Mr.TaterSalad

First off, I haven't heard the full quote in context, so I do needto go back and watch it. I want to get a proper context and understanding of what he meant about Borom here. I read this quote, as it is by itself with no other context, as the organization is actively considering Borom as a starter. If that is the case, does anyone her feel good about that?

Missing out on a top center in the draft really hurt this organization. In order to compensate for that Yzerman either needed to keep tanking until he got his 90-100 point center or pivoted and built a team in the mold of Florida, Vegas or 2019 St. Louis. It means building a team with great goaltending that can steal a game. Putting two strong defensive units that are sound with the puck, can kill penalties, and can create scoring opportunities. Having 3 lines worth of double digit point producers and 10+ goal scores. Being physical and having a ruthless forehead. Yzerman hasn't done much of that. Until getting Gibson we had one of the worst goaltending situations in the league. He has also refused to give his young goalie in Cossa a real, extended chance in the big leagues. Until this year, he had a team with a historically bad penalty kill. One the gave up goals constantly on the PK. He's also built one of the softest teams in the league that is weak on the forecheck and is often muscled off the puck. He's not built any scoring depth beyond his first line and Patrick Kane on his second line. I get that we had historically bad draft lottery luck. I get that we missed out on getting our McDavid, Bedard, or Celibrini. We didn't get the chance to get a 90-100 point guy in the draft. But that's where it was his job to pivot and take a different approach. Either be more aggressive with drafting high ceiling players or be aggressive with a trade. He did neither. Nor did he model his roster construction off of other teams who gave lacked a 100 point producer like Florida, St. Louis, and Vegas. I'm not ready to change out our front office leadership just yet, but I'm getting close. 7 years in and we're going to likely miss the playoffs yet again. This is not enjoyable.

We're broke as an organization. Out on the street corner thumbing for cap space. So broke in fact that we were out of the running for a measly $4 million contract for a guy like AQM.

Ate we do certain they're drafting a tackle in the first round still? I thought Borom would be a potential starter from the day they signed him.

I gotta be real, Holmes' comments about "serious financial constraints" concern me as to how aggressive he wants to be to try and do everything he can to win a Super Bowl now. The Les Snead approach of "screw future years" is real appealing given that the Rams both won a Super Bowl and have since bounced back to being competitive in a short time frame. The goal of this franchise and any organization should be to build a Super Bowl winning team. The goal is not be a good/very good competitive team for X-number of years and maintain cap flexibility. I'm not saying we need to be Mickey Loomis and the Saints and be reckless with our salary cap. But a more aggressive approach, with more salary restructuring and a more concerted free agency plan, is what I think many of us wanted to see. It doesn't mean you blow your wad on every high dollar player out there. But it does mean you are in on players like Braden Smith, Cam Jordan, AJ Epenesa, etc. that they weren't after this offseason. What Lions fan that has suffered through years of misery wouldn't trade a few down years, where we are in tighter cap constraints, for one Super Bowl win/appearance?

Does Sheila Ford have a drinking buddy that she can appoint as GM of the cricket team?

I am elated that McGonigle gets to be on the opening day roster and show what he's got. He's fully deserving of this opportunity, let's hope he can make the most of it. Now we truly get to see if Clark/McGonigle vs. Wyatt Langford was the right decision for Scott Harris to have made. LFG!

Same Old Royals.

Maybe so. I heard them talking about the tweet on Karsch & Anderson this afternoon. So I went and looked it up on Justin Rogers' page and saw that post. It may simply be an introduction to his article. It did make me wonder though if Karsch had communicated with Rogers to confirm what he meant by it before going out and making a radio topic out of it. Doug usually isn't a blowhard that reports anything, he's pretty cautious, at least as far as sports radio hosts go.

We do our yearly fantasy football draft at Twin Peaks in Livonia (Haggerty and 6 that CMR was referencing). They actually have surprisingly good food. I think they are a solid step up from an Applebees, Chilis, Friday's type of restauraunt. No, they aren't Joe Muers, Selden Standard, or Grey Ghost, but they have good food at Twin Peaks.

Hey everybody, bad news. If we **** with Trump Kid Rock is going to be mad and we're going to have to **** with him. I don't like the sounds of ****ing with a guy the size, stature, and intellect of Kid Rock. Sounds very serious. Sounds like someone could really get hurt ****ing around with Romeo's own Robert Ritchie. Mods, can we please delete this thread and any other posts that may have ****ed with Trump? I don't want to be ****ed with by Robert Ritchie. Thank you!

This doesn't signify to me that they are going to go out and add a Cam Jordan-caliber or priced player.

I'm shaken emotionally and stressed by a movie in a way I haven't been shaken or stressed by a movie maybe ever. I just watched of I Had Legs I'd Kick You. I don't recommend watching it honestly and I don't know that finishing it was the right thing for me to do. Yes, the acting is high quality and done very well. Yes, this movie probably represents a somewhat accurate portrait of motherhood trauma, postpartum depression, and psychosis for a very small subset of people and mom's. Yes, I do think there can be sympathy to be gleaned from this movie for woman, mom's, and people in general who struggle with severe mental illness and brain health issues, like psychosis, delusions, depression, paranoia, etc. But this movie is so ****ing grim and hopeless. It's just an entire near two hours of despair, sadness, mind warping, whatever. This movie was stressful to watch. I don't know that I've ever come away feeling from a movie what this one brought out of me. I'm mostly serious in saying don't watch it.

Less than half the amount of sacks and QB pressure too.

Well that settles it. Years of science flushed down the drain. Many players "effected" because they're simply weak, not because they have damage to their brain. A guy who clearly didn't pay attention in college or go to class is right and ask the doctors, scientists, and medical researchers are wrong.