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Mortensen reporting Suh to Dolphins

The more I think on it the more I understand how our two clowns bungled this... It really sucks another team will get Suh in his PRIME YEARS!!!!

Only the lions :/
 
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We knew three years ago this was coming. People on this board said it over and over.. you can't have THREE guys with huge contracts on one team.

We signed Staff. We signed Calvin. And we KNEW Suh was leaving. It was inevitable.

All I've heard from the nancies on this board is how we need the cap space. They'd rather have three good players than one great one. The team would be stupid to offer Suh what he's asking for.

Now that Suh leaves? What a clusterfuck front office. Mismanagement. Complete mess.

It doesn't matter how much the front office bungled it. We could never afford what Suh wanted, and what Miami was willing to pay the man. This year or the year after, he was out the door, and we were never going to be legit players in that market.

And we all KNEW IT two years ago.
 
We knew three years ago this was coming. People on this board said it over and over.. you can't have THREE guys with huge contracts on one team.

We signed Staff. We signed Calvin. And we KNEW Suh was leaving. It was inevitable.

All I've heard from the nancies on this board is how we need the cap space. They'd rather have three good players than one great one. The team would be stupid to offer Suh what he's asking for.

Now that Suh leaves? What a clusterfuck front office. Mismanagement. Complete mess.

It doesn't matter how much the front office bungled it. We could never afford what Suh wanted, and what Miami was willing to pay the man. This year or the year after, he was out the door, and we were never going to be legit players in that market.

And we all KNEW IT two years ago.

If you all knew it...then why was i the one being called negative. Isnt that proof that i was just being right? When the truth is negative....yes then being a realist would make me viewed in a negative light.

And yes....3 mega restructured ontop of three of the worst rookie contracts ever...is stupid. But these dumbfucks kept an aging wr thats injured more and more frequently and a shitty kyle ortonesque qb making peyton manning money over the best dt in football in his prime. That is the stupidest shit ever. Mayhew continues to reward and overpay class acts like kvb burleson stafford tulloch....he paid all of them too much money when they could no longer play the position. This dumbass is simply not a good gm....
 
If you all knew it...then why was i the one being called negative. Isnt that proof that i was just being right? When the truth is negative....yes then being a realist would make me viewed in a negative light.

And yes....3 mega restructured ontop of three of the worst rookie contracts ever...is stupid. But these dumbfucks kept an aging wr thats injured more and more frequently and a shitty kyle ortonesque qb making peyton manning money over the best dt in football in his prime. That is the stupidest shit ever. Mayhew continues to reward and overpay class acts like kvb burleson stafford tulloch....he paid all of them too much money when they could no longer play the position. This dumbass is simply not a good gm....

11-5 and 2015 didn't happen yet. Shhhhhh hughes. Shhhhh

We offered 17 per. We could have paid him. We made him a huge offer. Suh just wants to be way way way overpaid and a nicer city. Good to luck to him. See you in 2018 if you don't get suspended for stomping Brady by then.
 
11-5 regular season and losing a playoff game is a failed season. We going to tell our kids in 10 years, "Hey, I know we haven't won a playoff game yet, but we did win 11 regular season games in 2014 against some pretty shitty teams?"
 
11-5 regular season and losing a playoff game is a failed season. We going to tell our kids in 10 years, "Hey, I know we haven't won a playoff game yet, but we did win 11 regular season games in 2014 against some pretty shitty teams?"

I've always been amazed in sports that a 7-9 season is a "losing season" but an 8-8 season is a "winning season".

8-8 isn't "winning". It's breaking even. You lost exactly as many games as you won.

That having been said, only in Detroit could an 11-5 season be viewed as a "failed season" when the rest of the world calls 8-8 a "winning season".

We have got to be the only fan base ever that expects our team to lose every year, and demands they lost anyway, even when they won. Except for LKP, who demands we won games we actually lost.
 
11-5 regular season and losing a playoff game is a failed season. We going to tell our kids in 10 years, "Hey, I know we haven't won a playoff game yet, but we did win 11 regular season games in 2014 against some pretty shitty teams?"

I'll tell my kids how much the refs screwed us from winning a Super Bowl.
 
I'm not even that impressed with 11-5. As always, you can't just look at the number of wins and losses. Beating GB in Detroit was probably the most notable win for the Lions, every other win was against teams they arguably should've beaten, that's not impressive, that should be expected.

Of course queue the excuses for why they lost important games, even though they won games they shouldn't have because of opponent coaching blunders.

11-5 is a step in the right direction, but hardly impressive.
 
I've always been amazed in sports that a 7-9 season is a "losing season" but an 8-8 season is a "winning season".

8-8 isn't "winning". It's breaking even. You lost exactly as many games as you won.

That having been said, only in Detroit could an 11-5 season be viewed as a "failed season" when the rest of the world calls 8-8 a "winning season".

We have got to be the only fan base ever that expects our team to lose every year, and demands they lost anyway, even when they won. Except for LKP, who demands we won games we actually lost.

True wins are what's important.

As an aside, I've tried applying this logic to my work hours. I pointed out to TPTB at work that even though I was only there for 19 actual hours last week, my true hours were 40. A variety of factors play into this equation: my fellow employee's failure to work efficiently (we call it the drop rate where I work, ours is like 20% higher than most places), lack of solid play up front (our reception area could really use an upgrade), and lack of a good running game. (horrible couriers, always messing things up.) My boss really seemed to understand what I was saying.

EDIT: Are there any job openings where you guys work?
 
I'm not even that impressed with 11-5. As always, you can't just look at the number of wins and losses. Beating GB in Detroit was probably the most notable win for the Lions, every other win was against teams they arguably should've beaten, that's not impressive, that should be expected.

Of course queue the excuses for why they lost important games, even though they won games they shouldn't have because of opponent coaching blunders.

11-5 is a step in the right direction, but hardly impressive.

Add to that we had a chance to prove we weren't the same old Lions and win the division in one make it or break it game. A true litmus test of progress and we end up losing by double digits.
 
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True wins are what's important.

As an aside, I've tried applying this logic to my work hours. I pointed out to TPTB at work that even though I was only there for 19 actual hours last week, my true hours were 40. A variety of factors play into this equation: my fellow employee's failure to work efficiently (we call it the drop rate where I work, ours is like 20% higher than most places), lack of solid play up front (our reception area could really use an upgrade), and lack of a good running game. (horrible couriers, always messing things up.) My boss really seemed to understand what I was saying.

EDIT: Are there any job openings where you guys work?

I apply this logic to the number of supermodels I have slept with. Same kind of thing.

The fattie in the 10th grade? She was screwed by genetics, her parents were ugly as sin and overfed the hell out of her. Had nature been on the up and up, she would have been born to amazingly good looking rich people that put her with a nutritionist from birth.

So the fat ugly girl was a true hottie.

That girl I picked up at the Spaghetti Bender in Ann Arbor in '91 during the Wings v. Blues playoff game? She looked damned good until I sobered up. The alcohol screwed me that night. Drinking at a bar is not my fault, so had I been sober, I would have obviously picked up a supermodel.

The Beer Goggles girl? True hottie.

That stripper I banged in Pheonix in 2004? I was so busy staring at her amazing breasts, I failed to notice she had a grill like a shed full of rusty garden tools. More busted up crooked nasty teeth than a member of Wu-Tang Clan.

Had the lighting not been a distraction, and had her breasts not been absolutely perfect, I would have noticed the teeth. That's not an interception on me, that's a dropped pass.

Snagglepuss? True hottie.

All in all, I get my hands on more supermodel bumper than Tom Brady.
 
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I'll tell my kids how much the refs screwed us from winning a Super Bowl.

You will be the kind of parent that tells his kids that they should be starting, not sitting on the bench and blame the coach. You will tell them that it is the teacher's fault that they didn't get an A, not because they didn't study. You will tell them it is the university's fault that they didn't get in..not their own fault. You will raise a bunch of excuse making losers...a chip off of the old block!
 
You will be the kind of parent that tells his kids that they should be starting, not sitting on the bench and blame the coach. You will tell them that it is the teacher's fault that they didn't get an A, not because they didn't study. You will tell them it is the university's fault that they didn't get in..not their own fault. You will raise a bunch of excuse making losers...a chip off of the old block!

That''s really depressing. Let's all hope he doesn't breed.
 
I particularly like the $15,000 workout bonuses, as if they matter to him.
 
Guessing they might restructure CJ. 2017-2019 are mostly non-guaranteed, so they have room to work with on the back end if they want to commit to his remaining 5 seasons.

Several options, the main ones I see are

A. Stick to the current contract structure until the end

B. Stick to the current contract structure, cut him early and save a boatload of cap space

C. Restructure and put more guaranteed money on the books and stick with CJ until the end of the contract

D. Restructure and put more guaranteed money on the books, cut him early, and screw themselves on the cap for a year or two

A and C are worth it if he remains a top tier receiver, B is worth it if he shows a sharp decline. A and B carry less risk. Which means the Lions are probably going to choose D.
 
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