Mr.TaterSalad

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?

My problem with Borom isn't that he necessarily stinks or anything. He may well not. As a swing tackle, I think he could be a very solid signing. As a starter, I'm not as certain about that. In his 5 year career he has never once been a regular starter. The most games he has ever started was 11 last year with Miami and prior to that was 9 with Chicago. He's been a backup his entire career that has come in when needed due to injuries. Some of him being a backup may be due to his own injuries as he has been on IR twice during his career. He's not been top of the depth chart. Maybe they found a diamond in the rough and in his 6th year in the league he will finally become a full time starter. Maybe Chicago and Miami were just such poorly run and coached teams in the past that they didn't know what they had in Borom and now we do. If we draft a tackle early on in the draft, first round preferably, I think Borom could be a very nice reserve addition. If we are expecting Borom to go out there and be a full time, 17 game starter, he's never shown he can do that. That makes me nervous and it is the vibe I got from Brad's quote. We shall see.

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.