Packers-Lions Officiating Debate & NFC North Outlook

I hate to bring it up there, Craig, but we had more of the same when it came to the refs this weekend. And if you watched any of that Detroit-Green Bay game, boy, oh boy, there was when you have the players and you have the coach and you have the pundits and everyone going, you've got to be kidding. It was some of the most egregious calls that we have seen all year long at some of the biggest moments in the game. Now, is that the reason why Green Bay lost? No. Green Bay lost because nobody can hold on to the damn ball. And you have a kicker named Smack who should be smacked for not actually making a 26-yard field goal or a 40-yard field goal that could have put this game out of reach. But it doesn't take away from the fact that Moore, the officiating, gross. And it was especially gross with some of those calls in that game. But it's not, I repeat, not the reason why Green Bay lost, which I think people lose sight of, Mesh. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like I watched a lot of that game, and maybe I just missed that part. I don't know. Like, I saw a lot of penalties toward the end of the game that Green Bay kept getting penalized, right? And Detroit kept moving and moving and moving and moving a little bit closer toward the end. but you know the the sense i had in that game was that uh was a couple of things first of all green bay was my pick of the week again and that came through so i was happy with that but i didn't feel good at the end of the game because i knew i got lucky first of all Detroit goes for it on fourth down and stupidity half the time like i mean Campbell's i can't like i mean they're going nowhere playing like this like like this is it's it's above me and then the other thing is Gibbs could have easily ran in the end zone and then Green Bay wouldn't have covered either so it's not like i'm beating my chest over catching three and a half in this one but the truth was it was my my pick but uh the way the way that i see this is exactly the same that i saw going in which is i think green bay is better than detroit i think detroit uh one yeah by three i don't think detroit's very good like if that's the best offense that the Lions have to show at home against the Packers it's going to be an up and down season so but my opinion stays Joe on the Lions is that you know nine wins nine eight Green Bay nine and eight uh ten and seven something like that the team that I think is the dangerous team right now in that division are the Bears man like the Bears to me look like the best team in division through where we stand right now I I still believe that but to uh to your point uh could it have been a wider uh finish yes Detroit could have won by more of course if Campbell just kicks a field goal instead of going for fourth and five Gibbs runs into the end zone which he could have done but they kept kneeling to kick the field goal in the end which is what you're supposed to do so Detroit Detroit deserves to win the game yes they deserve to win the game and yes the Packers missed a field goal there too Butker Butker by the way between Butker and Smack i mean my gosh what's going on with these kickers in the NFL a lot of guys missing field goals these days so so yeah uh couldn't you couldn't you see it's like let's say hypothetically i i end up being right and chicago wins the division let's just play that game joe doesn't this feel to you like we're gonna get to week 17 and it's gonna be detroit or green bay one of the two of them for the for a spot in the playoffs or something like they're both gonna be around the same around the same record they kind of feel like they feel like similar teams i will say for Green Bay's point of view even though of course whatever he did off the field is you know but not part of the football discussion i'm not going to get into that but getting Jacobs back does look like that's going to help Green Bay, Joe. He definitely looks better than the other running backs that they have there, so that is a little bit of a boost. Well, what always made him unique was that what he can do out of the passing game. And again, he dropped a touchdown yesterday. What he brings to the table, I still think the running aspect of it is going to take a little while, but obviously having another weapon like that out of the backfield is only going to help. But I was more than impressed with that defense of Green Bay they have really and they're getting keep in mind they're getting one of the best defensive players in the game back at some point and already that defense they made Jamar Gibbs work for everything and don't forget got him to fumble a couple times there were two turnovers there in the uh also that led to points there for Green Bay as well 236 yards of total offense in the first quarter between those two teams yesterday 236 yards of offense the most in a game this year and yet it didn't sniff the over think about that for a minute my goodness