Let’s get at it again!
Lions/Niners:
-Injury Report: Detroit’s Hendon Hooker is listed as questionable (tooth). I did not make that up.
-Keenan 175/2, Nacua 181/1, Doubs 95, Thielen 107/1, Moore 96/1, Watson 94/1, Olave 119, Jefferson 141/1, Lamb 227/2 and Jefferson again 192/1. If you’re a #1 wr you just love playing against the Lions pass D. Will one of (or both?) Aiyuk and hobbled Deebo have a game? The Magic 8 Ball says, “Are you kidding me?”
-As you suspected, Detroit has the very worst pass defense left in the playoffs. How did they get this far then? Well, they have a habit of matching or exceeding their opponents splash plays. As a team they finished with the 2nd-most explosive plays (gains of 20+ yards) with (ugh!) 69.
-Speaking of explosive, Gibbs should have himself a game, not so much Montgomery. The reasoning behind this is that the Niners surrender 5.4 ypc on runs outside the tackles. Since week 15 they are 25th in total yards allowed and 28th in yards per carry allowed.
-San Fran is in it’s 19th Conference Championship game-that’s the most of any team.
-Stepping Up: DE Aidan Hutchinson has more than doubled his pass rush win rate in the playoffs.
-The perception is that being a 7th rounder Purdy is a dink and dunker that doesn’t take chances but guess who led all his peers in air yards per attempt?
-So I came across a site (Sumer Sports) that attempts to quantify how good a coach is at in-game decision-making. They call it Win Probability Added Over Expected which is a mouthful. Of the remaining Leaders Of Men left in the playoffs, Campbell is the best and it’s not even close. (I’ll link in the comments) Not bad for a knee-biting son of a bitch. Btw, on this list Shanny Jr. is a bottom.
It’s yours to do with as you wish.
Sudden Change!
We has game
AIYUK’D (twice in one drive)
So, what’d I miss?
Well, we were talking about you until so rudely showed up…
Hope you brought smokes for the whole class, this is gonna be a wild finish methinks
Did you bring an event from 1957 for everyone in the class. Hmmm?
What happened to TAKE THE POINTS???
Dumbass!
OK, I very much want the Fuck Lions to win, something I am led to believe has not happened since 1957, but that was an AMAZING catch.
Sometimes you just have to applaud the other guy.
Are you sure about this 1957 thing? I’ve recently learned a lot about that year and I don’t remember anything about a Detroit football team. Maybe it’s me
Oh this is nowhere near over.
Unlike the year 1957, which is very over and has been for some time.
Rex Grossman loved that play
GOTTA UNLEASH THE DRAGON
Fuck everything, they went deep.
Holy damn what a catch
oh wait
the lions
W
T
F
JUMPIN JESUS ON A POGO STICK, Aiyuk???
x2
Good process (the play was there, Reynolds just dropped it), bad results. 45-46 in that stadium is no gimme, anyway.
It wasn’t a great throw but an NFL receiver* should catch that.
*Does not apply to Kadarius Toney
This a tough call here
The Lions are doing well because their O-line is quickly setting up blocks just like the emergency personnel after the Monsanto explosion when the Lions last won a road playoff game
Like the GMO crop company?
Yeah, they’ve been a chemical company for ages
Each of those 5 guys was like 23 years old.
23 was much different then.
This might seem a bit mean but Lacy Gilbert had it coming, the bastard!
That guy owed me money!
If Buster had his normal accuracy today, this would be a laugher
Ok, let’s say Liouns win…spread for the SB is, what KC -3?
The “owners initials on the jersey” bowl!
KC -4
1957 reference. DRINK!*
*or pill up or whatever
good god this lions o line
Been the story of the playoffs so far.
Halftime shower achievement unlocked.
Only missed a FG? Winner.
Man, I get that it is hard to take away BOTH LaPorta and Sun God. But if you take away NEITHER….you’re gonna have a bad time.
a couple of these last few throws by purdy looked like a 5 year old throwing the ball, which is the same age as my dad the last time the lions last won a road playoff game
Oof, much like natural gas after the Villa Rica explosion when the Lions last won a road playoff game and the need for gas to be detectable was highlighted, that throw stunk
Purdy’s brain has taken such a turn that I fear he’s just into Rogan’s podcast
“Do you really think a gorilla could beat a grizzly bear?”
-Purdy, to his OC
NOICE catch
Bad process, good results. I hope Ms. Nel didn’t stroke out.
Can the Niners come back like U Nu came back as Prime Minister of Burma when the Lions last won a road playoff game?
I predict that their comeback will be as successful as a proposal for the re-introduction of Stalinism in the inner circles of the USSR during that year.
I for one, miss those crazy nights in Stalingrad.
“oh. give the ball to deebo.”
-k. shanahan, 10 mins ago
The Niners seem all shook up. Like the song sung by Elvis Presley, the best selling song of 1957, the last time the Lions won a road playoff game.
Man…. FUCK ELVIS!
Priscilla?
So…ah reckon you’s Beatles people then?
Me: “Were I a betting man we’d be swimming in cash right now.”
Wifey: “Cool. We could always use some extra money.”
Me: “Ok, I’ll open up an account when I go back upstairs.”
Wifey: “Wait! No! Don’t you dare!”
Me: “But you said…”
Wifey: “I DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING!”
This game has been pretty exciting.
Unlike the Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was a dull affair, which occured in 1957, the last time the lions won a road playoff game
Mamie looking fetching in Last Time The Lions Won A Road Playoff Game fashions
Al Davis — a true pioneer of drag queen story time!
TRUE HIPPO(adjacent) STORY! – My favoUrite history professor (I took for as many electives as I could) is the only person I ever met who listed Ike as his favoUrite President. Why? Because of the interstate highway system.
Which…is a pretty solid argument when I thunk on it a bit.
there is a solid case that hes the last decent one we are ever gonna get
Other than building them right through downtown areas pretty much every chance they got, (which I think was something Ike was actually against), it was a damn fine idea.
The kind of idea our current government could never, ever get their shit together long enough to accomplish.
Our Empire decided that it would be just to grant the “Ghanaian” people independence in 1957, marking the start of a set of truly disturbing independence movements in other British colonies across the Dark Continent. While the Lions that lived in those colonies were largely unaffected, the Lions in Detroit were busy dominating their prey on their way to an NFL championship during that otherwise disappointing year. Glory to the Empire and to its indomitable emblem!
A bit wordy but done in the proper spirit.
As one would expect from a British Lord.
If, somehow, the Lions don’t close out this win: Cruelest loss in NFL history? Sports history? The history of humankind?
Yes
Anything involving the Bills and/or Vikings have entered your DMs.
They’re gonna get so wasted with the 2017 Falcons
Cruel to the team or to us?
Was it the Oilers that blew that 35-point lead to the Bills? That would have to be up there.
Yeah the Run and Shoot Yourself in the Dick game
so far san francisco is getting kicked all the way to bel air, which was an upscale model of the famous 1957 chevy automobile, which is the last time the lions last won a road playoff game
I hope you’re happy, Zymm. Did you want ants!? Because this is how you get ants!!!
I’m enjoying this as much as Ingrid Bergman enjoyed winning Best Actress for Anastasia when the Lions last won a road playoff game!
Some would say it was Once Upon a December, but that’s the wrong Anastasia. You have to go on a Journey to the Past.
Halftime version of Release the Kraken!
The Niners aren’t QUITE as smothered as the people of Kyushu in the Isahaya mudslides the last time the Lions won a road playoff game. Those mudslides killed 992, and there aren’t that many people on a football team.
Not even at Alabama?
That black FUCK LIONS ballcap is pretty sweet.
There’s a smart coach that knows to TAKE THE POINTS!
of all the coaches to do the smart thing
Go for it!
Great. Now we have arms race in the thread for facts about 1957, just like the USA and Soviet Union in 1957, the last time the Lions won a road playoff game.
OI! Your Lane!
-Brick
–Zymm
I expected 3x run on 1st and goal. Huh.
That pass completion just kills morale.
Just like the British blowing up part of the Burma railway killed the morale of the Japanese troops, as depicted in the film the bridge on the river Kwai, the highest grossing film of 1957, which was the last time the lions won a championship
Yessss….join meeee
That’s a great movie.
The Communist Party of India might feel optimistic about their chances in Kerala this year, since they were successful the last time the Lions won a road playoff game and the Lions are looking a-ok so far today
If Detroit goes up by three scores, will the fans start leaving at halftime? Have to beat that Bay Area traffic…
These people all live in their cars. Home is where you park.
Courteous of the Niners to use timeouts there, Lions are grateful
They just have Santa Clara soooooo off-balance.
“That’s nothing”
-San Andreas Fault
As long as it’s not “hold my beer” until I secure my nice breakables
Says the film that had 30 something year old Alexandra Daddario playing the teenaged daughter of 40 something Carla guiding?
Note this being a criticism of anyone’s age in that film, just, you know?
Hey, each breast was 15, okay?
IIRC there was a Daddario aftershock in a scene where she was running away from a collapsing wall or something.
I liked that part where she had to take her shirt off to bandage some guy’s wound, because it was so subtle.
Goff went down just like the C-47 that crashed in Cebu the last time the Lions won a road playoff game, killing the President of the Philippines and 24 others!
They may know about biting kneecaps, but do they know about stepping on necks to get to the Owl?
the moment ben johnson gets hired the dan campbell coaching tree automatically shits on the belichick coaching tree
Which is looking like 15 days from now, rather than tomorrow.