Mr.TaterSalad

The question was asked has a starting-caliber offensive lineman ever been traded at the deadline. I responded to the question with two recent examples, Cam Robinson and Ezra Cleveland. According to Football reference Robinson was indeed a starting LT having started 17 games in the 2024 season between Jacksonville and Minnesota. Ezra Cleveland started 11 games between Jacksonville and Minnesota in the 2023 season.

When the Vikings traded with the Jaguars last year at the deadline for starting LT Cam Robinson I believe it only cost them a 4th round pick. And the 4th round pick was conditional on playing time, as it was originally slated to be a 5th, depending on how much Robinson played.

He is former Lieutenant Governor ****'s son I believe.

Remember kids that the Republican Party is the party of family values. The moral majority, guiding us through evil. Thankfully he's not trans though, because cheating on your wife is so much better.

So if these players are being held out of practice and possibly won't play on Sunday in a worst case scenario, the Lions starting OL for Sunday could be . . . LT Guy off the practice squad LG Kayode Awosika C Graham Glasgow RG Tate Ratledge RT Guy off the practice squad This does not make me feel confident starting a backup Guard and two guys off the practice squad.

So far so good to me. Lina Khan was the single best appointment Joe Biden ever made. Now, a smart, savvy, strategic women is joining Zohran's transition team for Mayor. She would do him well to stay on as a top advisor or as a Deputy Mayor as she understands the inner-workings of government.

Just last year at the deadline Minnesota traded for starting LT Cam Robinson from the Jacksonville. At the 2023 deadline Jacksonville traded for G Ezra Cleveland from Minnesota. Other than those two examples, I couldn't find anything else within the last 4-5 seasons of trades. Historically, the NFL has not been a very active trading league at the deadline, so unlike the MLB, there isn't a big sample size. But the above trades show it has been done.

What I want to know is were there offensive lineman available at the deadline, who were they, and did Brad Holmes call about acquiring one of them.

When you factor in that Cuomo's black voters are still largely Democratic voters who are going to pull the lever for Democrats, I don't see it as this big problem as you do. Again, it's not as if these voters went Republican and voted for Sliwa. Cuomo, even though he ran as an independent, is still a Democrat. Voters who voted for him largely knew this, black voters or otherwise.

This is exit polling data FYI.

Looks like he won the black vote over Cuomo by a 26 point margin. It isn't as if black voters went Republican and voted for Sliwa or stayed home. Even black voters that went for Cuomo are still going to vote Democratic.

Democrats have a problem with young men, particularly young hispanic/Latino and white young men. Zohran did not have a problem winning over young men.

This is exciting to see too. Feeding hungry kids, you know the thing Christian conservatives should be doing, is always the right thing to do.

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Looks like a double digit, 10 point soon possible for Spanberger.

Cuomo would probably sexually harass women at the office at City Hall too.

They aren't loaded at one of the positions that matters the most though and that is the offensive line. They have a banged up LT who is game to game as to whether he even plays. They lost their starting LG for an indefinite amount of time. We saw how piss poor the OLine played just this past weekend and that was before Mahogany went down. I don't think it would have set this franchise back that terribly financially if they had made a move to bring in another starter on the line. I do in-fact believe it would have provided them a security blanket and potentially made them better once that player learned all the blocking schemes and started to gel with their linemates. Given that Kevin Zeitler already played here, with most of these guys, he was probably the best bet.

Counting on Davenport at this point makes no sense. He has shown for almost three full seasons now zero ability to stay healthy. Davenport means little to me at this point until he can prove he can stay on the field for more than a game or two.

I don't want to be in cap hell like some of these franchises are. But come on, it's a pretty hard sell to your fanbase overall, and esspecially your season ticket holders whom you just jacked up prices on, to be like: "Yeah well, we couldn't make a move at the trade deadline and make an upgrade at a given position because we need to roll over $21 million in cap space for next year." Trying to sell the fans and paying customers on the fact that you believe cap flexibility over the long term is more important than making a push to upgrade your talent when possible and win a Super Bowl this year is a hard sell. Every fan who watched that Minnesota game knows our offensive line is depleted with Christian Mahogany out and Decker banged up. They know that it didn't look that great before those injuries happened. I think most fans want an upgrade somewhere on this team, but in particular, on the offensive line after watching the game on Sunday and the resulting injuries and poor play by the offensive line. If Holmes does nothing and just sells the fan base cap flexibility, you're going to (rightly) have a lot of frustrated fans and paying customers. Trusting the process is one thing, I think most fans do trust Brad's process on the whole, myself included. But when all your competition around you is actively making some kind of move to get better and you're not, that's a tough one to watch and then be sold on.

"Great" lineup of endorsers for Cuomo. Wouldn't want Zohran though. He'd be bad for NYC.

That's on Holmes that we don't have a third round pick. I believe Bitonio is on a one year contract with the Browns for $15 million. Zeitler is on a one year deal as well, for around $8.5 million. We have the cap space to absorb those contracts given our current cap situation. The Trey Hendrickson conversation I get. Trying to make an extended deal, beyond a rental, work for him is a lot harder. It involves letting a core piece or two that you've drafted walk. It involves restructuring deals like Goff's and/or St. Browns to fit him under. But adding a Bitonio or Zeitler requires none of that.

If Brad is willing to make a move by trading draft capital to move up and get a completely unproven commodity like Brodric Martin in the draft, why not be willing to move draft capital to go and get a proven commodity like a Joel Bitonio or Kevin Zeitler? They have to know they need real help on their banged up and depleted offensive line, no? It can't be next man up mentality all the time. At some point, as we saw last year with the injuries on defense, a lack of talent catches up with you.

As much as I wanted a move to be made today at the deadline, I had a feeling they weren't making a splash move of any kind. I didn't need it to be Trey Hendrickson or insert big name Edge Rusher here for me to feel happy. I really had no expectation that a Hendrickson or Crosby-type player was ever on our radar or coming here, Diana Russini report or otherwise. Over the last couple of days, given the injury to Mahogany, I actually wanted it to be a Guard who has versatility along the front like a Joel Bitonio or Kevin Zeitler. Someone who could play either Guard position or be an emergency Tackle if needed. I doesn't appear, the closer we get to 4pm, that we're making that time of move. They believe in their players and that is that. I hope I am wrong and Holmes has something up his sleave.