Mr.TaterSalad

It's Walker to the Jags. I think we take Hutch, but we'll see.

If anyone cares to watch, 97.1 is doing a watch along . . . https://www.twitch.tv/971theticket

I have a lot of trust in Brad Holmes and think he's building a team the right way. I don't think we're ruining any careers with this regime, at least not yet. I feel as positive as I've ever felt as a Lions fan going into a draft and am incredibly excited to see what we do throughout this draft.

I love most of what Brad Holmes has done thus far. I have much more confidence and trust in him and his front office staff (Agnew, Dorsey, Newmark, Scouting) than I've ever had in any Lions regime. I had zero confidence in Millen, zero in Mayhew, and what little confidence I had in Quinn eroded quickly in year 2. I really feel like this regime has a solid plan in place (not just trying to be New England Jr.) and is hell bent on executing their plan. I will be elated if we get either Hutch or Thibs. Those have been my guys from the start and while I've had Walker and Willis in at various points, I've maintained that I'd be happy with either Hutch or Thibs. In Brad Holmes I trust.

Is that the watch party for season ticket holders? If so, bless you for buying Lions seasons tickets.

Whose your "if the Lions draft this guy in the first or second round" I will be upset and/or disappointed? For me it's Kyle Hamilton. While I won't get mad about it because I still trust Brad Holmes and I'm tired of being an angry, negative fan all the time, Hamilton would be pretty deflating. Knowing they could have taken one of Hutch/Thibs/Walker and they took a slower-than-average Safety instead would really throw cold water on my enjoyment of the draft.

I did an updated full round mock because draft week is the most fun you can have as a Lions fan. It's all down hill from here, but let's hope Holmes changes that for once. I stuck with Hutch and Cine for the Lions.

I think there is almost zero change Willis falls to 32. I think there is less than a 50% chance he falls out of the Top 10.

So in other words, he doesn't know and possibly even the Jags don't know what they're doing.

https://www.nfl.com/news/2021-nfl-rookie-grades-ranking-the-classes-1-to-32 For what it's worth, NFL.com graded us as having the 4th best draft overall last year, one year into it.

I'd take McBride, Jeremy Ruckart from Ohio, or the kid out of San Diego State Daniel Ballinger. Those are the guys we should look at for 3rd/4th Rd TE options.

Being close by doesn't make you aware of who a player is. Charles Rogers begged the Lions not to draft him and had all types of character red flags and Millen still took him. Now, I'm not trying to suggest Holmes is on the same incompetent plane as Millen was, just that you can't assume because a player plays close by means the organization has done their due diligence on a guy. Matt Millen drafting Charles Rogers is proof of that. Luckily for us, it sounds like this Lions front office was well represented at Michigan's Pro Day with Holmes and others in attendance.

We will just completely disagree on this one. While I do believe that some of the Founders like Hamilton, Sherman, maybe the Adams, maybe Franklin, and Lafayette might have had some progressive leaning views, I believe that most of them were they alive today would be far right, Christian fundamentalists. They'd be posting anti-vax videos on YouTube, banning books out of fear of satanic control over society, talking about stolen election results, disgusted by interracial marriage, and waxing poetic about the days of Jim Crow, George Wallace, and segregation. If you looked on the campaign finance rolls for Trump and MAGA endorsed candidates you'd see names like Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. Given how fundamentally religious these people were they'd probably also like candidates like Lauren Bobert, Sarah Palin, Louie Gohmert, Mike Huckabee, and others.

Your argument seems to assume that there were no abolitionists back when the Founders decided to relegate black people as property. As if the only voices they heard were those of pro-slavery and that somehow slavery was just consensus and the way things were back then. Several of the Founders themselves, like the Adams', Alexander Hamilton, Roger Sherman, Thomas Paine, and Marquis de Lafayette were anti-slavery. There were also other prominent abolitionist voices working to stop and end slavery like Anthony Benezet, Benjamin Rush, and Moses Brown. It's just that the Founders ended up caring more about wealthy land/plantation owners than people and so they listened to the voices of the wealthy over those in their own camp who abhorred and opposed slavery. I'm a democratic socialist these days, which is about as far left as it gets, so my grandchildren won't likely be further left than I am. They'll be happy Grandpa voted for Bernie and Warren. If I told my grandchildren about the old me that supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, the one who read Mises Institute, Milton Friedman, Murrary Rothbard, and Tom Woods, then sure, they'd think that version of me was probably a selfish, libertarian asshole, and they'd be right.

Given just how much scouting they've done around Thibs, having 7 people at his Pro Day, I think that's going to happen. I think they may well like him better than Hutch. I've had Hutch and Thibs as 1A and 1B during this process and I don't know enough about the technical aspects of being a great edge rusher, so I would be fine with either.

Karamo: “Cardi B is another tool of Lucifer because she peddles filth in the culture.” - Kristina Karamo, Republican nominee for MI SOS

Media Matters: Michigan secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo: Beyoncé, Cardi B, Korean drama, and yoga are tools of Satan I get told that I get too worked up over the Christian Right around here. This simpleton could be the next SOS of Michigan and in charge of our state's elections process.

What's wrong with thinking that the Founding Fathers weren't actually that great and having an honest discussion as to who they really were? Just because the right is unable to do so doesn't mean the criticisms from the left are wrong or off base about these individuals. I see no need to build statues and glorify people who thought blacks were pieces of property to be owned, woman were baby factories to be used at a man's disposal, over 2/3rds the country should be denied the right to vote, and native land was theirs for the taking. Furthermore, these "great" intellects of their day thought that it was more important to allow land mass to have greater representation than people and created the worst, least deliberative body of government in the democratic world in the Senate. As a result of their creation of the Senate, and the electoral college, we are still paying the price for such poor planning and public policy. If the Founding Fathers were alive today they'd be wearing white hoods, MAGA hats and watching YouTube clips of George Wallace talking about drawing a line in the dust and tossing the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny. They'd be the people clapping in the background when Wallace shouted segregation now, tomorrow, and forever. Just because certain people can't have an honest conversation about the Founding Fathers and are unable to recognize them for the ignorance and hate they possessed, doesn't mean the rest of us have to cow tow to their order.

We're the only liberal democracy that does it this way because the founding fathers were smart enough to recognize that NYC, San Francisco, and LA shouldn't pick the Presidency. Rural land masses should.

What motivates Trump voters? Anyways, it's good to see that far-right, wannabe fascist idiot go down in electoral flames!!!!! Fuck Marine Le Pen!

I did an entire 32 team 1st round mock draft. I tried drafting based on team needs and reports that have come out about certain players going to certain teams. We'll see how off base I am.

https://www.nfl.com/news/seven-round-2022-nfl-mock-draft-round-1-cowboys-steelers-trade-up LOL Chad Reuter doesn't even bother trying with the Lions pick. Mocking Kenny Pickett to the Lions at #2 is beyond dumb and ridiculous. First off, it doesn't even look like the Lions are taking a QB at #2, but if they did, it would almost assuredly be Malik Willis.

So the Michigan Republican Party nominated Matt DePerno as their Attorney General candidate.

Brad Holmes had a press conference yesterday and was asked about trading up. Here is what he said: