RedRamage

I think if the Lions sign Chark it's a bad sign for Jaymo. Jaymo is supposed to be the deep threat and so we shouldn't need Chark on top of him. I'm probably reading too much into it, but if they sign Chark (especially if it's a long contact) that will make be worried about Jaymo.

Has anyone really said they don't like it? I saw a lot of people being surprised and some being disappointed that J-Will won't be coming back, but I don't think anyone said they hated it.

"We also could have won more games if we'd only scored more points." Ben Johnson.... probably. Seriously though I suspect it's more than just "break tackles and we get more yards." I suspect it's more like: "We saw too many instances where the first guy to get there brought down the RB... higher than league average."

Two CBs signed, bringing back Cominsky and Buggs... I'm mostly happy.

Blow it all up... time to rebuild from scratch. This front off is crap.

They already tried this with Stafford but had to abandon it. Not sure if it would work with Goff.

Anyone hear the comments from Holmes on Jaymo? Should be cued up at the right time, but it starts at 5:05 incase the timestamp in the link doesn't work.

Has Jake Rogers every played 1st? I'm still worried about Tork and I'm just wondering if Rogers keeps hitting as well as he has this spring... do you put him at first when Hasse is catching?

After posting previous I forgot I wanted to touch on this too. I'm starting to wonder what percentage ticket sales are even factoring into revenue. I don't live in Detroit so it's hard to say how much I would or wouldn't make an effort to go to the games if I did, but honestly... I could pay for a ticket, pay for some over priced food, have to deal with the risk of bad weather (rain, heat, cold, etc), pay for parking probably, stand in a bunch of lines for concessions or bathrooms. or I could sit in my comfy chair at home, watch on a big screen TV, get better views than sitting in the stands, have cheap, easy to get good and drinks, my own bathroom, instant reply. No money out of my pocket (unless you count cable or streaming costs). And now, from the team's perspective: How much of that ticket money ends up in their hands? How much of it is used up for overhead to pay for upkeep of the stadium and the employees needed to run the event?

A lot of good points here, and I think that might part of the reason that baseball keeps trying to expand the playoffs. And it's also why Uniform ads are coming as well (I honestly didn't know about this until stumbling upon it just this morning. The DBacks, RedSox, Reds, Astros, Angels, and Padres will be sporting uniform ads). One advantage baseball has is the number of games. As you mentioned there's some disadvantage to it, but there's also advantages to it. Even if attendance is only, say, 1/5 of for an NFL game, they still have more than 9 times more games. If you're selling streaming service, you can realistically charge more because it's spread over more games. If you charge $162 annually, for example, a consumer can mentally justify that as only $1 per game (even if he or she only ends up watching 90 or so games). I think it would be really interesting to see what the total net profit from each game is when comparing the NFL And MLB. I know that getting that number would be pretty much impossible to do, but it would be really interesting.

Nothing really new here, but there's a bit more details on how some stuff might maybe shake out: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/mlb-broadcasting-2023-bally-sports-bankruptcy/vk3nf9igd7ph49m9tfckj0o5

Holy crap... is CBS playing a weird version of 6-degrees of Kevin Bacon to do their mock drafts? At pick 15 this team will pick this player because the current director of scouting's daughter is best friends with a girl who's mother once dated the uncle of this player's former Special Teams assistant coach from two years ago.

100% agreed. I can't say that I'm not seriously tempted by the idea of an offense run by Johnson with a legit dual threat QB. But I'm gonna fall back on what Holmes said earlier: It's a lot easier to get worse at QB than to get better. Given the injuries plus the costs involved in a trade and I'm gonna say no.

But do you really need high speed internet? It's dialup good enough?

Clearly I don't disagree with you there! 🙂 I suppose I'm trying to head off people who might go... "Wait, the Lions don't own their stadium. What the heck is buddha going on about?" It's not that both the Lions and the Bears are both leasing, so they're in the same boat. It's that the Lions are leasing a condo as their home. The Bears are leasing a condo for a few day vacation.

Okay, I know I'm being a bit nitpicky here... but Ford Field, as I mentioned, is owned by the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority. They also own Comerica Park. The "authority" is a governmental body. So, technically the Lions lease Ford Field from the City/County. That said, there obviously different levels of leasing. The Lions, in all but name, own Ford Field in that they are the operators. They decided how it's used. How it's decorated, etc. etc. etc. It sounds like the Bears are no different than any other group/entity that wants to use soldier field. I guess it would sorta like leasing a Condo as your place of living long term vs. renting out a condo for a couple of nights vacation. I'm not really disagreeing with you. All the technicalities aside, the Lions have (mostly) the final say in Ford Field. The Bears apparently have very little say in Soldier Field.

Hmm... valid question. I suppose given his direct ties to the Ford Family and lack of football executive experience that he probably wouldn't have gone against Martha if she was insistent. We'll probably never know if she or he was the driving force or if she or he didn't like Quinn and actively sought to stop it before being overruled/talked into it. So maybe it's not fair to blame Wood for Quinn... but I'll still stand by my earlier point. He didn't need to call out and throw shade on Quinn and Patricia to get his point across about Shelia.

Yeah, but I think that comment got way over blown. Don't get me wrong... it was an utterly stupid comment to make. But he wasn't saying he was an idiot, he was trying to say that while he didn't have extensive Football experience, he was so tied in with the Fords and with the Lions that he had the knowledge and passion for this team and the connects necessary to make it all work here. Now even that's not a LOT better, but not quite the same as saying: "I'm totally unqualified for the job." And that's my biggest problem with his comments. You were the one who hired them. You're comments about Shelia inheriting a bad culture is totally deflecting away from the idea that you were the one who hired and installed the people who made the culture bad.

Little bit of a side point here... the Lions don't own Ford Field... at least not technically. It's owned by the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority. Now this is probably for various legal or tax or whatever reasons. The Lions are listed at the operators of the stadium so I'd assume it's something like: "You own it, technically, but we're leasing it for x-number of years and have full control over it." Just wanted to point out that technically the Lions don't own their stadium either... and being technically correct is the best kind of correct.

I kinda don't want the Packers to trade him. I mean, on one hand I'd love to see him out of the division... even an old Aaron Rodgers can still be dangerous. But what I don't want to see if the Pack getting a lot of value from trading him.

Okay, first... if every single streaming service loses money... why are there streaming services? That makes no sense that they would keeping making more and more services if everyone of them loses money... I mean I can see that a service will lose money initially but I can't understand why a service would start up with the idea that they will always lose money. What's the point? Second, if company A start doing X and it saves them money and consumers eventually just accept it, then company B is gonna start doing X too. I don't believe for a moment that every other service is watching netflex very closely to see what happens. If it bombs, they'll avoid it. If it doesn't, some of them will adopt it as well. Others might purposely NOT adopt it specifically to stand out.

Remember when everyone was talking about how horrible it was that Apple stopped including a charger with iPhones? Now (mostly) everyone is doing it. Once Netflix does it in the US and people don't start unsubscribing in droves the rest will follow. Here's the biggest thing: There will ALWAYS be ways to share/pirate/get around the official method of paying for service. No matter how secure you trying to make anything, there will always be some way around it. The way to reduce this is to make a product that is attractive enough that people really really want it and affordable enough that the hassle of finding the "external" methods of getting it is more of a hassle than just paying for it. From what I understand Bally failed in both areas. I didn't use it last year because the price was just way to high for me to justify it (especially with how horrible the team was). My brother, who's also a huge RedWings fan, used it and hated it because the service was very temperamental and buggy.

I was actually think 5-10 years in my head when I was writing my reply.

Here's the thing for me... I think I'm on record as being unsure of Goff. He had a great 2022, no question. But How much was him and how much the system? I freely admit that I just don't know. I'm not in a position to be able to make a far evaluation on that. So... either A.) the Lions system is really good and plays to Goff's strengths, or B.) Goff is really good and makes the Lions system look great, or C.) somewhere in between. If the Lions think it's A, then in theory they don't need a superstar QB, just a good QB that they can scheme around. Drafting a QB early on a class that isn't highly thought of seems like a silly idea if they can plug and play with any decent QB. If the Lions think it's B, then drafting a QB early (1st or 2nd round) is "wasting" resources that could be used on players having and impact in 2023 or 2024 and potentially getting the Lions deep into the playoffs. If the Lions think it's C, then yeah... try to upgrade. But are any of this years guys an actual upgrade? The only way I see the Lions going after a QB is option D and E: Option D, the Lions think Goff really held the team back and was below a replacement level player. Not sure how anyone could look at the Lions last year and think this. Option E, there is a generational talent in the draft and the Lions would be stupid to pass on a guy who looks to be a sure fire franchise QB. I don't think any of the guys are this type player, and even if one or two of these were they'd be gone by pick 6. TL;DR: I'll be SHOCKED if the Lions take a QB in the 1st or 2nd round.