I might be alone here… Most teams appear to have made fairly good choices in their draft picks. But, oh the pain of being a motherfucking Dolphan.
What in Christ’s name is Cam fucking doing passing over Brady Quinn on the ninth pick to take Ted Ginn Jr.??? We gave up a popular punt/kick returner (Wes Walker to the Patriots) for a third round pick, only to draft the same type of player in the first round… No wait, there are differences: Ginn is undersized and has a lame foot.
I’m so excited that Ginn will be able to bring the ball out to the 35 on each kick-off, only to go 3-and-out under the leadership of the current retread QB du jour we will have playing for us… I heard Cam Cameron is friends with Ginn Sr.–thanks for allowing friendship to doom my team to 3-4 more years of mediocrity. This draft actually makes me wish that Coach “Porn-stache” was still at the helm…
FUCK!!
Anyone else suffering from post first draft day related pain??
I’m not actually a Lions fan (Go Vikes), but I am from Michigan and I can’t fucking believe the Lions drafted ANOTHER wide receiver!! I feel the pain for my relatives…
Don’t feel pain for us. As a whole, we’re happy. Very very happy.
(Stupid Vikings should have taken a quarterback. Your coach is too busy blowing Tavaris Jackson, though)
On the football board I use, a lot of talk had Quinn over rated and over hyped. But even at that, those comments generally meant he shouldn’t go before Russell or Johnson. To get him at #9 would be a good draft pick.
To pass him up for a WR that shouldn’t have gone til late in the 1st, maybe even the 2nd, was the high point of our postings on draft day.
When Miami didn’t bite, several of us were speculating about Cle trading up to take him late in the 1st. Why late? Because the middle of the round teams had other needs than QB, a fact shown by the middle ten picks being all Defense. (Well, all but one.) So, the Browns didn’t have to pay too high a draft pick combo to get him. Why give up a tonne to get him at 12 when you can bide your time and pick him up after all the D-boys get snatched?
Cle got the deal of the year at #22. Miami’s drafting team must be lead by Ricky Williams, as they were surely high.
Try being a Lions fan. We picked another wide reciever. It doesn’t matter that we don’t have a quarterback that can throw the ball or an offensive line that could give him time to throw the ball. We needed another wide reciever. :rolleyes: Detroit quarterbacks were sacked 63 times last season. Doesn’t matter how great this reciever is unless he can block and catch at the same time.
Oh man… this is exactly what the Patriots HAVEN’T done in the past several years, and I think it is one of the keys to their success. Moss? Are you kidding me? What is the Pats front office thinking?
Also, I was damned sick to death of the Brady Quinn media coverage… he’s a pretty good quarterback, but that’s it, just pretty good.
Stop that, stop that, stop that, stop that. Kitna was on his back a lot but that was because of the lack of a running game. That offense put up some numbers despite that. Martz’s offensive playbook is silly thick. Give a little leeway.
Apparently, “Great talent, willing to restructure the deal, only cost us a fourth rounder, got plenty of team guys to keep him in line, got plenty of other good WR’s too, if it doesn’t work then what the hell, nobody expected it would, and don’t forget we made it work with Corey Dillon”.
Same here, and it isn’t going to be fun this year - he has to produce NOW, behind a rebuilt line, with a shaky WR corps, for a coach on the last year of his contract and on thin ice, and if it doesn’t the team is starting over once again. IOW, David Carr Jr. I thought he was more of a system guy than a talent guy at ND, anyway.
As a Raider fan I thank the pats for taking that dick and his ridiculous contract away from us. He will be fine with your team until you lose a game or he isn’t thrown to ten times or football isn’t really his priority anymore or he isn’t getting paid enough, etc.
I think the Raiders have had a real good draft including getting McCown and Mike Williams from Detroit.
Hooray for Drew Stanton getting to play close to home. Yeah, the Lions had bigger needs than WR, but if that’s the best available out there what you gonna do?
It doesn’t matter how thick the playbook is if the quarterback doesn’t have time to do anything with the ball. The offense put up some numbers, but just enough to get us second pick in the draft. If we don’t have an offensive line that can protect the quarterback, then we have to run the ball. That makes it easy for the opposing defense to shut the Lions down.
Boblibdem, what you do is trade your pick for multiple lower picks. Detroit management needs to stop acting like they are one player away from a super bowl and start rebuilding from the ground up. Trade picks and players to build a reliable offensive and defensive line, then start looking for superstars to complete the picture.
Now Brady Quinn gets to play on the same team as the guy who took his spot in the draft. Should be interesting.
Either Quinn will grow up and not be such a prima donna, and try to contribute to the team, or continue with his melt down and be out of the NFL in a year or two.
The sports media was all over this guy. In his face about every slot he dropped down til he got moved to a private room. They seemed almost gleeful about doing that, too, and all this was after hearing weeks of the sports media speculating about how high he would go, whether he was a better choice than the strong guy, that maybe Notre Dame made him artificially good but no he did have good games just not dominant games and so on and so on.
I think he handled himself pretty well in spite of all that.
Unless he later had a melt down that I hadn’t yet read about … If that 's the case … I’ll get back to you.
I was wondering where Shodan’s comments came from as well. The kid has been in the spotlight at Notre Dame for a while now and I have never heard of acting like a prima donna or anything else Shodan alluded to. I think he has handled himself very well - unless I have missed something.
I’d have been fine for trading for multiple picks BUT the Lions haven’t had a good track record of using any picks they’ve ever stockpiled. Their hits in the late first-early second rounds are almost nil. Kitna got sacked a shit ton, for a very large reason, because there was virtually no ground game.
Besides, the problem isn’t the offense, it’s the defense. So why is Calvin Johnson such a good pick? Because he was the best on the board at the time and there’s nobody defensively that warranted the number two pick. Look at how the draft panned out. The top 10 was heavily skewed towards offense. If there was a Julius Peppers type of player to take at 2, the Lions would have certainly grabbed him. Gaines Adams is a good pass rusher, but he’s dreadful against the run.
For the offseason, the Lions have quietly revamped their offensive line. They HAVE addressed that need. Because of injuries last year, they played a lot of defensive players that wouldn’t have normally had as much burn. The Lions found out that with Dewayne White (free agent from Tampa Bay, a Marinelli guy), Cory Redding, Shaun Rogers, Jered DeVries, and Shaun Cody, the Lions front line is a very good and young unit. Then again, the problems with the defense have never been with the defensive line. My problem with the Lions is that they didn’t address the secondary as much as I thought they would. I thought they’d overpay a little bit for Nick Harper and draft a cornerback a little earlier. Instead we got Travis Fisher, who may end up being a solid corner.
The Lions know they’re not one player away from a Super Bowl. They’re year two under a new head coach. There will be improvement. Print this out and email it to me every day when the Lions have the first overall pick next year. Let’s give them another week before we start blasting the Lions roster, shall we? The Monday after the draft is always a busy time when it comes to free agents.
Thanks for Welker, btw.