Mr.TaterSalad

I'm letting Jonah Jackson walk if he's asking for more than this organization thinks he's worth. I know Holmes has stated he wants to keep his own guys around (technically Jackson was a Quinn pick) but I think you can find serviceable starting guards, at a decent contract, in free agency or in the 2nd or 3rd rounds of the draft. If increasing the cap makes Jonah Jackson more expensive than someone else can have him.

I just don't get bringing back Badgley and doing so this early on in the offseason. Are they not going to go out now and scout and look at other options? I guess this means drafting a Will Reichard late in the draft is off the table now. It's disappointing that they signed him so soon and are now presumably not going to go out and look at other, serious options for a starting kicker.

I'm Hungarian-American on my dad's side of the family, so if Trump comes out with a line of stuffed peppers, chicken paprikash, and kolaches then I'm sold. I'll even switch my avatar to MAGA.

The Ilitches are corporate welfare queens, crooks, and gangsters, who have ripped off taxpayers in the poorest big city in America time and again. They have suckled off the tit of the public dole for years. No one in Detroit or Southeast Michigan collects welfare quite like the Ilitch Family. They are Tony Jack Giacalone with a legit pizza business and entertainment company as their front.

You can't negotiate with fascistic terrorists like this member of the Likud party and Israeli government . . .

A decent, honorable leader of Jewish Trump's fascistic Likud Party proud of the death and destruction Isreal has caused. Our most cherished ally in the world. The country we have a special relationship with.

I try to avoid hero worship and giving someone deity like status. But man do I miss this guy and what an intellect he was. There was no one quite like Christopher Hitchens. His sharp whit and use of the English language were like no one else I've heard before. His poignant views on religion and sharp critiques of it were unlike anyone else's. Maybe that means I just need to listen to and ready from more people than just Hitchens. But I've found myself thinking about him and watching his commentary a lot this past week.

A lot of people on the left had/have great concern over what's still happening in Yemen. As well, when George WMD. Bush wasn't stepping up to stop genocide in Darfur in Sudan it was many on the left who were most critical. When DubyaMD beat the war drum to go to Iraq it was the left who was protesting that foreign conflict while the center of the party, like Hillary Clinton, were being craven and acquiescing to the warmongers in DubyaMDs administration. When the left and libertarians were out in the streets protesting the Iraq War others were talking about weapons of mass destruction, yellow cake uranium from Niger, mushroom clouds over NYC, Sadaams ties to Al-Qaeda, etc. Many in the center were spinning the same lies and promoting the same fabricated intelligence reports that DubyaMD was pushing.

I don't think he does either. He's not enough of a high motor, try hard guy and takes too many plays off for this regime to take a chance on him.

Now the question at Safety is about whether or not CJGJ comes back.

Looks like Tracy Walker is gone based on this post.

Tragically, you're going to see a lot more of this in the coming decades as MAGA rejects vaccines altogether, not just the covid vax.

Several of the leagues best teams go out and make splash signings in free agency with long term deals and big cap numbers now and then. Last offseason the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs went out and signed LT Jawaan Taylor on a four-year, $80 million deal. The runner up in the Super Bowl signed DT Javon Hargrave to a four year, $81 million contract. I'm not saying we need to ante up for Brian Burns or Josh Allen. Guy like Danielle Hunter or Kendall Fuller are players I feel should be in our range, but likely won't be. I think Holmes is going to do just what he did last offseason and be patient and not go after the top free agents on the market. Had CJGJ and Mosely not gotten injured I suspect his plan would have fully paid off, so I'm not mad if that's what Holmes decides to do. So we will be signing guys after the initial rush of free agency is over and likely won't be any of the high dollar, A-tier free agents. So I think we are looking at the likes of Adoree Jackson, Andrew Van Ginkel, Chidobe Awuize, Denico Autry, Dorance Armstrong, Grover Stewart, Maurice Hurst, Steven Nelson, Stephon Gilmore being on our radar instead of the Fullers and Hunters of the league. I could be totally wrong though, so who knows.

I'm sure I'll get dumped on for this, but depending on the price and length of contract, I'd still be willing to take a flyer on him. Though I know the Lions will not. He's only 24 and with the right scheme fit and coaching staff in place he could potentially be a rotational pass rusher coming in on obvious passing situations. He doesn't fit their mold as a try hard guy who bleeds football, nor a 3-down guy. Being a situational pass rusher at this point I don't think they would want him for that either as they have James Houston on the roster to cover as needed and could get someone in the draft to do the same.

I'd love to get Danielle Hunter as I said a few pages back. He'd be my top target. Kendall Fuller is probably number 2 on my list. I don't think we are going after either player, nor any of the A-tier free agents that would require north of $12-$13 million per at 4+ years to sign. I feel like we'll be waiting until day 2 or day 3 of free agency to make our big moves. I want Stephon Gilmore too, but given his age and the point he's at in his career I don't think he is in that A-tier of current free agents. I do think there is a good chance we get a rental like Gilmore on a 1 year deal.

Ben Johnson is good, but he's no Joe Lombardi though . . .

Well he cost less than Jason Robertson would have. This isn't unreasonable money though for what he provides the team.

I hate to say this, but we still probably need another WR if Reynolds is not returning and the offensive staff/Goff doesn't have enough confidence to target Jamo more than an average of 3.5 times per game. So I don't think we're done building the offense as we likely need a #2 WR.

They only reason we got some of those guys at the price/cap hit we did, (CJGJ, Glasgow, and Mosley) was because of injury history. So if we sign guys this offseason at team-friendly contracts like last year then the probability that player has an injury history increases.

If the Lions have another offseason as they did last year and don't come out with any of the marquee free agents, would you be disappointed? Would you be happy if they signed a B-tier free agent that might still be a starter, but isn't exactly going to be your 1A guy at either CB or Edge/DE/pass rusher?

Hillary Clinton spent $1.4 billion in 2016 and outspent Trump by approx. $442 million. I know that Trump is in deep financial trouble and this will likely bleed over into the campaign side of things. But the last time he won he was outspent by nearly a half a billion dollars and it didn't matter.

No clue if these numbers are close to being correct for St. Brown. I would imagine they are not, but those are solid overall numbers for us, depending on how the cap space is spread out. I had thought St. Brown would get 4 years at $23 million a year, so 3 at $25 million isn't that far off.

See, I can play this fallacious game all day too and attack the source as you're doing. You say terrorist numbers and I attack your source as being from a corrupt, sociopathic, megalomaniac, hell bent on taking down democracy in Israel and installing himself as a dictator. The truth is, we don't seem to have great numbers out of Gaza, from an independent, non-Ministry of Health source. I don't know how accurate the MoH numbers really are. I'd be almost certain that Hamas' MoH is inflating numbers and putting a spin on them to make things look as dire as possible. I'd be almost certain there are many hundreds, maybe even thousands, or terrorists from Hamas lumped into the growing death toll. I also do not trust what Bibi's government is putting out either. Netanyahu has a reason to prolong this war as long as possible because he feels it will make him a popular, war-time President. He wants to be the Bush after 9/11 or Putin now in Ukraine. So the longer this goes and the more bad guys the IDF is alleged to have killed, the better it is for Bibi's political career. What I do believe though, because I see it on news coverage daily, is that far too many innocent civilians and especially children, are falling victim to this war in Gaza. Hundreds-of-thousands are being displaced from their homes and not being given basic human necessities. Many will die of hunger and starvation as a result of not getting basic aid and from a prolonged war. Some of that is on Hamas and some of that is on Bibi and Israel.

Why should anyone believe the numbers from Jewish Trump's government? You wouldn't believe it if Donald Trump gave you numbers, why would you believe Jewish Trump? What gives Jewish Trump and his cabinet anymore credibility?