buddha

he really is unlikeable.

well...his out game decision making is now as questionable as his in game decision making.

this is the tone they've taken on jamo for two years. its not new. where there is this much smoke there is usually fire. quite frankly, i still say bet on the talent and jamo has speed til sunday. maybe they're challenging him? it sure does seem like they have some issues with his behavior.

he had two catches on seven targets and dropped an easy touchdown. that's not impressive.

look no further than arizona beating dallas two weeks ago.

"ben johnson sucks" "how does this idiot have a job?" "we have the worst coaching staff in the league!" "if ben johnson isnt fired at halftime then dan campbell is the worst head coach in football" its chatgTP!

i get that, but he looked like **** in the preseason and he was healthy. i'm with red. i'm uneasy about jamo. the speed is there, but are the hands and the head? we dont know yet. it also takes receivers a while to develop sometimes. i'm all for patience, i'm just not ready to crown him the next jamar chase like some seem to be. i think what he DOES do is give the lions a deep threat they didnt have before, which should open up the middle of the field even more for the tight ends and st brown.

bootleg james brown

out of all the young players they have, him and edvinsson have looked ready to play in the nhl. danielson has been a guy who looks like a slightly smaller jonathan toews (with lots of room to fill out). a do it all center. jack of all trades master of most. but not the elite speed or shot that gets prospect scouts all hot and bothered. he'll need to put on 10-15 pounds, but that's doable. i know edvinsson got embarassed by bedard but that's going to happen to lots of players. he also had a couple turns using his reach to send bedard wide and get his stick on bedard's shots. tuomisto and lombardi have done well too, but not as well as danielson. kasper has been disappointing to my uneducated eye. not disappointing: the regular players. compfer, rasmussen, fabbri, shayne g. they've looked like solid professional additions that give the wings a lot of real depth of "good" players. what they miss is what we all know they miss: elite offensive players. they need raymond, debrincat, and larkin to become a top nhl scoring threat if they want to make the playoffs in this loaded division. if they were in the west, i would expect them to make it. not so much in the east.

i know the lions are a terrible franchise, but its hard to believe they are 3-8 against a recent expansion team. carolina's defense is legit, but their offense sucks if bryce young is playing. dink dunk is all they can do.

as much as i lead this conversation about carter, it is waaaaaaaay too early to make any assessments about player impact. its just a fun conversation for a message board. the team that really screwed up in passing on carter is the bears. so let's go back to laughing at them.

true, he could miss a whole year with injury, be accused of not practicing hard, come back to make a limited impact, then get suspended for gambling. we wouldnt want anyone with that type of character concern on the lions, now would we.

jack campbell hasnt. jahmyr gibbs has shown flashes but hasnt really done much. laporta and branch certainly have. carter has dominated. better than all of them, at least partially because of the importance of his position as a three tech. imagine him, mcneill and hutch together.

4th would be a real stretch. 7th is better. maybe higher than heilmann?

kaline played a great right field for most of his career and cabrera was a defensive albatross. i'm mr "hitting is way more important than defense", but when youre looking over an entire career and one guy is an excellent fielder and the other guy is terrible, it means something. kaline was good enough with the bat to compete with cabrera even if cabrera's peaks were much higher.

no.

so long miggy. the greatest tiger hitter of my lifetime. for all the bitching about roster spots and minor leaguers taking his spot, and how he's a drag on the team, i enjoyed following him this last year. time to retire for sure, but i liked one last season of cabrera in detroit. adios miggy. see you in cooperstown.

wings b team looked really good. very professional. then again, chicago is very bad. you could see bedard's talent in a couple moves, but his surrounding cast is god awful. granted, they didnt bring the complete A team tonight.

i feel like fields could be a decent nfl qb if he was in a better organization. but he went to a team with no offensive line, who hired a defensive head coach, and who had no picks to support him. otoh, the man just has a lot of trouble reading the defense. if he were on the lions playing behind a good oline with a good coordinator calling a lot of play action passes and designed runs, i think he could be ok. but he's on a horrible chicago team and he's just thrown to the wolves.

depends on whether they get the #1 pick.

i hope not. if so, that's the same as passing on randy moss to draft terry fair.

wings look good. with the caveat that its the hawks.

if the season ended today the bears would pick 1 and 2 in the draft. and still find a way to screw it up.

the vikings turning the ball over so much is such karmic retribution for their luck last year. its awesome.

Lions: Matt patricia's lions were the worst defense in nfl history. broncos; hold my beer.