Mr.TaterSalad

We don't need the Hormuz Strait? We are not effected by this? Um, has this dolt looked at gas prices lately?

To tell with what working-class people and families are paying for gas prices. I want my statue and I want it now!

This is what PFF said about Keldric Faulk . . . EDGE Keldric Faulk, Auburn Faulk is blessed with a freakish build and potentially untapped athleticism. He’s also proven himself to be an excellent run defender, posting a near-elite 89.2 PFF run-defense grade over the past two seasons. That part of his game will never be in question, but there should be concerns about his ability to rush the passer at the next level. Faulk’s immense size and play style are more suited for a classic 3-4 defensive end who plays directly over offensive tackles. Those fronts are used less often now than they were in prior decades. However, that alignment isn’t ideal for rushing the passer, and Faulk has yet to show he can do so at an elite level. He set a career high with a 72.5 PFF pass-rush grade in 2024 before ranking outside the top 200 qualified edge defenders with his 66.0 pass-rush grade in 2025. Over the past two seasons, Faulk tallied 75 pressures — 37 of which were charted as either unblocked or clean-up pressures. That leaves his pass-rush win rate, 11.5%, in the range of 2025 first-rounders Mykel Williams and Shemar Stewart, both of whom carried pass-rush concerns heading into last year’s draft. Similar faults in Faulk’s game could see him fall out of the first round.

I like most of your first round shortlist with the exception of Faulk. I don't hate Faulk, but his lack of pass rush concerns me. There are more productive pass rushers, like Bain, that I would put above him. Really, I would swap Faulk out for Cashius Howell the DE from Texas A&M. I also like Akheem Mesidor based on production, but his age at 24 scares me.

No thanks on Keldric Faulk at this point. I was on the fence about him, but am off the bandwagon I think. A DE/Edge with 10 sacks over 3 seasons of play does not excite me. Last season he only had 2 sacks and 30 total QB pressures. The guy ranked 470th in the NCAA in total sacks and 160th in QB pressures per PFF. His best season at Auburn he had 7 sacks total and that was last year. I get that you can't directly compare him to some of the guys I am about to mention because he probably faced a fair amount of double teams and Auburn simply wasn't a good team. Compared to a guy like David Bailey at Texas Tech who had 15 sacks and 73 total QB pressures. Rueben Bain Jr. at Miami had 10 sacks and 67 pressures. Cashius Howell at Texas A&M had 10 sacks and 41 pressures. Now, we won't be in position to draft David Bailey, but I think Bain and Howell are at least semi-realistic and I'd take either over Faulk. Keldric Faulk seems like a Josh Paschal-type player to me only a bit taller. A guy who sets the edge, plays against the run, but is only average when it comes to being a pass rusher. I'm not spending a first round pick on an DE/edge that gets minimal pressure on the QB and is there to simply set the edge. I want my first round DE/edge player to be able to get at the QB and generate consistent pressure. I saw an NFL.com comparison of Faulk to Carlos Dunlap, which I don't get. Dunlap seems much more explosive off the line and at the point of attack. Dunlap also had 10 and 13 sacks over two seasons at Florida. Faulk had only one decent year at Auburn with 7 sacks.

This rule better pass. It's unreal that you can sucker punch a fan and not be thrown out of a game. Were I Metcalf I wouldn't have risked hurting my hand. I would have grabbed a chair and hit the fan with it. No reason to risk hurting your hand with a punch and it's clear and obvious he wouldn't have gotten tossed had he gone full WWE on the fan with a chair or blunt object of some kind.

I see your point there. But the more time you give the refs, the more time they/the league have to make up a call. I try hard not to be a fan that weighs into conspiracy theories, but on occasion I do. One that I believe is that the league made up the call on Goff this past year for the illegal motion and then buzzed it down to the refs and told them to take the TD off the board. Were the refs on a play clock they would never have had the time to be told by the league to call that. Another example is in Dallas, both with the picked up flag against Pettigrew for the non-PI call and the Taylor Decker TD coming off the board. A play clock would have prevented the refs from huddling and making the errant decision to overturn those calls. Maybe there is a better way to do this than a play clock for refs, but something has to be done to ensure they don't have the time to confer and make things up on the fly as they have done.

This is the strange post they made from the White House Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Exactly what the **** is launching soon? I hope this is a big nothing and just an errant post by a staffer in charge of IG and Twitter. This post was on both IG and Twitter tonight, along with another weird post.

Given the poor state of officiating, I think absolutely everything needs to be reviewable and challengeable. The pick play call against Tesla in the Pittsburgh game should have been challenged, reviewed, and overturned. That was not a penalty on Tesla. The NFL officials get too many calls wrong and therefore, they just need to make it all reviewable. Yes, it will slow down the game, but I don't care. I'd rather the right call be made and the right outcome take place over a game that gets extended by few minutes too many. The other rules change that needs to take place is the implementation of a referee clock. Much like a pitch clock in baseball or the play clock in football, refs need to be put on a clock. The referees need to have a certain amount of time to make a call and throw a flag if they miss it in real time. The refs have one minute, from the time the play was blown dead, to make a decision to throw a flag. The Lions would have benefited from this as the call in the Kansas City game for Illegal Motion on Goff would not have been made. Additionally, coaches/coaching staff need real time audio of what the refs are communicating to one another and what they are communicating with the people upstairs and in New York. I have no doubt that the NFL crew in the New York league office told the officials on field about the Illegal Motion on Goff and that is when it was decided to throw the flag. We need to know what is said at all times by officials and to them from others.

So does he need to allude to Borom being the starter then? If so, are you suggesting that other NFL teams believe that he will be the starter and that him signing and Brad saying what he's said is enough to dissuade other NFL front offices from thinking the Lions will draft a tackle in the first?

My problem with Borom isn't that he necessarily stinks or anything. He may well not. As a swing tackle, I think he could be a very solid signing. As a starter, I'm not as certain about that. In his 5 year career he has never once been a regular starter. The most games he has ever started was 11 last year with Miami and prior to that was 9 with Chicago. He's been a backup his entire career that has come in when needed due to injuries. Some of him being a backup may be due to his own injuries as he has been on IR twice during his career. He's not been top of the depth chart. Maybe they found a diamond in the rough and in his 6th year in the league he will finally become a full time starter. Maybe Chicago and Miami were just such poorly run and coached teams in the past that they didn't know what they had in Borom and now we do. If we draft a tackle early on in the draft, first round preferably, I think Borom could be a very nice reserve addition. If we are expecting Borom to go out there and be a full time, 17 game starter, he's never shown he can do that. That makes me nervous and it is the vibe I got from Brad's quote. We shall see.

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.

Hey everybody, bad news. If we **** with Trump Kid Rock is going to be mad and we're going to have to **** with him. I don't like the sounds of ****ing with a guy the size, stature, and intellect of Kid Rock. Sounds very serious. Sounds like someone could really get hurt ****ing around with Romeo's own Robert Ritchie. Mods, can we please delete this thread and any other posts that may have ****ed with Trump? I don't want to be ****ed with by Robert Ritchie. Thank you!

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.