Mr.TaterSalad

Who is a shmuck sitting behind a keyboard like me to question the toughness of any athlete, let alone a hockey player. But this is ridiculous. Year after year, end of season, after end of season, this team looks weak and completely collapses.

Welp, it's onto the offseason.

I was booing when they missed out on Quinn Hughes.

LOL WHATEVER! I hated saying what I did above but I knew they'd blow the lead.

My confidence that we can close this out and prevent another is low, but not entirely at no confidence. Finish these last 9:00 minutes boys!

If they drafted ANOTHER first round TE I would be very pissed at Brad Holmes and company. It's the kind of move, with all the needs we have, that would truly cause me to start losing faith in this regime. It would either represent this regime getting too cute and trying to be the smartest guys in the room. Otherwise, taking a first round TE would signify to me that there's a longer term problem with Sam LaPorta. This would be the absolute wrong pick for this team. We need an offensive tackle and need to get this offensive line back to being a strength. We need all sorts of help on the defense. We need defensive line help and someone who can set the edge opposite Aiden and get after the QB. We need a WLB who can replace Anzalone. We potentially have needs in the defensive backfield as well.

I'm going to ask this question here since Tim Twentyman profiled the position on the Lions website. Could the Lions draft Oregon Tight End Kenyon Sadiq in the first round? If they did, how would you feel?

These allegations against Congressman Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct and the rape of a women who was his former staffer are very serious and very ugly. I do believe women when they say they were sexually harassed, assaulted, or raped. I believe women have benevolent silenced and abused by our justice system not believing them. I also believe in the fundamentalist right of innocent, until proven guilty. Eric Swalwell deserves his day in court and a fair, speedy trial as anyone would get. That said, given the nature of these sexual assault allegations and the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct made against him, I hope he drops out of the California Governor's race and leaves Congress. The guy looks like a real, womanizing, scumbag and piece of ****.

I think they like Larry Borom and there is a real chance they already view him as their starter at RT.

I saw a draft profile on him that listed his current weight at 369lbs. Not sure if that's what he actually weighed in at when he was at the NFL Combine. If it was, YIKES! Being in his draft offseason at that weight and not remaining at a playing weight of 350 give or take is concerning to me. I'd like to think going into the draft and certainly at the combine that'd he'd want to be in the best shape possible.

I get that offensive lineman, all players really, have small imperfections to their game or physical stature. But Proctor is pushing 370lbs of playing weight. As a player gets older and their body breaks down, I cannot imagine someone at that weight just physically holding up long. There would have to be serious risk of injuries I would think. As well, you lose athleticism and quickness as you age and are still playing at that weight. I'm not 100% anti-Proctor and if the Lions really like him, I trust Brad enough to respect the pick. But if Proctor is there for The Lions pick at #17 and one of Fano, Freeling, Lomu, or Miller are also still on the board, I'm taking one of those guys first.

No pun intended, but that seems like a big IF. He's already playing at 350lbs+.

He was talking about Proctor I think. I believe he also mentioned that he has concerns about his weight and his ability to compete on strength alone going up against NFL defenders.

Can someone talk me off the Aaron Gibson/Mekhi Becton ledge with Kaydn Proctor? I know they are different people, on different teams, playing for far different coaches and regimes. But every time I see him and read scouting reports about him I get Gibson flashbacks. For a more modern comparison, I worry he'll be another Mekhi Becton. The guy's playing weight is 355lbs, which is similar to Becton's playing weight. Compare that to Blake Miller at around 315lbs or Caleb Lomu at around 312lbs. I worry that the weight will only become a bigger issue as he gets older and it gets harder to maintain a lower weight. I worry about how his body will hold up, against NFL players, trying to play at that weight. With a guy like Becton you've seen the injuries take a toll on his body. In the case of Gibson, he ballooned to nearly 400lbs and became significantly more immobile as a lineman. My other concern is does he even truly project as a tackle given his size and playing style. He seems like more of a hybrid or just a straight up guard prospect to me. But I'm no Hank Fraley expert here. What's the reasoning for wanting Proctor over a Blake Miller or Caleb Lomu if all three are availabel? Is Proctor that much better than either of them that its worth the gamble? Am I simply making too much of the weight issue.

When their lips are moving, it usually means they are lying. I would suspect that we will find out that her relationship with Epstein is far more than just a casual email correspondence with someone that her husband was best friends with. She was dating Trump in the same time frame that he was still friends with Epstein in the early 2000s. So it is plausible that she knew him well enough.