Mr.TaterSalad

Looks like he won the black vote over Cuomo by a 26 point margin. It isn't as if black voters went Republican and voted for Sliwa or stayed home. Even black voters that went for Cuomo are still going to vote Democratic.

Democrats have a problem with young men, particularly young hispanic/Latino and white young men. Zohran did not have a problem winning over young men.

This is exciting to see too. Feeding hungry kids, you know the thing Christian conservatives should be doing, is always the right thing to do.

This 💯.

Looks like a double digit, 10 point soon possible for Spanberger.

Cuomo would probably sexually harass women at the office at City Hall too.

They aren't loaded at one of the positions that matters the most though and that is the offensive line. They have a banged up LT who is game to game as to whether he even plays. They lost their starting LG for an indefinite amount of time. We saw how piss poor the OLine played just this past weekend and that was before Mahogany went down. I don't think it would have set this franchise back that terribly financially if they had made a move to bring in another starter on the line. I do in-fact believe it would have provided them a security blanket and potentially made them better once that player learned all the blocking schemes and started to gel with their linemates. Given that Kevin Zeitler already played here, with most of these guys, he was probably the best bet.

Counting on Davenport at this point makes no sense. He has shown for almost three full seasons now zero ability to stay healthy. Davenport means little to me at this point until he can prove he can stay on the field for more than a game or two.

I don't want to be in cap hell like some of these franchises are. But come on, it's a pretty hard sell to your fanbase overall, and esspecially your season ticket holders whom you just jacked up prices on, to be like: "Yeah well, we couldn't make a move at the trade deadline and make an upgrade at a given position because we need to roll over $21 million in cap space for next year." Trying to sell the fans and paying customers on the fact that you believe cap flexibility over the long term is more important than making a push to upgrade your talent when possible and win a Super Bowl this year is a hard sell. Every fan who watched that Minnesota game knows our offensive line is depleted with Christian Mahogany out and Decker banged up. They know that it didn't look that great before those injuries happened. I think most fans want an upgrade somewhere on this team, but in particular, on the offensive line after watching the game on Sunday and the resulting injuries and poor play by the offensive line. If Holmes does nothing and just sells the fan base cap flexibility, you're going to (rightly) have a lot of frustrated fans and paying customers. Trusting the process is one thing, I think most fans do trust Brad's process on the whole, myself included. But when all your competition around you is actively making some kind of move to get better and you're not, that's a tough one to watch and then be sold on.

"Great" lineup of endorsers for Cuomo. Wouldn't want Zohran though. He'd be bad for NYC.

That's on Holmes that we don't have a third round pick. I believe Bitonio is on a one year contract with the Browns for $15 million. Zeitler is on a one year deal as well, for around $8.5 million. We have the cap space to absorb those contracts given our current cap situation. The Trey Hendrickson conversation I get. Trying to make an extended deal, beyond a rental, work for him is a lot harder. It involves letting a core piece or two that you've drafted walk. It involves restructuring deals like Goff's and/or St. Browns to fit him under. But adding a Bitonio or Zeitler requires none of that.

If Brad is willing to make a move by trading draft capital to move up and get a completely unproven commodity like Brodric Martin in the draft, why not be willing to move draft capital to go and get a proven commodity like a Joel Bitonio or Kevin Zeitler? They have to know they need real help on their banged up and depleted offensive line, no? It can't be next man up mentality all the time. At some point, as we saw last year with the injuries on defense, a lack of talent catches up with you.

As much as I wanted a move to be made today at the deadline, I had a feeling they weren't making a splash move of any kind. I didn't need it to be Trey Hendrickson or insert big name Edge Rusher here for me to feel happy. I really had no expectation that a Hendrickson or Crosby-type player was ever on our radar or coming here, Diana Russini report or otherwise. Over the last couple of days, given the injury to Mahogany, I actually wanted it to be a Guard who has versatility along the front like a Joel Bitonio or Kevin Zeitler. Someone who could play either Guard position or be an emergency Tackle if needed. I doesn't appear, the closer we get to 4pm, that we're making that time of move. They believe in their players and that is that. I hope I am wrong and Holmes has something up his sleave.

Where are all the people here to tell us what a disaster Zohran would be? Can he be worse than a Trump-backed Republican in sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo?

It's always amazing all of the people that he's never heard of after the fact. Barley knew him, never heard of him, not sure I know the guy.

One of the biggest black marks on the history of the United States was our unlawful and immoral invasion of Iraq. **** Cheney deserved to die in a prison cell in the Hauge for the war crimes he and George DubyaMD Bush committed. The War in Iraq itself was a war crime, based on fabricated and doctored intelligence. Over 4,000 American servicemembers and some 200,000 Iraqi civilians needlessly died all so an oil company Cheney was affiliated with could get no-bid contracts and access to. And Bush could feel like he got revenge for Saddam attempting to kill his father. A war of greed and revenge that stole the lives of far too many human beings. On top of that, you have a President and Vice President who condone the practice of torture on human beings. From waterboarding to hooding to rape to the use of aggressive dogs towards human beings, the Bush Administration authorized the use of torture. These techniques yielded little reliable intelligence that they were intended to get and left a stain on America's image around the world. I am not a religious person and don't believe in a heaven or hell. Were they to exist though, I can tell you where **** Cheney belongs. The world would have been a better place had Cheney never been Vice President and George Bush President. Sadly, that was not how history played out. In the end, an evil man died at peace in his home.

The Soviet Union had elements of democracy in that people did vote for the leaders and officers in their local Soviet. It was single party rule and in that sense, totalitarian and authoritarian because it outlawed other parties, which is a very bad thing for the state to do.

I've heard TJ Lang and Jon Jansen talk about switching sides as an Offensive Lineman before on the Ticket. They've both said it can be very hard at times and isn't as easy as fans make it out to be. The synchronization you have with the guy next to you, knowing the run and pass block calls for your spot, make it more of a challenge then it would seem. These are guys whose opinions I trust on this.

No, there isn't a hard and fast rule. But if you can't run the ball, as they couldn't yesterday, it makes the play action far less effective because as we both know they won't have to key in on the run or stack the box as much.

It's trade deadline time. For all my crowing about Trey Hendrickson, the move I actually want them to make the most is to go out and bring back Kevin Zeitler. While Hendrickson would be amazing to have here, if he is cleared and healthy, we actually don't need another DE/Edge Rusher as much as we need a starting Guard. With Mahogany out for an unknown. lengthy amount of time, we need to get a replacement in there fast. This offense is built around and predicated on ball control, running the football, and using play action. Without a good offensive line, that all falls apart. So I want Holmes to go out and bring back Kevin Zeitler or a starting Guard of some sort. I'm also thinking it feels like we need depth at Tackle with how banged up Taylor Decker is. I would love to go out and get another depth piece along the offensive line at Tackle. We have the draft assets to go and do both. The question is, will Holmes make the move or will he hold firm with what he has and keep his draft assets?

Let me preface my points by saying that I love what Brad Holmes has been doing here in Detroit. He's been a very good GM all on his own accord. He's of course been a very good GM compared to the dog**** GMs we've had over the years from Russ Thomas to Matt Millen to Bob Quinn. My earliest memories of watching the Lions are from about 1992 when i was 5 years old and I think Holmes has easily assembled the most talented team of my lifetime. So I am very happy he is our GM and very happy with the job he has done. That said, I am impatient, as many Lions fans are. I want, we all want, a Super Bowl appearance. In the NFL, your window could be long or it could close in the next season. Just ask fans of organizations like Arizona, Carolina, Jacksonville who had success one season and dropped off a cliff the next season. I'm not saying we will drop off a cliff, I don't believe we will. I do believe though that you have to strike while the iron is hot and do everything you can to win while your window is open. Winning when your window is open doesn't mean you have to go full efff them picks mode like Les Snead in the Rams and trade the next 2-3 years worth of first round draft capital just to make a Super Bowl. I don't want our future completely mortgaged just to make or win a Super Bowl now. That said, something I feel that Holmes' former boss Snead and also Howie Roseman do understand is you have to be aggressive and strike while the iron is hot. They understand that you have a certain window to win and have to maximize your team's potential within that window. I don't think Holmes subscribes to this theory. Rather, I think Holmes is the turtle in the rabbit race. Slow and steady wins the race. Meaning, you work with your staff and put a plan together. A plan that involves building a roster of largely your players, that you've drafted or already had in house. It means valuing draft capital as an asset for the draft, not assets to be traded for name-value or current NFL players. No matter what the fanbase, the media, the pundits, or other organizations think the Lions window to win may or may not be, Holmes doesn't care. And nor should he. As a GM, you have to be confident in your plan and have faith in the process. That doesn't mean though that you can't deviate once in a great while if a really good player can help your team at a position of need or a help put you over the top in being the very best team. It's my and other fans impatience and notion that we are, already, a very good team, that makes us want to be more aggressive like a Roseman or Snead are. It's why we want Trey Hendrickson or Kevin Zietler or some sort of big time move to be made. When we see other, more successful GMs around Brad making moves and him largely standing pat or only making minor, depth-type moves, fans do get a bit frustrated. I know I certainly do.

Yes and that's why they are now looking for more help at DL/Edge Rusher.

Multi-time Super Bowl winning GM Howie Roseman strikes first, second, and third now with the additions of Jaire Alexander, Michael Carter, and Jaelan Phillips. The Eagles are clearly all in to win now.