1984Echoes

Scary!!! (if you value your bank account that is... the future value...)

What I remember from Caldwell on the detractive side was that everyone believed he was a great locker room coach but not a championship level guy... from an X's and O's/ game management/ outcoach the other team perspective. Whether that was right or wrong... that stuck with me throughout his entire tenure that... he was great for the team, would get us to above .500, but in critical (IE: playoff) games, he would get outcoached and we would lose those games. I always felt that way with him.

That's the other thing... Even though we were having decent-to-good years, in all of those examples... we were NEVER the "Class" of the league, or conference, or sometimes even the division. Right now... it seems that Holmes/ Campbell are not only putting together an extremely high-end competitive team but... There's no one standing in our way.

Yes. And Fairley and several others had already imploded or left by that time...

I sort of, kind of, remember that too but wouldn't be able to put my finger on why that feeling of luck or playing over our heads lingers a bit... Maybe because of Fontes or Kramer getting us those wins. Those guys were luck... and Peete not a whole lot better but... a little.

I'm thinking that any real hopes in 1992 were all sitting 100% on Barry Sanders shoulders... and not too much else. Probably on the defense somewhat too but they got exposed by the Redskins... Maybe there was more hope there than I am remembering and if so it's probably recency bias... I just... I don't think my memory goes back that far anymore...

Maybe I'm wrong but... It just seems like expectations are higher this year than in any of the more recent examples... I'm expecting them to get to at least the NFC Championship game... BTW.

I don't think 1992 qualifies. We had a lot of really nice and/or great players... but with Fontes still the coach, we just really seemed to always be just squeaking by. And our QB's were always OK, but nothing great... Optimistic/ hopeful/ and even when we got Scott Mitchell there was some hope there (at least his first year or so before he imploded)... but I never felt the Lions were going to be GREAT!!! You felt that way in 1992? Wasn't Peete our starting QB at that point in time...? I don't think MB is all that closer with 2015... we were getting pretty good under Caldwell but I never felt a sense of greatness. 11 wins was nice in 2014 but... if anything, the closest I felt was after Schwartz got us to 10 wins in 2011 because of some of the great players we had on the team... but then we imploded after that as well... This just feels... more real, and more long-term competitiveness, at a high level, to me. I never felt long-term with Fontes or Caldwell, and Schwartz was suspect too after his and the teams' meltdowns in the 2011 playoffs. High hopes, but some worries... Just my 2 cents.

In every post you make: you continuously champion fascism. Russian fascism. So my conclusion is you hate America, you hate democracy, you want the Constitution overthrown and replaced by a dictatorship. Similar to Rusiia. I have that correct, don't I?

I think we had discussed this a few months ago when the question was asked where are we going to get additional lithium and these other scarce materials and we both answered that the materials are everywhere; the investments only needed to be made into locating and extracting these materials... and the answer was poorly received. And... Looky here... We were absolutely 100% correct. I never thought otherwise...

You really hate Ukrainians, freedom, and democracy... don't you?

Lions are looking good for the draft and looking good for this year... When was the last time anyone in Detroit thought we could be having a great season...? 1958?

I see I'm the 10th version of that so... a little slow to the game as I'm catching up here...

No... It says $500K TOTAL... in per game bonuses. I take that to mean he can earn 500/17 = ~30K PER GAME for a TOTAL of $500K. That's how I read it at least...

Any free agents anyone is still interested in...? I'd be interested in Marcus Peters as CB depth... I think he had a "down" year last year by his and the Ravens' standards but... I think he'd do great on the Lions, both for leadership and experience as well as ability... Just my 2 cents...

Then it's not GOT.

And Trump follows Cohn's MO, as he was taught... to the letter.

I definitely had this guy on my later round picks radar... 5th round...

I want him to do a Game of Thrones perp walk tour through New York City, San Francisco, Detroit, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington DC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and San Diego... Naked. Am I a bad person for wanting that (not to watch it, just to want it...)?

I want him to ask "Please can I get Russia?" He thinks (A) He can get a Trump Tower Moscow and Trump Tower St. Petersburg over there, and (B) MAGA will call him a martyr for being exiled to Russia and start a revolution in America to reinstate him as dictator for life. He can return in triumph. (at least in his mind...).

Great minds and all...

Right next to Nixon's Vietnam deal in 1968...

On board with that plan...

But not guaranteed the #1 pick. How I love the draft lotteries so much. We'll pick 4th.

They need to issue several hundred additional ICC warrants to anyone in the Russian command structure, from top-to-bottom, that did nothing to stop these war crimes... including bombing hospitals and civilian residential areas... so all air force and artillery command as well as ground forces commanders for the murder, rape and kidnapping crimes: https://news.yahoo.com/know-un-report-outlining-russian-175721375.html