JJDinomite
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You know... the Rochester Jeffersons
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NFL 2014 Week 10 |OT| - Fright Night
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You know... the Rochester Jeffersons
Hard to blow teams out when you can't score points.
NihonTiger90
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RellyRell28
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I literally wiki'd that team to see if it was any team still in the NFL. Lol nope that makes it even worse.
FMT had a team??
Suh will not leave a contending team for a shitty team with no future. It's not in his blood or mindset. This is the same stud who played for Nebraska and fucked Colt McCoy and the Longhorns single handily.
Suh will be a Lion next year. Quote me on that, whether we franchise him or sign him long term. Suh will get his money and some of the brand name recognition he deserves and wants. He'll get that recognition with a perrenial winning team not a team that will be looking for a new HC and QB like the Bears will be.
Amen I came in tonight kinda worried. After the 1st qtr I was relaxed.
NihonTiger90
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I think it's a 50/50 chance at this point, with the way this defense is playing and the role he has in the success. Don't know if we can afford his price tag long-term but I'm also unsure if he can replicate this success on any team that will have the long-term cap space for him (they'll all be teams rebuilding -- Jets, Chicago, Giants, Oakland, etc.)
Suh seems like a greedy douche that would rather have more $ than wins.
Sweeney Tom
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You think they'll be able to pay both Suh and Fairley? Because they can't lose either and stay "contending"
Nothing greedy about getting paid what you're deserved. Suh works 365 days out of the year and loves the game.
He deserves to be paid the highest defensive player in the league and will be once Mayhew, Lewand and the front office figure out how to structure his contract.
Suh is not Albert Haynesworth. He's not going to play for the Raiders and lose for a few million extra dollars.
Fairley is gone and has been since the preseason. He's Shaun Rogers 2.0. Good riddance.
No lie, I would love to have an actual football player named Rochester Jefferson on our team.
1. You know what's in Suh's blood and mindset? That's surprising, considering how much he talks about how much people don't know him and how standoffish he is beyond his supposed "inner circle."
2. Dear God, putting the franchise tag on him would destroy this team. We cannot possibly pay him without having to gut the rest of the team, given the money that's already tied up in Stafford and Megatron. Unless you want to turn around and admit to moving one or both of them in favor of Suh?
JJDinomite
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Did he swear 
JJ Watt can have his stats, but Suh anchors the best defense in the league.
To be fair JJ Watt plays out of a 3-4 while Suh plays out of a 4-3 defense. I'm a 4-3 defense guy and if I'm building a defense I pick Suh as my #1 pick. Watt is 1A and a close 1A.
Well....someone has to be first I guess.
RellyRell28
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Suh gets sign to Houston next year
*runs away*
*runs away*
1. Yes. Suh is in the gym and football is his life. I don't know the guy personally but he trains like no one else in the league.
2. Putting the franchise tag would not destroy the team. It won't get to that point but even if it does, Reggie Bush and Fairley will be gone freeing up cap space. Plus this team has plenty of depth and another 7 picks in next years draft.
Suh will stay a Lion and it will be a long term deal.
Bears will sweep them and keep Detroit out of the playoffs. It is known.
mmmmmkay
Why is this the first year that he has put together a string of hard effort games? Over the past few years, he's tore through lines at times, but more often then not he looked pretty lackadaisical or would run right past ball carriers because he only had one play --- push/run forward.
I realize you've loved him since before he played a down so you have no objectivity, but saying you don't know him, and then that he works like no one else, just leaks the amount of bullshit you pump out on an always basis.
Dude is playing for a contract. What he does after he gets it, who knows. Where he gets it from, who knows. Could very well be Detroit, and he maybe he continues playing hard, but his past says a lot about him.
sf2fanatic
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We have to add the old school Mike Vick experience vid for next weeks thread.
E: He actually did more than Geno this year
E: He actually did more than Geno this year
JJDinomite
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I'm not exactly a big Suh supporter, but in his defense in this case I will say that I think some of that over-aggressive play was the product of Jim Schwartz-style defensive coaching as much as it was anything on Suh's personal motivations. Being overly-aggressive and not situationally aware is something that plagued the entire team, and Caldwell and DC Austin have been doing a good job of reining that in. Now I agree that he's probably playing for a big contract (as he well should), and that certainly helps too, but production for the entire defense has been up, and both Suh and the scheme change have contributed to that.
What I don't agree with is the idea that training hard and loving football says anything about what Suh's actual motivations are. It's just as easy to train 365 days for the prospect of making a ton of money, or the ability to go to a "bigger" city like New York or somewhere in Cali. Just because you love football doesn't mean that you love the team that first drafted you, and it doesn't mean that staying in Detroit, whether we're contenders or not, is the guaranteed easy choice. We don't know what makes him tick. That is a message that Suh himself has communicated to the fanbase over the years, so that's what I'm choosing to judge him by.
To be clear: If he keeps up the level of play that he has this year, then I'd like him as a player and I admit that it would be nice to keep him. But I think his salary demands are going to be too much for us to handle when we already have big money tied up elsewhere, too. You can only hang on to so many superstars unless you want to completely erode the rest of the team's depth, and I don't believe it's viable to keep all three of Stafford, Megatron, and Suh.
Ninja Scooter
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Behold the pale horse
The Man who sat on him was death, and Hell followed with him.
The Man who sat on him was death, and Hell followed with him.
JJDinomite
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Amazing night GAF, thank you all.
K a r s cars for kids.
Ive heard that commercial no less then a million times with all the driving ive done the past ten years
Aye. Don't be too rational though or someone might send the dogs on you.
You're a glass half full kind of guy.
Yes you're probably right. I should probably just spout endless kool-aid and take a bunch of pot-shots at the other posters here in order to fit in better.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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Bears sorta make me feel better about my Jags...no not really.
CaptainSlow
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His tweets tonight we're pretty great.
Buckethead
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ChuckStrong too smart for that shit.
Behold the pale horse
The Man who sat on him was death, and Hell followed with him.
Bears/Bucs game in two weeks needs to be flexed to Sunday Night.
yankeehater
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Number one thing I am looking forward to, even more then the Pats losing another SB.
Oh and #FirePhilbin
FrenchMovieTheme
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shit needs to be flexed to like noon on a wednesday or something
Lion Heart
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I know it was the Jags but having Leary and Free back is huuuuuuuuugee!!
I fear no one with our full team on the field.
I fear no one with our full team on the field.
Barack Lesnar
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I should be happy, I should be spamming the thread but this feels like the weakest 7-2 team in recent memory. We've won the last 3 games by 6 points combined.
Cupcake college football schedule as well:
Giants are 3-6
Carolina 3-5-1 (loss)
Green Bay 6-3
Jets 2-8
Buffalo 5-4 (loss)
Minnesota 4-5
Saints 4-5
Atlanta 3-6
Miami 5-4
The only impressive win was Week 3 vs Green Bay, but if Det/GB played next week... who you think would be favored? I have very little confidence in this team.
Beerman462
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Frightening.
unknownstranger
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Looking at some teams future cap numbers. Lions pay Calvin and Stafford over 46 million combined in 2016. Reggie Bush isn't getting cut next year since they only save 1.7 million while having 3.5 million in dead money. Of Detroit's top 8 in salary next year only cutting one of them will save them over half of that player's salary. They have over 100 million in salary taken up in 2016 already. I don't see any way they end up keeping Suh.
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