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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 1m

kids today have no idea how good LJ was before he hurt his back

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 15h

can only imagine what this must feel like — a well-earned moment here

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🎙️📺 NEW COUCH AND THE RUBE: A good conversation with The Athletic's @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social on whether the Lions' season can be saved and how the defense got here, MSU's roster and program under Fitzgerald, and what's gone wrong at U-M. Download it anywhere or 📺⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/WXkn7T1...

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Ep. 1181: Nick Baumgardner on the Lions, Spartans and Wolverines

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 23h

"The NFL also remembered Kyle Juszczyk is a grown adult and not a fifth-grader so it would've been fine either way."

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 23h

how bout those crafty ass Jets tho!

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 23h

was reminded (read: told, as I either forgot or had no idea) that, in the Quinnen Williams deal, Jerry Jones agreed to give the Jets the highest of his two firsts this year (which well could be Green Bay's from the Micah Parsons trade). GB might need Micah to play both ways whenever he's back

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 23h

NEW MOCK ALERT: 2027 NFL Draft first-round mock, including five QBs New QB order: 1. CJ Carr 2. Dante Moore 3. 4. 5. www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

have always agreed: Euro Way: Tell us the whole story, the whole idea, in five episodes. If it blows us away, we'll let you try to create A NEW story within the world you created. Our Way: Tell us the pilot -- and since we, the executives, are smarter than you we'll just decided right now

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i always thought it was really identifiable stress, though, like even if you hadn't worked in a kitchen you've lived through something like that

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

still think The Bear would've been a true all-timer of a show if they'd basically told the story of Season 1 over 30 episodes

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I still think The Bear was possibly a victim of circumstance in that the writers seemed like they thought there was ZERO shot they'd ever get to tell another story after S1 so they told THE WHOLE THING there ... and once extended, had literally nothing else to say

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Game of Thrones and as much as I loved Season 1, The Bear really REALLY tried to make me hate it as time wore on

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the number of people who think this is the Big Ten and you can just squint through it with shit corners is insane

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is it right here -- and tbh I have no idea when being a nice guy or acting cool precluded an athlete from receiving criticism ... but we're def in that era it seems. lottttttttta podcasters out there lol

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Detroit's defensive line finally says enough's enough

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tet's Shaq-sized shoes getting that second toe down

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lions running into the punter is a crap BINGO

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yes and the fact he had to keep telling everyone that should tell us a little bit about how confident he actually is there

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I meant praised by me. He's not a punching bag from me. He's a great with the draft. He's been mid-to-poor at everything else. You cannot put a DC in this position over and over and live to tell about it. He did the exact same thing to Aaron Glenn. Exact same.

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

and every time Dan had to just eat it -- because he knew AG had to start fuckin Jerry Jacobs at corner and since he was capable of pulling it off once in a while Brad just says "ok you're good at CB then" and moves on

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brad's not a punching bag, Brad gets praised constantly. And for the most part, rightly so. This is absolutely as much his fault as it is Sheppard's. If not more.

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the defensive secondary is this bad, yes, they have absolutely nothing back there

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

he hit on Branch, he hit on Kerby Joseph -- with the caveat that he came with a preexisting injury ... no one thought Terrion Arnold would involve himself in whatever the absolute hell he involved himself in but there's just been zero serious attempt to fix this

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there'll be nothing Campbell is going to be able to say about it, again, as was the case throughout the entire Aaron Glenn era because Brad Holmes has been incapable of finding one quality starting cornerback

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026