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Likely means Lions will kickoff the season at home.

Sounds like Lions @ Bills on Thursday Night week two to open up the new stadium.

If Rakestraw only spends two games on IR that’s a win.

Having three into the bye isn’t crazy, that’s happened before. And Rod Wood specifically said we weren’t guaranteed to have a bye out of the Germany game. Might have even said it wasn’t likely. But that’s the extent of defending I’ll do to a prediction I made up out of thin air.

Schedule should come out next week. Here's a prediction: 1. vs. Chicago Bears 2. @ Atlanta Falcons 3. @ Green Bay Packers (Sunday Night Football) 4. vs. New York Giants 5. vs. New York Jets (Monday Night Football) 6. @ Miami Dolphins 7. @ Arizona Cardinals 8. @ Carolina Panthers (Thursday Night Football) 9. BYE 10. vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (in Munich, Germany) 11. vs. Tennessee Titans 12. @ Minnesota Vikings 13. vs. New England Patriots (Thanksgiving) 14. @ Buffalo Bills (Monday Night Football) 15. vs. Minnesota Vikings 16. vs. New Orleans Saints 17. @ Chicago Bears (Sunday Night Football) 18. vs. Green Bay Packers

I remember Marvin Lewis was also interviewed. Was the only name connected to the Lions that I didn’t like at all.

From Justin Rogers: “Point of clarify for what it matters, conversations between the Lions and Matt Campbell never progressed to an offer in 2021.” Matt Campbell is full of ****. No one at Iowa State declines an NFL job offer after progressing to the offer stage in order to stay at freaking Iowa State. Is it possible Matt Campbell saw the writing on the wall that he wasn’t going to get hired by the Lions, so he quietly withdrew from consideration? Maybe. But he was never offered and it’s insulting to Dan Campbell for him to just come and claim Dan was the Lions second choice.

Just wait until he learns he can use two hands!

All I said was that the trade was worth it in my eyes. TeSlaa showed real promise last year in a very limited role. Random 3rd round picks, whether selected by a good GM in Holmes or an unproven GM (to be kind) in Gladstone, are closer to late round lottery picks than sure-fire contributors. Holmes has picked Alim McNeill, Iffy Melifonwu, Kerby Joseph, Hendon Hooker, Brodric Martin, and Isaac TeSlaa in the third round. Go back another five years to get another GM’s perspective, Quinn took Julian Okwara, Jonah Jackson, Will Harris, Tracy Walker, Kenny Golladay, and Graham Glasgow in the 3rd round. It’s hit and miss. If a GM I trust like Holmes sees an Alim/Kerby type in the 3rd round, I’m okay with him sacrificing picks that are more likely (in his mind) to become Brodric Martin than the guy he’s going up to get. To say “yeah but the picks he gave up could have been TWO Alim/Kerby types” is painting a picture of the draft board like very likely doesn’t exist, or at the very least is entirely unrealistic for the kind of scouting skills any NFL team has.

Worth it in my book.

Can't say I'll lose any sleep over this list. Maybe Reader would have been nice depth, but they replaced him with youth which is fine. Maulet and Cunningham are maybe a little surprising just in terms of the depth at those positions, though they're both older guys who again could be replaced with youth.

Hopefully they get it done with Campbell. This was the same plan and the same reasoning the Ravens tried with Linderbaum though that led to a bad team with lots of money backing up a Brinks truck. Granted, a center’s relationship to a quarterback is not comparable to an off-ball linebacker.