I woke up this morning to check the news and what do I find on NFL.com? 

http://www.profootballhof.com/history/2009/11/24/staffords-damaged-jersey-and-football-arrive-in-canton/

Staffords torn jersey from sunday's game, as well as the ball he threw for the 75 yard TD to calvin, are going to be on display in the pro football hall of fame. 

He broke positive records on sunday, something we are not used to in Detroit. We have broken several records in the past year or 2, but mostly for losing. 

This is just a great testament to how amazing that game was and also to how well he performed. I couldn't be more excited as I feel this is validation for us and shows that we could be in for something extraordinary in the future with this kid and Calvin. 

I didn't want Stafford before the season but, I can honestly say that Drew was right. This kid is an NFL QB and has shown what he is capable of. While he may not be perfect, he's my QB. 

(Plus for all those haters, hes now better on the books for the season when compared to Sanchez. Go compare their stats on NFL.com)

On nfl.com, they have posted a list of Pat Kirwan's most perplexing and fascinating moves of the draft. The lions popped up a couple times. Here is the link for the entire article :

http://www.nfl.com/draft/story?id=09000d5d81005679&template=without-video-with-comments&confirm=true

And here are the excerpts that apply to the lions : 

Round 2

The Lions take S Louis Delmas at the top of the second round. 
Delmas is a very good player who shined at the Senior Bowl against better competition than he saw at Western Michigan, butJames Laurinaitis and Rey Maualuga were still on the board. It fascinated me that he Lions passed on those players.

Round 7

The Lions draft LB Zack Follett out of California. 
I spent time talking with Follett this spring, and it took 10 seconds to realize this guy lives and breathes football. He left college with 245 tackles, 51 tackles for a loss and 23.5 sacks. He had more sacks than most of the premier pass rushers in the draft. I was perplexed he was still available in the seventh round.

Interesting comments about Follett. It seems like a lot of people are pretty high on this guy. The talk of Follett however, does remind me a lot of the discussions we had about Jordon Dizon after last years draft. If he is another Jordon Dizon, at least this time we got him in the 7th round instead of the 2nd.

i think if we can pick up duke robinson, terrence taylor, This jasper brinkley guy everyone keeps talking about, and one more CB, that yesterday starts to look a whole lot smarter. 

I would not be surprised at all to see us moving up into the 4th round to finish off what I am going to predict is an amazing day. I think we get 3 starters today, we got 3 starters yesterday... that's 6 starters...

A monster of a TE, a monster of a S, a QB that could be better than Cutler, and now possibly a OG that is maybe the best pure OG in the draft, a DT that can clog up the middle when grady has a heart attack, and a starting MLB (which right now is anyone since we don't have one)

I think after today we all look back and think they played their cards just about right. 

Especially if Louis Delmas is as good as everything I started reading about him yesterday...

I'm pumped..

Hey Everyone, 

I picked the Falcons to draft for in the Pride of Detroit mock this year. I am a primary Detroit Lions fan, but after living in Augusta for 5 years and attending Falcons games that entire time, they are my second love when it comes to the NFL. 

I see the greatest needs as being DT and OLB, would most of you agree? My problem is that there are several players I like and I can't decide which would be a stronger fit, so I thought I would try and get some help. Here are the players I am considering : 

1. Clay Matthews - He is still available but I have seen that several on here don't like him. I believe he is the best and most versatile OLB left, why do you not like him or was that just a minority? 

2. Ziggy Hood - He's a beast, I just can't decide if it is a reach and if DT is more of a need than OLB.

3. English and Sintim are both still available and I know that many on these boards like them. I still don't believe however, that they are better than Matthews. Do you like Sintim better than Matthews with both being available? I feel like we lucked out having Matthews fall to 24. 

Any advice would be great, thanks!

There has been so much talk lately about taking a TE that it makes me sick. We don't need to draft a TE anywhere before round 6 if at all. TE is not a big need. We picked up a TE in FA to block, that is good enough. The coach has already said he wants to run the ball and stop the run. That is why we keep talking about an OT/OG and D so much. 

A couple years ago our offense was ridiculous with Mike Martz and Kitna. There are several reasons why last year was so much worse. 

1. Our QB changed every other game. The lack of continuity really effected the WR's and made for extra penalties with the false start syndrome. 

2. Roy was having a lackluster season, as was Shaun McDonald and Mike Furrey. This was mostly due to the next 2 points. 

3. Our playbook was like a childrens coloring book with 4 pages. It was pathetic. I have never seen a worse set of plays, and since we only had about 7 of them, it wasn't hard to defend. 

Let's look at the reason for all of these failures, are you ready for this? This is the real reason our offense was so terrible last year.... 

Our COACHES were MORONS. That's right folks. Don't underestimate the value of a coaching staff that isn't completely ignorant. Our coaches last year all looked like a bunch of retarded monkeys. They didn't know how to call plays, they made horrible personnel decisions (George Foster, Rudi Johnson, No Drew Stanton, Etc.), and they just generally looked lost the entire season. 

Our offense has talent. With Gos starting full time and Kevin Smith improving, Bryant Johnson taking Roys place and allowing CJ to be the hands down #1, and A NEW OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR that was a head coach and has previous success running an offense, our offense can be middle of the road with no other improvements than those we already made in FA (although I would still like to add an OT or a G). 

That being said, think about this. Last year we had 0 head coaches on our team. Rod doesn't count because he didn't know what the hell he was doing. 

This year? We have 3. I consider Schwartz perfectly capable of being a Head Coach, Linehan was a Head Coach, and Cunningham was a Head Coach. We are LIGHT YEARS ahead of last year in this department. You can't say enough for the difference that coaching experience will have with this team. 

On a final note, our defense was terrible last year and cannot be so easily fixed. We have made good, solid moves in free agency, but we have a glaring hole at DT in my opinion. We HAVE to fix this hole to have any chance. This is why I have been such a supporter of Peria Jerry at #20 and Taylor in Rd. 3. We also need to address MLB, CB, maybe FS, as well as add another DE to the mix (although DE isn't as big a need as the others). Suffice it to say that our D is in dire need of major work to even hope of ranking above 30th in the NFL. 

Let's stop talking about WR and TE before I go crazy and start acting like FB on here. 

I was just looking at a new update on the scout.com mock and they have the lions taking Sanchez over Stafford.

They also had Denver trading their 2 first rounders to KC and moving up to take Stafford at #3. 

Other notes : Monroe #2, Smith #4, and Curry #5. 

So in other words, at least all of the players who the lions have interest in are in the Top5. That is better than most years. 

My real question is, not do YOU want this to happen, but do you think that there is any way the lions are trying to hide their real interest in Sanchez with all the Stafford talk and are really planning on taking Sanchez? 

I already know that a lot of you don't want Stafford and that a lot of you want Sanchez, or no QB at all, but I want to know what you think the LIONS are thinking. 

Anyone else see this being a surprise pick on draft day? I just don't think that is the case but Scout.com is fairly reputable. 

Any thoughts? 

http://profootball.scout.com/2/853317.html

I was just sitting around reading the daily news as I often do. Reading about Stafford, Cutler, and all of the other nonsense going on. 

Well let me first say, for those of you who haven't read anything I've said on here before, I have always been very much opposed to Stafford at any pick, and much in favor of anyone else. 

So anyways, I was sitting here, reading about cutler and how a lot of people were speculating that Detroit was the #1 in line for Cutler, and that it would involve the #1 pick more than likely. While I don't necessarily agree with that statement, that is not the point of me writing this. 

The point is, I was reading about the situation and I found myself getting very upset. I found myself actually thinking that it wasn't worth trading the #1 for Cutler when we could get Stafford #1 instead. He's got the same arm, hes not a know whiner, and he will have a few extra years for us. Then it hit me, with all the BS Mayhew has been spewing about Staffords amazing workout, I was pleading a case FOR Stafford #1 and getting upset that we might not take him.

And I don't even like the guy. 

Mayhew is amazing!

Let's try and look at this from a different angle. Who are currently the three worst starters in your opinions?

That will give us an indication of our largest areas of need.

Right now, I say that our 3 worst starters are :

1. Jordan Dizon, MLB (Although we haven't really seen him play)

2. Chuck Darby, DT (He just sucks)

3. Peterman, RG (Where is loper playing? He's taking mulitalo's spot right/?) I don't care if they re-signed peterman, he's a backup.

So in essence, I would want MLB, DT, RG, so Curry, Jerry, Unger.

Anyone else?

I just wanted to take a post off from all of the draft talk and say thanks to everyone who has been posting regularly on the site. We have had a lot of really good debates and discussions lately about the lions and even though we don't have a say in the draft, it sure is fun to talk about.

Those that i'm talking about, you know who you are. Thanks for keeping it interesting and never hostile. We have a great community here and it's nice to know that we'll all be around, even when we are 0-16 haha. What other team can say that? None, actually!