They seem to be content in keeping the Lions competitive and relevant but not going to go all in for a Super Bowl appearance. If by somehow the Lions fall a** backwards into the big game she will be thrilled I but not priority number one. just my opinion nothing fact based
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The key to getting to the SB is getting in the playoffs. From there, itās the team that gets hot that usually wins it all.
Selling the future for a season or 2 leads to rebuilds. You might find an exception or two, but they are rare. Belichick Patriots never sold out to win the big one, they kept replenishing in the draft and FA.
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Yes and no. I will give you my thought in February
One hell of an assumption, if ya asked me.
ā¦a couldnāt be more off base assumption, from my vantage point.
One game shy of the Super Bowl a couple of years agoā¦ That doesnāt look like not trying to me
Looking at all of these super trades, and how they donāt work outā¦ Makes the ā All inā Strategy looks stupid and cap catastrophe to me
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I hope you are right. I want to be wrong.
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Expectations and assumptionsā¦
We canāt read their minds but we have the winningest team assembled for the last 4.5 season ā¦. Only second to the 1930ās?!
I donāt see itā¦
running the team different doesnāt mean worse or indifferentā¦. Just a different way
In regard to Shiela, I think she gives full autonomy to Brad. She believes in him.
Brad has discipline and will no deviate from his long term approach. Love it or hate it, you have to appreciate the discipline to the vision.
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Holmes has told you over and over and over exactly how heās going to it.
Why do people think heās just going to change his stripes?
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I think itās because his strategy hasnāt worked.
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Key Draft and FAs
We at least do one part of that equation, the draft part.
There are 3 teams in the NFL that have longer winning season streaks than the Lions. One of them is Philly. That leaves the Bills and Pittsburgh. Are the other NFL teams all failures?
4 teams have won the SB in the last 5 years. Are the other 28 all failures?
Winning = not failure.
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Figured theyād try something new since theyāve been banging their heads against the wall for 4 seasons. But here we are. Good, not great. Seasons have ended earlier and earlier the last 3 years. Every team has lots of injuries so letās remove those crutches. This staff built a great nucleus back in the day. But some of those players are starting to get a little long in the tooth in nfl terms.
The lions have 0 super bowls, 0 conference championships. So, ya, Holmes took it down to the studs and built a really solid core roster. 90% of the lifting was done in his first three seasons. Like, sure heās added literally a handful of decent players since the got Reynolds wrapped in SF, but the trajectory curve crested there, and we are heading towards the valley.
But for Holmes to go big in a trade would be admitting heās done a poor job at adding to his great start these last few years via the draft, and thereās no way heād do that. Heās got an incredible ego for a GM thatās accomplished absolutely nothing on the grand stage. āHeās brought us into respectability and weāve been relevant for 4 yearsā!!! his ballwashers cry! But his job wasnāt to make the team relevant. GMs are hired to win championships. In most instances anyways.
The ownership is laughing all the way to the bank and they probably think Holmes is the cats meow because they are decent and business is good. So they care about winning a Super Bowl? Ya, Iām sure theyād like to because itād be neat. But do they absolutely burn for one? Absolutely not. Thereās no way Holmesā ego would stand in his way if he felt like he absolutely needed to win one.
So weāll get a snarky Holmes presser in early January talking about how theyāll never deviate from their plan, they had some unfortunate injury luck, and they believe in the group of players and this staff. And Lions fans will watch the teams that have built better teams (quicker in most cases) participate in the playoffs and say that things are good because we won 10 games and itās better than where weāve been before.
Itās an awful experience. The Lions fans and moreover the guys from the beginning of this rebuild that are still on the roster deserve better than what Holmes has given them since that ball bounced off Vildorās face mask.
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Yes.
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I think making a move to just make a move doesnāt make sense. IMO, part of the reason it was hard to find that perfect trade is Detroitās roster is LOADED with talent. I think the exception is really cornerback but it takes two to tango. I came to the conclusion that there just isnāt that one player who puts us over the top. So, yes I do think SHF is committed to winning a Super Bowl. Sheās done a lot right. One of them is to hire great people and allow them to be great. This isnāt Mike I opening his wallet to go buy a Stanley Cup in the NFL with the salary cap. There is only so much you can do.
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Linebacker
Corner
DE
All not overflowing with talent. If Wonnum doesnāt have brain damage and they stay healthy they have good starters at DE but CB and LB is a wasteland and it truly is inexcusable for them to leave it the way it is. IMO of course.
Nah, theyāre just screwing around. Rich person vanity project. Donāt care about winning in the least, clearly.
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For a Lions Denmate, you really donāt get it. Sorry for youāre ignorance. Not an insult, when it comes to pickleball, Iām very ignorant, Iām guessing you could teach me how to stack a team of 60+ year oldās to win a championship. 
What am I not getting? Did I go into a coma and miss where Holmes stayed aggressive and kept building upon the final four appearance 3 fac king years ago? Or am I wrong that Conference Finalā losing in wild cardā missing playoffs is āheading in the wrong directionā? Tell me wise one, what exactly am I missing? List what Brad has accomplished in the last 4 seasons. Do not mention a single thing from 2021-2023. Iāve repeated on here repeatedly that I was a huge Holmes supporter in those years because he seemed aggressive, smart, willing to do difficult things. Say emsomeone else did what he did in first three years. Then that gm sadly passed away and Holmes inherited this young (theyāre not that young anymore) group of good players in February 2024. Evaluate what has transpired since that time. Still happy? Maybe you are and thatās fine or whatever. I 
expect a snarky comment or a joke of some sort in your response because you know you canāt say anything proper to justify your original comment. Or youāll say injuries. Every roster is smashed by injury by December. Brad Holmes has been horrendous as the GM of this team for 2.5 years, and I am very much so not alone in that thinking.
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Who would you replace with holmes? Name me 5 GMās who have drafted better than Holmes and please name the picks theyāve hit on. If you think heās doing a bad job then you probably have some people in mind that you want to replace him with, right?