They weren’t great against the run last year even with all the base they ran… I really do expect more 5-2-4 with Wonnum the down lineman and Moore rushing over him, especially considering Moore’s effictiveness rushing from a 2 point stance.
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Future cap Situation.
So Lions are Tapped this year unless they restructure someone.
They will be restructuring contracts for future years.
This also includes a 3 year extension for the big 4 this year. (Estimated as a highest paid of the position)
As you can see it also includes future draft picks. (Estimated as 20th pick over all, all 7 rounds.)
Core 12 is Goff, Hutch, ASB, Sewell, Mac, Jamo, Kerby, Gibbs, Campbell, Laporta, Branch and Reed (because hes a high paid player)
They were horrible against the run last year i think because of scheme.
First time DC will do that.
I think just naturally they will do better this year.
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yeah I agree.
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Backup QB is so overrated.
32 Backups can -
QB2 in practice
Close out a blowout
What ~24 of backups can do
Play 1 quarter of a game when the primary qb gets hurt and not blow it
What ~8 backups can do
Win 2/4 games when the main qb is injured short term
What ~4 qbs can do
Win 5/10 games when the main qb is out long term
Teddy is in that ~24 group.
Good luck getting one of those 8 that can keep the team afloat for a few games.
They are usually only a back up quarterback because the team just drafted a younger quarterback ie you have 2 qbs means you have 0.
No matter who the backup is this is the rule.
If you are a real playoff team (ie 10-12+ wins)
Qb misses a game or 2. Might drop a seed.
Qb misses ~4 games. Likely dropping from division winners to wild card
Qb misses 5+games. Might as well tank for next year
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Teddy went 5-0 in 2019 when he started in place of an injured Drew Brees. He completed 68% of his passes, had 9 TDs and only 2 INTs.
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There are 4 situations where investment in a backup QB is a priority:
1.) When your starting QB or presumed QB is a rookie.
2.) When your starting QB is not a top tier QB and you have a “competition” for QB.
3.) When your starting QB is injured.
4.) When your starting QB is a year or two from retirement.
The Lions aren’t in any of these scenarios (and haven’t been since 2010). Coincidentally our best backup QB in recent history was Shaun Hill who signed with the Lions in 2010.
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I think Rolder would be fine in AA’s 3rd down role when there are only two backers and he slides inside a bit and has a nickel CB picking up coverage slack. Well maybe not fine now. But down the road. But I don’t want him handling AA early down coverage duties.
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I think long-term that is absolutely the vision. We drafted him to be a WILL, I really believe that, with the upside that he can deputize inside (or even wind up there if the shift to WILL doesn’t work out). But I DO believe our WILL preference is a MIKE who improves enough at coverage to hold up over there.
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OK, so I’ve been telling my wife in passing about this thing you’ve designed on Claude, and she’s like ‘oh, I need you to do that for me.’ It’s like a database basically of all our shit (she has a lot of costume jewelry, etc…). And I was like, OK well maybe I can do it.
I cannot.
Granted I was trying on gemini and after a little research I now realize that was foolish, but it was the one I was already paying for. She lets me know a minute ago “oh I have Claude now.” Sheesh, I wish she had told me that. So, I just want to make sure this is doable: what she wants is to be able to basically scan something with Lens (or equivalent), then say ‘store it in this folder of our inventory database.’ She also wants to be able to tell AI or the database or whatever to ‘check once a month to see what it’s worth’ because she sells a lot of it on eBay. I’m assuming (hoping) this is all very doable and maybe not all that hard?
I looked into like, storing it on google sheets/keep and partly on ebay with saved searches (the only thing that never goes away), but it’s a bunch of steps and not very intuitive that way.
It’s absolutely doable. I haven’t worked with photos much and tbh when I send Claude photos of the web page to be like move this button here it struggles way more than I thought it would.
To get the most out of Claude you really need to have a harness like VS code or Cursor and then on a Mac allow it access to your terminal. I don’t know what the PC equivalent of that is. Are you Mac people or PC people?
Here is what Claude says 
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What it is, in pieces
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Photo capture + upload — easy. Phone camera → app → cloud storage.
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“What is this thing?” — feed the photo to a vision model (Claude, GPT-4V) and ask it to identify the item, brand, size, condition, era. This is the magic step. Works great on common stuff (Pyrex, Lego sets, brand-name clothing), shakier on obscure collectibles.
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eBay pricing lookup — eBay has APIs:
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Browse API (free, easy) → current listings, asking prices
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Marketplace Insights API (requires approval) → sold listings, which is what you actually want. Asking prices lie; sold prices don’t.
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Folders / categorization — database. Auto-categorize from the vision step, let her override.
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“When to sell” timing — track sold prices over weeks/months per category, spot seasonality (Christmas decor peaks in Nov, patio stuff in spring, Halloween costumes in Sept). This is the hardest piece to do well.
Realistic v1 (weekend-to-2-weeks of focused build)
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Snap photo → Claude identifies item → search current eBay listings → show median sold price + “X listings active right now” → save to a folder. Skip the timing/trend engine for v1.
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Stack you already know: Streamlit + Supabase + Claude API + eBay Browse API. She uses it on her phone via the browser.
The gotchas to know upfront
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eBay sold-data access: Browse API gives you live listings instantly. Sold-listing data needs the Marketplace Insights API, which requires an eBay developer application + approval. Worth applying early — it’s the data that actually matters.
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Vision accuracy on collectibles: a vintage Pyrex pattern or a specific Lego set is much harder to ID than “blue sweater.” For her use case (presumably household resale, not deep antique work), it’ll be 80%+ accurate, with manual override for edge cases.
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“When to sell” needs data over time: real seasonality insight requires either (a) months of her own price-tracking, or (b) pulling historical sold data on day one. Marketplace Insights gives you ~90 days back.
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Existing competitors: Vendoo, List Perfectly, Flyp — these focus on cross-listing (post once, sells on 5 platforms). The timing angle is genuinely under-served, so there’s a real wedge there.
What it’d take from you
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~1 week to a v1 prototype she can actually use, if you stick to “snap → identify → live prices → folders”
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~3-4 weeks to add sold-price history and basic timing recommendations
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eBay developer account + Marketplace Insights application (do this day 1, approval can take a couple weeks)
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Claude API key (you have one)
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Supabase project (you know this drill)
Keep in mind Claude’s timelines are stupidly long. I just did what it thought was seven weeks of work in like 12 hours.
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Has she checked out Vendoo?
Rolder is a guy with serious upside to me. I don’t know how much he will play as a rookie but the REAL question is Rolder V. rookie Alex Anzalone.
Alex seems to have earned the starting job as a rookie on a what-became-a 11-5 Saints team in 2017. Alex started 4 games then got injured.
I don’t feel like 2026 rookie Rolder is less ready than 2017 rookie Alex Anzalone.
AI tells me that Anzalone only started 10 games in college due mostly to injury. How does that relate to Rolder?
There’s two elements of roster construction that need to be considered when assessing where we’re at and whether we’ve improved. Starters and depth.
With the starters, we should be very content that there is at least 1 All-Pro calibre player in every major position group (taking full OL/DL/DB as one group). With the depth, we have improved in some areas, but regressed in others.
QB - No change to starter. Maybe a tad better in depth.
RB - No change to starter. Significantly diminished depth.
WR - Change in WR3/4/5. Starters may be marginally better due to more complimentary skillsets between ARSB/Jamo/Teslaa versus Leaf. Better depth with Dortch and Law added to the mix.
TE - No change to starter. Conklin is a better player than any TE3 than has previously been on the roster.
OT - Maybe slight regression in the short term for the starters. But come the end of the year I’d back Miller to be ahead of late 2025 Decker. Borom/Yr 3 Manu/Yr 2 Frazier is better depth than we’ve had in a while, even allowing for Skip’s cult status
IOL - Yr 2 Ratledge + proper competition at LG (which I think Mahogony wins) should be better than 2025. Mays should be better than Glasgow. Depth has more pieces in the mix, remains to be seen if that means better output.
For the offense overall, there isn’t one spot where we are worse than 2025 from a starter perspective other than possibly OT and that has a clear path to being better than 2025 in the medium term. And I would say all positions apart from RB have better depth than 2025.
The two most irreplaceable players on the 2026 Lions offense may well be Gibbs and Mays (Goff excluded obviously). Feels like the drop off in those spots might be more insurmountable than losing Sewell, ARSB or Laporta.
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I agree the offense will be better overall. TeSlaa more experienced is a key for me. More OL depth. We are replacing Decker who didn’t practice in 2025. Miller will be solid as a rookie. Boron is better than Skipper.
On D DE will be better. DT is a concern. Lots of pressure on Levi being healthy. 2026 Alim will be better. TyLeik year two. CB will be better. Safety is a concern. Losing Anzalone hurts but Rolder will be solid as a rookie.
I think this team will be pretty good in 2026.
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Defensively…
Edge - Starters broadly the same, with marginally better depth if Moore lives up to his draft spot. Would love if Hass or Peyton Turner can turn into something, to round out the room
DT - Starters better than 2025. Alim a year back from injury and Tyliek in Yr2. I’m more positive than most on Levi but depth certainly diminished by losing Lopez and Reader.
LB - Starters worse and depth worse. Most worrying spot really. A Campbell injury could be a complete disaster given the limitations of all the other LBs and inexperience of Rolder.
CB - Assuming Terrion and Reed start the year, then starters are the same. Abney, McCreary and a healthy Rake should give us better depth.
S - The big unknown. As good depth as we could probably hope for outside of another draft pick. But having existential doubts about what we will get from 2 All-Pro level players is just a sad place to be going into the year.
Overall I think we’re probably ahead of 2025 in most spots. RB, LB and DT depth a concern but hoping for decent rookie performances at LB and DT might fill those gaps.
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Having done that exercise, I agree. Schedule is in our favour also.
The three biggest variables - coordinator performance, injury luck and whether we see our safety tandem on the field together at even 80-90% of what they were - feel like the main things that will decide whether this team is a contender or caps out at a 9-10 win team again
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