Stanley70

They just can't be good at basketball and football at the same time. The BB team is putting together what looks like an historic season while the FB team is attempting to get an hisotric tire fire under control.

That might be saying something. Firings are probably not something he likes to speculate about, get it wrong and he could burn some contacts.

Michigan hired Kerry Coombs to replace JB Brown. Coombs was the DC at Ohio State when Hassan Haskins was getting at least 5 yards every time he touched the ball in 2021 win. I remember on that last drive when Michigan handed it off to Haskins like 8 straight times until they scored again, Coombs had 2 deep safeties the entire time. He was replaced after that year. In 2022 they went to 0 high most of the time to stop the run and gave up like 5 plays of over 50 yards LOL. Hopefully he can coach special teams better.

Michigan was a little slow to spend on NIL as well, and they are suffering for it now. In the 23 and 24 cycles they got 1 top 100 recruit, Jordan Marshall at #87, Using the On/3 site. They didn't portal very well either. And then having Harbaugh threatening to leave for a few years there didn't help either, ultimately gutting the staff when he did. They are spending now, they got 3 5 stars in 25 and have two of the top 10 overall 5 stars in the 26 class, which isn't finished. It will come down to if Moore can surround himself with the proper coaches and then maybe move a little more into the current century with his game day decisions.

Stafford is like the Nolan Ryan of QB's. He will go down as one of the greats and get into the hall of fame but at no point in his career was he considered to be one of the best 2 or 3 at this position. He has been very good for a very long time. Goff seems like he is more dependant on being in the correct offense with some talent around him.

My nephew-in law golfed with Darren McCarty Monday at Eqypt Valley in a pro-am, he is a buyer at Meijer. The LPGA is in GR this week and Meijer is a big sponser. McCarty had an orange mohawk and was trying to get Meijer interested in selling his CBD oil. My nephew asked him who he hated the most back in his playing days. And it was, you guessed it, Claude Lemieux.

i go to a few WM games every year and i thought that Parker Meadows was a guarenteed bust. To see him progress to where he is now gives me hope that the new organization is just better at developing hitters than the previous one.

That would be an extreme violation of the no-turd policy. I'd rather try to trade for Mitch Trubisky or someone like that.

I remember the scouting report on him was "massive outfielder with massive power and massive holes in his swing".

Back then we had so few prospects everyone would get excited about player who was putting up decent stats despite the scouting sites dismissing them as organizational types. Wynton Bernard and James Skelton come to mind.

The Lions draft was about as safe as they could play it, aside from the trade for TesLaa. Williams and Ratledge are likely 4 year starters, but not stars. And they got some value in the late rounds. Grading drafts are a little silly since every teams picks have a different total "value". Are they grading for overall talent they brought in? Or how they used the picks they had? Holmes made a point that not all drafts are the same. The drafts after the Covid years were deep in the third and fourth, the last few not so much. That was one of reasons he used as a rationalle for dealing multiple 3rds for the guy they liked.

I was just reading an article regarding the 2024 draft and Rakestraw, Wingo, and Mahogany were all considered steals according to consensus. Manu was considered a reach. Even in the 2025 draft he had one reach and one steal. Reaching in general is a bad bet, the draft is more crapshoot than GM's want to admit, but Holmes seems to balance it out. https://calltheshots.substack.com/p/an-analysis-of-reaches-and-steals?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Shemar Stewart had one of the highest RAS's scores for a DE ever, like 3rd out of 1600. He's fast and big. He could just be a workout warrier, but he has potential that is for sure. Why so few sacks? Was he playing inside a lot? Contain? It's almost if he does drop to 28 other teams must have their doubts on him.

It almost feels like they are cornered into taking a pass rusher/edge guy early. Those guys cost so much in free agency you almost have to draft one. It seems like they don't value pure pass rushing skills as much as some other teams do so maybe they can go BPA early. I think they prefer a guy who stops the run first so maybe they can wait and get a guy like Sawyer in the second.

I want a stud pass rusher but trading down makes sense. The number of players who are on the last year of their contract is always an issue. And with so many large contrats on the horizon they will need in house replacements to keep this team rolling.