eastside313
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70 million in dead money. Goff ain’t going nowhere
Official 2025-2026 Detroit Lions Thread.
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Their coach is brainwashing them into thinking practicing from spring camp on in full pads likes it’s 1985 is a sign of being tough when it’s just being a dumbass when the goal is to play 20+ games in a year
Rayzah
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Which is it
People not practing enough is causing injuries or practicing too much is causing injuries
Just seem like no matter what you do these dudes can’t stay healthy
I'm not sure what the answer is. I do think you need a certain level of physicality in practice to toughen your body for live games. I also think barely playing in preseason and basically going 0-100 in week one is not a good idea.
What I don't understand is the injuries wreck the defensive side of the ball disproportionately compared to the offense (though the o-line has been crushed). Besides LaPorta, the skill position guys have generally been healthy the past few years. Some games missed here and there but nothing crazy.
Defensively though, entire units get wiped out by injuries.
Piff Perkins
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Chiefs practice just as hard, won multiple chips and lost a couple SBs within a decade. It’s not the training, it’s football. You’re gonna have injuries. I’m stunned we got fukked twice in a row but don’t see a solution beyond not drafting injured players. Most of the guys injured this year didn’t have injury histories (Arnold, Reed, Branch, Kerby, etc).
One possible thing: we ask guys to do too much. They had Mahogany last week pulling to the opposite side to throw a block. Knowing he was coming off a broken bone and could barely move laterally. To me that’s coaching and a refusal to change game calls around personnel. Ben Johnson used to do shyt like that too, asking Glasgow or Decker to execute blocks they couldn’t make on the second level.
If I’m Branch I’m getting out of here ASAP. I wouldn’t trust this coaching staff to ease me back. We got Alim out there playing way too many snaps. Same with Hutch. Coming off massive injuries.
djthegreat88
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This last place schedule next year would be nice
djthegreat88
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This spin move was nasty
Piff Perkins
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The void years on Goff's deal mean there's no way he has a 70mil cap hit next season. It'll be 30-35mil. Kicking the can down the road at the perfect time (new league TV deal coming). After we roll over this year's remaining cap (20mil) and restructure Goff we'll easily have 50mil in cap space. Possibly more with other restructures and cuts. This assumes Ragnow stays retired. If he tries to come back again that's an 11mil cap hit.
Legit OC hire, good draft with no bullshyt developmental reaches, signing some actual impact players, and we'll be back. I hope we get a complete shytcanning of the AG/Shep defensive scheme but that's unlikely. You can't contain good QBs in the modern era, you have to go after them. And if you give up some rushing yards so be it.
Legit OC hire, good draft with no bullshyt developmental reaches, signing some actual impact players, and we'll be back. I hope we get a complete shytcanning of the AG/Shep defensive scheme but that's unlikely. You can't contain good QBs in the modern era, you have to go after them. And if you give up some rushing yards so be it.
I agree with all of this and I want to see Holmes show a sense of urgency this offseason.
Piff Perkins
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There has to be. Laporta might not be ready for the start of the season depending on what type of back surgery he had. Branch won’t be ready and we don’t have much info on Kerby (although a national NFL source said the injury isn’t career threatening). We just saw what happens when you wait for injured guys to come back (Alim, Hutch, Rodrigo, etc). Doing that again would be insane.
Said it on Thursday and will again: if your culture is so fragile it can’t handle bringing in different personalities and players then you don’t have a good culture. We’re not the only team that works hard. A lot of noteworthy free agents fit us. Go get some.
djthegreat88
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Pretty weak year at top of draft. Not big differences between top 20 picks. Decent depth at Tackle and DE.
Se need to just rest our starters next week. No point getting anyone else important injured going into offseason. Hope Dal, TB, Mia get wins so we can move up just a bit
Se need to just rest our starters next week. No point getting anyone else important injured going into offseason. Hope Dal, TB, Mia get wins so we can move up just a bit
Joseph and McNeil will NEVER live up to those contracts and Jamo is iffy too considering our best player (Gibbs), most important to Goff (Laporta) and best defender (Jack) aren’t signed. Brad better figure it out quick
djthegreat88
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They can get out of Kerby deals next year easily and Alim in 2027.
Laporta has to come back healthy before i even think of an extension. Campbell needs to get paid. Best lb in football this year. Lions should let Gibbs play out his contract and franchise him a few times. RBs fall off quickly in NFL and long term contracts for them rarely work out
Gibbs is about to complete 3 seasons nearly injury free.
He has the cleanest injury report of any RB I can think of. Compare that to his “peer” Achane in Miami. Gibbs is the ultimate exception at the position. CMC is now beginning to slightly decline at age 29. Jahmyr is 23, so he’s someone that can be counted on years to come. We can save that tag for someone like Branch provided he returns to form
