Motown Bombers

I'm not sure how 3 way trades work in the NFL, or if they're possible, but I could see something like Arizona getting 11 and 18, and potentially some future high round comp from Tennessee, Tennessee getting 3, and the Lions getting Simmons. Just add some mid round filler to make it work.

The key piece is unfollowing the Titans. Sounds like trouble in paradise.

I believe part of the new Twitter blue is higher engagement so these Russian bots and right wing trolls will appear more often in more people's timelines and hide that they paid for that privilege.

They are concerned about football character. As far as I know, Cephus hasn't showed up to camp too fat to run routes. This teams signed CGJ despite punching teammates in the face and drafted James Houston despite being suspended for credit card fraud charges. This team cut Jamie Collins for dogging it during the game in Green Bay. They want players who put in the work and are leaders on the field not fat and lazy players.

I'm shocked Birkett didn't mock a QB to Detroit. For years during the Stafford era he wanted to draft a QB.

Makes me think the Lions wanted to move on.

I think the belief is that the Ravens will match any deal and want other teams to do their dirty work. Jackson also may not want to be in Baltimore so he may not want to negotiate a contract with another team. In that case, I suppose he could just sign the franchise tender. Jackson seems to be high maintenance and a bit of a diva. No worse than Aaron Rodgers though. Not sure why the Jets locked on to Rodgers.

Guess I don't understand why coaches and GMs go to pro days if we're just going to ignore players who show up out of shape and unable to complete drills.

But for three years we'll have a QB on a rookie contract!

That logic should apply to Arizona. Their QB just blew out his knee. They also need a backup now way more than the Lions. Going forward Murray is probably going to be more of a pocket passer so now you have a homunculus trying to be a pocket passer.

Arizona is the team with a QB whose going to miss a year with a knee injury and is coming off a sub par season and it's the team that has a healthy QB coming off a Pro Bowl year who should trade up and draft a QB.

Hopkins is available and the Lions cleared cap space....

We will always have this moment:

I know there was talk the longer he went unsigned the more likely it was he would return to Detroit but I never thought that was the case. If there was mutual interest, they would have gotten the deal done a while ago.

I can't wait for the reactions when Richardson has Charlie Batch level accuracy and Carter ends up the 2nd coming of Nick Fairley.

They didn't need to renegotiate Vaitai's contract when they did. They could have done it after the draft, after June 1st or during training camp. They had plenty of cap to get them through so it is curious why they cleared it now.

They are going to sign another backup QB. Sudfeld just wasn't cutting it on his kneel downs. He'll be third string clipboard holder and QB2 will be blowout kneel down QB.

Well this isn't going to satisfy the backup QB crowd.

They said the same thing about Fairley. He wasn't going to get away with being lazy playing next to Suh.

I remember when work ethic questions dogged Nick Fairley. The belief was that working next to Suh would motivate him and make him work harder. It didn't. This is the draft that can set up the Lions to be the class of the NFC North for the next several years and NFC contenders. Probably not the time to take risks.