Dee Ford would be great if he hits the market. I agree the Lions look desperate here, but looking at this, I don't see a great alternative. Do we really want to be locked into reaching on Davenport, Hubbard, or Landry in the 1st round, becaise that's the only other way I see that realistically going down if we let Ansah go.
Key has pretty brutal question marks around whether he loves football and his exceptional inconsistency. I'm not sa fan at all. He has a decent speed rush, but from what I've seen he gets controlled pretty easily by OTs in run support and totally lacks power for any kind of bull rush.
Best True Passer Rating (factors out drops, etc)1. Alex Smith: 113.62. Drew Brees: 110.52. Carson Wentz: 110.54. Tom Brady: 108.65. Jared Goff: 106.86. Russell Wilson: 106.77. Deshaun Watson: 106.58. Aaron Rodgers: 105.59. Matthew Stafford: 105.010. Philip Rivers: 104.9 pic.twitter.com/XLyjuMx1rv— PlayerProfiler (@rotounderworld) March 2, 2018 Not saying Alex is great, but where's Kirk Cousins on the list? I thought his receivers were to blame with all of the dropped balls..... Highest average WR yards of separation at target: 1. Ted Ginn: 2.272. Jamison Crowder: 2.073. Tyrell Williams: 2.043. Tyreek Hill: 2.045. Randall Cobb: 2.03 6. DeSean Jackson: 2.027. Doug Baldwin: 1.948. Tyler Lockett: 1.899. Robby Anderson: 1.8810. Golden Tate: 1.86 pic.twitter.com/vwjtRqVDii— PlayerProfiler (@rotounderworld) March 1, 2018 Crowder #2 in separation, but Kirk wouldn't give him any looks for most of the year.... Most CB pass break-ups per target: 1. Casey Hayward: 0.2232. Bashaud Breeland: 0.2163. AJ Bouye: 0.1864. Ken Crawley: 0.1805. Bradley Roby: 0.1726. Marcus Peters: 0.1727. Robert Alford: 0.171 8. Patrick Peterson: 0.1719. Shaquille Griffin: 0.17110. Jalen Ramsey: 0.168 pic.twitter.com/aGQeaoBo2L— PlayerProfiler (@rotounderworld) February 27, 2018 No Norman.....
Snaps under center this year Darnold 41 (4.2%)Rosen 254 (33.6%)Mayfield 43 (4.8%)Allen 211 (35.2%)Jackson 72 (8.4%) Falk 0 (0%)— Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) March 3, 2018
My QB rankings of the big five are something like: 1. Sam Darnold 2. Lamar Jackson 3. Josh Rosen 4. Baker Mayfield -DROP OFF- 5. Josh Allen
I actually always agree with you about Kirk. But someone pointed this out to me. Correct me if I missed the context. But he targeted crowder more than any other reciever, by far.
Yeah, but that's mostly after Chris Thompson's injury in the NO game. If he's been targeted and not making reception, and we've established Crowder didn't drop hardly any balls, we are looking at mainly inaccurate throws to him, especially since he had a lot of separation on his routes (so we can't say he was blanketed by the defender).
Finally, a very good Cousins article. I don't agree with all of it, but I agree with most of it. https://thesportscapitol.com/2018/03/12/opinion-be-thankful-for-the-end-of-the-you-like-that-era/
What kind of analysis is this? In both plays show for each QB, Case was under pressure and playing in the playoffs. On the second play, the CB was sitting on the route. Even if he threw it early, the CB would break on the ball. For Kirk, he had a perfect pocket on both plays and attacked the weakest links on the Vikings defense.
Vikings win this offseason. Richardson and Cousins make this team even better than it was, and at this point I just don't see the Lions able to compete this year.
Too early to tell. Training camp and preseason injuries are gonna turn the league on it's head again, watch.
The Cardinals are to quarterbacks what the Ravens are to receiving options. Their fan base is so thirsty that they are bombarding Eric Ebron with messages for him to come to Baltimore.
I know you would rather have Keenum, but I just don't see him having the kind of year he had last year. It feels fluky, and it feels like he just had the best year of his career where everything played out right and he rode the momentum. Kind of like that one year Fitzpatrick had with the Jets. Credit to Case; he had a great year, but give me Kirk. I know who Kirk is; he's a 12th-18th best QB in the league. With Case, it's a mystery box; he could be great, or he could regress to the guy he's been for the rest of his career. I know you and @Mengão86 aren't big Kirk guys, but I think it's an upgrade.
I see the logic with comparing keenum to fitz but I can't go that far. I can't wait to watch Keenum with denver , I have a feeling he will kill it. We should be having mengo back on at 830 this week , just waiting for giff to confirm. We will probably end up talking about Kirk. I'm glad you are trying to talk me into Kirk because I am persuadable. That Sheldon Richardson signing made that kirk pill go down a lot easier. You starting to panic? a few of our lions subs are saying i'm being over dramatic , some agree with me. I thought we'd see something out of the box now , this shit is same ol, same ol.
I'm not panicked but I'm disappointed and underwhelmed. You don't build a team with free agency alone; drafts are still important, but the fact we seem to be moving forward into the draft having spent our money on marginal players, Blount, and the Ansah tag and still have a number of holes on this roster is not the way I thought this would go. There seems to be very little urgency with this organization to win now. Stellar draft that addresses holes and this could still be solid, and after a number of okay Quinn drafts I hated but ended up alright I believe in Quinn as a drafter a bit, but i'm very much left scratching my head asking myself what the blueprint is supposed to be. Am I supposed to believe Spence is a starting DT in this league? Am I suposed to be okay with seemingly locking in a DT, a RB, and a LG in the draft no matter who's on the board? That seems like pretty terrible process to me. The one thing I can say is getting no one is better than an egregious overpay. If Quinn was going around trying to get big targets and no one bit because no one wanted to come to Detroit, then that is what that is unfortunately.
Guice has no shortage of first round interest at this point in the process, and another team will also take him out to dinner and sit down with him privately right before his pro day: Washington Redskins' president Bruce Allen.— Jon Ledyard (@LedyardNFLDraft) March 26, 2018 @Catracho_Azul ready to get your burgundy and gold Guice jersey?
I really like Guice for the Lions, but I am very willing to sacrifice him to the Redskins in order to take down a competitor for Vea.