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If his ankle is as bad as it sounds, maybe the Tigers "cheapskate" 8/275 from a year ago wasn't such a bad deal after all...

Make it so. Diane needs to retire....

Appreciate it! It was a fun way to stay involved. Wish I could have made one or two more for a run, but that'll be next year, otherwise I'll be on the hot seat for sure.

Because I felt like replying to someone else's post about Trayce Thompson. I'll bring it again in the future if I feel like it, too.

I lol'd

When you are consistently wrong about something, and you are wrong about Goff's arm strength, it's okay to just admit you are wrong, rather than persisting in doubling down on your wrongness. That will never make you right or respected.

As far as qb goes I just don't think this is the draft to do it in. Levis and Richardson do have the tantalizing upside but they also have too many question marks for me to feel comfortable using the 6th pick on unless Holmes and company have one of them clearly on the top of the board in which case you probably have to take them. My feelings though are that We're really close to getting to that 49ers and Chiefs territory where they had enough pieces to take a chance on Lance and Mahomes but were not quite there yet. If we nail this draft and next year make a run in the playoffs only to come up short bc of Goff's play then you can make a run at a qb in 2024. When you have a stacked roster you can afford to perhaps overpay to move up in the draft to get your guy. Unfortunately we're just not there yet.

Our 2nd round picks are mid and late. I'm fine with using any of the 2nd or 3rd round picks as long as we can get the right guy... like MC said, not Kerryon, Abdullah, or LeShoure. That still leaves the two 1sts, and 2 of 3 picks in the mid-to-late 2nd and mid 3rd for other defensive help. I don't care which pick they use if Holmes feels like he's getting the right guy.

Listening to Holmes end-of-season press conference, he just gave a pretty resounding endorsement of Jared Goff. I'm sure a Tweet will capture it better than I did in the moment but one piece I did catch was that "it's a lot easier to get worse at QB than it is to get better".

a lot of the "touches per game" this season waa becauss swift wasnt 100%. you could tell when he played. shying away from contact or looking out for contact instead of running hard. i think mc is correct that swift just hasnt been able to stay healthy, and that youre right that when he is healthy and playing he's an excellent back. i dont know what you would get in draft capital by trading him, likely not very much. the league knows he's injured a lot and running back is not a premium position.

OK, 99%!

Swift's fragility and the decision about RB goes beyond next season. Swift is going to be due a contract after next year. He was a high 2nd round pick, so there is no 5th year option. He's just not a guy I would want to pay long-term unless he can show durability, and I've personally seen enough across three seasons to say we won't get there with him... 9 games of 10+ touches in 2020, 11 games in 2021, and 7 games in 2022. That's only 27 of the 50 games the Lions have played since he joined the team, and it's more likely to get worse than better as he ages. I respect the shit out of him going out there and battling through injury this year, but I just need more out of my RB1. I wouldn't love the idea of taking one at 1.6, but if you see a guy like Robinson at 1.18, or a guy like Gibbs in the late 1st or early 2nd, that can do what Swift did against Philadelphia and Washington, and do it consistently across a 17+ game season, I'm all in, 100%. Trade Swift to a team that is willing to pay him, pick up some additional draft capital, and replace him with his healthy alternative for the next 4-5 years.

There's still time for a 4th.

Damn!!! That's not a bad draft!!!

I like the 6th round steals you grabbed!

I'm not sure on this one. I think this might be a mistake.

My ideal Lions 6 round mock draft: 6. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants 18. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants 48. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants 59. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants 81. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants 149. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants 169. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants 180. Whoever Brad Holmes Wants

Lots of teams cheated the right way and lost their coach and still fell off. The SEC has an advantage because the conference is so deep and have seen so many teams go from up to down when a coach leaves that they all get it now that the program is only as good as the coach. USC, Michigan, OU, ND, Miami, Florida State, and many others have failed to figure that out multiple times because their conferences are such that they can at least compete even with the wrong coach, yet still think they are a just a year away because they believe the program is what makes it go and will magically fix itself based on things that happened many years ago.

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Usually it’s not. To draft over a T16 QB, you have to be willing to bet your job on a rookie. That’s a regime defining pick. The Chiefs did it, and it worked out extremely well. If the next Mahomes is sitting there at 9, yeah, go get him. I don’t see it though.

3. limited mobility in a league where more mobile qbs are becoming great weapons. 4. higher salary moving forward than a rookie qb. 5. he hasnt been great against good defenses because his arm talent is limited, imo. he looks like a "system qb" more than a difference maker. he's alex smith, not matt stafford. none of this means they cant or shouldnt move forward with goff. but it does mean they should be on the lookout for talent upgrades at the most important position in sports.

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I don’t see 3 RB’s in the first round. There have been 5 total taken there the last 4 drafts combined. Not sure why Atlanta would think about RB after finding Tyler Alleigeir in the 5th round last year and seeing him break 1000 yards. They still have Cordarrelle Patterson under an accepted contract for next year as well. I think it would be a huge waste for the Lions to spend an early pick on RB. They have a deep room and Swift’s injury history is overplayed. He needs to become more consistent but it’s a talent that you don’t give up on. Now that could change if his agent demands a contact extension now instead of next year but I think the team likes and wants Swift to become a 2nd contract player here rather than let him go. You really only need 2 RB. You can find decent guys on the street to be backups as we have done with Jackson and Reynolds. You can draft one in the 7th round and see if they stick like a Jefferson or Ty Johnson a few years back. It just doesn’t seem like a ton of value trading up for RB. I’m not picking up that if you have a first string platoon that the 3rd RB is now the 2nd string backup. That doesn’t make sense. He’s still the 3rd RB and those really are a dime a dozen.

I did that for awhile got good at spelling Hiram Bocachica

I remember the good old days, a poster would do play by play. I joined in 2005...

College Football is a southern sport. Far more recruits come from the south, and while southern recruits do play for northern teams, the southern schools have almost all southern players. That's okay. we won the Civil War and that is more important.

The details make this a much different story than what Trump did, but Repubs invited some of this to themselves with their non-response to Trump. Before details came out which outlined why Trump's issue wasn't egregious every Republican stressed how there are dozens of excuses for confidential documents being taken from the White House. Even Trump chimed with "I declassified them by thinking about it" If it truly isn't that irresponsible, doesn't Biden deserve some slack for this as well?

Bullpens happen by accident

The entire season has been a joke. Maybe it’s the portal or lingering effects still from the Covid season but this year featured some of the worst top teams we’ve seen in decades. Even this Georgia team would get pounded by recent CFP qualifiers.

That won’t matter. It’s all they need to “both sides” it. Details are irrelevant. People are too ignorant to understand.

Yes, thank you. Next year, we may all get along as the Lions win...win...win. 🤣🤣

I agree the objections in 2020 were in bad faith. Even if the 2016 Democratic objections were also based in bad faith, that does not excuse the 2020 republicans, and the sheer scale of the bad faith is what puts democracy on the hot seat in a way the 2016 objections did not.

If there's a legitimate basis for objection I raise no complaints. If the 2020 Republicans had a legitimate basis for objection I wouldn't have my current position. But their objections were NOT legitimate, they were based on pure fabrication, on Trump and his lawyers stream of lies, they KNEW it, and they objected anyways not caring if it falsely overturned our Democracy. They are Benedict Arnold Enemies of Democracy (and that's not the actual words I use to name them but I'm working hard to reduce the NSFW language...).

That’s @MichiganCardinal. He did a great job with the GDT’s Thanks MC! As for Bombers, we had our run-ins but I hope is doing ok. It’s got to be hard being the smartest person in the room and always being right about everything. He may have just gotten bored conversing with less intelligent people and our small minded opinions.

Al was bad at his job is the simplest explanation.

It's less about his attitude and more about him sucking.

Using Vierling primarily in the infield would be kind of a waste, his defense grades out really well as an outfielder and the Tigers have a few questionable defensive players in that department (Baddoo, Carpenter, Meadows)

I only vaguely remember omf and mattingly... I think they were not so active in later years? But that's a good list: JonBenke, Yoda, DaYooper, Shelton & Biggs were all pretty big contributors on Motown Sports...

I have no clue how they make the sausage but dang, these are funny.

Who's to say he isn't?

He looks like he should be working for Jim Adduci.

He has the face of a guy who would beat the hell out of you just for the hell of it.

Soto was seen cleaning out his locker. He kept missing the box that he was trying to throw his stuff into.

take the next athletic freak at cornerback instead. hell, take two of them.