Jason_R

Sprinted to the phone!

Lions have nine picks in this draft. Something tells me they don’t want to go home with nine guys. They need starters at DT and X receiver, future starters at CB and RG, and a rotational RB to pick up for Swift. That’s five picks, which would fit into their first three rounds. Depending on how the board falls they may pick up depth at LB, TE, or DB, but they have four late round picks that they can use to jump around the board and target they guys they like.

https://www.walterfootball.com/nflhotpress/article/Cardinals-Trying-Hard-to-Drum-Up-a-Trade-Market Charlie Campbell quotes anonymous sources who say the Cardinals don’t have as much demand for their pick as has been reported.

There will always be a place in this league for a guy who can stand in the pocket and throw for 4500 yards, year after year.

Holmes playing 6D chess. Everyone else is eating the checkers.

Yeah it’s a shame it worked out this way for Okudah and the Lions but they were never going to pick up his option and this trade saves them the drama of ongoing questions about it. If Darius Slay got a 3rd and a 5th, a 5th for Okudah is reasonable.

Yes, if they can’t get comfortable with Carter or trade back, Skoronski at 6 would not be as big of a stretch as people think. He is likely to be a perennial pro bowl guard. Also, the biggest risk I see next season is that Ragnow and Vaitai miss significant time and their injuries overlap. Suddenly you have a makeshift OL (as with a few games last season) which leaves Goff more at risk. I still hope they can get comfortable with Carter. He is a wrecking ball.

Of course the Cardinals are getting multiple inquiries (and offers). Of course they will weigh those offers against their own evaluations of how Anderson and Carter would fit on their roster. But all that interest means it won't be cheap to move up. I don't see how it will make sense for the Lions to trade up to fill a DE position that is already reasonably well set, especially when their competition will be teams desperate for a QB.

You know much that is hidden, oh Tim.

He’ll get all $18 million if he starts 38 games next season.

It’s not even a journo. It’s sports fanfic.

I saw that draft. I don’t buy it at all. It will be very expensive to trade up to 3. I don’t see them drafting a QB (and don’t want them to). Mock drafters are obsessed with Detroit drafting a TE, as if the only thing they know about the team is that Hockenson got traded. I thought it was a bad mock all the way around.

I think we are saying the same thing. You wouldn’t consider Bijan if Swift could stay healthy.

I would not be surprised by this at all. I still think the most likely scenario is that Anderson is gone at 3 and Carter is gone at 5. The more I read about Tyree Wilson, he doesn’t seem like a strong fit. Witherspoon is not an outside, lockdown type CB. Gonzalez has the physical profile but 6 seems a bit high for him. Bijan doesn’t give you a major upgrade over Swift+Montgomery, but he does give you a major upgrade over Montgomery+the third string.

I could see Seattle at Detroit as a decent choice for MNF. It’s not uncommon for an NFC North tilt to end up on MNF either, so maybe Detroit vs. GB or Chicago. Detroit could ride the coattails of KC and/or Dallas onto SNF. Maybe against the Chargers on TNF. I’ll guess they get four prime time games on the original schedule (not including Thanksgiving) and maybe flex into one more, especially if there are playoff implications late in the season.

I wonder about this sometimes. There are 32 teams that would willingly pay $35 million a year to a skilled QB and yet there are only a dozen guys in the world who are good enough. Is this a failure of training or is the job really that hard? I think it is the latter.

Okudah was a defensible pick. RAS of 8.97 so not in the Gonzalez range but it would have been hard for Quinn to take Herbert in the circumstances. Shame about his injury history. I like Witherspoon’s attitude, football IQ, and history with Kerby Joseph. But 6 is too high for him. It’s even too high for Gonzalez, who is an athletic freak.

Yeah, it was a bad contract and a bad rebuild. I hope he has a hot streak somewhere along the line so everyone can go out with positive feelings.

Yeah those ABs might make a difference of a few wins next season. Maybe. But then you have a whole league full of players see how you insulted one of the best players in your franchise’s history in his last season when you had almost nothing to gain and they think, “That franchise is pathetic AND disrespectful.”

Tigers are forecast to win 67 games this year. If they cut Cabrera and gave his 350 AB to someone else they might expect to win, what, 70 games? 75 games? What’s the difference. Let the guy take a victory lap. Don’t insult the face of your franchise for over a decade at the end of his hall of fame career for the chance of winning a few more games and still having a losing season.

Kirwan and Miller on NFL Radio were talking up Henson Hooker just now. They say if not for the ACL he would be right in the mix with the other four QBs at the top of the class. They think someone will jump up in the first round to take him. (Didn’t say how high.) It’s very possible AZ trades out of 3. It’s somewhat possible that QBs go 1-4, and within the realm of speculation they could go 1-5. And it’s not out of the question Seattle could pick Carter. So yes bring Anderson in for a visit.

6D chess!

It’s a bad look for Carter.

I agree with this. This is why if we are going to speculate about him — which everybody on this board and all across social media is — we should attribute normal human emotions to him, rather than assuming he is a monster or an animal. Not saying you are doing this, but it would be disingenuous to speculate that the guy is a monster or animal, incapable of normal human emotions, then to tell people to stop speculating that the guy may be dealing with normal human emotions. Finally, I’m not saying the team should or shouldn’t draft him. I just don’t like dog piling.