RedRamage

And the signature may or may not have been with an autopen.

WHAT? No... NFL GMs never lie! You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

I won't be astonished. Holmes does NOT reach based on position. Now, if it's like the OT on the board they have rated 2 and the LB on the board they have rated, the sure... but if they see someone they better even if it's not a position of need, they'll take that over the OT.

I don't think this is completely true. Just with the eye test I felt the same way but I know someone posted some stats to show that there was a marked difference in the defense's performance when he was on the field vs. when he wasn't. That said, the legal questions are still a major unknown... and unfortunately there isn't any sort of client-employer privilege where Arnold could be completely, 100% honest about his involvement or non-involvement without worry that that could be used as evidence against him. So even if he tells the Lions he was 100% not involved in anyway they still have to figure out if they can trust him or not.

To me this doesn't give the full picture though... not your fault of course Tater, but I think we need to include all the potential losses until it's confirmed what's happening with them. Granted a number of them are minor bits that can just be replaced with a warm body, but a number of them also aren't: Unrestricted free agents DE Al-Quadin Muhammad. TE Anthony Firkser. CB Arthur Maulet. CB Avonte Maddox. S Daniel Thomas. DT D.J. Reader. LB Grant Stuard. CB Jalen Mills. LT Jamarco Jones. WR Kalif Raymond. RT Kayode Awosika. LB Malcolm Rodriguez. DE Marcus Davenport. CB Rock Ya-Sin. TE Shane Zylstra. C Trystan Colon. LB Zach Cunningham. LB Zeke Turner. The ones I bolded there I think you have to make every reasonable effort to resign because without them you're potentially missing a starter or first level of depth. (You could probably talk me out of Reader if you tried hard.) The underlined players are ones I'd like to have back for depth at a reasonable price tag. (You could probably talk me into upgrading Raymond to bold for return man if you tried even a little bit.)

If we can get him for backup money I wouldn't be opposed. I get the feeling that he's gonna want a place where they has a legit shot at the starting position though.

Ditto. This is a big loss imho. I'd rather have Lopez than Reader at DT honestly. Hopefully McNeill is healthy, Williams steps up, and we get something out of Levi or Pascal... Man for that money though...I really wish they'd retained him.

Dang... we should have signed Mohammad before things got crazy.

I like to pretend this isn't the case though. 🙂 Seriously though, I do get that... I fully understand that pricing isn't done just to cover costs. If 90 out of a 100 people will buy my product that $10, I gross $900. If I drop the price to $9 so I can get 7 more of those 100 customers I end up only grossing $873. The math doesn't make sense. However... There are other options besides this. There are, shall we say, more complex but cheaper methods of getting the content. How willing people are to pursue those other methods is dependent, in part, on the price being charged. Now, I'm sure this isn't any big news to MLB or the Tigers. I'm sure this knowledge is factored into the calculation. I just hoped that perhaps with a (hopefully) more efficient, competent production with (hopefully) lower costs that the calculation would show a lower price would be as profitable. For example, if I lowered by price in my silly example above to $9.5 and this got me 95 customers, then I'm grossing $902.50. If I can lower the cost of producing my product enough that I can lower the retails I could make more money in the end. As I said, this isn't anything ground breaking and I'm sure far smarter people than I have looked at all the numbers and done the calculations and decided on the best price point for profit... I was just hoping Bally/Fan Duel, when they did the calculation, had to factor in higher production costs so the new calculation without them would return a lower number.

I suspect that others are feeling similar to me, but of course I can't say for sure. Six months ago I thought of Bally/Diamond/Fan Duel/whatever as being incompetent greedy bastards. Between the crappy app and talk about always seeming to be one slight step away from bankruptcy, I felt like they HAD to charge a high price because they could barely operate as that high price point, let alone at a more reasonable monthly rate. I had hoped that a more established, stable, capable company like MLB media would be able to provide the same, or better, without having to go as high in the monthly charge. And yes, I fully get that that hope was silly, but it was still there. I guess I viewed it a bit like this: Fan Duel is a crappy apply pie maker. They don't know how to cut up apples well. They spill a lot of ingredients all over the place. They turn on the oven hours before they're ready to start baking and end up burning 1 out of every 10 pies they make, having to throw it away. Therefore they need to charge $20 per pie to cover costs. MLB Media however is much more efficient. They get more usable cuts from every apple, take care of ingredients well, watch their pies when baking and only turn on the oven when needed. Their costs are lower so they should be able to charge $16 per pie and still cover costs, but their charging $20 instead. Obviously this is all conjecture on my part and maybe I'm making a load of really wrong assumptions here.

To be fair it's been a bit since I was a cable subscriber who added on the extra to get the RSN, but I seem to remember it was more in the range of $10-15 more and I did some other channels that I'd occasionally watch. I suppose I need to really look at it more on a per game basis... I figure I watch maybe 10-15 games a month (sometimes more, sometimes less depending on when they are on and what time I have). So let's say 12 games per month at $20 per month... that's only $1.67 per game... less if I watch more games. That's really not terrible. I'm sure I spend more than that per day on various drinks... and it's far less than going to watch a 2-hour movie (not that I really ever do that). It still sucks to think of paying another $20 per month for yet another subscription.

Think they'll accept a depth OL + a 4th this year and 7th next?

Yeah, but it wasn't $20 extra per month just for one channel.

I think Glasgow was more a of a necessity than a desire. I've heard reports that Ragnow's decision, while not a surprise, also not known about before FA. I heard some guy on the Locked on Lions... can't remember who the beat guy was... say that the Lions gave Ragnow as much time as he needed to make his decision, but sorta realized after the fact that they gave him too much time and had to scramble a bit to work out what they were going to do when the decision was made to retire. (This came up with the discussion of Decker possibly retiring and the guy basically said: The Lions learned their lesson with Ragnow: Give Decker time to make his decision, but not too much time that it limits their ability to navigate the off season successfully.) So, all that said: I agree that the Lions should have moved on from Glasgow, but I don't think the Lions felt they could move on last year.

I'm hoping that Decker has enough in him for one more good, productive year. I'm not expecting great things from him, but if he can at least be, to quote Sean Baligian: gaverage (somewhere between good and average) I'll take it as it'll give us more time to sort out a crumbling OL.