RandyMarsh

Lol that's exactly why I said atleast 50 yrs cause I knew Lolich had some great seasons as did Mclain but since they predated my time by a decade and a half I didn't exactly know off hand what their stretches were like. But just looking at stats wise it appears they were no where close to as dominant as Skubal has been when you factor in the respective scoring environments. Skubal's ERA+ in the past 10 months dwarfs their best seasons as does every other metric and stat except for innings of course which is why I specified on a rate basis.

In Skubal's 24 starts dating back to his return last July he has thrown 1 run or less in 14 of them and in 10 gave up 0 runs. He doesn't have the volume of innings that prime JV or Max had but on a rate basis I don't think any Tigers pitcher in atleast 50 years has had a run like he is on the last 10 months.

Just thinking out loud but I wonder too if the Lions and/or other teams know alot more about what the near future holds in terms of the cap going up and they have caught wind that its going to take a big jump in the coming years which is another reason they weren't concerned with having that big number then.

The Lions obviously know more about these things than I do but it feels like it would make more sense to front load the hit when you still got alot of guys on rookie deals and excess cap space.

Lions with 5 prime time games(2 MNF, 2SNF 1 Thursday Night) plus Thanksgiving. Also there were atleast another 2 or 3 4:25 starts that I saw which usually is the national "game of the week" and some weeks actually draws more viewers than prime time games so yeah they are definitely being showcased alot this year as you would expect coming off the season they had.

The NFL just released the week 1 league schedule and the Lions/Rams is indeed the SNF opener.

Get GB in early November before hopefully the weather turns bad, outside of that the only potential bad weather game on the schedule is Chicago, everything else is either in places with nice weather or indoors.

We all know about Olson's poor luck when it comes to wins but this will be Mize's 6th start giving up 2 runs or less...he has won 1 of those games.

GB vs. Philly in Sao Paulo for week 1. Of course the Packers avoid the true road game in Philly and also get their international game the first week of the season which I imagine makes it easier since you wouldn't have played the week before.

I believe the game with 4 runs all 4 came in the 10th inning so if he hadnt of given up 0 runs that would've been another game with zero support.

Before yesterday's game somebody on Twitter posted Tork's slash line from a year ago this time and it was pretty damn close to what it was this year. I believe the obp was down this year but slugging up(or vice versa) but ultimately the OPS was about the same.

I saw that Riley has elite level swing speed while being in the upper half in terms of shortest swing. Perfect combination whereas Baez has the elite swing speed(tops on the team and I believe top 10 in baseball) but as you said he legit has the longest swing in all of baseball which obviously isn't good. On a side note the data is nice but considering guys use different weight bats it isn't a clear apples to apples comparison.

I remember being an advocate of Edwards cause 1. he looked like the only guy that draft with superstar potential(Hali maybe proving that wrong though) and for another I remember reading up that scouts felt his bad shooting numbers were more due to shot selection and forcing things on a bad Georgia team than having a broken form like an Ausar.

Hard to say who we would've picked if did get number 1 in previous years(aside from Wemby of course) but the team sure would look better if we had 1 or 2 of Anthony Edwards, Chet/Paulo and Wemby instead of Killian, Ivey and Ausar.

Funny how for years the Pistons refused to bottom out so instead were always relegated to the mid to late lottery pick. Then the NBA changes the lottery rules making it harder for the bottom teams to win and the Pistons then decide to finally go all in on the tanking so in turn they still end up with mid lottery picks despite bottoming out.

Olson has been awesome but unfortunately to no fault of his own we are 1-6 in his starts so really even if he was terrible it wouldn't matter much in terms of wins and losses.

I mentioned before but it's kinda funny how Avila seemed to get better returns out of his lesser deals than he did the big name players. Aside from Olson for Norris, getting Willi Castro for Leonys Martin was a win considering the one good season Willi had and the fact he is still in the league, Gipson-Lomg for Fulmer looks like it has the potential to be a win if he can come back healthy. Then his best trade, getting Parades and Candelario for Justin Wilson and Alex Avila.

As I mentioned before I view combine or RAS scores as at best a confirmation of what you see on film, if a guy looks slow or non athletic on film/GPS and posts bad combine scores than chances are he is really is slow or unathletic, likewise for looking and playing fast on film. Basically if I was a GM I would always put more stock into what I see on film or what the GPS picks up in game vs. what was done at the combine. If I'm torn between two players and they were similar on tape but one posted a clear superior combine/ras score than that would probably be the tie breaker for me all else being equal(character, age, work ethic etc.)but otherwise I'm not taking a player over another based off of what he did for 1 day without pads on and not on the football field.

Scouring the box score and I noticed that Buck Farmer is STILL pitching in the big leagues with the Reds, out of curiosity I clicked on his profile and I was shocked to learn that he is only 33 years old. Jeez did we call him up when he was 16 or something? Feels like he has been around forever and should be alot older.

As somebody else said this could be a position we look to fill via in season trade. Given the fact we have a stud number 1 WR and a top 3 TE its not like it's a glaring issue so Holmes is prob fine just rolling with DPJ or Greene for the time being and seeing how things go. If they don't work out and we need a more reliable guy then that's when he'll go shopping.

Yeah I figured it was a joke but I brought him back up cause i heard some folks mention him so I wanted to give my 2 cents about him in case they did sign him and people freaked out about it. I of course forgot he sat out all last season and is already 31 so you can prob disresgard everything I speculated about in my previous post.

I didnt watch Kenny G with the Giants so maybe he is just finished but I could see him being useful with the right qb. The reason I think he was so good with Staff was that Matt wasn't afraid to throw it up or in tight windows and allow Kenny to go make a play. otoh I think Jones is/was more of the qb that waits till your open to throw it to you, doesnt have the anticipation of a Stafford or Goff which hurt somebody like Kenny who doesnt get the early separation. But like I said I didn't watch him so maybe his injuries caught up to him and he simply isn't the same player athletically but I could also see atleast part of the blame being on the qb for reasons I mentioned.

For 1yr 5 million I would've been on that. Who knows though he may have preferred the Chargers since he should get more targets there. As others have mentioned at best he'd behind St. Brown, LaPorta and the RBs here with the real possibility of Jamo as well given how he seemed to be more apart of the offense towards the end of the year. Considering it's just a 1 yr deal I could see him favoring a place where he could potentially get more targets and bigger numbers.

Jobe's injury is being listed as a left hamstring strain.

As long as it's not for an achilles injury it probably shouldn't be that big of deal. Still though rather him not be injured though so def not good news.