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the canucks just traded their first round pick, their fourth round pick, their #3 prospect (a puck moving offensive defenseman), a fringe prospect, and an underachieving forward for lindholm. so that means the wings #1 pick, their #4 pick, axel sandin pelikka, joe veleno, and robbi fabbri for lindholm. do you make that deal?

one point is better than none.

trade up for cooper dejean.

mike macdonald to the seahawks. only washington left.

sasser isnt anything more than a potential sparkplug off the bench.

the best case scenario is cossa forces his way onto the team next year. with that said, edvinnson didnt this year and he was ready, i would be surprised if cossa did next year with husso still on that large deal. lyon is only on a one year deal, right?

so they told him he didnt get the job, lol.

come on. overreaction tater is the best tater. 🙂

if the lions make the playoffs and lose in the first round next year, tater will, in fact, try to run him out of town. 🙂

romad has an irrational optimism about michigan sometimes. i welcome that optimism as it is much more soothing than my general sense of dread and pessimism.

too soon

the bears wish they could be us. lol.

ive got this great idea, why dont we pitch it to the franklin ****ing mint.

barnwell with a full throated defense of campbell's 4th down decisions today.

with apologies to Ben Folds Five: Will you never rest/fighting the battle of who loves goff less? You think brad holmes drafts are cool/but there are some things you'd change if it were up to you/so think about your scouting piece/watch the combine again/and call paul to see if he can score some weed will you never rest/fighting the battle of who loves goff less/unearned scouting prowress/well that's alright i guess oh well maybe not i'll try once again/this should cheer you up in the end/ i've got all these posts where you loved matt patricia and bob quinn you never rest/fighting the battle of who loves goff less/unearned scouting prowress/youre my hero i confess....

if you had never seen goff play and you read this thread, you'd think he was either tom brady or rusty hilger. lol.

goff isnt patrick mahomes. nobody else is. you can win with goff, he does a lot of things well. i think he does things well that we fans dont really see, like getting the line in the right place, audibiling out or into plays, and he makes a lot of good throws into tight windows and good anticipatory throws. remember that throw to st brown early in the game right before the safety got there? great throw. he doesnt have a cannon for an arm. he cant move. he doesnt do well under pressure. but he's still good. you can do a LOT worse than jared goff in this league. hopefully hendon hooker is the next russell wilson, but the odds of that are slim. in the meantime, the lions have a good qb for the first time in a very long time. not perfect, but pretry darn good.

i wouldnt call this SOL, but i wouldnt call it BNL either. it was one really good season. they had a really good season in 1991 and it looked like they were ready to break out and be a contender for the next 5 years. they got to the playoffs pretty regularly (even won a division)but couldnt get over rhe hump. same thing could happen here. i think they have better leadership now, so i hope it will be different this time. but its the nfl, things change week to week, much less season to season. i hope we become the ravens (consistently good and very good talent evaluators) and not the early 90s lions.

i dont see jonah jackson coming back. too pricey and too injured. galsgow maybe on another one year deal?

i wouldnt bring cjgj back. he wasnt very good when he played. that might have been because of health but regardless, his play wasnt great. they need a lot of secondary help. secondary, iol, defensive end. i would expect both okwara's gone (julian is already gone). although maybe they keep romeo on a very cheap deal? harris is gone. houston is still cheap so he might stay, but the guy was on the bubble before he got hurt. im not sure he's a long term answer.

that was the worst call. the two 4th downs are defensible.

we were starting kindle vildor at corner against two of the best receivers in the league. its a testament to the team that we were even in the game, much less winning it.

for some reason i thought they traded a pick this year for dpj and had to give one up for hock. they do have all their picks.

glass half empty: a lot of that cap space goes to raises for their current players. goff was 0-8 when pressured yesterday. they dont have all their draft picks next year and pick low in the draft. but i dont really want to play that game. they had their best season in a half century and we should be happy we got to see it.

analytics said go for it both times. josh reynolds: thank you for your service. now see yourself out. cjgj is gone. walker will be gone. jerry jacobs. will harris. theyre going to need an entirely new secondary. i doubt cam sutton goes anywhere but - hopefully - to the second corner spot. nothing in guaranteed. the oline is the heart of the team and decker and ragnow are getting old. jonah jackson likely isnt coming back. glasgow is also a vet who is out of contract. ragnow has been dealing with injuries all year long. ben johnson is gone. it doesnt look like glenn is going anywhere, but johnson leaving could be huge. you never know when you'll get breaks and win playoff games. its sad they blew this game. i would rather have had them just lose rather than blow a huge lead and have everyone talking about it. besides, it got my hopes up that they might actually win. and its the hope that kills you.