Hongbit

I thought we were told at the end of the 2021 Jeddah race that the FIA could not go back and change race results even if an error was made by the marshals. All part of the off track drama that makes F1. On another note, it’s ironic that the financial rules that were put in place to hopefully make the sport more competitive are actually doing the opposite. Red Bull has created a car that’s so much better. Even if teams had potential solutions to make radical changes to try and compete later in the season, they don’t have the money in the financial cap to make it happen.

My earliest Lions memory is Jared Goff leading an ugly 15-9 win over Aaron Rodgers and the hated Packers to start an amazing 8-2 stretch to end the 2022 season.

Brand New Lions means we don’t have live in the failure of the past. Just let it all go.

Yes that’s my bad. I read it wrong.

Another prove it deal. Brad is the king of them. It does appear to be an active roster bonus. He’s got to play in order to qualify. Hedges against an injury or drastic decline in play.

$500k per game roster bonus is not chump change. That will add up quick.

Brad strikes again with the great prove it deal. Familiarly with AG had to be huge here too.

Wow!

It’s crazy but he’s still 2nd favorite at +140. He’s the best driver in the best car but cmon there’s just not enough places to pass on that circuit for him to win.

They are used to spread the signing bonus out over more years to lower the cap hit early in the contract. They will void the contract after 3 years and pay the remaining cap hit then.

They would like to keep him at a lower number but there may not be agreement on what that looks like yet. He was the paid his last contract to play RT and his salary now reflects the 12th highest paid G in the league. I can’t see anyone else paying him close to that if he hits the market. Lions and his agent may be waiting it out to see who else signs and what fair market works out for him.

Don’t like a $7.3M cap hit for 2024 and 2025

Even if healthy, they aren’t paying him $12m next season. He will have to accept some type of rework to stick around until training camp.

Succession

Watched the entire Montgomery presser. He’s super impressive. A perfect fit here and I think he’s going to quickly become a fan and team favorite.

Interested to see what happens with Vaitai. It’s really up to him. They would be happy to keep him as the starter but not for $12M. I’d think the number for the Lions would be half that and maybe more with incentive. Will he take it or go try the market? The Lions will go to plan B and won’t wait around for Vaitai if he does test it.

Just like that Evan Brown signs in Seattle.

He fits that Evan Brown profile but $4.5m seems like a lot for a backup G/C.

Nice terms. They will need 2 guards somewhere assuming that Vaitai and Evan Brown aren’t coming back.

I don’t see teams releasing star players in the future after the Diaz season ending injury.

The driving issue was the least of his problems with NFL teams. The prior whispers about love of football and work ethic, the added weight post-combine and the terrible pro day workout are much bigger red flags. I wouldn’t take him off the board but he’s moved down to a day 3 guy.

Miller is still an interesting case. It looks as if the biased local authorities won’t bring charges, but there’s going to be a civil case from the victims family. There will be discovery and it will include the entire text exchanges before during and after. Everyone will know if his story that he was an innocent mule who had no idea what was happening was true or if he indeed knew exactly what he was doing when he delivered the murder weapon. It’s going to be a big problem if he lied and is later found to be an accomplice to murder. The challenge is that none of this happening prior to draft day and will create a huge gamble for whoever drafts him.

I’d offer the 6th round pick they gave us in the Trinity Benson debacle.