Mr.TaterSalad

So Elias Pettersson remains a Vancouver Canuck.

I agree with you on fans expectations for 4thround picks or later. I think the average fan out there has an unrealistic expectation of what type of player a 4th round pick or later will actually develop into. If they're a contributing depth piece, much less a starter, that's a success for most any GM and team. I haven't complained here or anywhere about the 4th round picks or later that they've made. I could not really care if Brad spends a 4th round pick on a project tackle or RB who could develop into a contributing player. It's the Josh Paschal picks in the 2nd round and Hendon Hooker or Broderic Martin in the 3rd round that really impact this team in a negative way.

It's a shame that we used to universally agree that childhood pedophila was abhorrent, repugnant, and morally wrong. Now that Donald Trump had been exposed as a child pedophile and sexual pervert towards teenage girls, one side of the political asile is alright with grown men walking in on teenage girls changing naked at teen beauty pageants.

There will be many "Sure Jan" moments during this unjust, unconstitutional war with Iran. Saying the war will last a few days or weeks will be one of them. This is turning into Iraq 2.0 right before our very eyes.

Apparently, doing some further reading on Twitter, it seems that Rice was at the White House for a college sports related function they are holding. Hopefully, no one would listen to anything she has to say on foreign policy and intervention.

Maybe they want Rice to be the leader in Iran just like Paul Paul Bremer ran Iraq. I seriously hope her being at the White House was just a coincidence and is nothing related to Iran, the war, or any foreign policy advice.

We have no idea what Condoleezza Rice was doing at The White House today. But if she was offering any type of advice on Iran or wartime strategy related to this war, than LAUGH OUT LOUD! One of the architects of the disastrous Bush doctrine and the Iraq War should be giving no one, any foreign policy advice. That's like taking advice on business ethics from Ken Lay and Jeffery Skilling. This one was apart of an administration, as a National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, that doctored and grossly misrepresented intelligence reports to help rush America off to war with a country that was not a national security threat in any way, shape, or form to our country. From made up and/or exaggerated reports of WMDs in Iraq to Saddam trying to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger to build a nuclear weapons program, to mushrooms clouds over Manhattan to Saddam's "ties to terrorists", Rice was integral in all the lies the Bush Administration made. Not to mention this war criminal defended the torture of other human beings. The only place she should be she should be walking into is in a jail cell in The Hauge after her war criminal tribunal is complete. If she had any role in human torture or the use of chemical weapons like white phosphorous or was provably apart of crafting the intelligence plans for invading Iraq (and we know she was), then she belongs in jail for war crimes and other international law violations.

It's a bit of a damper giving up Dmitiri Buchelnikov. I wanted a bigger move to be made and one was made, so I can't be too mad.

I'm very pleased with this trade. We only gave up picks and kept all of our prospects intact. I was willing to trade Danielson for the right player, like a Robert Thomas. Glad we kept him in this deal though. Also glad to see Chiarot permanently move down a line and Faulk be on line one or Simon het the bump up to line one.

Would you feel comfortable with a young, but an oft-injured guy like Jedrick Wills as a replacement for Decker?

So are we selling and buying at the deadline? Are we using this as a move to setup for another move?

Darren Dragger saying that Robert Thomas is unlikely to be moved now per what Kenny Cott just said on 97.1.

First off, thank you. Thank you Taylor Decker for being an anchor on the offensive line over the last decade. Thank you for suffering through all the years of misery with Matt Patricia and rebuilding. Thank you for sacrificing your body and your mind playing many tough years for this franchise. Thank you for being an anchor on this line when it was the anchor for this team for several years of playoff teams. Love you Taylor Decker and much respect. Thank you for all you've done.

What a ****ing gift for the midterms. I hope someone, somewhere got the video and audio of Trump saying this today during an interview he had with Reuters. This should be in every ad, from every swing seat Democrat in the House and Senate. What a gift of a stupid thing this is for the Democrats.

Here is an oldie, but goodie, from war criminal and conman Donald Rumsfeld. Thank ****ing God he's dead and not alive to give advice on the Iran War to this administration.

We all just need to make more sacrifices. Just you wait, there will soon be a chicken in every pot and a tariff check in every mailbox. All the while, Iran will be a free, liberated, democratic country.

Fox News polling is a lot more fair and balanced than Fox News the channel. But his economic support among the people, particularly on the issue of inflation, is cratering. The economic whiz kid is really just an F student, copying someone else's homework.

Straight from the horses ass of Fox News. Job losses, 4.4% unemployment, revised numbers down, factory job loses, healthcare job loses, rising gas prices. What happened to Trump being the economic mastermind? Kamala Harris and so many others told you time and again that this guy was a fraud. That he wasn't an economic mastermind. That he never knew a ****ing thing about the economy and that he was a lousy businessman, who conned his way to the top and ripped people off. Why does every ****ing person have to touch the stove before realizing it is hot? Listen to the people screaming at you about the hot stove in the first place before burning not only yourself, but the rest of us in the process.

DUDE STOP. JUST STOP. Would you rather be lead by a black woman? Think of how bad that would be.

Oil is up to $90/barrel. Over a $20 jump in a week. What happened t that $2 gas we were supposed to get? LOL!

I wonder how many NFL teams routinely do full contact practices as hard and as early in the season/preseason as the Lions do? We've heard from new players into the organization and from others around the league that no one practices as hard as we do. I wonder if there is anything to the idea that Dan pushes guys too hard in practice?

Ultimately, what I want this team to do in the offseason and what Brad will do will defer. First and foremost, I want Brad to restructure his most expensive contracts to clear up $80-$100 million in cap space. I see no reason why Goff, Sewell, and St. Brown shouldn't be offered restructured deals. All three players seem to be happy here and all three are obviously cornerstone pieces of this franchise. Unless they simply don't want to restructure, reworking their contracts should be the top priority. From a transactional standpoint. I want them to rebuild their offensive line. As most fans and the media seem to universally agree upon, they need to go get a starting center, a starting tackle of the future to replace Decker, and depth at the swing spot between guard and tackle. I'm not so certain they will do this via free agency though and spend big on either tackle or center. Unless they get a great value contract, on an injured guy like Jedrick Wills, I think it's more likely they go this way through the draft versus free agency to upgrade the line. I admit that I don't have some great reasoning for it, it's just how I feel. If they can't get great contractual value though and not take a big hit on their cap, I can see a guy like Wills coming here to be Decker's longterm replacement. I also want them to find another starting corner as I'm not sure how much we can trust Arnold at this point given both hwo he has played thus far and now his off field issues that have bubbled up. I certainly don't even expect Rakestraw to even play or be on the roster for much longer, so he's not work a thing. I also wasn't sold on how DJ Reed played last year either. So I think getting a starting corner should be a top priority. Another top issue I'd like for them to address is getting a edge rusher to work opposite Aidan. If that means bringing back Al-Quadin Muhammad on the right price, at the right term, I'm fine with that. Muhammad may command a bigger contract than they are willing to pay. But if we're clearing up $80+ million in cap space, I might be willing to run it back again with Muhammad if the price isn't too obscene. The final area of "need?" is at safety. I say "need?" in quotations as a question because we just don't know what the injury situations will look like for Branch and Joseph. If they come back healthy and can return to form or at least be managed properly, even if not fully, 100% the players they were, this obviously isn't a need. They have two of the very best safeties in the entire NFL. If not though. and Joseph most especially is out long-term, this becomes a big need all of a sudden. I'm not spending either big dollars in free agency or 1st or 2nd round draft capital on a safety if I can avoid it. I think there are other, more pressing needs that come first.

If we're going to sign a Montgomery replacement, James Connor obviously makes the most since given his connections with our new OC Drew Petzing. However, an couple of outside names I think we should consider are Tyler Allgeier and Rico Dowdle. I think Dowdle is probably getting a larger contract than what we're willing to pay given his recent success and age. I think Allgeier and Dowdle are names to consider though in addition to Connor.

It's a very late years David Legwand type of move to me. At least in this one we didn't give up a prospect I care about. When Kenny trade Calle Jarnkrok for Legwand I was so pissed.