Hongbit

@KL2 brought up an excellent point about how contracts are structured. We’ve seen teams like Rams, 49ers, and Bucs all continue to sign players and backload the deals and spread out the signing bonus. They keep kicking the bucket down the road knowing it will come due some day but in the meantime they can put the best possible team on the field. They also understand that the cap is only going up and a number that looks impossible to fit in the moment will be possibly in a few years as the cap rises. Also a team like the Lions that drafts well should feel confident they can draft later round starters on cheap 4 year rookie deals that will help the overall cap in the future.

Theoretically, they could work out a 4 year deal for Tee that would finish right when Jamo would be due for a 2nd contract.

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2702414-after-5-years-of-byu-and-its-honor-code-jamaal-williams-is-free-what-now.amp.html Article is 6 years old but is fascinating at how much he is still the same person with the same character. He’s still working closely with his uncle as his trainer. Long article but absolutely worth the read and it tells the whole story of BYU.

I don’t get the Addison love. Great college player but he’s tiny. Not sure he’s suited for the NFL game.

1000% this. I remember my best friends car that had counter weights and a completely modified chassis. We both started with the same kit but our finished cars looked totally different. I remember he won the first local pinewood and we went to a regional meet and it was all Big 3 engineer kids.

Karun speaks truth.

Interesting

As described above, the money is there for them to resign the guys they want and either take a shot a one marquee FA like a Payne or Dean, 2 mid tier, or a bunch of cheap fillers.

Chris “Clickbait” Trapasso from cbssports.com is up to his old tricks again. I’m not going to post the link but his latest mock has the Colts trading to 1 to take Richardson. Lions go Witherspoon and Mayer

The text messages will make that determination. If it turns out his lawyer is full of shit and Miller knew about the gun being in his car, knew that an altercation happened and a shooting was going down, then he’s fucked and nobody is taking him. The texts before and after will get subpoenaed and will tell all.

Because nothing is more important than wins, Alabama is playing Miller tonight at South Carolina. As expected, the fans are brutal.

Agree but from a PR standpoint, I’m not sure a global organization like the NBA can let a small town Alabama police department be the sole determiner on the morality of the situation and if it makes sense for the NBA for Miller to be in the league right now. We’ve see recent situations in baseball and hockey where players were not allowed to play for past moral outrages even if the law said it was ok.

it’s probably best that he doesn’t get indicted. He’s not ever going to jail and will just use it to grift more money through his “legal defense fund”. He actually may welcome an indictment to pad his pockets even more.

He’s undraftable at this point. Maybe things become clearer and he’s exonerated but the story seems to be moving in the opposite direction. At this point, it sure looks like he was an accomplice to a Murder and Alabama, Nate Oats, and Tuscaloosa PD covered it up to keep their dream season alive.

Watch Holmes go out and sign Gerald Everett and blow up everyone’s theories on how he views TE’s.

I don’t think they will make the playoffs. Probably will be out of any real shot even before April starts. There are just too many other experienced teams in the mix. This run has been huge to put them back on the development track they wanted for the season. They have definitely taken a step forward in the Yzerplan. A great goal for the rest of the way would be to finish above Ottawa and Buffalo

PFF has an article suggesting the Lions trade 18 and a 4th next year to Cincinnati for Tee Higgins. Interesting to ponder. He’d also require a pretty nice extension. 18 is the same pick Philly traded last year for AJ Brown. https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-trades-2023-nfl-offseason-free-agency-draft

Or Javaris Crittenton

Another one of those dumb automatic rules. It looked major worthy and any crosscheck that is a major is an automatic game misconduct.

Primitiv - Official Marijuana or the Detroit Lions

Regardless of anyone’s feelings on CJ and his attitude since his departure, this is a good thing for the organization going forward with regard to player relations.

I blame so much of the current state of America on one man. Dale Earnhardt Jr. This country hasn’t been the same since he retired from NASCAR in 2017. These folks needed something else to care way too much about once he quit racing. They found Trump, Tucker, and hating on some libs and the rest is history. Instead of carburetors and bump drafting, they now presume to be experts on debt ceilings and NATO bylaws. It’s completely exhausting. So much of this could’ve been avoided if Junior was still out there making left turns in his Chevy every Sunday. Damn you Dale Jr. and your shitty original Budweiser sponsor too.

I’m pretty sure these are all contingent on him getting the green light on that $800M taxpayer handout to build District Detroit for real this time. I figure he’ll build one building and pocket the rest to pay for stuff exactly like a new team plane and clubhouse rehab. No way he’s paying for this by himself.