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Same OLD ......
John,
Thanks for your response!
In answer to your question concerning the 2009 draft; No I do not think they are looking pretty good.
They have only 1 win so far and Mathews stats are horrendous!
Brandon has had one good game, and the 3rd round WR is a bust!
Josh Freeman looks like a better pick at QB than Mathew, and we still have one of the worst defenses.
Maybe Brandon will work out well and Mathew will survive, the next couple of years, and become a good QB, but by that time we will need a WR because Calvin will be gone.
Sammie Hill and Delmas do look very good.
If they start winning, with Mathew as the QB, Brandon plays up to his billing, Delmas continues to produce, and Sammie continues to improve...........
Same OLD ......
In answer to your question, What wide receiver would I have kept, Dane Looker. I know that he is currently back at home finishing his deck, but he caught almost everything thrown his way. Another receiver I would have kept, until some one beat him out, is Mike Furry - this guy averages 10 yards per catch, and is a very reliable receiver (he is averaging 8 yards per catch with the inept Cleveland Browns).
The talent evaluators in Detroit are not getting the job done.
I don't know if it is the coaches and GM ignoring the scouts, or the scouts just aren't good enough, what ever the reason, for the past 10 years the Lions have continued to make bad decisions, whether it is, the draft free agency or trades, the Lions just can't find players to fill their needs.
Calvin Johnson is a great player, but so is Adrian Peterson, and at the time the Lions drafted Calvin (the best player available) we needed a running back far more than another receiver, and we still need a running back and the team has been unable to utilize Calvin "Because we are unable to establish the run".
When are the Lions going to improve the "Talent evaluation and acquisition process"?
Furrey wanted out even more than they wanted him gone at the end of last year, so that wasn't gonna happen. (Despite what Furrey says publicly.) i thought Looker had a chance to stick around, but in the interest of emphasizing youth and long-term thinking, keeping Williams and Figurs around made more sense.
But I think the '09 draft is looking pretty good, don't you?
Same OLD ......
John,
It is my opinion that the 2007 Lions were a better offensive team with less talent, than this year's offense, but this year's defense is better with about the same level of talent, this years special team is worse, and the head coach on this years team is far better.
So why aren't we winning?
It appears that the management of this team has failed!
They did not improve the offensive line, and they failed to keep adequate players at the skill positions until better players where acquired to replace them.
They cut several decent wide receivers, after training camp, and keep guys who should have been placed on the practice squad (Northcutt and Williams for instance).
The players they drafted in the first round are good, but not what Detroit needed, at this point in the building process.
It is like trying to build a gourmet kitchen on your lot before building the foundation!
(It gets in the way and you have to spend extra money on a crane to keep moving it out of the way and then to set it on the foundation after it is constructed!)
Jon played a good game considering it was his first time at that position, and the patch work line did a decent job keeping Mathew upright.
I hate to say this but they looked just like all the Lions teams we have seen over the past 9 years!
Maybe Schwartz can join Steve and Mike on the NFL channel, (his probable next job in 2012)!
Well, Northcutt's not a practice squad guy -- he's a veteran, and he's a better option at slot than Ronald Curry was. But which WRs are you referring to that they should've kept after training camp?
Good analogy with the crane, but I'd argue the timeline of the building process matters less than the bottom line, which is to draft the best player available, and I know that was the thinking with this last draft. Sure, they needed help on OL and DL and DB, but they also needed TE and Pettigrew was the best player left on most team's boards right there, while the DL guys (Perry, Hood), for instance, were rated lower and didn't fit their plan. I won't argue too much with people about Oher, though. But he's not a LT, as some are suggesting.
Jansen did a decent job run blocking, I thought, but pass protection was an issue and two holding penalties on last drive were killers.
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