Who should replace Mayhew? Lewand??

[zyxt9]

I want Mayhew here...

I'd actually prefer the team change ownership and move to London.

 

[LKP]

Do you pay Calvin $24 million dollars next year on a team in full rebuild, Martin?

The team is not in full rebuild. They are still a Super Bowl contender. Lions have a ton of cap space too.

 

[cheeno]

The team is not in full rebuild. They are still a Super Bowl contender. Lions have a ton of cap space too.

Yeah just ask Jim Caldwell. Gotta focus on the playoffs.

 

[dubbsco]

"Obviously, we need to win more football games and that's where the primary focus is. But when you have a franchise quarterback like Matthew Stafford, you keep that guy. If we had 22 Matthew Staffords, we'd win a championship every single year. The same thing with Calvin Johnson. Both of those guys are very important to what we're doing as a franchise. Great people off the field, great teammates, and both those guys have Hall of Fame potential. So to say we should move those guys doesn't make a whole lot of sense."

Says all you need to know about this guy. Stafford might be asked to clean the toilets at the Hall of Fame, but he sure as hell won't be giving any speeches. I'm sick and tired of hearing this. How about demanding more from your team? Glad we got a chance to hear Martin speak, he's going to head back into the Fallout shelter and maybe he'll talk again next year.

 

[zyxt9]

Yeah, just imagine how great the Lions would be with no salary cap and ability to put 22 guys on the field making $20M/year. That would mean All-Pro talent at every position. No one, not even BellyCheat could beat that team.

Snap...back to reality...

 

[grandy]

Only 22 times a couple of players would win championships? I guess that's what happens when entire draft classes disappear on you

 

[zyxt9]

grandy...was it cheeno who said everytime he sees that pic he wants to punch his computer? lol, I think I've reached the same point. damn it man, I'm almost willing to put whiteout on my screen to cover that shit up! rofl

 

[grandy]

grandy...was it cheeno who said everytime he sees that pic he wants to punch his computer? lol, I think I've reached the same point. damn it man, I'm almost willing to put whiteout on my screen to cover that shit up! rofl

Stafford has too many amazing photos like this. There are dozens I could put up, an amount even higher than the number of Stafford road losses to good teams.

 

[cheeno]

"Obviously, we need to win more football games and that's where the primary focus is. But when you have a franchise quarterback like Matthew Stafford, you keep that guy. If we had 22 Matthew Staffords, we'd win a championship every single year. The same thing with Calvin Johnson. Both of those guys are very important to what we're doing as a franchise. Great people off the field, great teammates, and both those guys have Hall of Fame potential. So to say we should move those guys doesn't make a whole lot of sense."

Says all you need to know about this guy. Stafford might be asked to clean the toilets at the Hall of Fame, but he sure as hell won't be giving any speeches. I'm sick and tired of hearing this. How about demanding more from your team? Glad we got a chance to hear Martin speak, he's going to head back into the Fallout shelter and maybe he'll talk again next year.

For those of you that play fantasy football, there may be that one guy in your league that irrationally falls in love with a couple players, drafts them every year and never would even think of trading them except for some rediculously lopsided deal that anyone would just laugh at. Yeah sure he ends up losing year in and year out, but Mike Wallace won him the fantasy championship back in 2007 Damnit! That's Mayhew.

 

[dubbsco]

Found these on mlive:

http://sportswire.usatoday.com/2014...-49ers-tennessee-titans-new-england-patriots/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/prishe/...st-nfl-teams-in-drafting-collegiate-talent/3/

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draf...iders-teams-worst-track-records-nfl-draft-nfl

 

[cheeno]

Mayhew:

wouldn't it be awesome if you were like the General Manager the Monstars from that movie Space Jam? Think about it we could clone all the good players.

Reporter:

Mayhew:

Yeah! Me and Millen used to get high and talk about this all the time. Remember when we drafted Jordon Dizon? So high.

 

[grandy]

Youtube scouting is a viable strategy, unfortunately the Lions are just so damn unlucky.

 

[cheeno]

Youtube scouting is a viable strategy, unfortunately the Lions are just so damn unlucky.

Who needs a database? A bunch of crumpled yellow post it notes works just as well. But damn our luck.

 

[grandy]

Who needs a database? A bunch of crumpled yellow post it notes works just as well. But damn our luck.

I don't know, the Lions haven't lost any draft classes since Xanders came in, I'd say that's progress.

 

[zyxt9]

I don't know, the Lions haven't lost any draft classes since Xanders came in, I'd say that's progress.

They need just a little more time. They're still under their rookie contracts for the most part, so once they see light at the end of the tunnel they will sprint for it.

 

[inkfreq]

Who needs a database? A bunch of crumpled yellow post it notes works just as well. But damn our luck.

I was amazed to find out that a friend of mine, in New Mexico, is bidding to build and engineer a draft profile database for the K.C. Chiefs. Don't know if he will get the contract, but apparently the Chiefs still have no such database and are looking to go that route.

I have to wonder how many NFL teams are still living on the post-it notes and 3-ring binders approach rather than being digital.

 

[dubbsco]

I think when it comes to drafting and your team strategy, it's not a horrible idea to keep things locked up on paper. You never know who's going to hack that stuff.

 

[zyxt9]

I think when it comes to drafting and your team strategy, it's not a horrible idea to keep things locked up on paper. You never know who's going to hack that stuff.

You could easily put it on an intranet that is completely isolated.

 

[cheeno]

I was amazed to find out that a friend of mine, in New Mexico, is bidding to build and engineer a draft profile database for the K.C. Chiefs. Don't know if he will get the contract, but apparently the Chiefs still have no such database and are looking to go that route.

I have to wonder how many NFL teams are still living on the post-it notes and 3-ring binders approach rather than being digital.

Honestly that is amazing to me. I have to think it's because most of the scouts are old guys who just learned how to email. When you are evaluating potentially 1000s of players and you have to flip through a bunch of color coded binders? Well no wonder some amazing players slip through the draft.

 

[inkfreq]

Honestly that is amazing to me. I have to think it's because most of the scouts are old guys who just learned how to email. When you are evaluating potentially 1000s of players and you have to flip through a bunch of color coded binders? Well no wonder some amazing players slip through the draft.

That was EXACTLY what I thought when he told me about it. No wonder so many good players end up falling or going undrafted. There's no digital organization to all the data.

And then I started thinking about what I do at work, and how often I have to deal with the people praying to the Mayan gods. That is what I call it when someone says "Oh, we can only upload reports from this computer". Why? "Well, that's just the way it's always been done".

I equate them to primitive people, praying to the Mayan Gods, hoping to appease them by tossing another virgin in the volcano. No one knows why reports only get uploaded from one specific computer. There is no valid reason that they only get uploaded from one specific computer. Every other computer is completely capable of uploading mid-month reports to our central servers.

But every month, they gather round, push the button and begin to pray and chant in unison to the little Mayan Gods, hoping that one antique special computer that still has a 5 1/4" floppy drive slot never dies, or they won't ever be able to upload their reports again. Save us oh little Mayan Gods, let us toss a young virgin in the volcano so that you may save us from the hard drive crash.

... and I am betting that is a LOT of NFL scouts. No databases. No spreadsheets. Three ring binders, hand written notes, and orange highlighters. Why? Because that is the way it's always been done.