Mr.TaterSalad

Kevin McGonigle is batting 1.000 with a 1.000 OPS. He's also on pace for 320 RBIs if you figure he plays every game and averages 2 RBIs per game. Anyone who criticized him coming up doesn't know baseball. LOL! Great start kid.

It is Yzerman's job to know when this team is ready to start competing and when it is not. He got criticized by a lot of fans for not being more aggressive in the 2024 offseason. Myself included in that at times. I think one argument that some fans have made is that Yzerman, while dealt an all time bad hand by Kenny Holland, could have tanked for longer and drawn out this rebuild to attempt to get more high end talent. Specifically, I think you could make the argument that the Wings shouldn't have wasted money adding Copp, Compher, and Chiarot in the 22 and 23 offseasons. That would then both save on cap space and allow them tank for another year or two to get more high end prospects in the pipeline. Either to get a Shane Wright or Logan Cooley in 2022 or Connor Bedard, Leo Carlsson, or Adam Fantilli in 2023. As painfully slow as this rebuild has been, you could have slowed it down earlier in the process, to accelerate it later. Think about where this team would be now with Anyone of Bedard, Carlsson, Cooley, Fantilli, or Wright as a center on this team as opposed to Copp on line two. Now, where is no guarantee we'd be top 3 in the lottery given our wretched lottery luck. But the attempt was never even made to get us there. For me personally, I did want Yzerman to be more aggressive. Once it was clear in 2022 that he wasn't going to tank for another season, I wanted more moves to be made. I liked the Copp signing at the time and I wanted Yzerman to take a swing at a big trade like a Matthew Tkachuk or the late Johnny Gaudreau. Not trying to revise history when I say this, but I would have rather they tanked and given themselves a shot at a Wright, Cooley, Bedard, etc. versus trying to make improvements when they did.

I wouldn't compare Trump to Hans Solo. He's more a combination of President Skroob and Pizza The Hut from Spaceballs.

I get it, even if I don't love it. They want 3 down defensive lineman who can set the edge and play stout run defense. They want guys with rotational value who can slide inside and out. I would venture to guess that Faulk is probably more the type of defensive lineman/edge player they like versus a Cashius Howell or Rueben Bain Jr.

We don't need the Hormuz Strait? We are not effected by this? Um, has this dolt looked at gas prices lately?

To tell with what working-class people and families are paying for gas prices. I want my statue and I want it now!

This is what PFF said about Keldric Faulk . . . EDGE Keldric Faulk, Auburn Faulk is blessed with a freakish build and potentially untapped athleticism. He’s also proven himself to be an excellent run defender, posting a near-elite 89.2 PFF run-defense grade over the past two seasons. That part of his game will never be in question, but there should be concerns about his ability to rush the passer at the next level. Faulk’s immense size and play style are more suited for a classic 3-4 defensive end who plays directly over offensive tackles. Those fronts are used less often now than they were in prior decades. However, that alignment isn’t ideal for rushing the passer, and Faulk has yet to show he can do so at an elite level. He set a career high with a 72.5 PFF pass-rush grade in 2024 before ranking outside the top 200 qualified edge defenders with his 66.0 pass-rush grade in 2025. Over the past two seasons, Faulk tallied 75 pressures — 37 of which were charted as either unblocked or clean-up pressures. That leaves his pass-rush win rate, 11.5%, in the range of 2025 first-rounders Mykel Williams and Shemar Stewart, both of whom carried pass-rush concerns heading into last year’s draft. Similar faults in Faulk’s game could see him fall out of the first round.

I like most of your first round shortlist with the exception of Faulk. I don't hate Faulk, but his lack of pass rush concerns me. There are more productive pass rushers, like Bain, that I would put above him. Really, I would swap Faulk out for Cashius Howell the DE from Texas A&M. I also like Akheem Mesidor based on production, but his age at 24 scares me.

No thanks on Keldric Faulk at this point. I was on the fence about him, but am off the bandwagon I think. A DE/Edge with 10 sacks over 3 seasons of play does not excite me. Last season he only had 2 sacks and 30 total QB pressures. The guy ranked 470th in the NCAA in total sacks and 160th in QB pressures per PFF. His best season at Auburn he had 7 sacks total and that was last year. I get that you can't directly compare him to some of the guys I am about to mention because he probably faced a fair amount of double teams and Auburn simply wasn't a good team. Compared to a guy like David Bailey at Texas Tech who had 15 sacks and 73 total QB pressures. Rueben Bain Jr. at Miami had 10 sacks and 67 pressures. Cashius Howell at Texas A&M had 10 sacks and 41 pressures. Now, we won't be in position to draft David Bailey, but I think Bain and Howell are at least semi-realistic and I'd take either over Faulk. Keldric Faulk seems like a Josh Paschal-type player to me only a bit taller. A guy who sets the edge, plays against the run, but is only average when it comes to being a pass rusher. I'm not spending a first round pick on an DE/edge that gets minimal pressure on the QB and is there to simply set the edge. I want my first round DE/edge player to be able to get at the QB and generate consistent pressure. I saw an NFL.com comparison of Faulk to Carlos Dunlap, which I don't get. Dunlap seems much more explosive off the line and at the point of attack. Dunlap also had 10 and 13 sacks over two seasons at Florida. Faulk had only one decent year at Auburn with 7 sacks.

This rule better pass. It's unreal that you can sucker punch a fan and not be thrown out of a game. Were I Metcalf I wouldn't have risked hurting my hand. I would have grabbed a chair and hit the fan with it. No reason to risk hurting your hand with a punch and it's clear and obvious he wouldn't have gotten tossed had he gone full WWE on the fan with a chair or blunt object of some kind.

I see your point there. But the more time you give the refs, the more time they/the league have to make up a call. I try hard not to be a fan that weighs into conspiracy theories, but on occasion I do. One that I believe is that the league made up the call on Goff this past year for the illegal motion and then buzzed it down to the refs and told them to take the TD off the board. Were the refs on a play clock they would never have had the time to be told by the league to call that. Another example is in Dallas, both with the picked up flag against Pettigrew for the non-PI call and the Taylor Decker TD coming off the board. A play clock would have prevented the refs from huddling and making the errant decision to overturn those calls. Maybe there is a better way to do this than a play clock for refs, but something has to be done to ensure they don't have the time to confer and make things up on the fly as they have done.

This is the strange post they made from the White House Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Exactly what the **** is launching soon? I hope this is a big nothing and just an errant post by a staffer in charge of IG and Twitter. This post was on both IG and Twitter tonight, along with another weird post.

Given the poor state of officiating, I think absolutely everything needs to be reviewable and challengeable. The pick play call against Tesla in the Pittsburgh game should have been challenged, reviewed, and overturned. That was not a penalty on Tesla. The NFL officials get too many calls wrong and therefore, they just need to make it all reviewable. Yes, it will slow down the game, but I don't care. I'd rather the right call be made and the right outcome take place over a game that gets extended by few minutes too many. The other rules change that needs to take place is the implementation of a referee clock. Much like a pitch clock in baseball or the play clock in football, refs need to be put on a clock. The referees need to have a certain amount of time to make a call and throw a flag if they miss it in real time. The refs have one minute, from the time the play was blown dead, to make a decision to throw a flag. The Lions would have benefited from this as the call in the Kansas City game for Illegal Motion on Goff would not have been made. Additionally, coaches/coaching staff need real time audio of what the refs are communicating to one another and what they are communicating with the people upstairs and in New York. I have no doubt that the NFL crew in the New York league office told the officials on field about the Illegal Motion on Goff and that is when it was decided to throw the flag. We need to know what is said at all times by officials and to them from others.

So does he need to allude to Borom being the starter then? If so, are you suggesting that other NFL teams believe that he will be the starter and that him signing and Brad saying what he's said is enough to dissuade other NFL front offices from thinking the Lions will draft a tackle in the first?