Mr.TaterSalad

I'd take McBride, Jeremy Ruckart from Ohio, or the kid out of San Diego State Daniel Ballinger. Those are the guys we should look at for 3rd/4th Rd TE options.

Being close by doesn't make you aware of who a player is. Charles Rogers begged the Lions not to draft him and had all types of character red flags and Millen still took him. Now, I'm not trying to suggest Holmes is on the same incompetent plane as Millen was, just that you can't assume because a player plays close by means the organization has done their due diligence on a guy. Matt Millen drafting Charles Rogers is proof of that. Luckily for us, it sounds like this Lions front office was well represented at Michigan's Pro Day with Holmes and others in attendance.

We will just completely disagree on this one. While I do believe that some of the Founders like Hamilton, Sherman, maybe the Adams, maybe Franklin, and Lafayette might have had some progressive leaning views, I believe that most of them were they alive today would be far right, Christian fundamentalists. They'd be posting anti-vax videos on YouTube, banning books out of fear of satanic control over society, talking about stolen election results, disgusted by interracial marriage, and waxing poetic about the days of Jim Crow, George Wallace, and segregation. If you looked on the campaign finance rolls for Trump and MAGA endorsed candidates you'd see names like Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. Given how fundamentally religious these people were they'd probably also like candidates like Lauren Bobert, Sarah Palin, Louie Gohmert, Mike Huckabee, and others.

Your argument seems to assume that there were no abolitionists back when the Founders decided to relegate black people as property. As if the only voices they heard were those of pro-slavery and that somehow slavery was just consensus and the way things were back then. Several of the Founders themselves, like the Adams', Alexander Hamilton, Roger Sherman, Thomas Paine, and Marquis de Lafayette were anti-slavery. There were also other prominent abolitionist voices working to stop and end slavery like Anthony Benezet, Benjamin Rush, and Moses Brown. It's just that the Founders ended up caring more about wealthy land/plantation owners than people and so they listened to the voices of the wealthy over those in their own camp who abhorred and opposed slavery. I'm a democratic socialist these days, which is about as far left as it gets, so my grandchildren won't likely be further left than I am. They'll be happy Grandpa voted for Bernie and Warren. If I told my grandchildren about the old me that supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, the one who read Mises Institute, Milton Friedman, Murrary Rothbard, and Tom Woods, then sure, they'd think that version of me was probably a selfish, libertarian asshole, and they'd be right.

Given just how much scouting they've done around Thibs, having 7 people at his Pro Day, I think that's going to happen. I think they may well like him better than Hutch. I've had Hutch and Thibs as 1A and 1B during this process and I don't know enough about the technical aspects of being a great edge rusher, so I would be fine with either.

Karamo: “Cardi B is another tool of Lucifer because she peddles filth in the culture.” - Kristina Karamo, Republican nominee for MI SOS

Media Matters: Michigan secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo: Beyoncé, Cardi B, Korean drama, and yoga are tools of Satan I get told that I get too worked up over the Christian Right around here. This simpleton could be the next SOS of Michigan and in charge of our state's elections process.

What's wrong with thinking that the Founding Fathers weren't actually that great and having an honest discussion as to who they really were? Just because the right is unable to do so doesn't mean the criticisms from the left are wrong or off base about these individuals. I see no need to build statues and glorify people who thought blacks were pieces of property to be owned, woman were baby factories to be used at a man's disposal, over 2/3rds the country should be denied the right to vote, and native land was theirs for the taking. Furthermore, these "great" intellects of their day thought that it was more important to allow land mass to have greater representation than people and created the worst, least deliberative body of government in the democratic world in the Senate. As a result of their creation of the Senate, and the electoral college, we are still paying the price for such poor planning and public policy. If the Founding Fathers were alive today they'd be wearing white hoods, MAGA hats and watching YouTube clips of George Wallace talking about drawing a line in the dust and tossing the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny. They'd be the people clapping in the background when Wallace shouted segregation now, tomorrow, and forever. Just because certain people can't have an honest conversation about the Founding Fathers and are unable to recognize them for the ignorance and hate they possessed, doesn't mean the rest of us have to cow tow to their order.

We're the only liberal democracy that does it this way because the founding fathers were smart enough to recognize that NYC, San Francisco, and LA shouldn't pick the Presidency. Rural land masses should.

What motivates Trump voters? Anyways, it's good to see that far-right, wannabe fascist idiot go down in electoral flames!!!!! Fuck Marine Le Pen!

I did an entire 32 team 1st round mock draft. I tried drafting based on team needs and reports that have come out about certain players going to certain teams. We'll see how off base I am.

https://www.nfl.com/news/seven-round-2022-nfl-mock-draft-round-1-cowboys-steelers-trade-up LOL Chad Reuter doesn't even bother trying with the Lions pick. Mocking Kenny Pickett to the Lions at #2 is beyond dumb and ridiculous. First off, it doesn't even look like the Lions are taking a QB at #2, but if they did, it would almost assuredly be Malik Willis.

So the Michigan Republican Party nominated Matt DePerno as their Attorney General candidate.

Brad Holmes had a press conference yesterday and was asked about trading up. Here is what he said:

I believe Metcalf is also a client of Deboo's agent. This is obviously an orchestrated effort by this agent, Tory Dandy, to get his clients more money. If we could get a trade done by dealing #32 and an additional pick for Deboo I would do it. I'm not deviating off the plan to build through the draft though just to get in a bidding war with a team, like the Jets or Chiefs, who has as much or more ammo than we do.

I would think given the Jets posses two picks in the top 10 and two second round picks that we'd have to part with #2 overall to get Deboo. In that case, no thanks. How can we possibly outbid a team with two top 10 picks and two second round picks?

It's too bad the 49'ers traded for Trent Williams last year, because Decker and a pick for Deebo could have possibly gotten it done.

Remember that the Rams philosophy, including when Holmes was there, was to trade draft picks for established stars in order to win now. I agree that we should stick to the plan of accumulating picks and drafting well versus making splashy trades for players like Deebo Samuel, Tyreek Hill, Amari Cooper, etc. I think it should just be noted though that Holmes comes from an organization that likes to make these kinds of moves, even if he hasn't done one of them yet here in Detroit.

Speaking of talking about dementia . . .

Every time I see Trump out on the balcony of the White House I can't help but think of him starring up at the eclipse like a total maroon.

I think those are different arguments though because you Donald and Suh both have a unique skillset that most DTs don't have, that being the ability to rush the passer. Neal doesn't have a skillset that Decker doesn't, he's just somewhat better than Decker at the skillset they both have in terms of pass and run blocking. With Donald and Suh, you would have had something no one else in the league would have had at the time, two dominate, pass rushing interior lineman, who can both get after the QB. Suh and Donald together I think would have been more of a mismatch and produced more production than Neal and Sewell together.

Are we saying Decker is a liability now?

So are we trading Sewell next year to draft another LT? I don't understand the logic behind only drafting LTs with our first round pick only to trade them when they get good and come up for a big contract. We have glaring needs all over the place to address and drafting Neal or Ekwonu would do little to advance this team forward. Even if we traded Decker it's likely that the team we trade him to would be a contending team and the pick we get back would be a later end first round pick.