Mr.TaterSalad

I believe Metcalf is also a client of Deboo's agent. This is obviously an orchestrated effort by this agent, Tory Dandy, to get his clients more money. If we could get a trade done by dealing #32 and an additional pick for Deboo I would do it. I'm not deviating off the plan to build through the draft though just to get in a bidding war with a team, like the Jets or Chiefs, who has as much or more ammo than we do.

I would think given the Jets posses two picks in the top 10 and two second round picks that we'd have to part with #2 overall to get Deboo. In that case, no thanks. How can we possibly outbid a team with two top 10 picks and two second round picks?

It's too bad the 49'ers traded for Trent Williams last year, because Decker and a pick for Deebo could have possibly gotten it done.

Remember that the Rams philosophy, including when Holmes was there, was to trade draft picks for established stars in order to win now. I agree that we should stick to the plan of accumulating picks and drafting well versus making splashy trades for players like Deebo Samuel, Tyreek Hill, Amari Cooper, etc. I think it should just be noted though that Holmes comes from an organization that likes to make these kinds of moves, even if he hasn't done one of them yet here in Detroit.

Speaking of talking about dementia . . .

Every time I see Trump out on the balcony of the White House I can't help but think of him starring up at the eclipse like a total maroon.

I think those are different arguments though because you Donald and Suh both have a unique skillset that most DTs don't have, that being the ability to rush the passer. Neal doesn't have a skillset that Decker doesn't, he's just somewhat better than Decker at the skillset they both have in terms of pass and run blocking. With Donald and Suh, you would have had something no one else in the league would have had at the time, two dominate, pass rushing interior lineman, who can both get after the QB. Suh and Donald together I think would have been more of a mismatch and produced more production than Neal and Sewell together.

Are we saying Decker is a liability now?

So are we trading Sewell next year to draft another LT? I don't understand the logic behind only drafting LTs with our first round pick only to trade them when they get good and come up for a big contract. We have glaring needs all over the place to address and drafting Neal or Ekwonu would do little to advance this team forward. Even if we traded Decker it's likely that the team we trade him to would be a contending team and the pick we get back would be a later end first round pick.

Deebo Samuel says he won't play for the 49'ers next season. What would it cost to get him and would you be willing to trade for him?

State Senator Mallory McMorrow from Royal Oak is fucking awesome! I've had the chance to speak with her and we're friends on Facebook and she's a wonderful human being. I hadn't watched her speech, so thank you for sharing it. Powerful words.

Marine Le Pen is allegedly crook and a far right grifter? Where have I seen this story before? Looks like Le Pen may spend some time in the Pen if these allegations are true.

I really don't care what Jacksonville does at this point. While I'd love to have Hutchinson, I would be almost as happy to have Thibodeaux at #2. So if they take Hutch, I'm taking Thibs, unless I get a gangbusters deal to trade back.

Do you think that Viktor Orban in Hungary (who Trump endorsed) and Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus (who Trump only haphazardly sanctioned and was hardly critical of) are dictators in their respective countries? If so, how is Trump different than Orban or Lukashenko? He wants state controlled media as they have and lashes out about jailing journalists, doing physical harm to them, and changing libel laws so he can sue them. He has tried to manipulate the results of elections by openly calling for votes to be changed/doctored and working with his advisors like Donald Trump Jr. to have voting machines seized. As well, he has tried to stop the legal counting of votes in certain battleground states and tried to stop the counting of electoral votes at the federal level. Trump also openly talked about suspending the 2020 elections. Those seem like autocratic acts to me.

I would like to welcome Fred Upton to the Republican Party that has been building since Nixon and the Southern Strategy over the last 50 years.

I disagree with the argument that Trump doesn't want to end the American Republican. Trump literally wanted to install himself as a autocratic dictator and that's what January 6th was all about. At best he wants rigged, unfair elections like his boy Viktor Orban has in Hungary with a state-controlled media apparatus backing him up. At worst he wants what Putin has in Russia and Alexander Lukashenko has in Belearus. January 6th was an orchestrated attacked on the rule of law, democratic institutions, and free, fair elections. Trump wanted the legal counting of electoral votes stopped. He wanted his people to seize voting machines. He wanted a Secretary of State in Georgia to change over 11,000 votes to declare him the winner of a state he lost. He wanted votes overturned in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin as well. That is autocratic by its very nature and spits in the face of democracy and our American Republic.

This appears to be the moment that the Officer fired the gun at Lyoya. It appears to be in the back of his head and the Officer appears to have leverage over him in this situation. Now, what you can't see is the taser or what may or may not be in Lyoya's hands at this moment. If Lyoya had gained control of the taser in this moment I guess I don't know what would be the proper course of action and ultimate justification. My initial reaction was that Lyoya shouldn't have been shot. But if he grabbed the Officer's taser, is the Officer then justified in this situation?

No, the suspect shouldn't flee, but the Officer doesn't know the suspect nor why he's fleeing. It's the Officers responsibility to protect himself, protect the alleged suspect, and protect other innocent bystanders. Suppose Patrick Lyoya suffered from a mental illness like Paranoid Schizophrenia and something/someone in his mind told him to flee. Suppose he had a developmental disability and couldn't comprehend the situation entirely. Suppose he was just scared shitless and panicked. The Officer involved doesn't know Patrick or what's going on in his mind. Thus, in this situation, given that Patrick was not wanted at the time as a suspect for a violent crime, maybe pursuit wasn't the best course of action.

MLive: Experts say Grand Rapids police officer could have avoided fatally shooting Patrick Lyoya From Professor Harris, the legal expert cited in the article . . . This goes along the lines of what I was asking earlier. Was it really necessary to hunt and chase him down like that? Was the ensuing scuffle really necessary?

So I did a different mock, that I don't even like, and traded both our #32 and #34 for future 1st round picks in the 2023 draft. I traded our pick at #32 to Miami for their 1st round pick next year and traded our pick at #34 to the Bears for their 1st round pick next year. If we want Bryce Young or CJ Stroud we're going to either need to stink it up badly or have assets to move up and get them. 4 1st round picks should do it for next year.

This is likely just pre-draft due diligence on the Lions part and means nothing in the end . . .

What I wonder though is short of the Officer discovering that Mr. Loyoya committed or is wanted as a suspect for a violent crime of some nature, why pursue him at all? Should simply running from an Officer be grounds for pursuit? Should Officers in this type of a situation be required to wait for backup before pursuing and/or should the individual be allowed to escape and then be apprehended later? Also, suppose Mr. Lyoya did get a hold of the Officers taser. If a taser is supposed to be a non-lethal weapon, is the Officer justified in using a lethal weapon against an individual holding what is supposed to be a non-lethal weapon?

Unarmed black man Patrick Loyoya killed by Grand Rapids Police Officer. In the video below and the bodycam footage it looks like there was an ensuing struggle, a struggle for the Officers taser, and then a shot fired into the back of Patrick's head. Questions I have after watching the footage. 1. Why was Patrick stopped just for the plate not matching the car and was it a necessary stop? 2. Does running from a Police Officer automatically mean you get to pull out your taser and use it on someone/an alleged suspect? 3. When the Officer was on top of Patrick, why did he feel the need to shoot this man and why in the back of the head, execution style?

Forgetting the trade back scenarios for a second, these are the players I like at each of the picks ideally . . . #2 Overall: 1. Aidan Hutchison/Edge 2. Kayvon Thibodeaux/Edge 3. Travon Walker/Edge 4. Garrett Wilson/WR 5. Drake London/WR #32 and #34 Overall: 1. Lewis Cine/S 2. Jaquan Brisker/S 3. Christian Watson/WR 4. George Pickens/WR 5. Leo Chenal/LB 6. Chad Muma/LB 7. David Ojabo/Edge 8. Boye Mafe/Edge 9. Jalen Pitre/S 10. Arnold Ebiketie/Edge