Mr.TaterSalad

I would have to guess Hendrickson and Hutch will end up getting similar dollars per year in their deals. Hutch will have the higher dollar amount in his contract overall because I think he'll get more term than Hendrickson I think Hendrickson gets a 3 year contract, whereas Hutch gets a 4 to 5 year deal. Some teams might sign Hutch for a 6th or 7th year, but that simply isn't Brad Holmes' standard. I could see Hendrickson getting similar to what Maxx Crosby got from the Raiders. Crosby got 3 years and $106.5 million with a $91 million guaranteed and I Hendrickson could be right around that number and term.

There was a good amount of buzz around this kid in camp too and now he's a Levi, where we just have to wait and see.

The Myles Garrett and Maxx Crosby situations were always more speculative than anything. The Trey Hendrickson trade rumors it seems have more legs because this has been persistent all offseason. I would of course make the trade and work on making it work financially over the next 3 years or so. I presume he'll get a 3 to 4 year deal with a large cap number in his new contract. Once McNeill returns, assuming Hutch bounces right back to form, and then adding Hendrickson to the mix gives you the chance to potentially have the best defense in the league to go alongside the top scoring offense. We won't be making this trade though because Brad Holmes has a concrete plan in place that he's sticking to and ultimately that's fine because it's gotten us this far.

Mockery, humiliation, ridicule, and cutting dictators down to size is often one of the most effective ways to take down their power and reduce their effectiveness. Gavin Newsom has been doing a really good job on all fronts there lately. I think it is working to an extent and I'd like to see more Democrats laugh at Trump.

I think if Democrats in Michigan were smart they hammer DTE and Consumers Energy over and over again. Not a single soul in Metro Detroit accept bought and paid for politicians and the propaganda machine at DTE actually likes DTE and the service they provide. DTE is universally loathed because of their terribly unreliable service, lack on investments in the grid, and shoddy customer service. Ann Arbor is taking the right approach by pushing the more reliable, more cost effective public power option. While I'd like to see all of the SE Michigan area get onboard with public power like Ann Arbor is looking at doing, at a minimum, Democratic politicians from Michigan should be using big utilities like DTE as a boogyman and pledge to better regulate them and not take any corporate pac money from utilities.

That's just wrong, that's just not white!

So we're going to have Trump's bathroom brigade at ever restaurant now? Are restaurants going to have workers that actually feel your private parts and gentile area or is this a visual inspection you have to go through?

Don't forget, she also committed the sins of adultery and having a child out of wedlock. I believe she cheated on one husband with another and got knocked up by the one she was cheating with.

Unless a state has protections for same-sex marriages already in place in their laws and/or enshrined in their state constitution they'll probably invalidate the marriages. I worry if they make a worse ruling that somehow (not sure how) Trumps state laws and precedence and invalidates same-sex marriages in states that do have laws and constitutional protections on the books. Now that might sound preposterous, but we've been seeing federalism in reverse under this current Supreme Court. A system setup by the court where the federal government dictates and mandates on down to the states anything and everything. Furthermore, given that religious, right wing fanatics like Alito, Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Thomas think that LGBTQIA people are going to burn in hell anyways for a life of sin, I don't think this court much cares that they are overturning same-sex marriages. In-fact, these religious fanatics probably think they're saving people from sin and doing them a favor.

They're overturning marriage equality now. I can't see this radically right wing court protecting marriage rights for LGBTQIA persons and couples.

The injury bug starting again. Hopefully this is nothing serious and Hassanein is back on the field in no time. Apparently he told the press "I'm good" after practice today. So let's hope he really is good and he's back out there this week.

WOMEN'S ATHLETICS! WOMEN'S ATHLETICS! They care about transwomen playing in women's sports . . . until they don't. When the women want equitable pay, that's not something the right wants to standup for.

They really believe this bull**** too. I genuinely believe that what is shared in this video are Pete Hegseth's actual views on women being able to vote.

I remember as a kid watching the Reggie Brown game and feeling so awful about it as a kid. This situation with Morice Norris has me reflecting on that. Thoughts go out to Morice Norris and I hope he makes a full and healthy recovery.

I think he needs to be hammered as an elitist for doing this. Like when Bush's campaign mocked John Kerry for wind surfing back in 2004, JD should be mocked for his phone populism and clear elitism.

TeSlaa looking good tonight too.

That was a weak roughing the passer call.

They need a backup QB because Hooker simply doesn't have it thus far. What a waste of a 3rd round pick.

Is TeSlaa working out of the slot, on the outside, or being moved around. I know the stereotype is white wideouts tend to work in the slot. Are the Lions using him as a slot guy in practice?

One of the reasons, among many, that we hate Donald Trump is because of his vulgar, disgusting, sexist, misogynist behavior. I'm sure Haley Stevens would agree with this. Yet, when it comes to Mike Bloomberg all is forgiven and she endorses a creep, with multiple NDAs, simply because he has a (D) next to his name. We are disgusted at the way Trump talks about women, even his own daughter. Yet when Mike Bloomberg talks about his daughter that way, it's no problem for Haley Stevens. Michigan politics sure is interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kamala_Harris_2024_presidential_campaign_sub-national_officials_endorsements https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/26/michigan-metro-detroit-jewish-arab-american-voters-react-to-kamala-harris/74546204007/ FYI Abdul endorsed Kamala. I believe he campaigned for her as well.

Stevens endorsed Mike Bloomberg for US President just five years ago because he donated to her campaign. She sold herself out to the highest bidder. Bloomberg is a racist, a sexist, and a misogynist who made women employees sign NDA's. He called women fat broads, horsed-face lesbians, made sexual remarks about his own daughter, and so much more. That clearly didn't both Haley Stevens though. Apparently your purity test doesn't include not supporting openly racist and misogynist people. "All of you girls line up to give him oral sex as a wedding present." - Mike Bloomberg "I’d like to do that piece of meat." - Mike Bloomberg “Look at the ass on her.” - Mike Bloomberg “I know for a fact that any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site and doesn’t get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she does get one.” - Mike Bloomberg "If [the clients] told you to lay down and strip naked so they could **** you, would you do that too?" - Mike Bloomberg "I like theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. What do you think? It’s a wet dream." - Mike Bloomberg "My daughter is tall and busty and blonde. We went to China together. And what's a 16-year-old going to do on a business trip? So I got her dates in every city in China." - Mike Bloomberg “I would like nothing more in life than to have Sharon Stone sit on my face.” - Mike Bloomberg “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s.” - Mike Bloomberg

Haley Stevens endorsed a Republican Mayor for President of the United States and did so because she wanted to make a quick buck for her campaign and raise funds. Apparently racial slurs and blatant misogynistic behavior didn't bother Stevens at all. I'll vote for Haley if I have to, but she's an unhinged person and a sellout who endorses Republican Mayors for President. The person that Stevens endorsed for President as well helped cost Democrats the Senate in 2016 when he donated millions to Republican Senate campaigns. He propped up Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania and Susan Collins in Maine. He did so at the expense of Katie McGinty in PA. Abdul is my top choice for Senate followed by Mallory. Eli Savit is also the best choice for AG and Aghogho Edevbie for SOS. Karen McDonald damn near blew the Crumbley case by withholding evidence from the defense. That seems like something a prosecutor aught to to better about doing.

The Denver Broncos did in 2015. Two of the top 5 highest paid players on their team were edge rushers, Von Miller and Demarcus Ware. They took up 6.81% and 6.05% of their teams cap space. They also won a Super Bowl by having a dominate front 7 and destroying teams in the trenches. Obviously, player salaries have went up a lot since 2015, but so has the cap. In 2015 dollars Peyton Manning was taking up 12.21% of the Broncos cap space. Goff is taking up a smaller percentage of our cap space in 2025 at 11.68% than Manning did as QB for Denver. So we have a little wiggle room there to bake in an increase that comes from a new contract extension if we were to trade for a guy like Hendrickson. Hendrickson takes up 6.69% of the Bengals cap space, but that number will go up once a new contract is in place. Micah Parsons takes up 8.60% of Dallas cap space. His new deal will likely add to that cap percentage, depending on how it's structured, front-loaded, back-loaded, etc. Let's play with your premise though and say that Hendrickson or Parsons are going to cost you 2-3 of your best players. Would you rather have Hendrickson or Parsons + Hutch for the next 3-4 seasons or Hutch + Branch/Campbell/Laporta?

Holmes will not trade for Parsons. Just as he won't trade for Trey Hendrickson, Myles Garrett, or any name we want him to. The guy Holmes might draft a year or two years from now in the first round is more valuable to him than Micah Parsons. The culture they've built in their locker room is more valuable than allowing one guy to come in and potentially disrupt it. For better or for worse, Holmes likes his players, that he drafted. He values guys that his front office scouted, got to know, and drafted. He also values cap flexibility and not being in salary cap hell because you made a few splashy moves on big name, high priced players. There is no "win now" mode or "eff them picks" mode with Brad Holmes. There is no belief that our window is now and might close later because in Brad's mind, he's building a sustainable team that can win for years to come. Which is surprising considering his boss Les Snead in LA was all about win now and eff them picks. This mantra is a bit of the smartest guy in the room, but if it works, you're the genius. Holmes believes in himself, his scouts, and his plan above all else. It is a slow and steady race to the top and nothing will get him to deviate from that.