Mr.TaterSalad

I trust the plan Brad Holmes and Co. are putting together and have like most of what they've done up to this point. While I would be disappointed if they picked Hamilton over one of the three edge rushers, I have enough faith in Holmes and the front office staff at this point to give them that benefit of the doubt this one time. A faith I didn't have in Mayhew or Quinn.

It's not just about drafting Hamilton, it's who they would pass over to do it and the positional value. It's the smartest guy in the room syndrome that has plagued this organization in the past, through different regimes. They needed a QB in 2005-2006 and took Ernie Sims and Mike Williams when they could have taken Aaron Rodgers or Jay Cutler. Taking Brandon Pettigrew over Alex Mack, Vontae Davis , and Clay Matthews. They weren't bringing back Suh, and truthfully probably knew it internally, and took Ebron over Aaron Donald. They needed help all over the defense and specifically in the front 4 and took Hockenson over Brian Burns or Montez Sweat. Taking Hamilton over Hutchison, Thibodeaux, or Walker would be a repeat of the same problems. Problem one is need and they have a glaring need to be able to get after the passer with a dynamic edge guy. Hamilton could help the pass rush by closing down routes with tighter coverage, but his impact on the pass rush would be far less than would either of the three DE's potentially available to the Lions. Hamilton isn't a Safety who they are going to drop down low and blitz if his performance at Notre Dame is any indicator. He had 0 sacks and few QB hurries/pressures in his college career. If he is more of an Isiah Simmons, where he will play LB and be moved all over the field, that certainly adds to his value versus just being a Free Safety in coverage. If I am drafting a Safety that high I'd want someone that can drop in the box, blitz, and cover in space. Problem two is positional value and Safety's, even one who could move around the field, have lower positional value than a pass rusher. If there was a mile wide gap in talent between Hamilton and the three top tier pass rushers, then obviously that changes things. But I think the combine and game film together show there is not a wide gap in talent between Hamilton and Hutch/Thibs/Walker. There certianly isn't enough of a talent gap in my mind to justify taking Hamilton over one of those pass rushers. Problem three is the smartest guy in the room syndrome. If you have a glaring need and there is a great player available in the draft to fill that need, and it fits with the positional value to draft that player at that spot, take the player. As an organization, in prior regimes, we have gotten too cute with who we have drafted and gotten ourselves burnt. Sims, Williams, Pettigrew, Ebron, Hockenson. We need pass rushers and have to dramatically improve getting pressure on the QB and we have the choice of three top-tier guys who can do that. Sure, Hamilton may be the best Safety in the draft by a wide margin, but I don't think he's that much better than our choice of pass rushers. This mentality that Hamilton is a generational prospect, Earl Thomas 2.0 somehow, is hype we've heard before. Remember we were told TJ Hockenson was generational and would be Gronk 2.0 only to find out he's Kyle Rudolph 2.0. The organization needs to ignore the hype and go with their own research. Maybe that means Hamilton is a generational talent. Problem four is that Hamilton was the single slowest Safety at the combine. Compare Hamilton's slow 4.59 40 time to other top Safeties in the league: Isiah Simmons 4.39, Earl Thomas 4.43, Minkah Fitzpatrick 4.46, Derwin James 4.47, Tyrann Mathieu 4.51, Jamal Adams 4.56, Marcus Williams 4.56. He was a clear step slower than 3 of the top 7 I listed and still slower than the remaining bunch. I get that 40 times aren't the be all, end all, but if we're being sold on Hamilton as a generational prospect, I'd like someone one with a bit more zip. I get that he played faster than his 40 time suggests in college. But in the pros, that extra step or two in speed means a lot more than it did going against college players.

This sucks as the Chiefs are almost sure to take a WR now with either their own 1st or the Dolphins.

I would have taken Jonathan Allen or TJ Watt. Probably Watt in hindsight, but I would have taken Allen over Adams at the time. Also, the Seahawks were dumb for making that traded. They needed those picks to bolster their Oline, LT no less, for Russ and instead wasted them on a Safety.

Pride of Detroit: Kyle Hamilton Vegas Odds Favorite For #2 Pick This is how GM's get fired, with poor drafting and taking no regard for position value and only drafting the dude you want at a position of lesser impact and need. We've done it before with the TE position with guys like Ebron and Hockenson. We did it at CB with Okudah. The Jets did it with a guy like Jamal Adams at Safety. When you're building up a barren roster I get that you want the BPA and that you need help at pretty much every position. However, there are certain positions like QB, LT, DE/Edge Rusher, WR, that are priority positions into today's NFL. It just so happens the Lions have needs at every position sans LT. I don't want a QB this year so count that out and I do think there is value to be had at WR all over this draft. But if they take a slower-end safety in Hamilton over one of pass rushers Hutchison, Walker or Thibodeaux I'm going to be really disappointed. It's not to say Hamilton won't be a nice player or even a dominate Safety. But when you're a team that can't get after the QB and you have to play Aaron Rodgers twice in a season, passing on a DE/Edge Rusher when there are 3 top guys at that spot won't cut it for me.

Or Rodney Peete.

It just seems like if they had taken a guy like Fields last year and he didn't work out that there would be more of an opportunity of them getting a redo versus waiting a year into your regime and taking Willis now. Maybe my take is off base there and they'd deserve to be fired if either Fields or Willis didn't work out by 2-3 years in.

How long after Willis gets drafted do Holmes and Campbell get to use the whole "we're developing him" argument? That is to ask, if he doesn't start developing and this team is struggling in year 2/year 3 of Willis' career are they fired and out the door as a result of this? Drafting Willis seems like the type of move that you are staking your entire rebuild and ultimately your career around. I suppose you could say that for any QB prospect you draft and build around, but Willis is especially polarizing.

I noticed the comparisons being both Jay Cutler and Jalen Hurts. If that's who he ends up being, no thanks. I think if Cutler didn't have such a shit attitude and was more coachable, he could have been a better QB. Maybe Willis is a more coachable individual and can prove to grow and develop better than Cutler.

Former Lions QB JT O'Sullivan did a 5 part breakdown on Malik Willis. I am going to watch it tonight. If you want to watch it here are the links below. Malik Willis Part 1 Malik Willis Part 2A Malik Willis Park 2B Malik Willis Part 3 Malik Willis Part 4 Malik Willis Part 5

Willis is the biggest tease in the draft. The dude makes us, scouts, analysts drool dropping dime throws like that. Here's the problem, when under duress with a defense in his face he misses that throw by a solid yard and may not even see that progression develop downfield given how often he is used to locking onto the first read and throwing it. For every Josh Allen that has a lower-end completion % in college and turns it around in the pros there are 10 Jamarcus Russell's, Akili Smith's, Paxton Lynch's, etc. I was all aboard the get rid of Stafford and go get me a young QB train. I wanted one of Fields or Lance in last years draft. I just don't think Willis is either of those players. I don't think he's Josh Allen either. I worry that we're drafting a Tyrod Taylor with a better, stronger arm.

Of course if the Jets gave us 4 and 10 for pick #2 that would be everyone's favorite. But as Buddha said, that simply isn't happening.

She answered it a lot better than I would have. We'll talk about my faith when you tell everyone your boyfriend's name. Just as Lindsey Graham being gay is of no mind or business to anyone else, neither is her faith.

See, I think Lance is the better prospect. Lance had video game numbers with 28 TDs and 0 picks. Willis had 27 TDs but threw 12 picks. Lance had a 67% completion percentage and Willis had a 61%. From my 1,000 foot view, Lance seems to have the better football IQ too and be more capable of reading a defense, making adjustments, and going through progressions.

I disagree that Clinton wasn't a horrible political leader. Outside of Reagan, policy wise, Bubba did more damage to this country than almost anyone, more than Trump I would argue. I would argue that Clinton's policy failures are partly to blame for the rise of Trump and right-wing fascism. Had Clinton embraded the legacy of FDR and worked to build on it, instead of trying to run to the right of it, we may be in a very different place as a country and the Democratic Party certainly would have been better off politically. Bubba's strident belief in deregulation, tough on crime, and free trade wrecked havoc on the middle class and working poor. He gutted welfare and social safety nets in this country and threw millions into extreme poverty. He poured gasoline on the fire of the argument that blacks were a bunch of lazy criminals who needed to be thrown off welfare and into the workforce. He surrounded himself with a whose, who of terrible economic and policy advisors like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Dick Morris. I don't need to go through the litany of terrible Clinton policies because we both know them all.

I loosely follow college basketball and follow it a lot more now that it's tourney time. I know the consensus seems to be that this team needs shooters in the worst way possible and also another superstar to pair with Cade. If the Pistons get the #1 pick overall who is the player that best fills the need of being a potential game changer/superstar and can give us the shooting we desperately need? Looking at the stats and what highlight clips I've seen of him on YouTube, Auburn Forward Jabari Smith seems to be our best bet no? He seems like a well rounded scorer, who isn't just a volume guy, but can create his own scoring opportunities by getting open and can knock down the three. Looking at the stat line for Smith he is 43.3% 3PAr, 40.2% from three-point range. Is this our guy? Do we take Smith over Banchero, Holmgren or Ivey? Does Smith have the type of game that pairs well with Cade's game? It seems like he does based on my very amateur opinion.

Walter Reuther was a significant contributor to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and 60's. Reuther and UAW leadership were quite political. Unions in the 1930s were some of FDR's biggest supporters of the New Deal. Union leadership and organizations pushed for legislation like the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

Felipe Franks is their only QB currently under contract. Now that they missed out on Watson and traded Ryan, you have to think they're taking a QB this year. Seems like Atlanta just became a prime trade partner for us.

Guess what was stronger in the 1950s than today. UNIONS! The decline in wages can and should be correlated directly to the decline in union membership and collective bargaining power. Wages brought more purchasing power because unions negotiated better wages that stay inline with COLA adjustments and helped to hold executive pay raises and power in check.

How were the 1950's a much better era? White people literally got offended by blacks drinking from the same water fountain or eating from the same lunch counter or going to the same schools as they did or riding on the same bus or whistling at white women or dating white women or marrying white women or holding the same jobs as they did or using the same public libraries or swimming in the same public pools or moving into their neighborhoods or voting or registering to vote. Not to mention lynching's, fire bombing black churches, murdering black children for allegedly looking at a white girl . . . But boy the way Glenn Miller played!

I'm still comfortable with either Hutch or Thibs, but after the combine and looking more into Walker and why he wasn't quite as dominate as you'd want for a top 5 edge rusher, I feel comfortable with the Lions standing pat and taking him too.

We're a pathetic franchise. The Browns get Watson, probably win a Super Bowl, and now we get to be lowly all by ourselves. I'm probably wrong but hopefully Holmes makes us less pathetic.

So Jacksonville is taking Hutch or trading the pick to someone who will? I have a hard time believing there is zero chance Hutch is available at 2.

That's a great commercial. At least he didn't say that it was the worst phone ever, run by the worst carrier ever, with the worst reviews ever. He had every right to say his old phone was crappy (the Lions teams he played on), the network was the worst (Lions organization is the worst franchise in major pro sports history), and the reviews were terrible (fans like me who bitched incessantly that he wasn't capable of getting it done).

Just because I speak at an event sponsored by a white nationalist doesn't mean I am a white nationalist. You can't use guilt by association. I speak at white nationalist sponsored events because and you people in the media always do this to conservatives. Actually they don't. Mitt Romney is a conservative, so is Liz Cheney, so is her father Dick Cheney, so is Kay Bailey-Hutchison, and so were Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, William F. Buckley. But guess why the media doesn't or never did that to them, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T SPEAK AT EVENTS SPONSORED BY WHITE NATIONALIST LEADERS!