Jason_R

They're "bringing in" Aidan Hutchinson. Then they re-signed Marcus Davenport from the bargain basement, and they will wait for FA market to settle before bringing in one or two other pieces.

Disappointed for Carlton Davis that his one year in Detroit ended the way it did. He was a very good addition, and had he not been injured, things may have turned out much differently for the team in the playoffs. But Reed will be an excellent replacement, and Holmes has a strong enough roster that he can wait for pieces to fall into place.

Will never be NHL head coach again. Will never even get an interview.

I think I saw he had more All Pros than accepted holding penalties. Incredible.

Does little brother have a chip on his shoulder?

I, for one, would love to see Tomlin continue his progression from the WR whisperer to the QB... uh... quiet talker. I thought he handled the Fields/Wilson situations about as well as possible. They both have serious holes in their games, but Tomlin still guided the team to another playoff berth with that two-headed monster, without letting the thing turn into a sideshow. Even though people don't like Rodgers (I guess because he experiments with ayahuasca rather than vaccines) he is still head and shoulders above what Pittsburgh was running out there last year. And I think he would fit right in with Tomlin. The problem in NY is there was no leadership, so he took the reins. That won't be the problem in Pittsburgh.

Bears are not ready for prime time.

The DL was holding it together until McNeil went down. It wouldn’t surprise me if they double-dip on the DL with their first and second round picks.

Totally agree. He deserves the parade. And yet, if Philly had the injury luck that Detroit had, it's a different conversation.

I don't know... If the Eagles had Josh Sweat, Jalen Carter, Darius Slay, Nakobe Dean, and two of each of their backups on the IR, and the Lions did not have Hutch, McNeil, Davis, Barnes, and their backups on IR, the NFL would be having a very different conversation.

There is a lot of talk about the Lions having a short Super Bowl window. But I look at Howie Roseman and see a guy who has been in Philly for 25 years, 15 as GM. He's averaged just under 10 wins a season. He has two Super Bowl wins and another Super Bowl appearance mixed in with nine playoff appearances. I have a sense that Brad Holmes can acquire talent and manage a roster at this level over an extended period of time. As badly as Goff played against Washington, he is head and shoulders above the rotating cast of QBs they've had in Philly over Roseman's tenure, and should be the starting QB in Detroit for another five years. The building blocks are in place on the offensive side of the ball, and are really in place defensively too, without the horrible injury luck we faced. It was a disappointing end to the season, but this core will be competitive for a few more years, and Holmes has given us reason to believe there will always be a solid pipeline of talent to replenish the core.

Mahomes went down real hard on an early sack. Head slammed into the turf. No way of knowing if that impacted his play but it didn’t help. Anyway my preference has always been to build the defensive line from the inside out. Don’t get me wrong, I love Hutch on the outside, but if you have an overpowering defensive tackle, there is little an offense can do to stop it.

Has anyone heard who is representing the AFC in the Super Bowl?

Are we still talking about Justin Tucker?

Will it require a richer trade package than the one that landed Khalil Mack?

Green is a little on the small side for a can crusher. The OSU kid fits their mold a little better.

Yes, but their other starting defensive and had gotten hurt before that.

It is hard to fault the coaching when they literally had an entire starting defense — that would have been a top 15 unit, including the runaway candidate for DPOY — on IR at the end of the season.

As I understand it, the Lions have pick 1:28, 2:60, comp pick in 3rd round, a 4th, a 6th, and two 7ths. I hope they use them all on defensive lineman.

This Super Bowl, and the whole post-season, makes me want to puke.

They also didn't win because they called a pass on 3rd and 1. Yes, Goff blew it, but this was also one of a few key decisions the coaching staff made that were overly aggressive that backfired. Everyone knew that Washington's run defense was its weakest link. Though Montgomery was a little rusty early (and the staff was overly aggressive in letting a rusty Montgomery open the game), there was no reason not to let Gibbs put pressure on Washington's run defense early and often. Campbell's aggressiveness has made the Lions a much tougher opponent. Sometimes being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive is not the right play, and it wasn't on that play. They spent the whole game trying to come back from it.

It seems like the only thing they really need, other than a dozen defensive players who went on injured reserve, is someone they can groom to take over for Ragnow. And they may not even see someone in this draft class they like for that role.

Nobody ever calls a perfect game, but it is true that he made a few glaring mistakes. Some of these mistakes are ones that you could see in real time, like the third and one where they split out Montgomery. And if they had told us before the snap that they were going to let Jameson Williams have a pass attempt, we would’ve told them that Williams is known for his legs, not his arm. His strength is his aggressiveness. But the weakness of the staff is also not knowing when to hold back.

On the second defensive play of the game, Amik Robertson — who had his best game as a pro against Minnesota — went down with a gruesome injury. By the third quarter they were also missing Branch and Melifonwu. The injury luck this defense had this year was unimaginably and unprecedentedly bad. Amik’s injury early limited what the defense could do and I believe it made Johnson and Goff put pressure on themselves to get too cute. They both started playing hero ball rather than letting Gibbs gash Washington’s defense on the ground and relying on the intermediate passing game. They kept rolling the dice and it kept coming up snake eyes. It was an awful weekend of football, but if Buffalo and Washington end up in the Super Bowl at least we’ll know we got beat by the champ.