Stanley70

If you are lucky some day you might be too.

In 50 years of following the Tigers that is my favorite year. And they went 74-87.

Give Goff a clean pocket and he is a very good QB. The difference between Hurts and Goff is when there is not a clean pocket. And the threat a QB running the ball.

You don't think they are going to draft in the 2nd round a slow ILB because he is the correct height and weight?

At some point spending big on mediocre QB's is going to become an inefficient allocation of resources. Like Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr, etc. And maybe Goff. You probably can win a SB with them, but the rest of the team better be in great shape, which can be difficult when you are spending 20% of your salary cap on one player. That is the decision Holmes and co. will have next off season if they don't draft one this year.

When the defense improved for the last several games they were playing Buggs at nose and McNeil at the 3T. He certainly can play nose though

The dline depth chart I believe is: WDE -Hutch/Romeo, 3T -McNeil, Nose - Buggs/Jones, SDE -Cominsky, Paschel. A stand-up edge isn't a part of their base defense but that depth chart is Houston, Harris. Cominsky and Paschel can move inside on passing downs and they have a NASCAR package where they have multiple DE's and edges in.

Just need the Foo Fighters to come by on a flatbed now.

I don't think they will take Anderson, they just drafted 2 DE's in the first and second round in last years draft. Plus they just resigned Cominsky and have Houston at edge. Unless there is just too wide of a gap between Anderson and the next player on their board, and they can't trade back. Now with Carter probably off the board it looks a CB at 6 if they stay there.

It looks like they may be rebuilding the secondary room as quickly as they did the WR room.

Surprising they would bring Harris back along with Moseley. We may actually have depth at the CB position after the draft.

Free agency week is here. The Lions have pretty much the same cap space going in as they had last year. They have will to create some room to resign some of their own free agents and add a piece or two from outside. Here is what i think they will do. They will keep Romeo and cut Vaitai and Harris. They will resign Cominsky, Anzalone, Elliot, and Buggs on defense. They will let Harris and Hughes go. On offense they will keep Williams and let Brown and Chark go. Beyond that they will look for a decent CB that doesn't require a multi year deal. And look to add depth with budget signings on the OL and another CB. Obviously if othere organizations value some of our free agents more than Holmes does they may not be able to bring them all back.

Unless they get a CB in free agency I have to think that is the direction they go at 6. They just have to get much better there. However if they just have a much higher grade on one of the DL maybe they wait.

Cam Newton and Richardson are both 245 lbs. Jackson is 212lbs, I don't think he'll last as long. I would not be interested Jackson.

Eddie Brinkman and Norm Cash circa 1973

So I guess the Seahawks won't be drafting a QB.

I was looking at NO cap situation on Spotrac and they are currently at 284,000 against the cap next year. Michael Thomas has a 60M cap hit by himself.

Tyree Wilson could be an option for them at 6. I would guess it depends on if they bring back Cominsky and/or Okwara though. Even if he is there that may be a trade back possibility. As far a CB's go i think there is Porter/Gonzales/Weatherspoon and then a drop off for the next level. If they want a CB1 they may have to get him with their first pick, because those 3 may be gone by 18.

I think it's more likely they trade up for a QB than take a RB in the first.I know it's tempting but they have Swift for another year and there will be RB's in next year's draft.

The Tigers signed Trevor Rosenthal, who hasn't pitched in a couple years. They had him in like 2018 and gave up after he couldn't throw strikes. He then went on to have a decent year with KC I believe.

I don't think they are taking a DE in this draft, unless Wilson or Anderson drop to them and they just have them rated way above the rest of the board.

Goff is probably going to want a deal next off season. So if they do give him one that kind of locks the Lions into Goff for a while or take a massive cap hit. Or they could wait until he is a FA after the 24 season and roll the dice on that. Tough call, but they have to look at all options starting with this draft.

If there is a QB that they feel is a franchise player at 6 they would be stupid not to pick him. Goff is going to get another big contract and you can debate whether or not paying mid tier talents huge money at that position is a winning move going forward. That said they would have to be pretty sure of themselves because it could backfire obviously.

Look, I understand they can push money due out into later years via signing bonuses, voidable years, etc. I didn't specify that, i figured most understood that. But the point is that they are limited by their cap space in that pretty much all of the contract dollars they would be adding, beyond signing their own guys, would have to be forced in and burdening future teams with extra cap dollars. They do not want to do that as i figured.

Just admit when you are wrong, it's ok buddy. The literal first line in my post was that they probably wouldn't be big players in free agency. To which you replied that it wasn't based on fact at all. They would use up their cap space on resigning their own guys, and obviously wouldn't be backloading a bunch of contracts to fit guys in this year.