Hello everyone this is Jeff Darlington of RZ Barstool and I was very fortunate to get a few minutes with the new face of the Detroit Lions franchise, QB Joe Burrow. Hope you guys enjoy it. 
 

Good morning RZ,

   I wanna start this article off by saying that this is my opinion and how I see things going from my point of view. I already know the usual suspects will slander me for sharing my opinion and I welcome it but after thinking about this since yesterday's surprise retirement and poll posted I just wanted to say this here instead of posting in main chat and it getting lost in chat archives.
    I just wanted to say first that I love this league and no matter what changes happen I'm sticking around until I lose interest in video games all together or die of old age????. I'm pretty sure when I joined it was near the end of the madden 17 cycle replacing Lefty and ever since I've been here the league has been challenging and I try to adapt the best way that I knew how and since then I have changed my schemes multiple times to adapt to the change of any rules or madden making certain aspects. We have seen quite a few guys come and go and comeback because of burnout, toxicity or change of rules. There has been tons of rule changes that happened even in my short stint. Banning custom playbooks, banning button catches (mainly because of possession catch) and quite a few others which I'm pretty sure pissed off quite a few people. Now we have added user pass rush to the fold and people are literally quitting because of it. Of all the things have changed how is this rule change the worst? If your only excuse is people that a winning shouldn't be winning or "they wouldn't be shit without it" is crazy ridiculous to me. If you look at the league right now the champions we've had either don't user pass rush or they have found a healthy balance between user pass rush and user coverage. There tons of people that user pass rush that struggle to even get 5 wins. Shit to be honest until this cycle I've been always in the playoff hunt until this cycle and I only like user pass rush because it's fun for me..... if it was about winning or losing I would have given user pass rush up a long time ago. The only reason I'm having success now is because I changed my offense to get rid of the LAP title I rightfully earned and change what I thought would be more acceptable by the league community which I found was wrong. So it's back to making it fun for me.   So I'm curious. In the past that I've been here I still don't see why user pass rush is a problem. If you are mad because you are losing games that you think you should win. What is the problem with adjusting? And how is user pass rush of all things your last straw?  I said this a lot and continue to say no matter what changes happen. I will happily adapt to any change that happens rule wise because it's not about me winning or losing. Never will I feel like quitting the league will force the commissioners hand to change the rules. I'm not saying that's why everyone that quit is doing it but I think there has been bigger changes rule wise which people in the past adapted to and carried on. I don't usually do articles because I'm horrible at them and if this seemed all over the place I do apologize. It probably didn't come out the way I wanted it and my intent wasn't to offend. I'm just wanted an actual legit response to why out of all the rule changes why is the user pass rush hits harder than any others. Thanks for reading if you read it and if you didn't ????????‍??

         Sparks had a solid game throwing for 2 touchdowns but it was ruined by the 2 interceptions he threw as well. Brockers was almost impossible to cover. The real story was how ineffective our run game was. Ajayi and Floyd couldn't get going at all. 

         Our defense was ok. We did an excellent job stopping the run, but the effort wasn't up to par when it came to stopping the pass. Our secondary had a hard time slowing down Keith and Saubert. There were a lot of things we need to clean up on which we obviously didn't get to address. Hopefully we can bounce back against the Jaguars next week.

Offensive Standout: WR R. Brockers . 7 receptions, 198 yards and a TD.

Defensive Standout: LB P. Lawton. 2 tackles, 2 sacks and a fumble force.

         Another tough defensive opponent this week. This time around our offense had better success. Eagles defensive coordinator has a lot of faith in CB Darby and left him alone on an island against Brockers which proved to be a mistake. Darby's aggressive nature turned against him 3 times with 3 very costly defensive pass interference calls trying to contain Brockers deep down the field that put us in great field position all 3 times.QB  Stanley Parks aka "Sparks" had a nice game picking apart this tough defense throwing 4 touchdowns. WR Hamilton was recipient of 2 of them. While the rushing attack wasn't great Ajayi and Floyd done enough to get the job done.

          It wasn't a good game for or run defense. We gave up 90+ yards each to the duo of Yeldon and Rodgers and 3 touchdowns. Our bend don't break defens did enough to contain the passing game.we had no real standout other than a solid collective effort by the whole defense on containing the pass. We have a lot to clean up before we play the aggressive passing attack of the Bears next week. 

Offensive standout: QB "Sparks"  20-28, 239 yards, 4 TD and 1 INT

Defensive standout: CB E. Campbell 5 tackles, 1 sack

      It was a very tough game for us offensively, the defensive coordinator in Detroit did an excellent job dialing up the right calls to slow our run game. Our offense struggled in the passing attack as well. QB Stanley Parks showed a lack of discipline in going through his reads throwing 2 horrible picks. He did connect with Brockers and Hamilton on nice plays but we have to clean up the mistakes. 

      Our defense did an excellent job today. I like to say after the last 2 seasons it's been extremely bad for our defense and today our defense actually showed some life. Our front 7 did a solid job stopping the run and out front four did a great job making the pocket uncomfortable for Carr. With Jonathan Allen going down with an injury early in the game Tacoi Moss came up with a couple sacks. DE Perry Bowls also racked up 4 sacks as well. Our safety duo of Macklin and Harper grabbed a combined 3 interceptions while newcomer LB Garrod Newman grabs 2 interceptions as well.  

Offensive standout : WR R. Brockers 2 receptions for 99 yards

Defensive standout: DE Perry Bowls. 5 tackles, 4 sacks, 1 fumble force and recovery.