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The account that posted Bills/Lions is historically pretty accurate. They’re not perfect (obviously lol) but they were pretty good last year. They’re the ones who publish the spreadsheet of leaks. The first site I linked I probably shouldn’t have, it’s why I put the caveat about being unconfirmed. I was just excited to see a leak.

Appears you were correct. We can be smoked by Josh Allen in front of a national audience instead.

Leaks are leaking. All unconfirmed.

It may have been agreed upon in principle, but I can’t imagine Brady’s contract with the Bucs would allow him to enter into a “futures” contract like that, even though it’s not with another team.

I agree with your comments about the draft board (though a lot can change in a year as you said). That said, I don’t think Holmes is the type to take a QB for the sake of convenience or for the sake of taking one. He could have taken Fields himself if he wanted to. He had multiple opportunities to take any of the 2022 class. I think he simply wants the right guy to place in the right situation. Finding that guy may be easier in 2023, but I don’t think his grand plan includes a bullet point of “draft QB in 2023”. If Goff isn’t actively losing us games, he may be here in 2023 as well.

It would be nice if it was this objective, but it never will be. There is no golden mark where if Goff completes X% of his passes, or has a X passer rating, we will keep him versus obtaining a replacement - in the draft, trade market, or otherwise. Using the gold standard of Lions/Goff comparison again in the Chiefs/Alex Smith, I’m sure the Chiefs didn’t come into the 2016 season saying that Alex Smith needed to be ‘this’ good, or we will replace him. They likely didn’t even go into the 2017 Draft saying that they ‘had’ to get a QB. Rather, they came into the draft with Alex Smith, a guy they really liked in Pat Mahomes slipped a little, and they went up and got him. I would expect it to be similar for the Lions. You have a guy in Jared Goff. As long as he’s not actively losing you games (and in fairness he approached that bar for a time in 2021), I think he will be the guy until such a time a clearly better situation presents itself.

Personally, I prefer Mel Kiper, who gets paid millions of dollars for an analysis of 28 variations of B, two C+, and two As.

I like Kyler because he’s so young and his talent is being grossly mismanaged by Arizona. I don’t like Lamar because I see a lot of Cam Newton in him and he’s very easily defeated in Madden with a QB spy.

It is possible, I think it’s just hard to do. A lot of owners would rather hire the Dabboll, Saleh, arguably McDaniels, etc., who are evidenced to be a really good coordinator.

He might, but I think it will take more improvement of the Lions defense first. Outside the Saints, it would have been very hard for a team to sell their fans and Glenn to sell an owner on hiring the first-time DC of the 31st ranked defense. Obviously we all know in Detroit there is more to the story than that, but a lot of ownerships aren’t “in-tune” enough to see that. And there are only 32 jobs.

If he does everything else really well (as he seems to be thus far), and whiffs on his first QB, I would give him more than one chance to find the franchise QB. That’s not an easy task.

I agree. You can’t hide deficiencies in the NFL. Even if our front four and an edge rusher or two turn out to be decent, and even if Glenn and Pleasant can turn our DBs into a league average group, most NFL QBs will be able to simply bully us in the middle of the field, just by having their slot receiver run a slant. Anzalone should not be starting in the NFL.

I will say, if those concerns have any merit, being drafted by New York is the worst thing that could have happened to him. That media market will chew him up and spit him out before he plays a single snap if he’s not careful.

I would give this draft a square and even A. We didn’t think too hard at the top or try to be the smartest man in the room. Holmes demonstrated an aggression never before seen in Detroit, moving up with a division foe to get a guy who could have gone top five if not for his injury, in a trade that outside the inherent risk seems extremely favorable. We drafted for need as the draft progressed, but did not seem to laser in (or “anchor” @Brad) too much on any single position. The lack of early help at the linebacker position is what (perhaps unfairly) keeps me from an A+. Our linebackers have been the laughing stock of the NFL for so, so long. It seemed as if there were options at the Paschal pick even outside of Dean (Anderson, Muma, Asamoah, Harris) that may have been able to make both a more immediate and a more long-standing impact. Of course I hope Paschal proves me wrong. I do think it’s important that the defensive line and pass rush shows serious promise this year. A lot of resources have been poured into that unit.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our quarterback.

Twitter has it now, I won't spoil though.

I agree but that thought is no fun. Howell or Bust, ordering my jersey before the pick is in.

Corral to the Panthers. I'll say Howell for the Lions, so that we can look back after his 6th Pro Bowl appearance laughing at the Panthers for not taking the hometown kid.

Panthers moving up for a QB? Might be jumping Detroit for Howell.

I would like Sam Howell, Leo Chenal, Kerby Joseph, or Channing Tindall here. I would be okay with a TE too.

You'd make a great meteorologist!

I think Williams was surprised, based on the limited contact the team had with him prior to the draft, but that does not mean that he was disappointed. I don't think Chark will mind though. Teams need more than two competent WRs, he's on a one-year deal, and the WR the Lions took may not even be 100% to start the year.

If you think Williams was upset with being drafted by Detroit (I don't but I saw that speculation), just remind him, at least it's not Jacksonville or Houston.

It's fair to say their priorities are different, but I also think the way the Jags are managing having a young QB is heading towards TLaw getting the hell out of dodge when his rookie contract is up.