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02-11-2025, 02:02 PM
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(02-11-2025, 01:41 PM)SurfnRide Wrote: For a decade defenses and teams have gone lighter/faster and throwing a ton. Philly was one of the 1st to go back to Big/Mauling/Run based so all these light teams cant stop them. We'll see copycats everywhere next year.
Teams may try, but it aint easy. Philly has done a nice job over years building that team with the draft and good FA acquisitions. The real hero there is Roseman.
Detroit and Baltimore are built in the same big, mauling fashion on the lines and with Montgomery/Gibbs/King Henry.
I personally think either of those teams would have given Philly a better playoff game than Wash or KC did (or Buffalo would have).
We'll never know for sure.
I think another lesson here is the RB is making a return to greater importance...
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02-16-2025, 10:50 AM
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The last kick in the nuts for Lion's fans was Campbell not getting COY. Its going to be a cold, long winter in Motown. I shouldn't be so petty and enjoy their misery, but f--k 'em. 
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(02-16-2025, 10:50 AM)StickierBuns Wrote: The last kick in the nuts for Lion's fans was Campbell not getting COY. Its going to be a cold, long winter in Motown. I shouldn't be so petty and enjoy their misery, but f--k 'em.
I figured you'd have some blue/silver in the veins growing-up where you did?
I guess I was wrong!
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(02-16-2025, 11:11 AM)purplefaithful Wrote: I figured you'd have some blue/silver in the veins growing-up where you did?
I guess I was wrong!
It was 65% Packer fans and 35% Lions fans in the U.P. When I was 7 years old, an Uncle that I had that lived in Minneapolis visited and dropped all kinds of Vikings swag on me. My Dad was an outdoorsman and not a sports fan so I was wide open for influence. 51 years later here I am in purgatory!  My Dad had 7 brothers and sisters and my Mom had 8 and 90% of them Packer fans. You can imagine what game days were like, lol. Me the only Viking's fan around. Hence my red hot hate for the Cheeseheads.
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(02-16-2025, 11:29 AM)StickierBuns Wrote: It was 65% Packer fans and 35% Lions fans in the U.P. When I was 7 years old, an Uncle that I had that lived in Minneapolis visited and dropped all kinds of Vikings swag on me. My Dad was an outdoorsman and not a sports fan so I was wide open for influence. 51 years later here I am in purgatory! My Dad had 7 brothers and sisters and my Mom had 8 and 90% of them Packer fans. You can imagine what game days were like, lol. Me the only Viking's fan around. Hence my red hot hate for the Cheeseheads.
Was he your Uncle Sammy by chance?
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(02-16-2025, 12:14 PM)comet52 Wrote: Was he your Uncle Sammy by chance?
lol, I know its weird me calling him that. My wife still looks at me like WTF? 
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Well, Campbell damn near lost his entire staff...
If they can keep the band together, they are going to be a force in the NFC for a while. I think GB will be as well.
Norris is going to be a rough neighborhood to play in. Johnson alone should bring Bears 2-3 + wins over 24.
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(02-19-2025, 09:23 AM)purplefaithful Wrote: Well, Campbell damn near lost his entire staff...
If they can keep the band together, they are going to be a force in the NFC for a while. I think GB will be as well.
Norris is going to be a rough neighborhood to play in. Johnson alone should bring Bears 2-3 + wins over 24.
Morton and Shaw are solid replacements for Johnson. But Aaron Glenn is irreplaceable. What he was able to do two injuries away from calling Lem Barney and All Baker to suit up was ludicrous.
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