Mr.TaterSalad

Hell yeah, good for Venezuela. Congratulations on winning the World Baseball Classic.

Muhammad could have beg their guy if the didn't want to pay a Cam Jordan or Nick Bosav type player. For $12 million they could have brought back Muhammad and signed DJ Wonnum. They'd have their 3 down guy and a pass rusher opposite Aiden for obvious passing situations. Maybe the thought $12 million for DE was too rich for the DE position. If the one Wonnum and the unproven Hassanein are their answers at DE, I'm with you. I will be unimpressed and won't feel they're meeting the moment of where they are at.

I'm not wanting to rely on a guy why was an injured rookie and didn't play a single snap last season. But let's suppose Hassanein is the situational pass rusher and isn't as strong against the run. What's to believe they would keep him beyond this year? If he can't play against the run, be a 3 down guy, or slide along the line, why wouldn't they just get rid of him like every other situational pass rusher they've had?

But Muhammad was on the field. He had 11 sacks, 26 pressures, and 457 snaps. So he did them a decent amount of good last year and had availability in numerous situations. I'm going to die on this hill, but given the production and injury history, I would have paid Muhammad. This guy seems more like a Josh Paschal replacement than a Muhammad replacement.

I want a situational pass rusher because we had one of the worst pressure rates and allowed QBs for some of the longest time in the pocket and to throw. This defense needed to get more pressure on the QB.

They gave that spot to Bob Muhammad last year, but like the other situational pass rusher they get, they don't keep them. Thy injury visit with Wonnum worries me a bit. But we know these guys provide the value and potential upside Brad loves.

I don't why they wouldn't pay Muhammad $6 million after the season he just had for them, which admittedly wasn't spectacular, but solid enough for what his skill set was. But they'll pay an injury prone guy, who had fewer sacks and pressures, the same amount of money. I would have preferred Muhammad.

Does everyone on the line have to be 3 tech who can play against the run too? Can't we just have one, pure, situational pass rusher? Muhammad seemed to be that and then they dumped him. James Houston was the guy before Muhammad and they ditched him.

I had dinner with a friend the other day down in Dearborn at Sheeba Yemini restaurant. We went to the newer restaurant in West Dearborn, not the original one in East Dearborn. I know that Middle Eastern food and all the variants that come with it from Egyptian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Yemini, etc. aren't uniquely Detroit. I know by now lots of other metro areas in the country have restaurants that serve Middle Eastern food of some variety, from one of the aforementioned countries. But no other region has it as good as we do. We have such a plethora of amazing Middle Eastern restaurants from so many different countries and regions in that part of the world. Throw a rock across the street in Metro Detroit and chances are you'll hit a building or strip mall that has a restaurant serving faatoosh, falafal, ghallaba, shwarma, tabooli, and so much more. We really are spoiled around here with some amazing ethnic cuisines from around the world. In the case of Middle Eastern food, I barely even think of it as that anymore. I think of all of those foods as just American and Detroit staples. I want a chicken or lamb shawarma for lunch as much and as often as I'd want a burger or a coney dog.

Hardly knew the guy is one of my favorite Trump bits. After the person gets in trouble or does something to go against him, in this case resign in protest, he suddenly, hardly knows the person.

All I'm saying is that I agree with point that the UofM Board of Regents has largely been feckless. Paul Brown has been the best of the bunch IMO. Almost none of them, on either side of the aisle, have adequately shepherded the university through it's sports scandals or leadership searches. Re-electing the same people, Democrat or Republican as a Regent, isn't going to work. The University needs a leadership change top to bottom to clean itself up institutionally. A new regent like Amir is presenting the best change out there to make significant changes from the status quo.

This has been a theme of both Trump Administration's. They start a fire, act as the arsonist, and then boast about what a great job their doing for having put out their own fire. They created this work crisis with their deportations and immigration policies. There was already a worker shortage in farming, agriculture, and food processes. Their policies just exacerbated the issue.

Ok don't. Vote for the same people for Regent then and get the same results. The university needs new leadership and needs to be cleaned up as an institution. If you want Jordan Acker and the same Board of Regents that got the university into this mess then keep voting for them. Amir is a civil rights attorney, running on specific reforms he's looking to make within the university. Jordan Acker is running on the status quo and has proposed little that I can see to change university culture.

Come to the Michigan Democratic Party's convention in April and vote for Amir Makled at the convention. He's running to make a real change at the university and not just be another feckless Regent. He's running to take on Jordan Acker. https://amirmakled.com/

Right. Besides just saying nothing at all, what else did anyone expect him to say? I want him to be fully healthy and back to the player he was. I hope that's the case, but will believe it when I see it too as Sagnam already mentioned.

New York City was undoubtedly safer when John Gotti whacked Paul Castellano.

I see it now haha. I should have said former and not latter with regards to Arnold being like Cam Sutton. We certainly don't want a Cam Sutton repeat here.

DJ Reed was mediocre to slightly above average. He had a PFF grade (if you subscribe to their line of thinking and evaluating players) of 65.2 which was 45 out of all 114 starting CBs. He was a downgrade from Carlton Davis as well. Maddox is a free agent and not on this roster either and Lopez is gone now too. I guess the hope is Brad can find more of these types of value guys. But why not just pay guys like Lopez and Muhhamad and not let them walk? It's not like their contracts are breaking the bank out there.

I know the Iran War will be over when I feel it in my bones. Not intelligence reports, not after meeting with the Joint Chiefs and receiving a briefing. Naw, he's just going to feel in his bones and his gut full of Big Macs and Diet Cokes. I wonder if Eisenhower felt it in his bones with Operation Overlord and the invasion of France at Normandy? Ike, do you think this operation will work? Sure do General Bradley, I feel it in my bones.

Agreed. We need multiple starters across this defense. I'm all for letting Brad Cook, but the cooking hasn't been that good the last few offseasons.

Dan Gilmore, I'm not sure what you are confused about with my post. I am assuming it is the DT/DJ Reader/snap count and the need for another starting DT take. If it is not, I apologize. I looked at snap counts for some of the top defensive tackles in the league in 2026. For example Dexter Lawrence had 754 snaps, Jalen Carter had 639 snaps, Jeffery Simmons had 764 snaps, Quinnen Williams had 640 snaps, Leonard Williams had 812 snaps, Vitea Vea had 763 snaps. DJ Reader had 583 snaps last year in 17 games started. So Reader started games even when both McNeill and Williams were healthy at the same time. Alim McNeill had 524 snaps in 10 games started last year and 782 snaps the last time he played a full season. Tyleik Williams had 446 snaps in 10 games started last year. With Reader out of the lineup, and no other starting DT on the roster, someone has to cover those snaps. Since it was told to me that Reader isn't a starter and McNeill and Williams are the starters, are we to infer that each of those guys will be getting an additional 583 snaps give or take, bringing their totals to near a 1,000 snaps? Not even the top DT's in the league approach a 1,000 snaps in a season. Are those snaps going to be split up among an additional 2-3 players? If so, who? It was inferred that we don't need another starting DT to replace Reader. Judging by his snap counts and time spent on the field, I'd say we do need another starting DT. Do we bring Reader back? Do we elevate his replacement in one of Mekhi Wingo (whose played 13 games in 2 seasons with 235 total snaps and can't stay healthy) or starting Levi (who can't stay healthy either)? Do we sign a free agent or draft someone? So who is replacing Reader's time on the field and starting in his place? I would argue we need to either sign a free agent or draft someone in the first 3 rounds to replace Reader. I think it is not earth shattering, but still significant that Reader is gone and someone has to carry that load.

Needing to replace 4 starters, 5 depending on Arnold, is not giving up. It's merely pointing out they gave a lot of holes to fill and haven't yet filled them. Being concerned and expressing that is not giving up by any means. We don't all have to be state TV around here, at all times. We can express reasonable amounts of unease and concern.

That's still a lot of snaps for two big, 300lb interior Dlineman to take. Someone, somewhere, is going to need to be in the field taking snaps that Anzalone had, whether it's at LB, an extra DB on the field or they run heavy up front or on the edge. We also don't know what, if anything, comes of Terrion Arnold and the legal situation. He could be clean and innocent and nothing comes of it or he could be the next Cam Sutton and off the team. We all obviously hope it's the latter, not the former.

Agreed. Furthermore, I think the edge player Brad does add in the draft will be less a pass rusher and more a multi-tool player that can play inside and out on the line. They'll be someone who is as good against the run as they are pass rushing and getting pressure on the QB. That may infact be why they moved on from Muhammad, as they may have been looking for a more stout run defender up front versus just a pure pass rusher like Muhammad was. He'll draft a Josh Paschal type replacement before he drafts a Muhammad type replacement imo.