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This is probably one of the worst collapses I can remember. Detroit has basically been in first place all season. Now they might miss the playoffs altogether.

On the way to being 2.5 games. This is getting very interesting.

Cleveland is only 3.5 back of Detroit. They probably won't win the division since there's 9 games left, but I did not expect them to get this close.

FWIW, I did feel like the Loveland pick had a lot of Ben Johnson influence at the time. But even if that wasn't a Poles pick, it's not like his draft history prior to that is any good.

Our defense is just really bad. JJ not exactly looking very good against a mediocre Falcons defense.

Colts deserved to lose that with whatever they were trying to do prior to the FG attempt. Running it 5 times in a row into a heavy box instead of trying to get the 10 yards you need. They played so scared and deserved to lose for that. They got bailed out by a soft call.

Can't really blame Caleb for this one. One thing I did notice was that the offensive line was pretty good in the first half but was awful in the 2nd. Tackles constantly got beat. Caleb was also taking a bit longer on some throws in the 2nd half. Seems like the opponents actually adjust at half and we don't. Both 2nd halves have been disastrous so far. I think the terrible call before half kind of deflated the defense, but that doesn't excuse giving up 52.

The Loveland pick was always a WTF type pick. He's clearly not a Bowers type prospect.

It's pretty sad that the last wild card spot is gonna be some .500 team in the NL.

Parsons' effect on the Packers defense is a lot like the effect Mack had on the Bears in 2018. All of a sudden, everyone on the team goes from mid at just about everything to being good at everything.

Padres are still playing for the NL West. Although I'm not sure if they still will be in a few weeks.

I totally forgot about the Yankees series. This streak started during the last game of that series.

Lots of games against good teams though. Some of them may have playoff implications.

What is that, 4 series wins in a row?

Leasure's been really good since the start of August.

Don't bring him back next year so Venable can't use him.

Since when did Burke start throwing 100? That AAA stint did him some good.

It's the correct move, but in a game that really doesn't matter, I thought getting a promising reliever like Gonzalez a chance to close one out is a good developmental move. Gonzalez has much more of a shot at becoming a valuable reliever for this team down the road than Gilbert. Glad it worked though.

If he doesn't get Lowe, Caminero is gonna destroy Gilbert.

Will...this is over managing. Gilbert is not good. Just let the kid try to close this out.

This has always been the thing with Caleb. He'll wow you a few times a game and make throws 95% of QBs can't, but then he'll throw it to grass a few times and confuse the hell out of you. The inconsistency is too much.

Yeah it was bad. I watched the Tim Jenkins breakdown and he's probably one of the more positive guys who does QB breakdowns. He was pissed at how bad some of the turn downs were from Caleb. There were at least 5 instances where Caleb had a guy wide open and either turned it down or decided to check down too quickly. So on top of the missed throws to the reads he did make last night, he also left a ton of yards out on the field. That being said, the interior offensive line has to play better. The Vikings consistently pushed Dalman and Jackson back into the pocket. And they let stunts up the middle get immediate pressure on him multiple times. It just magnifies Caleb's problems with playing in the pocket. He had his arm hit so many times on follow throughs because he couldn't really step into throws with how little room there was. Ultimately he's gotta hit the layup throws he missed, but I can see why he feels jittery in the pocket.

The positive is that Ben Johnson schemed a ton of guys open. The drive where nobody was open was actually the first drive of the game weirdly enough. But Johnson constantly got guys wide ass open. Caleb either missed them or didn't see them half the time.

Yeah you're probably not getting that overturned when there's no hard evidence he wasn't down by contact.

PFF Was surprisingly generous to Caleb. 2nd highest graded player on the team and a 67 passing grade. Just watching some of the all 22 so far (I'm on the 2nd drive) and he's already missed 2 wide open guys. Those are probably no grades in PFF's grading system since he checked it down, but it's a huge missed opportunity.