Mr.TaterSalad

Payton Turner also had a blown ACL in the past, but I believe the may have been in HS or college ball. Missing last year due to iniury is no surprise though. Getting injured guys on the cheap is Brad's forte. My concern is not so much injuries, but that the guy often didn't even see the field in New Orleans. His snap counts, outside of the 2024 season, were incredibly low. He also certainly isn't much of a pass rusher with only 4 career sacks in 4 seasons. So how good is he really?

But teams attempted to throw the ball more on the Lions than they did run the ball and by quite a wide margin. The Lions defense faced 555 passing attempts and 446 rushing attempts. Part of this is because the league is a passing league. Part of it is also because of how pedestrian our pass rush was and middle of the road our secondary was at times.

This is what I can't understand. The NFL is a passing league. Every NFL team, except Baltimore, threw more than they ran and was above 50%+ in-terms of total plays that were passes. Why is an edge/DE allowed to be bad against the pass and getting to the QB but not bad against the run? Why does this coaching staff place so much value on stopping the run when every NFL team except one throws it more than they run it?

RIP Chuck Norris. He didn't die, he just elevated up. But before he did, he went to hell, gave Satan a roundhouse kick, and then headed up to the sky.

I can confirm Valenti said this, I cannot confirm if he is full of **** or not. I was listening yesterday when Valenti said it. He seemed to allude that he spoke to one of the Lions reporters/beat writers (my guess is Dave Birkett, maybe Justin Rogers) and that person told him that there are difference between Campbell and Holmes this offseason on roster construction and some of the moves that have been made thus far.

But yet every time the Lions do get a third down pass rushing role player they seem to move on from them quickly. Houston, Muhammad as examples of that. So it is a role in the league that at least some teams value and will pay for. It doesn't seem we are one of those. Once this organization figures out how one dimensional a player is, they seem to move on quickly.

As you said though Nate, it goes back to their organizational philosophy. They don't seem to want or value a 1 dimensional, pure pass rusher who can't play 3 downs. They also don't seem to like pure edge guys and want players that can slide along the line. They like the Josh Paschal types of the Al-Quadin Muhammad types.

But you could argue that a pass rusher will have a bigger impact when they do make a play. They could force a turnover, cause an incompletion with no gain, cause a significant loss of yardage, etc. So while a run stopper may get more plays overall, do they always make the bigger impact?

Why isn't the opposite valid though? Why does it only matter how someone is against the run? Among Edge defenders, where did Wonnum rank over the past two seasons against the pass? Where did he rank in-terms of total sacks, total hurries, pressure rate, time to get to the QB off the line once the ball is snapped? How did he compare in all these metrics as a pass rusher to Muhammad?

YES, you should. I didn't intend to visit Denmark when I last went to Europe. We had intended to travel to Austria (Vienna) and Germany (Berlin, Munich, and the Munich countryside) and we ended up in Copenhagen Denmark instead of Austria. Still went to Germany though. We LOVED Copenhagen and Denmark! Copenhagen has an amazing food scene, wonderful history, the kindest people you'll ever meet, and the cleanest, most reliable metro system you could ever ride on. Do yourself two favors if you go to Denmark and Copenhagen. One, go to a place call Beast Pizza and get their 7 course meal with the homemade burrata cheese (It's the yellow-ish butter-like looking lump in the last photo below) and then go to the Torvehallerne food market and get yourself a duck confit sandwich from the French sandwich maker there (assuming he's still got his shop). You won't be disappointed eating those either of things.

My ****ing word. If this is really true this is significant. Iran offered to give away all of its enriched uranium and the Trump Administration bombed them anyways.

This is the core argument I have been making for the past two years. We are in a position to push our chips in and win a Super Bowl now. I'd rather take a big swing now then try to be good for the next 7-10 years but never get to that elusive Super Bowl. It's why I and other fans harped to much on bringing in Trey Hendrickson or some kind of real, difference making player. Someone who can really set or change the tone of a game and make the unit they play on truly elite. That could be Hendrickson, Crosby, an elite offensive lineman. Were it an offensive lineman, they could help bring that unit back into being one of the elite lines in the league as it was when we were a dominate team for the past few years. Even if we didn't get an elite, high dollar player like Hendrickson, the money was there to make a significant upgrade somewhere on this roster. Be it at offensive tackle with a Braden Smith, DE with a Cam Jordan, somewhere, with someone on a 2-3 year deal, making $10-$12-$15 million per year. With the restructure of Goff, the money was clearly there to do that. But Brad when and shopped the bargain DVD bin to round out this roster instead I'm not saying we need to turn our cap situation into the New Orleans Saints or try to build an entire roster off of only marquee free agents like Jacksonville has tried to do. I'm also not saying to be the Cleveland Browns and swing a big trade that will bankrupt you for years to come. Being aggressive but reckless almost never works and gets you into cap trouble. But you can be aggressive, make a big move, but be smart financially about it and maintain some level of cap-flexibility.

Dortch has returned punts and kicks in the past with Arizona. I wonder if he's the new Kalif as a return specialist.

I've been to Malek Al-Kabob many times. My favorite is the original LaShish next to the gentleman's club in East Dearnborn.

As a backup this signing is whatever. It's a depth signing and nothing more. So I can't get mad about it and I can't pump my fist with exuberance about it. If he is taking more special teams minutes than maybe that means Rodrigo is sliding into more of a starting role at LB and he's taking those minutes.