Mr.TaterSalad

Sad to see Al Sobotka got fired today. I wonder why.

Says the guy who sits there as Dr. Archie and calls Joe Biden demented frequently here. You sit here with your Sleepy Joe bullshit and provide no evidence of him actually having a diagnosis of dementia. I can provide you with Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's diagnosis. You frequently use cheap right wing talking points and name call political leaders and others. In fact, you provide little to no evidence to the contrary of anything you ever talk about. No sourcing, research, no well studied or reasoned analysis. Were you in a college course and turned in a paper with the way you operate here, your grade would be a big, fat F! Why would it be an F you ask? When you name call, make conjecture and state baseless claims, as you frequently do, with no credible citation, sourcing or research to validate what you are talking about, you get graded down. When you turn in a research paper full of opinion with a blank bibliography page you can't expect much more than an F. And in the event you are posting actual data, research or information it's frequently wrong or it's right wing conjecture disguised as "research" and "information". You dog out Joe Biden and others with nicknames here frequently and then get upset when it gets spun back at you. Sure, me, Fife, Chas, 84 Lives, we've all trashed Trump and other Republicans with nicknames. From Drumpf to Slump, many of us have come up with nicknames for Trump and other Republicans. But when it comes down to brass tax, when it comes down to backing up opinions with credible research and information, accurate citations for certain opinions we have, we do that too. You just download the Republican talking points and regurgitate them here over and over without citation and research. Biden has dementia, Democrats and communists, whatever the talking point of the day is.

It depends on what Ziggy you get. If you draft Thibs or Walker and they are contributing like 2015 Ziggy and averaging 15 sacks and 35 tackles a season I'm taking that all day, everyday.

Frankly, what I am judging Holmes and the front office on thus far are coaching hires, scouting, drafting, and cap management. I want to know they made the right coaching hires from Campbell on down, can draft quality players, and manage their salary cap responsibly. Until we get into an offseason where this team is ready to spend big and win now, I'll reserve most of my free agency judgements. I'm glad they aren't trying to act like Trent Baalke and Jacksonville and go for broke in free agency. Holmes has been smart and measured thus far through two free agency periods. While I would have liked a bigger move than DJ Chark, like a Marcus Williams or De'Vondre Campbell signing, I'm not going to judge Holmes full on free agency just yet.

I forgot the Sewell angle and that they played together. I would have to imagine they've talked to Sewell about what type of teammate he was and the attitude he had on and off the field.

Says the party who invaded Iraq and removed Saddam from power. Nice to see the GOP stand so fiercely against regime change.

Over on Pride of Detroit one of the commentators posted the pass rushing stats on Hutch, Thibs, and Walker. Yikes, I knew Walker wasn't as productive as Hutch and Thibs, bit he was way behind on win rate and overall pass rush grade from the other too. As someone I believe referenced here earlier, he might be another Mike Mamula. I'm not all out on Walker by any means, but I think this showcases the clear difference there is between he and Hutch/Thibs. Pass rush win rate: Hutchinson - 25.4% Thibedeaux - 23.5% Walker - 10.8% Pass Rushing Grade: Hutchinson - 93.3 Thibedeaux - 91.5 Walker - 65.8 Percentage of the time lined up outside the OT: Hutchinson - 97% Thibedeaux - 93% Walker - 63%

I'm excited for the draft to come here and for Detroit to be able to showcase what growth it has had since we hosted the Super Bowl. I'm also excited as a fan just to be able to go to the draft. That said, if this team is still in a position that we're drafting in the top 5 after the 2024 NFL season I'll be there in my fire Campbell/fire Holmes t-shirt. It would be inexcusable and indefensible for a regime to be 4 years in and still drafting in the top 5. By 2024 and going into 2025 we should be a playoff team and have a bottom 12 pick.

We have a loaded roster this year. We've been favored to win it all most of the season and we're in a position to do it now. Win won for Red!

Michigan is in the Frozen Four with a loaded roster. Really excited to see if they can win the National Championship.

I was really disappointed to see all USFL games will be played out of one stadium in Birmingham, AL. I was hoping to go to the Panthers home opener, but sadly there won't be one this year.

This is awesome, things are looking up for Detroit. We better have a 1st round pick for 2024.

HELL YES!!! Can't wait for this!

Whatever happened to the whole conservative doctrine of "peace through strength"?

Maybe this is an ignorant question to ask, but would Xi allow Putin to use a tactical nuke and disrupt things in the global order that catastrophically? I ask about Xi because it seems fairly clear that China is Russia's biggest customer outside of Europe and the disruption that Putin using a tactical nuke would cause to world economics and energy markets, including China's, would almost certainly be colossal in size.

I was a kid when this rivalry was white hot. After the brawl we all talked about it at school for weeks and weeks.

Of course Willis looked amazing at his Pro Day, lots of guys do. He looked amazing in a highly controlled environment. An environment with no defensive hands in his face, no one trying to bring him down to the ground, no having to look off multiple receivers downfield, no one playing at NFL game speed, and no having to change the play at the line. He had a 61% completion rate in college, was never asked to do anything complex as far as offensive playcalling goes, consistently threw the ball to the first read, locks onto a target and doesn't go through progressions, and hasn't shown a high football IQ where he can make split second adjustments and call the right audible at the line. I don't know what his football IQ is, he could be a Russell Wilson or Payton Manning for all I know, but I suspect not based on his colligate performance. The changes and "audibles" he does make are largely to get himself out of a tight situation with his athleticism and scramble his way out of it. As other mobile QBs have proven, you can't just scramble your way out of every situation in the NFL. These are not audibles where he's reading the defense, deciphering the right play to call and making the adjustment at the line with his teammates. If you could just plug in an athletic, mobile QB then over the years the Tyrod Taylor's, Mike Vick's, Vince Young's, Mike McMahon's and Johnny Manziel's of the world would be MVPs season after season. I love the physical tools, I love the cannon of an arm, I love the freakish athleticism, I love that he looked amazing at his Pro Day. I suspect all that falls apart during an actual NFL game and what you're left with is a mobile QB with a big arm, subpar decision making and average at best accuracy. Your left with a stronger armed Jalen Hurts or Tyrod Taylor.

I know by 08 we all as a collective fanbase probably wanted Millen gone but I remember just screaming at the TV loudly after the Cherlius and Dizon picks. I had read through online mock drafts and had seen Cherilus mocked in the late 1st and early 2nd rounds I think, so I at least knew who this guy was. I hadn't seen Jordan Dizon mocked in a single draft and remember screaming "who the f*** is this bum" at the TV when Millen picked him. Once ESPN showed his stats and I saw that he was a 5'11, 220 OLB I was done and turned the TV off and didn't watch the rest of the draft. I think with Tabor he is both too slow to cover NFL WRs and just not good at press or man coverage. There isn't anything he does well and he doesn't have the speed to compensate for it by at least keeping up with the guys he's running with, so he gets beat either way.

I lost it when Millen drafted Jordan Dizon. Millen had just wasted a pick on Gosder Cherilus and after he picked Dizon I couldn't watch the rest of the draft. That 2008 draft class, outside of the running gag of Andre Fluellen always returning and getting Cliff Avril, was a nice cap off to Millen's terrible drafting record.

Very Similar to Rashan Gary's RAS numbers . . .

Amazing he has lasted in the league this long for as poor a player and as slow as he is.

It's probably another one year deal, so in the long run of building this team, it is likely meaningless. If he turns into a rotational pass rusher, which Patricia refused to use him as, then great.

He's talking tourney now, but Hatchett did bring it up earlier.

It is not, Jarrad Davis is indeed back. I don't know why because the guy isn't any good and I thought was let go for a reason.