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Pride of Detroit: NFL officially sets 2023 salary cap: What it means for Lions From the article . . . Last year, the Lions saw an increase in cap space of $8 million based on adjustments, but they are not expected to reach a number that high this season. For example, we already know that Kalif Raymond hit enough incentives to earn him over $1 million in bonuses this season, and Jamaal Williams earned $250,000 for reaching 1,000 rushing yards. Keeping in mind that the final salary cap number for the Lions is still in flux, at this time, Detroit has roughly $16.2 million in available cap space for the 2023 season. While $16.2 million doesn’t seem like a large amount, it is actually the 13th most available in the league. In fact, there are actually 14 teams that are all over the salary cap allotment at this time, despite the increase.

If the 49'ers can take the NFC by storm with a QB carousel that included a 7th round pick starting then we can do it with Jarred Goff, who has already been to a Super Bowl. I agree though, I want us to be a top-tier team next year and with an aggressive off-season and a couple of big free agent signing and a homerun draft pick or two, we can be. Assuming we still have a good running game next year, I believe we will have the offensive talent to hang with anyone in the NFL not named the Bengals or Chiefs. Even those two teams we will be real damn close too. Given where we are at right now and the potential big step we can text next year, I will be very disappointed if Holmes goes out and doesn't make a major free agent signing or too on defense. The team is ready to take the next step and a talented free agent or two on defense can be the guy/s to help us do it. If he sits on his hands and only makes small-time acquisitions that will be underwhelming to say the least.

RIP to one of the toughest, nastiest, and most talented players to every play the game. Bobby Hull wasn't simply a tough SOB, he had the talent and scoring prowess to back up the attitude. It should also be acknowledge that in his personal life Bobby Hull was a shit human being who beat up his wife and abused her repeatedly. He was not really a great person at all, but I still think his contributions to the game and overall talent can be acknowledge.

One of the games of the year for sure.

Reminded me of when the Bengals had the Steelers beat and Vontez Burfict knocked Antonio Brown out and cost them the game.

That decision to go for it took some serious stones by Zac Taylor and Joe Borrow on 4th and 6.

Damn, this is really unreal. I've never seen one team have this many injuries at QB.

WOW, I can't imagine a team having to go through 4 starting QBs in one season. I think Philly is going to run away with this in the second half.

I'll only complain if the defense falls apart again and they decide to fire the DLine Coach instead of the Coordinator.

There is the scene at the beginning too where the same cop asks Furious "did you get him" and then he expresses disappointment that Furious didn't shoot and kill him because had he, it would have been one less gangster for them to have to worry about.

The pole camera footage shows the best angle. They beat the ever loving fuck out of Mr. Nichols and completely dehumanized him. Fuck everyone of those individuals!

Those thugs thought they would deliver some street justice to a young thug and so they did. How dare you run from us boy. How dare you make us chase you down. We'll show you who the fuck is boss by beating your ass to death. It goes to show that bias and racism in policing transcends white police officers.

When we start winning next year and win our first playoff game in 100 years we can finally enjoy the postseason and have that be our favorite time of year.

I think my pre-combine big board for each of the two first round picks looks something like this. Pick #6: 1. Will Anderson/DE 2. Jalen Carter/DT 3. Bryce Young/QB 4. Myles Murphy/DE 5. Tyree Wilson/DE Pick #18: 1. Joey Porter Jr./CB 2. Devon Witherspoon/CB 3. Christian Gonzalez/CB 4. Drew Sanders/LB 5. Cam Smith/CB

I think each of the guys in the top 3 prospects could be real solid NFL players. Kincaid in particular looked real good in the Pac 12 Championship game I watched against USC and he posted career numbers I believe. But given the needs all over the defense we have, the fact that good TEs are found all over the draft, and this organization's prior history with TE busts, I'm not touching any one of the top 3 guys in the first two rounds.

I'd probably prefer Joey Porter Jr. given his size, insane arm length, and ball skills. But if we went Edge/Corner I'd be very happy with that.

We just went through the whole Levi situation, so I am quite a bit shy about taking a DT with injury problems, who doesn't play full seasons, anywhere above the 4th round. I would pass on Breese.

At this point, who in DC doesn't have classified documents at their home?

Drafting Michael Mayer TE/Notre Dame at #6 overall is one sure way that Brad Holmes could ruin the offseason for Lions fans.

I believe Director of Player Personnel Lance Newmark has been with the organization dating back to the Bobby Ross days. 25 years or so.

Alright let's hear it, what are both the best and worst sports takes you've ever had as a fan? What take do you feel you absolutely nailed about a team, player, or situation and what take do you feel you have egg all over your face for stating? Best Take (at least so far): Ken Holland will never win another Stanley Cup again as a GM or Front Office Executive Back in 2014 and 2015 I was one of the early people around here to call for the firing of Ken Holland. After he brought back Dan Clearly for the 3rd offseason in a row I felt I had saw a pattern developing with the way Holland treated veteran players he was familiar with versus rookies and younger players. The pattern was not just with Holland's preferential treatment towards veteran players, but also his extreme, unending loyalty to his own guys, giving them contracts way past their prime or for way more than they were worth. Kenny re-signing Clearly (when he was set to finally leave and go to the Flyers) or bringing back Mikael Samuelsson or giving out obscene deals to the likes of Justin Abdelkader or Darren Helm that hurt our cap flexibility were all examples of this. As were laughable contracts to the likes of Franz Nielsen and Stephen Weiss. The other pattern I noticed was that many of the good moves this organization had made that setup our long run of success were done before Holland was GM in 1998 and were actually done my Scotty Bowman and Jim Develano. Where Holland often got the credit, many of the organizations most successful moves actually had their fingerprints on it and not his. Finally, when Holland stepped down as GM, I made a declaration that wherever Holland went next, I had assumed Seattle at the time, that he would never win another Stanley Cup again as a top executive or GM. So far, so good on that one. He has two of the top 10 goal scorers in the NHL in McDavid and Draisaitl (neither of whom he drafted) and not only has failed to make a Stanley Cup with the Oilers, but has them stuck in neutral now in the Western Conference as the number 2 wild card team. He may yet prove me a fool and go out and win a Cup this year as the season is but half way through. However, Holland hasn't proven me wrong yet and I still predict he will not. Time will tell. Worst Take: Thinking Connor Cook would be a good, game managing starting QB in the NFL This one is pretty obvious and pretty damn bad as a take. I thought that whoever drafted Connor Cook would be getting themselves a good starting QB in the NFL. I never pretended to think Cook was going to be the next Payton Manning or even the next Matt Stafford. I did think he could be a strong, game managing style of QB though along the lines of a Brad Johnson, Trent Dilfer, Jared Goff, Jimmy Garoppolo. A guy who won't put up amazing, top 5 stats, but a guy you can most certainly win with. I was pretty adamant on what he would be and felt comfortable taking him as the Lions starting QB of the future. I was 100% wrong about that one. Cook not only flamed out of the NFL within 4 seasons I believe, but he was passed over in multiple rounds of the NFL draft. He had one playoff game where he started for the Raiders and looked dreadful. Shortly after that he was out of the league and playing in the XFL or AFL or wherever it was that wasn't the NFL. YIKES!

Any QB I am drafting with either of our first round picks is either my Day 1 starter or will end up starting at some point during the season or at the beginning of 2024 at the latest. There's no point to drafting a QB high in the draft if he isn't your exclusive starting QB at some point in the future. I don't care what designed packages or sets you have in mind for him. This isn't college football and switching out QB's in the NFL won't work. Even the Saints with Taysom Hill never really achieved that much success doing so. They were at their best when Brees was good and they just stuck with him. I don't want to be the 49'ers or Packers burning a 1st on a guy who isn't even my starter. It's one thing if the player ends up being a bust, it's a whole other thing if you don't even give them the chance to be the guy.

If you draft a QB this year that means you are likely trading Goff next year. So it isn't a one for one trade now where the rookie comes in and Goff is immediately traded. But unless you want to get into a messy situation like the 49'ers did and burn a top 10 pick on a guy who may never be your starting QB, you are committing to moving on from Goff either right away this year (2023) or next season (2024).

In my mind Mazi would move inside and play more of a standard DT than a true nose and would be best utilized to flil gaps in the middle and stop the run. Wilson would line up on the opposite side of Hutchinson and would take over the Charles Harris/John Comisky role on the defense. Hutch would be your main go to to get at the QB and his role wouldn't change much from this season. Having an athletic edge guy on the opposite side, doubling up on Hutch leaves opportunities wide open for Wilson to either stay outside and rush the edge or stunt inside, switching off with McNeil on designed plays, and get after the QB with interior pressure.