Official 2023-2024 Detroit Lions Thread.
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Piff Perkins
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I'd love to hear Holmes' take on this. Personally I have no issue with trading up a few spots to get your guy if that place is established. Most great GMs have done that. We just saw Howie Roseman trade up for Jihaad Campbell for instance. Lions wise, we traded up a few spots for Brian Branch a couple years ago. Undeniably a good move. And I think we'll look at the Terrion Arnold and Tate Ratledge trade ups similarly in a couple years. But trading up significantly for project players, or development players...just feels like a waste of resources. Also seems like teams can basically punk you into making bad picks this way, by convincing you that they're going to overdraft a player so you overdraft them first.
I like TeSlaa, like I said earlier. And I'll let the guy who scouted Cooper Kupp and St Brown call his shot. But personally I would have just stayed at 102, and traded back if he got drafted. The Stanford receiver didn't get drafted until the 130s, and we know the Lions liked him. Trading back 10-12 spots, getting another 5th or 6th round pick, and then drafting Elic Ayomanor would have made perfect sense.
Piff Perkins
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Gotta be the Bears or Commanders right.
djthegreat88
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Why would they have Lions play on Thanksgiving and Christmas? Thats messed up
I mean much of it is the divisions the NFC North faces. The NFC East and AFC North as well as their own teams twice.
Piff Perkins
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Tough schedule but it's interesting how much rest we're going to have compared to last year. We'll be playing multiple teams coming off Monday night games.
I feel good about the first two games. Starting 2-0 is gonna be key because Baltimore is no joke, especially without Alim in the middle. Honestly that's my biggest concern in general. Alim prob not coming back until early November. Right in time for a push to the playoffs but this team has to stack Ws before then.
I feel good about the first two games. Starting 2-0 is gonna be key because Baltimore is no joke, especially without Alim in the middle. Honestly that's my biggest concern in general. Alim prob not coming back until early November. Right in time for a push to the playoffs but this team has to stack Ws before then.
Piff Perkins
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We byke.
I'm imagining Tyeik Williams/Levi/Wingo/Reader running stunts on the interior, freeing up Hutch while we await Alim. People forget but teams couldn't double team Hutch in those first 4-5 games because Alim or Reader were constantly getting doubled instead.
I really liked what I saw from Wingo early too. He was creating havoc in his limited snaps.
Dem313wayz
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Damn Frank Ragnow retired 
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He hit the megatron dance 