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Sounds about right to me. They are a very good team with elite players. Just hurt all around at key positions and are below average at oline.

If Ragnow comes back he will be the starter and Tate will stay at RG. No better place to learn then right next to him. That would allow you to have Mahogany and Frazier battle it out for LG and work at the other spot to take over in 27. OT is pretty good in this draft and I would not have a problem with them taking Decker's replacement this year. I could also see LB and DE in the first as there are some fantastic LB options in this draft and they tend to drop.

It takes 3 drives resulting in a FG to beat one drive resulting in a TD. You are only going to get inside the 5 so many times. Secondly there are so many ways for an offense to get another set of downs due to penalty. Lastly the worst case most of the time is turning it over on downs and forcing terrible field position.

I am almost always OK with going for it inside the 5 regardless of the results.

I don’t know what their plan is at center but if I can take early season quotes into perspective they don’t like rookie centers. That to me screams either Ratledge moving over or a FA OC. I like a middle of Mahogany Ratledge Frazier, it doesn’t sound awful to me but we need some vet depth to help out and it might not be next season but more for 2028 season. I think if we draft an OL in the 1st it’ll be a tackle to learn for a year behind decker. As things stand today I could see us going OT, LB, Edge in the first round. Next importance after that to me OC, Saftey, Nickle/CB. A good TE prospect could entice me as well later in the draft.

We either need a completely new scheme defensively or are going to need to add more depth going into next year which honestly I thought they did before this season. It is glaringly obvious that the man to man style of attacking defense is leading to well more than average injuries. I believe our players are getting tired more often chasing around which leads to decreased injury avoidance. If we are going to continue to lead the league in man to man defense we absolutely have to improve the pass rush ability of the d line and rotate players even the stars in our secondary throughout the game more.

Dallas has professionals to. Their offense is good and the defense has played pretty good tonight i think.

Thanks for finding that as its what I needed to see. Cant really blame Goff for protecting the FG.

Seemed like Goff had the clock is in mind and threw it early and safe for atleast a FG. Id love to see a full field angle for the timing of when he actually let go of the ball.

I agree that's ridiculous.....it just doesn't surprise me that we have more defensively then we get on offense based on how we play on both sides.

Goff does not throw a lot of 50/50 or deep balls which is where the majority of the PI penalty are called. Are receivers are also excellent at getting separation its not a surprise to me that we don't see as many. Defensively we play the most man to man defense in the league which is going to get more called against you.

I agree but still your throwing to a lineman who probably doesnt really know the check calls much.

That was on Goff he stupidly checked to it. Looked like it was going to be in insert block with skipper as he was not ready.

One would need to play 3rd part time at the very least as well and atleast Torres has been on record not wanted to play 3rd. I think that shipped sailed when Torres accepted in QO.

Meadows because of his elite defense is going to get all the chances he needs until Clark is ready. You can use Vierling, Perez, Baez and others there if need be but I’d be very surprised if that was a position they’d make a move at. Position player wise you can make an argument for a 3rd baseman although with Torres returning room is tight so it has to be a high level player and then it comes down to will they pay for that. Maybe a right handed corner outfielder as I think that could be cheaper and help balance out the lineup.

I would be surprised if we are aggressive in FA at all in the position player market. They are going to have some tough decisions to make already and adding a high priced player here makes that even more glaring. I could see us waiting and potentially taking on a 1 year prove it contract for someone who isn’t getting the deal they want but that’s about it. Pitching is where I see any spent money going this offseason again atleast early on. Where I see some tweaking being done is thru trades. Players of ours that that are getting into the arb years and blocking prospects or prospects that have fallen off being flipped for system depth and lottery ticket type players that have 1-2 really good tools but need development. I see a potential issue is pitching depth in our system right now so that’s where I’d be looking to add.

59.3 or 28/38 of graded centers overall 59.8 or 21/38 pass block 58.6 or 33/38 run block Basically he is not even playing at a replacement level. I would be shocked if he is on next year’s roster.

If the defense didn’t hold, which it didn’t and we had 4 minutes left like we should have GreenBay likely punts on that 4th down or has to get atleast another 1st down or two to run time out which is a much larger margin of error. My point still stands that he mismanaged the final two times we had the ball but again this is in my opinion.

They drafted 2 olineman this year and 2 last year. They also signed a DT and resigned multiple DLineman last year. You can disagree with their choices but not addressing it is a wrong take. I will say 2 things to your point, that relying on Davenport to supply pressure opposite of Hutch was stupid and relying on Glasgow for anything other than a backup veteran presence was also dumb. However, I believe they didn’t know Ragnow was retiring because he has hinted at that in multiple off seasons and Glasgow would’ve been the backup at all 3 interior positions.

I don’t believe there is a win now mode in the NFL. Holmes and Campbell want to be in win forever mode. This is a foreign concept to Lions fans so wanting to be all in makes sense. I am much more interested in being an organization that has an opportunity every season, even if they start to look like they're falling out of the running like right now, are still playing winning football overall.

Goff has no skills that are likely to decline much with age at least in the near term. His decline in play recently has nothing to do with his skills declining and everything to do with his athletic limitations specifically with handling middle pressure. He is a surgeon and extremely smart when given time. I am sure the organization has seen this and will address it when they can this offseason.

Honestly he’s really not but since it is objective I can only state my reasons for this. He often goes to half without using his timeouts when there was an opportunity to use them for potential points. They often are slow at making decisions on when to challenge or not to challenge allowing teams to quick snap and get away with a bad play. Currently we are having a problem with breaking the huddle quick enough to allow for Goff to read the defense. Today there’s examples of using the run game down 2 scores with under 5 minutes left in the game. I just believe it is a weakness of higher he needs consistently work on and it’s gotten a lot worse n the last couple weeks while he is calling plays.

There is one major flaw that I see with the Holmes/Campbell leadership and it’s by far the most annoying thing for me. Its that they are both stubborn to a fault and they are not going to make changes to the game plan based upon availability of players. Campbell is also not going to change his FG vs go for it approach either based on it. The amount of time that I see us go for it straight up the middle like we still have last years line is infuriating. Also he should have taken the points and got to 7 down. Next drive we can choose to go for it on 4th even after the sack knowing we still only need one score instead of being forced to kick the field goal there. Head coach calling plays is brutal for clock management strategy which I already consider one of the weaker attributes for Dan. Too many hats cause for slow decisions and I would still rather have Morton calling plays. It’s not like the offense has improved. This team is going to have a hard time making the playoffs this year I think. just too many injuries/weaknesses to overcome at this point. However the talk of a closed window is just dumb. This is a very talented roster that is just a couple players away at key positions on the line to be exactly where they were last year and no one is coming out of their prime yet.

If we are going to be stubborn and play man to man then we have to get pressure. Way too easy of throws so far.

Will Goff throw the dang ball. He has to know there won’t be time.