed depends entirely on what happens over the next few years.

If the Lions are able to break through in this current window that's open, then this season will look like the beginning (sort of like the CFP in 2021 and 2022 look now). 

If they are never able to make it back here, though, then this season will represent nothing more than the biggest missed opportunity of all time.

Doesn't matter since they…

Doesn't matter since they don't have all 3 timeouts. Best case scenario is getting the ball back with 10-15 seconds left.

Campbell's decision making…

Campbell's decision making this half has been...sub par.

OH NOW YOU CATCH IT

OH NOW YOU CATCH IT

On either 4th down, I wish…

On either 4th down, I wish the Lions had at least attempted to draw the 49ers offsides. Take a timeout if they don't jump and then regroup. 

This team made the NFC…

This team made the NFC championship game and tripled their number of playoff wins, but they need some soul searching this off-season. Campbell needs to know when to be aggressive and when to take the potential points. The defense needs to get a lot better. 

He's not (77% on career…

He's not (77% on career field goals 40-49 yards with his season-long being 41), but Campbell had to take that risk there considering the game situation.

Only throwing once to St…

Only throwing once to St. Brown all half was also a mistake.

Okay, that was dumb. Try for…

Okay, that was dumb. Try for the field goal. That was an awful play.

Don't fumble. Catch the ball…

Don't fumble. Catch the ball. Don't take bad sacks. Go down the field, score a touchdown, and take the lead.

C'mon, Moody. Do us a solid.

C'mon, Moody. Do us a solid.

Let's be honest.  After…

Let's be honest.  After everything's that happened this half, does anyone think that kick would have gone in? 

Had the Lions lost because…

Had the Lions lost because they kept the game close but just couldn't close the gap, I would have been disappointed, but would have gotten over it pretty quickly.

Losing and not going to the Super Bowl because they blew a 17-point lead after shooting themselves in the foot 10 times in the space of a quarter is hard to get over.

It's one thing to lose because the other team is better. It's another thing to lose because you made every mistake you could possibly make when the game was close to being won.

Literally can't do anything.

Literally can't do anything.

A team-wide collapse. That…

A team-wide collapse. That ball was not going to bound in the end zone and the m'fer literally walks it in himself. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong.

Why run these routes with…

Why run these routes with Reynolds and not St. Brown?

Cut Reynolds from the team…

Cut Reynolds from the team before the 4th quarter starts.

For those wondering, Michael…

For those wondering, Michael Badgley in his career is only 37-48 (77%) from 40-49 yards. He has only made one kick longer than 40 yards this year, and that was from 41. The kick would have been a 45-yarder. Moody missed a similar kicker earlier in the game. Going for the first down was the right call. And it resulted in an open receiver with a ball put right in his hands. He just didn't catch it.

If the Lions lose this game,…

If the Lions lose this game, the enduring images that will haunt us are Reynolds dropping a ball on 4th down and a Lions defender allowing the ball to bounce off his facemask for a catch inside the 5 instead of intercepting it.

They don't have a good…

They don't have a good kicker. A field goal wouldn't have been guaranteed.

Damn. Had a chance to go up…

Damn. Had a chance to go up 3 possessions and Goff just barely misses a deep ball and then Reynolds drops a ball that was right in his hands. Defense is going to have to come up huge here or it's a game again.

It's kind of hard to believe…

It's kind of hard to believe how bad the Lions are at tackling.

I 100% agree with the field…

I 100% agree with the field goal there. Make it a 3-score game.

Picking up a 3rd and 12 on…

Please just make this a 3-possession game going into halftime.

San Francisco benched their…

San Francisco benched their starters against the Rams. They wouldn't have done that if they had to win to clinch the 1 seed.

Yessir.

Yessir.

This is when the d-line…

This is when the d-line needs to take over the game.

How was that not OPI?

How was that not OPI?

Am I missing something?…

Am I missing something? Minter’s résumé looks much more impressive than Hurtt’s. Minter coached 4 years at the Ravens following 6 years of being a defensive coordinator at small D1 schools. In one of those years, Minter was nominated for the Broyles Award. He then spent a year after the Ravens as Vanderbilt’s DC.

Hurtt spent 9 years as a d-line coach in college before a show-cause penalty caused him to jump to the NFL. He then worked his way up to Seattle’s DC, where he’s been the last 2 years. This year, Seattle’s defense allowed the 3rd most yards per game and 8th most points per game in the NFL. He also has no familiarity with the scheme that Michigan’s defense has run the last 3 years.