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I may have told this before, but I grew up a Vikings fan. LOVED Fran Tarkenton, Sammy White, Chuck Foreman, the Purple People Eaters .. then the Lions drafted Gary Danielson. That summer, Danielson came to our little small town & spent an entire afternoon with all of us kids, signing autographs, throwing us passes. It was so cool. From that moment on I've been a Lions fan. & until recently, I swore if I ever saw Gary Danielson again, I'd punch him right in the mouth.

Happy first day of spring

All grift, all the time

i'll believe the lions are better than dallas when i see them actually beat dallas. its hard not to be optimistic about the lions, but i temper my lions optimism with 50 years of hurt. "one lion on the shirt...50 years of hurt..." english people will catch that reference.

The dline depth chart I believe is: WDE -Hutch/Romeo, 3T -McNeil, Nose - Buggs/Jones, SDE -Cominsky, Paschel. A stand-up edge isn't a part of their base defense but that depth chart is Houston, Harris. Cominsky and Paschel can move inside on passing downs and they have a NASCAR package where they have multiple DE's and edges in.

these people are too lazy. I think both the George Floyd protests and the Jan 6 were in large part just pent up frustration from people being locked down. Not saying they were not passionate about their beliefs but the need to congregate was as much about just getting out as it was the issue itself. Trump is old news now to many people. They're not going to disrupt their lives to go protest in NYC. You might get a handful of people but we won't see riots or anything. That will disappoint him more than being arrested and charged.

My earliest Lions memory is Jared Goff leading an ugly 15-9 win over Aaron Rodgers and the hated Packers to start an amazing 8-2 stretch to end the 2022 season.

my first real lions memory is monte clark on the sidelines watching eddie murray wide right.

Another day, another hit for TORK!

spending too much time in a bears forum is bad for your mental health.

In every post you make: you continuously champion fascism. Russian fascism. So my conclusion is you hate America, you hate democracy, you want the Constitution overthrown and replaced by a dictatorship. Similar to Rusiia. I have that correct, don't I?

I remember there were some expectations in 2015 following that 11 win 2014 season. One thing that is different is the Lions had a chance to win the division and finish as high as the 2 seed with a win at Green Bay on the final game of the season. The Lions lost by double digits and tumbled from a potential 2 seed to 6 seed. They probably should have beaten Dallas. The defense was legit. This year they go into Green Bay in the final game of the season it was is for all intents and purposes a playoff game and win. They win by outplaying the Packers in the 4th quarter. They got the ball back with 3:30 left and the Packers with three timeouts. The Packers never get the ball back. That was a changing of the guard moment for me.

1992

LOL, Ron DeSantis accusing someone else of weaponizing their office.... that's rich.

Unless intel comes out prior to the draft that there is a good possibility of him dropping to us my option A is trading up for Anderson and pairing him with Hutch to wreak havoc on qbs for the foreseeable future. Also I think Anderson is versatile enough to help in other areas other than just being a pure pass rusher. Admittedly though Im just not as big of believer in guys like Wilson or Gonzalez as others are so Id be slightly disappointed if we "only" ended up with one of them at 6.

If you're drafting below Detroit and interested in a QB...you now have a little extra incentive to trade up as the Lions drafting a QB no longer seems so farfetched

The ironic thing is, he didn't need to pay off Stormy. In the end, Trump's supporters would not have cared. This guy can do the most horrendous sh*t and they love him even more. It is almost like Nixon. The coverup was worse than the crime. Hell, in this case it wasn't even a crime until he paid her off.

As long as the ball is coming off of his bat well, it'll find holes eventually. I think he was the victim of some bad luck last season. He'll have his rookie season behind him. Hopefully a reversal of fortune (ie, a more in line BABIP). I think he's going to have a pretty good season.

Wild. Is secondary a strength now?

LOL at a sportz tweet showing up in the lunatic thread.

Holmes getting busy. This put the Lions over the top now.

Gives them good flexibility as I wouldn't count on Tracy Walker being 100%. Can play CGJ at safety or trying moving Okudah to safety. Love the free agency by Holmes. He was more aggressive this year but the team isn't locked into any bad contracts. None of these contracts affect possible extensions to Sewell, St Brown and Goff if they want to. Still flexible to sign Hutchinson when the time comes. It also allows them to be flexible in the draft.

Brad strikes again with the great prove it deal. Familiarly with AG had to be huge here too.

It's some kind of miracle how much better everybody's batting gloves stay on this year isn't it?

LOL - just got surveyed by MLB. You'll be glad to know I told them to deaden the damn ball! And shitcan the gambling advertising. (of course I would say to shitcan any advertising so the topic on that question was almost immaterial on my end...)

Another option is figuring out a way for the current baseball audience to stop getting older. Anybody got any ideas?

I was 13 in 1990. Pretty sure I heard Ernie call every one.

Green Bay had a few years in the Mike Holmgren era and just before when they would take late round QBs, try to coach them up, and trade for higher draft picks. But that started in the era of the 12 round draft. They picked up Don Majkowski with a 10th round pick in 1987, another 10th rounder in 1988, a 3rd AND a 4th on forgettable names in 1989, a nobody in the 10th in 1990, then got Ty Detmer in the 9th round in 1992, Mark Brunell in the 5th in 1993, Matt Hasselbeck in the 6th in 1998 (with a couple of nobodies late in 1995, 1996, 1997), then that strategy seems to have ended around when they picked Aaron Brooks in the 4th round in 1999. For their most successful years running this strategy -- 1992 through 1998, when they bought low and sold high on Brunell and Hasselbeck, -- they had Sherman Lewis as OC and Andy Reid on the offensive staff. If Holmes believes that Ben Johnson is capable of coaching up a QB drafted in the late rounds then arbitraging him for a higher draft pick three years later, I'm OK with that, but even in GB that strategy doesn't appear to have been all that successful. Otherwise, I prefer them not to spend draft capital because "we need a backup QB." Instead, make sure you have solid backups on the OL so your running game and pass protection don't suffer if one of them gets dinged.

Apple released a classical music app separate from Apple Music. This is great at explaining why.

I’m curious to know who’s going to be coaching them.

Riley triple and they can't get a ball to the outfield to score him.