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Hope he got that second year guaranteed, otherwise y'all know what's coming in 2025.

Actuall you don't really have the right to "demand" provide proof for what they believe. You can ask, they can decline or share their story like tigerholic did. Then you can move on without belittling them or making them feel stupid for thinking what they do. LIfe is not a court of law. You do not have a "right" to evidence or proof unless they are asking you to do something or are invading your freedom somehow. Nobody here is doing that. you are sort of contradicing yourself by saying people have a right to believe anything they want yet also saying you "demand" evidence and they shouldn't 'abrogate your right to evidence'. Nobody is asking you to change your beliefs or what you do.

My son was born 3 months ealry with a Tracheoesophageal Fistula. Basically his lungs were filling with stomach bile because his plumbing was connected incorrectly. He was brought out by emergeny c-section and was basically drowning with little hope for survival. The Surgeon came to my wife and I and said they had to go in between his ribs, spread them and collapse one lung and surgically repair him. He said there was a 5% chance he would survive. He asked if we wanted to go forward with the surgery or make him comfortable. We said please try to save him of course. He asked if his team could pray with us as he felt his skill alone would not be able to save him. So they all came into his PICU room got down on a knee (10-12 folks including anesthesiology) and the surgeon led the prayer. Four months later we got to take him home. I was never super religous before that but after experiencing this miracle I was moved. I saw God in that moment. Just like the kids I saw dying in Iraq begging to be prayed over while there life blood left their body. We all have the right to worship or not worship whatever we like as long as it does not intefere with someone elses rights. Those dying defenders taught me that for sure. What gets me is when someone kicks dirt on your rights (not you but others in the thread) by saying, "You are wrong, you don't have proof". Respect my right and I will respect and defend yours.

One way to find out. I know all of the guys who can’t (basically everyone else).

Deaden the ball and great pitchers can routinely achieve 300 career wins once again.

Getting Reader for 3 and half times less money than Christian Wilkins is more Brad Holmes sorcery. Great add!

Naw, I can't be the first one to ever notice this ...

lions signed reader.

…. It doesn’t take a lot of self-control to just be courteous when discussing religion (i.e. not resorting to snotty or condescending responses), so maybe it’s a course direction some here should consider. Having said that, I’ll reiterate my years old personal opinion that a “Religion” thread isn’t a great idea. 🙂 Faith is a personal issue, and perhaps it’s better (for me) to not give people a reason to climb up onto that high horse and pontificate.

As I always say, I feel like science and religion get into conflict because people don't understand that they are answering different questions. I sense animosity towards science by religion because they feel it contradicts their faith. It doesnt have to. If you take literal interpretation of ancient texts, often incomplete, by a small group of people hundreds and thousands of years ago, then that's a matter of faith. Science should go where the evidence takes them. There is no conlict between the two unless you adhere to literal translations of the various religious texts out there. If you do then you will find resistence among the science community. And the science community should understand that matters of faith do not require scientific proof. That's why it's called faith and not science. Just let them be. And that holds true to the other side. Don't feel threatened when science says something that contradicts what has been taught in Sunday School.

earned It? Ha. What a joke. They haven't even made a super bowl and we're giving them more years to be fat cats and complacent. (Ok I'm ready for my turn on 97.1 where callers make this board look sane)

I'm willing to predict that this will be Saleh's last year. Last year he bowed to the will of a 39yo prima donna QB who would have rather been hosting Jeopardy... Now he gets to reap the consequences with a 40yo Sandy Hook denying QB who would rather be Vice President, fresh off an Achilles tear.

I wish I had the skills to photoshop Biden onto Kerby Joseph in this gif.

Keith Law in The Athletic has Colt Keith at #5 and Parker Meadows at #6 in his top 20 rookies to impact in ‘25. In his write-ups, he’s bullish about each.

Like Josh Reynolds.

I said earlier that if Brad builds the defense this off-season like he built the offense last year, we would ALL be happy. A few more depth pieces and this team will be stacked. Let's Go!!

I think McNeil can really blossom and learn a lot with Reader at his side. I think he also by default makes the pass rush better by taking away the run and forcing teams to throw it more often. He's the ultimate space eating dude it seems. Love this signing and these are the moves I want Brad to go out and make.

Only $9 million guaranteed.

I just remember how much better the Lions defense got when they acquired Snacks. It wasn't just the run defense but the entire defense got better. Not everyone on the line needs to be an elite pass rusher. Reader will help in the pass rush by consuming blocks which will free up McNeil and the linebackers.

I respect the right of anyone to believe anything they want to, without persecution. I do not respect someone attempting to replace facts with "belief" or "hearsay evidence". I have a right to demand that someone provide "proof" when they attempt to override facts with non-factual statements or "statements of certainty" or "belief". Facts have been proven. I respect facts. I do not respect lies. Lies like "Donald Trump won the election in 2020." I have the right to demand evidence whether it is a statement I believe to be a lie, or a statement that I believe is a "belief" attempting to override the truth. Or a proven fact. You do NOT have the right to abrogate my right to evidence, or proof, when arguing beliefs over facts. Sorry if that upsets you. And I STILL respect your right, to believe anything you want to.

The winning pitcher should be voted on by fans. It will be announced right after the game, in reverse order - 3rd, 2nd, 1st. Like the three stars in hockey.

He has yet to complete a pass since then.

Hard not to come to the conclusion that the purpose of religion is to control people for political purposes. Science has its own role in that though. I mean, Noble, Oppenheimer, Norden, Von Braun., etc. were scientific and their inventions or findings resulted in the control of large populations through violence.

In retrospect the untimed down after the "facemask" game was a lot like January 6th.

i dont think saleh bowed down to rogers, he had no choice. rogers is who he is. that's mgmt's fault for bringing a cancerous prima donna onto a fragile team in the biggest, moat aggressive media market in the country. it will be interesting to see how the steelers deal with their own prima donna qb who destroys locker rooms. but unlike the jets, the steelers have a very long culture spearheaded by strong ownership.

Al Avila deserves all the credit for picking Melton in the draft. The only thing the pitching development people did was break him down completely and rebuild him from scratch. They would have never been able to do that if Al hadn't picked Melton for them in the first place. Al set them up to succeed. He's a genius. Rehire Al. 😉

The defense is the bigger concern. Monster game from him on the offensive end against a team full of midgets. He feasted, as he should have. Kudos for that, but his defense and paint protection is still a real problem. It's bad when Wiseman comes in and looks like the better rim protector and shot deterrent. I hear a lot of people on socials making a big deal about Ausar's Asthma, but didn't Dennis Rodman have it as well? If I recall correctly he turned out to be a pretty good player who averaged 30+ minutes per game for 10+ seasons in the NBA. It'll be all right. Lots of guys in the league have Asthma.

He's attempting to set our expectations high so we are disappointed because he hates the Tigers and hates Tigers fans, too

sO tHiS iS wHaT tHeY'vE bEeN dOiNg iNsTeAd oF sIgNiNg fReE aGeNtS?! Makes sense, they earned it. They originally signed six year contacts in 2021, and this is only adding a year, through 2027. So it's likely more of a raise than it is a one-year extension for four years from now. Is this the first Lions coach to get a second contract since Wayne Fontes?

Abe Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy and to a lesser extent Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan would like a word.

One play in particular I wish he would have launched. It was late in the shot clock, he got the ball (pass from ?) beyond the foul line and decided to drive to the basket. He was called for a charge. The refs reviewed the play to see if the clock expired before that, which it did not. Anyway, that's one where I was he'd have shot from deep 2, and I think he was actually open.

Stewart is now up to 38% from three on 4 attempts per game. Starting to develop a little gravity and is even attacking the occasional closeout.

Hooker is and should be the backup. The only veteran would be to bring Sudfeld back as a practice squad guy. Sudfeld is familiar with the system and could be valuable in the QB room to break down film. That's why they always wanted to keep Blough around.

Maybe practice inbounding in the next practice.

Raptor announcers just said Detroit press room by far has the best food in the league. So we have that going for us.

Reports had the Lions connected to Rankins. This probably also means the Bengals are out on Reader.

Says the perp.

khalil mack wouldnt sign here. not after he heard john cominsky took a pay cut...

Please, please, please sign someone else so we can change this conversation quickly.

I don't think there is any real evidence that the Lions go about things any differently than any other smart organization. And honestly, if the fringe roster types of John Cominsky, Hal Vaitai, and Charles Harris are annoyed at the expense of the pleasure of guys like Goff, ASB, and Hutch.... oh well. I think this is a mountain out of an ant hill topic that crops up here every offseason.

Blue jays can be loud jerks, but they are pretty well feathered birds.

I don’t know. I think the rotation is fine to start out the season. And for all of the warts surrounding Malloy’s defense and injury possibilities with any random pitcher (on either side of this theoretical deal), I kind of want to see how Malloy and Olson perform as Tigers.

He had a 68.8 PFF grade in man coverage and a 75.1 QB rating against in man. No defensive back played man more than Cam Sutton. Tampa does not play a lot of man. He's a better scheme fit under Glenn than Bowles.

This is an interesting thought line that atheists often take. I say look around. If you see a building, you know someone created it. You probably never saw it being built or designed but you can see it so it is natural to think it was created and that it didn’t come out of nothing. I think it takes WAY more faith to believe that everything we know of was just created from nothing and yet we know that matter can neither be created or destroyed. I look at something like an eye and how it works and have to wonder how people can think there was not some intelligent design behind it. That it came from nothing. If there is anything that should be scoffed at, it’s the silly notion that all of this…all that is seen and unseen…came from nothing. But you do you.