Mr.TaterSalad

First off, I haven't heard the full quote in context, so I do needto go back and watch it. I want to get a proper context and understanding of what he meant about Borom here. I read this quote, as it is by itself with no other context, as the organization is actively considering Borom as a starter. If that is the case, does anyone her feel good about that?

Missing out on a top center in the draft really hurt this organization. In order to compensate for that Yzerman either needed to keep tanking until he got his 90-100 point center or pivoted and built a team in the mold of Florida, Vegas or 2019 St. Louis. It means building a team with great goaltending that can steal a game. Putting two strong defensive units that are sound with the puck, can kill penalties, and can create scoring opportunities. Having 3 lines worth of double digit point producers and 10+ goal scores. Being physical and having a ruthless forehead. Yzerman hasn't done much of that. Until getting Gibson we had one of the worst goaltending situations in the league. He has also refused to give his young goalie in Cossa a real, extended chance in the big leagues. Until this year, he had a team with a historically bad penalty kill. One the gave up goals constantly on the PK. He's also built one of the softest teams in the league that is weak on the forecheck and is often muscled off the puck. He's not built any scoring depth beyond his first line and Patrick Kane on his second line. I get that we had historically bad draft lottery luck. I get that we missed out on getting our McDavid, Bedard, or Celibrini. We didn't get the chance to get a 90-100 point guy in the draft. But that's where it was his job to pivot and take a different approach. Either be more aggressive with drafting high ceiling players or be aggressive with a trade. He did neither. Nor did he model his roster construction off of other teams who gave lacked a 100 point producer like Florida, St. Louis, and Vegas. I'm not ready to change out our front office leadership just yet, but I'm getting close. 7 years in and we're going to likely miss the playoffs yet again. This is not enjoyable.

We're broke as an organization. Out on the street corner thumbing for cap space. So broke in fact that we were out of the running for a measly $4 million contract for a guy like AQM.

Ate we do certain they're drafting a tackle in the first round still? I thought Borom would be a potential starter from the day they signed him.

I gotta be real, Holmes' comments about "serious financial constraints" concern me as to how aggressive he wants to be to try and do everything he can to win a Super Bowl now. The Les Snead approach of "screw future years" is real appealing given that the Rams both won a Super Bowl and have since bounced back to being competitive in a short time frame. The goal of this franchise and any organization should be to build a Super Bowl winning team. The goal is not be a good/very good competitive team for X-number of years and maintain cap flexibility. I'm not saying we need to be Mickey Loomis and the Saints and be reckless with our salary cap. But a more aggressive approach, with more salary restructuring and a more concerted free agency plan, is what I think many of us wanted to see. It doesn't mean you blow your wad on every high dollar player out there. But it does mean you are in on players like Braden Smith, Cam Jordan, AJ Epenesa, etc. that they weren't after this offseason. What Lions fan that has suffered through years of misery wouldn't trade a few down years, where we are in tighter cap constraints, for one Super Bowl win/appearance?

Does Sheila Ford have a drinking buddy that she can appoint as GM of the cricket team?

I am elated that McGonigle gets to be on the opening day roster and show what he's got. He's fully deserving of this opportunity, let's hope he can make the most of it. Now we truly get to see if Clark/McGonigle vs. Wyatt Langford was the right decision for Scott Harris to have made. LFG!

Same Old Royals.

Maybe so. I heard them talking about the tweet on Karsch & Anderson this afternoon. So I went and looked it up on Justin Rogers' page and saw that post. It may simply be an introduction to his article. It did make me wonder though if Karsch had communicated with Rogers to confirm what he meant by it before going out and making a radio topic out of it. Doug usually isn't a blowhard that reports anything, he's pretty cautious, at least as far as sports radio hosts go.

We do our yearly fantasy football draft at Twin Peaks in Livonia (Haggerty and 6 that CMR was referencing). They actually have surprisingly good food. I think they are a solid step up from an Applebees, Chilis, Friday's type of restauraunt. No, they aren't Joe Muers, Selden Standard, or Grey Ghost, but they have good food at Twin Peaks.

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This doesn't signify to me that they are going to go out and add a Cam Jordan-caliber or priced player.

I'm shaken emotionally and stressed by a movie in a way I haven't been shaken or stressed by a movie maybe ever. I just watched of I Had Legs I'd Kick You. I don't recommend watching it honestly and I don't know that finishing it was the right thing for me to do. Yes, the acting is high quality and done very well. Yes, this movie probably represents a somewhat accurate portrait of motherhood trauma, postpartum depression, and psychosis for a very small subset of people and mom's. Yes, I do think there can be sympathy to be gleaned from this movie for woman, mom's, and people in general who struggle with severe mental illness and brain health issues, like psychosis, delusions, depression, paranoia, etc. But this movie is so ****ing grim and hopeless. It's just an entire near two hours of despair, sadness, mind warping, whatever. This movie was stressful to watch. I don't know that I've ever come away feeling from a movie what this one brought out of me. I'm mostly serious in saying don't watch it.

Less than half the amount of sacks and QB pressure too.

Well that settles it. Years of science flushed down the drain. Many players "effected" because they're simply weak, not because they have damage to their brain. A guy who clearly didn't pay attention in college or go to class is right and ask the doctors, scientists, and medical researchers are wrong.

Channel 7 Sports Director Brad Galli is leaving the station after nearly 15 years there.

Payton Turner also had a blown ACL in the past, but I believe the may have been in HS or college ball. Missing last year due to iniury is no surprise though. Getting injured guys on the cheap is Brad's forte. My concern is not so much injuries, but that the guy often didn't even see the field in New Orleans. His snap counts, outside of the 2024 season, were incredibly low. He also certainly isn't much of a pass rusher with only 4 career sacks in 4 seasons. So how good is he really?

But teams attempted to throw the ball more on the Lions than they did run the ball and by quite a wide margin. The Lions defense faced 555 passing attempts and 446 rushing attempts. Part of this is because the league is a passing league. Part of it is also because of how pedestrian our pass rush was and middle of the road our secondary was at times.

This is what I can't understand. The NFL is a passing league. Every NFL team, except Baltimore, threw more than they ran and was above 50%+ in-terms of total plays that were passes. Why is an edge/DE allowed to be bad against the pass and getting to the QB but not bad against the run? Why does this coaching staff place so much value on stopping the run when every NFL team except one throws it more than they run it?

RIP Chuck Norris. He didn't die, he just elevated up. But before he did, he went to hell, gave Satan a roundhouse kick, and then headed up to the sky.

I can confirm Valenti said this, I cannot confirm if he is full of **** or not. I was listening yesterday when Valenti said it. He seemed to allude that he spoke to one of the Lions reporters/beat writers (my guess is Dave Birkett, maybe Justin Rogers) and that person told him that there are difference between Campbell and Holmes this offseason on roster construction and some of the moves that have been made thus far.

But yet every time the Lions do get a third down pass rushing role player they seem to move on from them quickly. Houston, Muhammad as examples of that. So it is a role in the league that at least some teams value and will pay for. It doesn't seem we are one of those. Once this organization figures out how one dimensional a player is, they seem to move on quickly.

As you said though Nate, it goes back to their organizational philosophy. They don't seem to want or value a 1 dimensional, pure pass rusher who can't play 3 downs. They also don't seem to like pure edge guys and want players that can slide along the line. They like the Josh Paschal types of the Al-Quadin Muhammad types.

But you could argue that a pass rusher will have a bigger impact when they do make a play. They could force a turnover, cause an incompletion with no gain, cause a significant loss of yardage, etc. So while a run stopper may get more plays overall, do they always make the bigger impact?

Why isn't the opposite valid though? Why does it only matter how someone is against the run? Among Edge defenders, where did Wonnum rank over the past two seasons against the pass? Where did he rank in-terms of total sacks, total hurries, pressure rate, time to get to the QB off the line once the ball is snapped? How did he compare in all these metrics as a pass rusher to Muhammad?