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dear lions, please win.

pats have one of the best running games and one of the worst passing games in the nfl.

did you watch any of the preseason? i didnt think mcissac was good enough. none of their young defensemen were good enough, imo. they all need to get better. i think they'll go with steady vets for their bottom 3 defensemen to start the season and see who develops. there will be injuries and the youngsters might get called up then. sebrango, viro, mcissac, johannson, edvinsson. all might play nhl games in the next couple years.

mcisaac isnt very good, so i hope not. i'd rather have them keep johannson, even edvinsson would be better. at least he gives you upside.

that was more frustrating than anything else. very sloppy from michigan. lost trente jones to an injury. 10 penalties. refs made a lot of mistakes. they made some adjustments in the second half and put the game out of reach. without the penalties and bad calls its probably 45-7.

theyre trapped alright. trapped in suckitude. how many more minutes until the usual suspects call for harbaugh to be fired? 10? 25?

you can see the difference in the defense from the forechecking. they created a lot of turnovers by aggressively forechecking in the other team's zone. but that worked like a charm against toronto's minor leaguers and chicago (whose whole team is a bunch of minor leaguers), but not as well against washington and pittsburgh. although they played well in a couple of those games too. they look like a better team this preseason. a couple years ago they could barely get the puck out of the zone against some teams, now they look much more effective. veleno looks better. ras looks better. zadina looks better. they have forward depth now. the defense? still shaky, imo. seider is a unicorn, and chairot will do his job. hronek is an nhler, but a bottom of the top 4 guy. maata? same. after that you have guys who arent ready (edvinsson, sebrango, johannson, mcissac, viro) and a bunch of guys who arent very good (hagg, lindstom). goalie should be fine with a more organized defense in front of them. if there is improvement on defense to look forward to, it comes from the forwards, imo.

who does he knock out? erne, smith, and sundkvist are the only choices really.

he also turned the puck over a lot. again. edvinsson is not playing tonight, so they feel they've seen enough. i cant see him being in detroit, but you never know. johannson, sebrango, viro, and mcissac going tonight. good luck against the leafs starters.

i see killian and his "revised shooting mechanics" left off at the same point as last year.

good to see them beat the leafs C team.

elmer!!!

how dare you say that on the eve of indigenous people's day. lol.

that seems less than ideal. keeping in mind that most prospect lists are complete crap.

mccarthy is there because he's willing to be jerry jones' lap dog. just like jason garrett was. is sean payton willing to do that? is jerry willing to defer to someone with an even bigger ego than him?

i hated jordan poole when he was at michigan and im a michigan fan. john beilein wasnt a big fan of poole's either. there's just something about him that seems to rub everyone the wrong way. that said, everyone knows draymond is an ass hole. he's been an ass hole forever.

i have him 9th. but again, i should have said position player instead of "hitter."

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/seravalli-32-bold-predictions-for-the-2021-22-nhl-season/ here are his predictions from last year, which had philly making the playoffs, detroit winning the draft lottery, and the leafs making the eastern conference finals. i dont think larkin is going anywhere.

yeah. he's a plugger. you can find those guys a lot of places. i was impressed with lombardi, but he's small.

they suddenly have a lot of forward prospects. maybe deal bertuzzi for a defense prospect they love? berggren looks really good offensively. defense could be an issue. edvinsson looks the same to me. that's not a bad thing, but he needs some work. for every great outlet pass or solid stick work on defense there's a bad turnover or a lapse on defense in the zone. he's going to be hard to hide in an nhl game.

because trammell plays shortstop and miggy plays dh. maybe i should have said position player and not "hitter"?

the tigers have been around for a long time and have had a lot of great hitters. many more great hitters than pitchers.

in their career just as tigers? it would be close. cobb, kaline, greenberg, gehringer, trammell, whitaker, heilman, crawford, cash. then miggy? was miggy better as a tiger than cash? maybe. was he better than bobby veach? or freehan? i'd say yes. i think people forget how good bobby veach was.

off the top of my head... kell...fryman....inge? does tony phillips count as a third baseman? cabrera almost had more war in the three years he was playing some third base in detroit than inge had in his whole career.

i'd say he's close to a top ten tigers hitter. maybe the dh on the tigers all time team? cant put him over greenberg at first base. hard to put him at third (where he would be far and away the best tiger of all time) since he so rarely played there and when he did he rarely played well.