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  1. 15 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    I don't want to pile on, but when I found out today that they're searching for a new president of basketball operations and using Billy King as the lead on the search committee, I almost shit myself laughing. Billy King oversaw arguably the worst trade in NBA history when he traded Boston the picks that turned out to be Jaylon Brown and Jayson Tatum for the rotting corpses of KG, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry. I guess Isiah was too busy fucking up the Suns to help out his old team, but come the fuck on. Billy King? Holy shit.

    https://sports.yahoo.com/the-big-lottery-moves-of-atlanta-houston-add-another-layer-of-offseason-intrigue-234442947.html

     

    Not to turn this into tell me about the Detroit Pistons, but the whole situation is insane. Gores is apparently friends with Weaver which is creating a horrible situation due to Weaver being awful at his job. The Pistons have no real plan, and their entire strategy for getting better has been to keep taking fliers on previous lottery busts. Josh Jackson, Marvin Bagley, Weisman, Denis Smith Jr. Shockingly this hasn't worked out. 

    Now the Pistons have a few decent young pieces and one good piece. Cade and Ivey can't exist together, but Ivey has no trade value, Duren and Weisman can't exist together and don't space the floor. Ausar could eventually be a poor mans Ron Artest defender with slight offensive game, and then the next guys are Fontecchio, Grimes and Flynn who are deep bench players on any semi decent team. Can't forget about big Beef Stew and the pistons giving him 20 mil a year for a guy who probably doesn't even make the team on a contender.

    I honestly have no clue how to fix this team, but maybe in this draft you just take a 3 that can shoot lights out and give yourselves some sort of perimeter threat? Weaver will probably instead pick another one dimensional big man and leave the 3 unaddressed for the 5th straight year. 

    No free agents want to come here, but Klay is a shell of himself and the Pistons have a ton of cap space, so maybe you over pay him and let him be a shooter and hopefully mentor Cade? 

    I don't fucking know, it is just a completely hopeless situation. Need to full commit to the OKC way and horde assets for the next few years. 

  2. 13 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

    the woe is me act from pistons fans is hilarious.  you've had the #1 overall pick followed by the #5 overall pick for three straight years.  if you can't get better with that its 100% on your front office.

    The front office is horrible. That is the problem. Troy Weaver is the worst general manager in Detroit sports history, and that is a city that had Matt Millen. It is why I said they are the worst run organization in professional sports. The fans are getting it from both sides, the team is fucking clueless and putting it in our asses, and the dumb ass lottery process is shoving it down our throats. 

    We are getting spit roasted, and until Gores sells the team we are just going to keep getting gaped.

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  3. Fuck it, after being the worst team in the league back to back years and ending up with the 5th pick both years... Draft Bronny at #5, sign Lebron for 2 years, and at least you put fans in the seats while being horrible. 

    The Pistons suck, and may be the worst run organization in all of sports, but the fans are being punished and that sucks. Can't get better if you keep picking 5th, and no players want to sign with you. 

  4. Out of those guys have to go Sainristill. Dude is going to be like the honey badger, just a heady dude that makes big plays. 

    This one was the beginning of the end for Ohio State

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  5. 11 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I would not want to play Detroit in the first round. They look like they may have some magic to them.

    Sucks that they missed the playoffs. Don't lose 7 in a row I guess.

    Was a fun 2 weeks of watching them claw back in. 3.3 seconds to save your season (potentially) is incredible.

  6. 7 hours ago, Pancho said:

    What’s more delusional—Kentucky fans thinking they are getting Hurley or Texas fans who thing we can pull Jay Wright out of retirement?

    I think Jay would come back with the right offer. Texas seems to have NIL in the bag which would be a huge part of the pitch to get him back to coaching. 

    Michigan apparently reached out to Wright and got the polite decline, but they are a bit of a mess right now. 

    I thought May was the hire of the cycle when it happened, but with some of the shuffling since there may be more winners. 

    May seems like a solid fit for Michigan to get it back on track after Juwan took that shit off a cliff and into a dumpster fire. 

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  7. 3 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    We were at the same Waffle House. The hotel you were at (there are two or three in a cluster walking distance to the WH) is where Delta puts their pilots in training too.

    I wonder if it was the same OG that we encountered. He looked like he was a regular. 

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  8. On 3/11/2024 at 10:56 PM, BeardIP said:

    Went to Atlanta a few weeks ago and went to a WH at like 2am because, when in Paris you go to the Louvre and when in the Waffle House World HQ, you go to a Waffle House.

    Pulled up and you can't go inside, you had to order at the To Go window. Right behind me a huge truck pulls up and a 50+ year old man with starched jeans smoking a blunt and sagging so low he wanted us all to see his pistol in one pocket and an extra clip in the other. 

    I can somewhat intellectually understand disaffected youth and the stupidity and ignorance of teens and young men who are lost. But when even the grandpas are gangster and willing to shoot it out, I figured it wasn't my scene. I "noped" out pretty immediately. 

    We missed our connection coming home, and Delta put us up in a hotel right next to a waffle house. Pretty much the exact same situation, but the dude toting the pistol was the nicest guy in the world, he actually had two guns, one in front, one in back. As we were leaving and heading across the parking lot to the hotel he said "y'all white, want me to walk you back to your hotel?" When I declined he said he would be watching us, and if we got in any trouble just to yell for him. 

    I can still picture him just getting ready to send a bunch of terribly aimed shots in our general direction if we happened to get robbed in the 200 feet from WH door to the hotel. 

    The one thing I will never understand about the WH is how do they get all the damn grease from the griddle onto the plate? Like are they ladling that shit onto the plate? Food cant be that greasy that even after it is taken off the griddle is still just oozes grease, can it? 

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  9. 1 hour ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Yep. Read an article the other day saying the Lions drafted the wrong Tennessee QB. I was baffled because his only argument was age, not production. He didn't even pretend that Goff could get hurt, he basically just made the argument that by the time Goff's contract is up Hooker will be 30 and out of a job (which wholly untrue), and Milton would be younger. Never mind that Milton is terrible, but he made the argument that he's mobile (which he didn't show in college. He was a statue) because he ran a 4.55 in the 40. The writer is a moron. 

    As a Michigan fan, I remember being completely bought in to the Milton hype out of High School, could throw 70 yards, escape pressure, extend plays. He can do all 3, but he cant hit a 5 yard out, can't hit a slant, cant hit wide open WR down field. All the arm strength in the world doesn't matter if your accuracy is horrible. 

    Cade obviously made it easier to swallow when he transferred but I wasn't slightly upset when he left. 

    Ill take 30 year old hooker with 3 years in the playbook as a roll of the dice over Hooker 100000000/10000000 times.

     

  10. 18 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    Why can’t they make it where the kicker can drop it anywhere past the 35 (or the area between where the two teams line up) and it’s a recoverable, live ball? Keeps the onside and surprise onside still in play. 

    I think that is and has always been a rule. It is just not an onside. The recovering team has to recover the ball in play, if the kicking team recovers after 10 yards its their ball. 

  11. 21 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    How many surprise onsides even happened on a yearly basis and beyond that, how many worked? Seems the opposing team were on guard for an onside when it was a situation that might warrant it. The most infamous surprise onside I can remember was the Saints/Colts Super Bowl to start the 2nd half by the Saints.

    The lions had one a few years ago against the rams. The year they traded stafford, but that is the last one I can think of. 

     

  12. 1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

    Ggerg is bullet proof as long as he wins. But this team is going to run into teams very soon that we won’t beat and things could change. 

    I don't think losing to Uruguay is going to have the same stink of failure as losing to Jamaica. But one could hope. 

  13. I love that we won last night, I really do, but fuck that. Seconds away from a loss because GGG plays the dumbest fucking strategy in the history of US soccer. That second half was fucking infuriating. 

    Down 1 in the 93rd minute GGG fucking behinds the back an out of bounds ball. I was about to punch my fucking TV. 

    Then he gets fucking validated that his shit style of just do nothing and hope for a corner goes in. I guess we needed that behind the back mojo.

    Happy, but pissed. 

    11 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    Gotta admit--in the waning seconds of the match, just before the accidental equalizer, I found myself resigned to a loss but hoping for a silver lining, i.e., this embarrassing result would finally motivate USSF to dump Gergg and get a real coach.

    So when the tying goal found the back of the net in bonus stoppage time, I was simultaneously elated and disappointed.

    This is exactly how I felt. Like this is going to get GGGGGGG fired, and then that.

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  14. I think ATL is a test subject for teams building a solid roster and then trying to plug in a QB vs drafting a QB high and hoping you it. It is why they went big for Cousins, they have a decent roster so they could take a shot at a veteran. 

    The Lions kind of did the same thing, they got Goff as a toss in in the Stafford deal, and instead of drafting a QB they just kept building pieces and were able to keep Goff around since he wasn't losing games for them. 

    The bust potential for QBs is just so high, if you miss on one you not only threw away a draft pick, but you put yourself in a never ending cycle of chasing the QB. 

    I think we are going to see a lot of teams that are going to build out rosters before chasing their QB. 

  15. 7 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Maybe DJ is off on Denver, but he's light years ahead of Kiper at this point, who appears to have gotten drunk around pick #28 while writing his mock

    Kiper has transitioned from draft guru to hot take guy. 

  16. 29 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

    Graham Mertz and DJ Ukelele are awful lol.

    Quinn needs to work on 1) deep pass accuracy and 2) arm angle so his passes don't get batted down so easily. If he can fix that, he's easily somewhere between 1-3 on that list.

    These two really make that list look like satire. DJ looked great for a half a season, since then he has looked like a guy who completes less than 60% of his passes. 

  17. 11 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:

    There were four times in the Penn State game in non-garbage time situations when it was 3rd and 6 or longer, and Michigan ran the ball.  (FWIW, one of those runs produced a TD.)  I remembered watching a good chunk of that game and thinking that Michigan ran quite a bit when in 3rd and long.  Not that it didn't make sense -- with a good ground game, a very good defense, and a lead on the road, I probably would have been inclined to run the ball more than normal in 3rd and long situations as well.  

     

    2Q  3rd and 11 at PSU22    Shotgun Edwards,Donovan rush middle for 22 yards gain to the PSU00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 06:07, 1ST DOWN.

    3Q  3rd and 10 at PSU10    No Huddle-Shotgun Edwards,Donovan rush left for 6 yards gain to the PSU04 (Reed,Jaylen), out of bounds.

    4Q  3rd and 6 at MIC7    Shotgun Edwards,Donovan rush right for 5 yards gain to the MICH12 (King,Kobe; Reed,Jaylen).

    4Q  3rd and 10 at PSU43    Shotgun Edwards,Donovan rush middle for 1 yard loss to the PSU44 (Isaac,Adisa).

     

    I don't know if Michigan tended to run on third and medium-to-long more than normal for the rest of the season because I didn't watch that much UM football.  But the Wolverines did take the ball out of McCarthy's hands quite a bit on third and long in the Penn State game. 

     

    The penn state game was a bit of an outlier because JJ was hurt the week before at Maryland, and they ran the ball 27 straight times once penn state proved that they couldn't stop it. 

    In the penn state game they absolutely took it out of JJs hands, the rest of the season not so much. 

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  18. 1 minute ago, Fud said:

    He's an old, you can probably mail him a letter 

    Im going to write his ass a god damn sternly worded letter. 

     

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  19. 1 minute ago, Fud said:

    Tweet at Cosell if you're a michigan homer and disagree with him, I don't really give a shit

    I don't tweet, I just bitch on message boards. 

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  20. 1 hour ago, Fud said:

    He watched every passing play on coach's tape, and he's probably the best film evaluator you'll get in the public space

    You can argue with his opinion, but arguing that he didn't do the work would be a mistake 

    Here is the chart from the Ohio State game. Probably the game that Michigan ran the most of their playbook. 

    https://mgoblog.com/content/upon-further-review-2023-offense-vs-ohio-state

    They had 7 chances at 3rd and 5 of more. They passed 6 of those times, and ran once. The run was with a minute left and they were already in FG range so they ran to make Ohio State use a time out. 

    Not sure if he was trying to be dramatic, or fuel his take, but to say Michigan "often" went away from JJ is flat out wrong. 

    Did they run it on 3rd down when they were crushing teams like Michigan state? Probably, but Michigan was not afraid to go to JJ when they needed to, in fact when they needed a big play, they went to JJ more often than not. 

     

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