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November 28, 2009 10:29 pm
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It's getting to the point where we can start to look ahead to next season, and evaluate what players are worth keeping next year. I'll try and go group by group and give my two cents on who's got what it takes to make our roster next year.
Keep in mind that we're almost entirely devoid of any top-end talent, and a lot of the guys I deem worthy of keeping are middle-quality start
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November 28, 2009 4:22 pm
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1. Matthew Stafford can be a great quarterback and is tough as nails. The injury bug is my highest concern for him. I expect to see some maturity and fewer mistakes next season. Rookie year is a freebie; 2nd season will be graded tougher.
2. Calvin Johns
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December 2, 2009 11:46 am
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Im going to start my defensive rant now. Since we're already deep into the draft talk, might as well go for it.
WE NEED HELP!!!!!
What is supposed to be a stop the run, pressure the quarterback, physical, talent group, is really just a very bad, poor tackling, non covering, non pressuring, nightmare. Its a defense that probably couldnt stop ND or the Houston Cougars in NCAA
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December 1, 2009 3:43 pm
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With TE Brandon Pettigrew landing on injured reserve the Lions have activated 7th round pick Dan Gronkowski.
Not really much of a suprise move, hopefully Gronkowski can show a spark when he
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November 30, 2009 6:19 pm
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The arguement is: Replacing Jeff Backus should be #1 priority for the Lions.
The reasoning is: To protect our 72 million dollar investment.
Considering the reality of the team, the arguement doesnt warrant much validity. Not when when over 50% of the star
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November 26, 2009 7:51 am
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I know the season is just a few short weeks away from being over then it will be onto the talk of what players the Lions should pick up in free agency and the draft, and alot of us have already started talking about who we woluld like to see brought to Detroit. We all know that the Lions main positional needs are OL, DL, S, CB. I have liked
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Since:Oct 6, 2008
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December 2, 2009 3:54 pm
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Here we are in a heated draft debate.....again. To quote Mora "the offense sucks, the defense sucks" . If you stop and think about it no matter who they take with their first pick he will fill a glaring need. We all have our own guy Suh is my guy. We also have the guy we don't want, Berry for me, they gotta get those lines fixed. The sad thing is we are debating the draft
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November 28, 2009 11:18 am
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We're 2-9, the defense is horrendous, Stafford makes terrible decisions with the ball, the WR's can't catch, we have no pass rush, our DB's couldn't cover your grandma, and the threads on who to take in next years draft started two weeks ago. Soon we'll all be arguing over whether we should take Suh or Okung. The first few things I've listed aren't going to change anytime so
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November 8, 2009 7:29 pm
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Everybody said give him a chance, "He may have what it takes". Then it was, "The season is early and he is still learning". Flat out and undeniably Matthew Stafford is not starter ready, lacks simple defense reading skills, and is at least 2-3 years away from being competent. Bottom line, an offensive lineman
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December 1, 2009 9:57 am
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Well here we are again, in the middle of a draft debate, oh joy. I wanted to take the opportunity to remove my foot from my mouth/admit I was wrong about Stafford. For those of you that I so doggedly argued against about fixing the trenches first I officaly stand corrected. DRAFTING MATT STAFFORD WAS A MONUMENTIAL MISTAKE! We are now stuck with a 72 million dollar QB and a welfair
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November 26, 2009 3:09 pm
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A few questions for ya.
1. Does Matt Stafford have a pocket to pass from?
2. Does Matt Stafford have to make most of his passes on the run?
3. Does Matt Stafford have time to read the defense?
4. Do the Lions have a 72 million dollar player?
&nbs
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November 28, 2009 8:44 pm
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A lot of people on this board are pining for Russell Okung, the left tackle out of Oklahoma State. I have to wonder how many of you actually watched him play. I admittedly have only seen OSU play twice this season and both times the O was completely shut down with no run game and no pass protection. Okung barely created any holes against Texas and I didn't see him create any hole
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Since:Aug 22, 2009
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November 18, 2009 2:50 pm
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d81423860&template=with-video-with-commen
ts&confirm=true
Here's a link to the free agents next year. There's really no good guards or DE Kyle Van Bosch only has 1 sack this year. If I were Mayhew
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November 29, 2009 4:31 pm
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With all the pre-draft talk already going on, I'd thought I'd remind everybody of our Draft pick situation if they didn't already know.
Currently, we will have 1 pick in each of the 7 rounds, and Denver's 5th round pick, which was traded, along with Denver's 7th rounder last year(Zack Follet), for our 6th rounder in 2009(T
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November 30, 2009 12:12 pm
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I have decided to revise my trade CJ thread from last year. Not only are we wasting the career of CJ, now we are blowing a #1 pick in Stafford. With the current state of our "offensive line" if thats what you want to call that utter complete garbage, our two most important offensive players have zero chane at ever being good. Maybee we can package them both to a team that is smart
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