gehringer_2

To play forward in the NHL you either have be very strong on your skates, or if not, a very high level skater. If you don't have either, all you do is get knocked off the puck or erased at the boards all the time. Zadina and Veleno are exactly that kind of 'tweener.' Neither big enough nor quick enough.

of course when you are playing so many guys with little or no track record or who are still moving targets on their development curves, the predictive strength of whatever passes as past performance suffers. A young team like the Tigers will usually be bad, but does have more 'surprise' potential than team full of veterans.

Football today is as much about attrition as top line talent and linemen do get hurt a lot. Successful seasons usually end up as much about quality depth as September starter talent level. It's just a matter of degree and $$ deciding how much to backstop each position. Tactically OLine is a terrible place to run out of depth because if any one position can't hold its ground virtually every offensive play is at risk. In contrast, if you have to put in a poor backup receiver, the other team still has to spend a body to cover him. Have to play a bad OT/OG he can get blown up on *every* play. If a team is going to splurge on depth, OLine and CB are the places for me.

assuming Vatai can stay on the field also.

That's why he keeps collecting 1st and 2nd round picks. Nobody's going to give him a star in trade at favorable terms so all he can do is try to maximize the number of lottery tickets he has.

Didn't it also sound like they wanted to make a little money by having some spectator space, of which there is pretty much none at the current site?

ah - right! For as long as he is there! (hope. hope)

Not so much really. At any point this season any one of them might be pitching for Toledo.

Who's a pure OF in Toledo now after him and Baddoo?

OK to the airport, but Ann Arbor to Northern burbs sucks as a commute for players and has every prospect of continuing to get worse.

I guess I could see them taking him at 6 just because the confidence in Decker staying on the field can never be too high. If Decker is healthy *and* Skoronski grades out at tackle then you have a trade piece, or Decker isn't healthy you are covered, or if Skoronski is just a good guard at least you have a somewhat guaranteed floor on the use of the pick. Not the worst way to cover your options if you have a FO that values the O-Line above most other areas of the field. But if I had confidence in Decker - and maybe they do- I'd probably take the corner.

figure you need to average at least 2 or three guys each year on average, esp when you are rebuilding. If Soderblom sticks eventually that's two for 2019, Same for Wallinder making it two for 2020. Three sure things each would have been nicer for sure....

I wonder what the interchage ends up looking like after the 375 removal? That space could gain or lose area, or no change at all.

he may or may not be in a selling mode after he sees how sales at Book Tower go...🤔 https://booktowerdetroit.com/

I guess it depends on where the line is drawn. I don't have a big problem with the public picking things like sewer and road modification costs, those are at least 'public goods'. The devil is always in the details.

IDK, do you think SY has done better as a trader or as a drafter?

No kidding. Look at the result in MI after non-partisan redistricting - both houses of the legislature flipped.

If they were interested in DT, other than the Woodward corridor, there is a lot of near vacant land South of 94 everywhere between Michigan and Gratiot -- but I'd guess the players would rather Oakland county as I'd guess more of them are staying there during the season.

2021 Hutch vs NW had 3 tackles and 1/2 a sack and recoverd a fumble, but of course the box doesn't say who was lined up where.

Social media self-victim. I can almost see that you could write out a complete essay trying to work out a philosophical point about moral courage to violate the law that most people might well disagree with but that would not be inflammatory or inciteful but when you mash it into short form, the disclaimer about not advocating violating the law just doesn't suffice for the unconditionality of the next line.

Putin's Russia cannot sustain a long war and even he knows it. He is posturing to try and hold out until he gets a favorable election result in the US in 2024. Russian disinfo efforts are going to be building to fever pitch leading up to that - aren't they?

haha - don't know where that transpo came out of. IDK. Bert's not exactly tearing it up in Bos. Maybe at 28 and all the accumulated physical damage he can't play the style that made him valuable so well anymore. He sure didn't look like the same player even starting out this year in the few games before the 1st hand injury. Vrana - WTF. I guess Mantha for Cossa may end up OK overall in the end but the Vrana piece has sure been a screw-up. Who knows, maybe he'll just go back off the deep end again but right now he sure looks like an opportunity lost.

This is another version of the same question about receivers - do you have to be 6'4" to be line-up at 'Z'? There is a always a physical prototype for a given position - if a player doesn't meet that prototype, that leaves three questions: How much does the prototype matter, how much does the player deviate, and how well has the player proven he overcomes the difference? The bottom line in a this case is that Skoronski will be going against DEs that on average are bigger than the ones he faced at NW, so having less reach gives a additional level of uncertainty in his projection. So if you are interested you look at every snap he's played, hope there are enough against NFL grade opposition to evaluate and then decide for yourself if you think he projects, but you are still faced with a higher level of uncertainly than you would have had if he fit the prototype for successful OTs better. But it's exactly those 'out of the box' kind of decisions that good FOs gets right and bad ones get wrong.

how many acres is the space out in front of Michigan Central?....

I guess the Canucks have a 'system' Vrana is willing or able to play in. It appears we aren't going to find out what went down, but it sure seems like some bridges got burned down big time doesn't it?