Hongbit

They had one amazing team in 85 and arguably one of the most disappointing in 86. Granted they did get fucked by Charles Martin. Can you imagine if this happened today and caused someone like Mahomes to be out for the season. Cant forget the best part, Martin had the numbers of Bears players on his hit list on his towel. Straight savage. He got 2 a game suspension. He’d be banned forever if that happened now.

Bears fans live in a fantasy world. They are pretty much the same pathetic franchise as the Lions except the Bears have had 2 great seasons in the last 65 years and the Lions none.

That OL would’ve gotten Goff killed by Week 5.

There are too many maybes with him. The only for sure is his athleticism and running ability and as you stated both are detrimental to a QB’s ability to stay healthy. He would make a fantastic QB/WR/RB combo in the mode of a Hines Ward or Randel-El. Odds are way in favor of him being more sizzle than substance as a QB and will most likely get hurt. Great for Lions fans that the Bears are going all in on him.

Read the article. Everything about it is wrong, how they value Fields, the perceived market for Fields, the Lions level of interest, the lack of fit with the Lions and where they are now. None of it makes sense. Fields is great for fantasy football managers and that’s it. It’s way more than just need to improve throwing the ball. He has shown very little ability to run an offense and make quality decisions and those are the main qualities of what has made the Lions offense successful. I wouldn’t trade just the 6 pick for Fields. Shit, I may not trade just 56. He’s not a fit here.

The off-season is early but I’d like to nominate this as dumbest Lions draft scenario. I feel confident this will be the worst NFL article you read all day.

Without knowing much about their pending FA’s, I don’t think the Broncos are that far away. They had top 10 defense in all categories and that’s with a -1 turnover margin. Javonte Williams got hurt early and never got a chance to take off. KJ Hamler only played half the season and TE Greg Dulcich came on late before getting hurt. If they can solidify the OL, even a declining Russ can get these guys in the playoff’s. If they can get Russ figured out, who knows how far Payton can take them.

There will be many options available at G that will come cheaper, younger, and with less medical risk than Vaitai.

It would’ve been a much more realistic view had they shown it with the front end mashed up and the spoiler damaged.

This would be to be someone’s starting Center. I’d assume he’s 100% leaving us for the opportunity to start at his natural position and get a huge pay upgrade. He played great as a center when Ragnow went down in 2021. He was average to poor at G this past season filling in for HV.

Sewell will be in his 3rd year coming off a pro bowl season. The training wheels are gone. He doesn’t need a veteran mentor to help with confidence anymore.

I left out Brockers because he’s 100% gone. He was a healthy scratch the last 5 games anyway. Vaitai is going to have to take a pay cut wherever he goes so maybe he would resign for a cheap deal. Personally, I am not interested because his injury history. I would expect them to draft a guard somewhere and have him turn into another Holmes special that will be better than Vaitai anyway. Btw, where does your information come from that makes you certain the Lions will keep Vaitai.

$30M is actually a bargain for the numbers he put up last year. I think it comes down to how active they plan to be in free agency. Assuming Vaitai, Harris, and Romeo are cut, they should have enough to sign a quality player and a few smaller ones without having to touch Goff. If they have bigger plans then they will need to get creative and wouldn’t surprise me to see them extend.

NCAA is preparing new measures in its attempt to crack down on NIL in recruiting. Uncertain if they will try and retroactively punish some of the schools for events that have happened in the last 2 recruiting cycles or if they will try from this point forward. Either way they will probably fail like they always do. It’s the NCAA.

The mythical NFL salary cap.

Well deserved

That’s funny. I was going to ask in the OP if your ridiculous dismissal of the entire article over the use of quotations over a single word in a single example among many others cited was your thought or UM blogosphere groupthink. Got my answer. It’s almost a FoxNews like, the obsession the UM cronies let Sam Webb and the MGoBlog boys have over their opinion. They use their platform to vigorously defend the program at all costs and people will believe whatever blue flavored spin they put out there. Replace libs and snowflakes with Spartan and Buckeye and the Detroit media with fake news. The call and response behavior between the two are eerily similar.

What’s going on here? Someone here joked after the Santa/Harbaugh tweet exchange that Ono did but Jim never did actually saying he was definitely coming back. This is crazy if true that he secretly took a 2nd meeting with the Broncos owner last week. What is with this guy. Does there come a point where people finally get tired of his schtick and stop giving credence to anything that comes out of his mouth.

Sparty hit job? This was the thesis of the article. While these issues vary in the nature of seriousness, what they seem to share is a lack of consistency, transparency and accountability in the response from the program and the school that we should demand from all public institutions. He pointed out almost 10 different situations across many sports where he felt they failed proper transparency and accountability. You ignore all of them and every other word because he put “attacked” in quotations when describing the tunnel incident. Disagree with his points all you want and champion the great work of Warde Manuel but this is not a hit job article by any means.

Big game tonight. Hopefully they come out uninspired. Stupid turnovers, shots not falling, and they really dig in on not playing any defense. LNFG Pistons!

What the hell is wrong with this guy? This would’ve never happened on Jerry Springer’s watch.

Not necessarily. Teams deep in the playoff hunt that see themselves as really good 2nd line Center away would make the deal without an extension to get the player.

That was Same Old Tater. He’s gone and been replaced by Brand New Tater.

They are still getting 90% of McDonald’s AA team in college. What happens to the product when that number drops to 20% or lower?