1984Echoes

The critical issue is that Holmes is effective at drafting. Other guys (vets at other positions) can be let go and "next man up" is a rookie or 3rd year guy that Holmes drafted and Dan Campbell and his coaching team have coached up. It's OK to let go of an expensive player and go to the next guy. But I don't do that at QB. Unless Hooker is the "next coming of..." and is clearly better than Goff; which we won't know for a at least a couple years or so... or Goff has become ineffective/ undependable due to age/ injury, neither of which is true. So find other positions to get saving$ from and rely on Holmes to fill the pipeline. And so... pay the man. There's no other reasonable/ better/ smarter choice. He's our QB. So... pay the man.

Real quickly before I get back to work: How does Timo Meier compare to Lindholm? I looked at that trade and: 1st, conditional 2nd, NHL'er Fabian Zetterland (who do we have that compares? Better than Veleno, not as good as Raymond...) and defensive prospect Shakir Mukhamadullin... so maybe that is Kasper. Not certain of a Mukha comp we have... maybe Wallinder or Johansson? Mukha is the Sharks 5th rated prospect and Wallinder is ours... just for example. So I might be correct that we don't need to offer a top 4 prospect (Danielson, Edvinsson, Kasper, Pellikka), but I didn't look at overall rankings. And if someone beats us (I don't mind offering anyone outside of the top 4) than no dice, I think. But then again, maybe I top someone's offer with Kasper if that's what it takes. Would you rather have Kasper as #2 Center or Elias Lindholm? I'm thinking Lindholm so maybe I say yes...

Get back to you after I resolve a 10K problem I need to fix...

Well... Since I'm NOT a GM... I WILL let Yzerman decide...

It's not going to cost Kasper or Edvinsson to get Lindholm. But nice try...

I was talking O, not D. As for D, I'd rather have under-30 Hanifin or Andersson than 34 yo Tanev.

Prospects and picks (I'll let Stevie work out those details) and... Yes.

Vegas has been showing intense interest in trading for Kane... I think Stevie should both buy AND sell this deadline. Kane is nice and all... but he's 35 and has limitations... And not a long-term future for our next playoff team. Trade him, IMO, and instead go after a bigger, tougher, two way forward. I still want Lindholm from Calgary... Just my 2 cents.

That would work.

This is why I though AG might need 1 more year of "prove it"... But if teams are looking at AG in exactly the same way as this... And he gets a head coach opportunity THIS year, then... Good for him.

Ahh, OK... One each of the next two years AFTER this offseason...? OK... still would like to have them.

I would be hugely in favor of that. Which is not a slam on AG as a coordinator. I felt earlier that maybe teams would want to see a little more out of the Lions defense before putting him ahead of Johnson. But if teams' priority is to find a "leader of men" first and X's & O's second and AG is the perfect candidate for that... good by me for a lot of reasons. 1) Campbell could make Ben Johnson the OC AND assistant head coach... giving him a training course for next year's round of head coach openings. I think that would be a plus for Ben. 2) I love Ben Johnson as OC so... I'm most reluctant to lose him. Glenn? I might be very reluctant to lose him too... but there are other circumstances involved with him as well... such as: 3) We would get two 3rd round picks for losing Glenn to the Commanders? I think that would be huge this year. We'd have (4) picks in the 3rd to maneuver around and get players that Holmes & Campbell love. I think that would bode huge for the team's long term future. 4) The team and Campbell in particular are extremely high on Kelvin Sheppard as a future coordinator. I feel like we wouldn't lose much, if anything, in this coaching switch... just a WAG. But that means I want those two 3rd rounders and Sheppard to get his shot more than I want AG. No disrespect to him.

Better than that: Their weakness is run defense, and we have a good running game (and O-Line). Our strength is run defense. We have a chance at shutting down CMC, as dangerous as he is. Forcing the game onto Purdy's shoulders and unleashing our blitz and win-turnovers game. Our dissimilarities give us a chance. IMO.

Ditto. Big time. I argued this exactly. They came out at -7. What are they looking at? IMO... they're not looking... So... if I were a betting man (I'm not)...

That's it. Nothing more from that docket.

On second thought... 😉

I deserve that...

He's talking popular vote, which he lost. Electoral vote, yes, he won. Depends on one's viewpoint of the electoral college.

Plus he has an immovable contract...

I'm good with that... Now... How about Chiarot? 😉

Maybe... Yeah... maybe Stewart could've reached that contingent. And the 3rd party voters too, with a "Don't be stupid" message...

Probably a huge amount of Independents... But that wasn't so important in 2016... The angst would have overridden that and still gone for Trump, I think... But in 2020: muy importante. I believe. Because Indies NEED to be stripped from Trump. Regardless whether left or right leaning...

If I were a fly on a wall... I'd be laughing so hard they would hear me...

"New Hampshire Republicans" sounds pretty explicit to me. The other thing that popped out was a poll on Trump versus Haley voters last night. Trump Voters: How many of you would refuse to vote for the other candidate if they were the nominee? 77% Haley Voters: How many of you would refuse to vote for the other candidate if they were the nominee? 88% That tells me: Trump's voters are pretty locked in. And... Haley's voters, which in NH would be Never-Trumpers, Establishment Republicans, along with a huge smattering of Independents, and I am guessing Indy's both who lean right and who lean left... are ALSO locked in... against Trump. The two sides of the current state of Republicans are hardening their positions (Pro and Anti-Trump... or Pro/Anti-MAGA). That was the most heartening thing I saw last night.

The key question there is not on Sutton or Vildor... it's: "Can Kerby & Melifonwu bait Purdy into throwing a couple INT's?" But I guess that falls back on a related question: "How often will AG leave Sutton and/or Vildor on on island...?"