We both waited until the final minute lol! We'll use yours!
Makes no difference to me. Whichever one gets the most traffic wins, I guess.
Who the Lions going to take with the 34th pick?
another running back lol
I'm actually hoping for one with the 152nd pick, Keaton Mitchell!
I think either Keeanu Benton or Darnell Washington. Maybe Avila. So it will probably be someone else...
Not overly impressed with what the Lions did yesterday. Even though it seemed like the guys that made sense went right before their picks, they still made me scratch my head.
Either way, Round 2 is off and running.
I didn't see it coming, but it didn't take long for me to appreciate what each can mean for the team. Both should see major minutes and be impact players.
I agree,
Tight End? is it the SOL ?
Alrighty then….
LaPorta is a really good TE. After Michael Mayer was the best TE in the draft and one of the best TEs in the country last year.
Isn't Michael Mayer still available...Guess he wasn't the best with the Lions.
I think people are overthinking Mayer at this point. He should have been drafted but he isn't. But going into the staff LaPorta was the clear #2 and maybe there's an injury thing or something off the field with Mayer?
My point is that LaPorta is a very good TE and will be a good addition to the team.
Sam LaPorta??
Brad you playing with us now...
not a fan of this pick either.
I love the energy that Dan Campbell has brought to the Lions, but picking 2 players from Iowa out of 3 picks in the first 34 is a sore test of my optimism.
I was waiting for Hendon Hooker’s name to be called.
I think everyone was expecting a barrage of Defensive players and so far just one.
Not thrilled with some choices this year but the refusal to reach and gamble the franchise on a QB that isn't up to it remains a strength of the personnel management. IMO.
April 29th, 2023 at 10:21 AM ^
Goff was a good QB last year, not elite, but the offense worked pretty well under him. He’s only 28, is affordable, and will be a good person for Hendon to watch for a couple of years. Getting Hooker as a flyer was a good move on the Lion’s part. When I watched him last year, he was making all the throws and he’ll have plenty of time to bring the ACL along. Time will tell on the rest of their picks, but I have no problem on grabbing a developmental QB project with some upside at spot #68. The only downside I see with Hooker is the fact that he’s already 25 years old, but who knows, maybe having some maturity will make a big difference.
Wtf? 3 picks, and no DBs?? I don’t even…what!?!?
Hopefully they get DJ turner. If they drafted Gibbs based on his 40 time, then they should be happy with Turner
DJ! I'm just hoping Brad likes him as much as we do...
Probably because they signed a bunch.
Do any of you actually follow the Lions?
I’m convinced, they’re just fucking trolling us now.
Apparently the Lions are going to try to win by blowing out the scoreboard lights. First team to 55 wins, I guess.
I think the Lions GM is a little bit of those over thinker types. Smartest guy in the room kind of thing. LaPorta was an average college guy. Now a top 34 player? Well, there was always last year.
Lol what LaPorta was WAY above average.
Not surprised they took a TE in round 2, though I would have expected a DT or OL with the first of the picks.
Tight end that can run but limited as a receiver. Is an okay but not consistent blocker. Has limited strength.
Hus advanced stats are average. I’m not hating but he isn’t above average in anything but straight line speed.
Well, this wrong. His RAS is above average in everything but weight and strength. Not limited as a receiver as he showed at Iowa.
LaPorta was a really good tight end on a TERRIBLE offense.
Average? He was the best TE in the conference.
LaPorta ova Mayer,
Bold move, Cotton. Bold move.
Lions may average 40 ppg, and they’re going to need to
I guess our defense will just suck again this year.
I really have NO idea what they are doing. Gaping holes on the DL so with the 6th, 18th and 34th pick in the draft they trade back to secure a gadget, 3rd down RB, a MLB and a TE?
Poor Dan Campbell.
I think this is a total team effort
Gaping holes? Lions have good starters at RDE, DT, and LDE. They do need more help at DT.
I am convinced the negative commentators on here don’t actually watch the Lions.
It is Friday night. We're all probably letting our adult beverages flavor our posts. Might as well turn it into a drinking thread, lol
So the Lions have a personal vendetta against Iowa for taking McNamara and All from the state of Michigan, and have decided to make their players suffer in Detroit in return.
That’s the best I can come up with.
Maybe this is part of the 4 way trade that we didnt know the Lions were part of
QB/TE combo
UM>Iowa
Indiana>UM
Iowa>Lions
Im not sure what QB Iowa can throw at them to seal the deal on this 4-way. Also Indiana cant be liking this.
It may work out, but I don’t see how anyone can be enthusiastic about this draft. The Lions are demonstrating exactly what you don’t want to do with positional value. It’s not a question of player quality. It’s a question of poor resource management.
I agree to an extent in terms of getting guys for spots but I also assume this staff knows what it needs more than fans and which players they rate at certain levels. Getting a defensive lineman you aren't crazy about because you need a body there isn't always better than getting a guy you're high on now. They traded Hock this year and so getting LaPorts fills a hole and who knows, next year's draft maybe they go defense heavy early.
I don't love this draft but I also find in-the-moment analysis of a draft class when they haven't played a down yet not particularly helpful. You look back at a lot of past drafts and some highly regarded classes do well and other fail, and others derided in the beginning turn out to be great. We'll see about this one but I'm more a fan of best available player than pure positional need. It's great when the two match but it doesn't always.
Assuming that this Lions staff - or ANY Lions staff of the past 50 years - “knows more than the fans” has been a one-way ticket to misery.
I think fans generally don't know very much. The Lions have been bad for a multitude of reasons but so have been a lot of teams until they weren't. The Patriots entire franchise changed because they lucked into the greatest QB in history in the 6th round. Since Brady left their drafts have been, at least to the NE fans I know, pretty underwhelming and their FA work mediocre. They've now got a first-round QB who was probably overdrafted and they don't trust him to throw the ball or surround him with good receivers. Brady overcame them constantly leaving him with 5'9" receivers by being freakishly accurate and, in the latter years, having one of the 5 best TEs in league history fall to them in the 2nd round.
Obviously I don't think the Lions will be the Pats or that Gibbs or LaPorta will be HOF players. But at some point SOL just becomes BPONE for NFL guys and it's obnoxious. Maybe this draft submarines Detroit for another 2 decades. Or maybe they have a plan and good vibes for the first time in a decade and are going to see if it works. I'm inclined to give them at least a chance.
Positional value is not something that is not a universally tested standard. Some GMs ascribe to it, some laugh it off. The positions that were considered deep in this class were CB, TE and DL. Lions got the second best RB, best or second best LB, second or third best TE, what most considered to be the best S and then a Qb (who some wanted the Lions to take in the first) and a DT with a massive ceiling. They can still get a CB but it’s not as high of a priority since they got two solid ones in FA. Massive drop offs or scarcity after Gibbs and Campbell at their positions.
if the players end up good, nobody will care where they were drafted. And based off the previous two drafts, it seems like the Lions front office knows what they are doing.
Can’t go wrong with a tight end from Iowa. Unless you’re Brian Ferentz…
Well that LaPorta pick will look real awful in the future if Mayer becomes an All-Pro TE.
You mean “when”.