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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.

Glasgow played well last year between Sewell and Ragnow. And this year Mahagony and Zeitler did as well. Playing between those two might be the best situation in the NFL for a RG.

I think they may get a CB early. And maybe Zeitler.

I think Iffy needs an oppourtunity to start somewhere, which ain't happening with the Lions next year. Levi depends on dollars, and contract length. He has the back fusion surgery which makes him a gamble. If he takes a 1 or 2 year deal he may, but i would guess he doesn't come back. Barnes is the one i am not sure on. He is a SAM and has 2 sacks in the last 3 years. He otherwise fits as a run defender with some versatility. If they want to improve the pass rush they may target a SAM in the draft or free agency. Will be interesting.

Cobb was an educated guy from a wealthy family, when most players at that time were not. The "rubes" resented him and he hated them right back. He also hated the other team, umpires, ownership,probably the fans that gave him a hard time as well. His own father thought a career in baseball was beneath him. He was 18 when his mother shot him which drove him to a maniacal/hostile will to succeed and prove that his father was wrong. So basically anyone writing about him back then would probably have found numerous people in and around the game that hated him and would be happy to share/invent stories about him. I think Stumps book is a little accurate, it just leaves out a lot of the good things Cobb did and the context in which some to the negative stories happened. Which only look worse as time passes and the social norms of the day are forgotten.

In Arnold the Lions traded up to get a player they liked at a position of need. I don't think they trade up to get someone who is not a need, at least that early in the draft. They will probably follow the same formula this year. Unless they don't resign/replace starters Davis, Levi, and Zeitel they will focus on the pass rush most likely early. If a player falls that they have rated too high to pass up would be the exception.