Mr.TaterSalad

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.

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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.

Channel 7 Sports Director Brad Galli is leaving the station after nearly 15 years there.

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?