It’s fun to pull up these posts and just smile…
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to be completely honest, since I don’t watch much college football outside of uofm and msu I didn’t know anything about him. when we drafted him I was like ‘but we just signed monty’ then I watched highlight films. and I went ‘oh, I get it’
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It’s hilarious but just shows Brad and Dan were willing to stick to their beliefs early on…and didn’t give a damn what others had to say!
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Chirico: I can’t give the Lions any higher than a C grade.
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But my favorite:
Overall Detroit Lions grade: F
Yeah, an F. Perhaps this take will get Old Takes Exposed in two or three years as a laughably bad take, but as things stand right now the Lions’ draft class was just baffling. Taking Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs with the 12th overall pick in a year that they signed David Montgomery felt extremely rich. Even taking Iowa tight end Sam LaPorta with the 34th overall pick over Notre Dame’s Michael Mayer was a head-scratcher. Gibbs and Campbell made up the most shocking first-round picks in quite some time, and not in a positive way. Hopefully for Lions fans, this take ends up wrong. To put it nicely, they had an unorthodox strategy in the 2023 NFL Draft.
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Whoops! Sorry about that draft grade, Detroit
Time to repent.
Back in April 2023 following the 2023 NFL Draft, I, in all my infinite wisdom, gave the Detroit Lions an “F” for their 2023 draft haul. That was abhorrently incorrect and one of the few draft grades that can be labeled as horrifically wrong less than one year after a draft.
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When matters he runs faster than Barry Sanders
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Cause to many look at position, not the player. Won’t say I was in love with the picks, but LaPorta was the one I liked the least. So we were all wrong.
Ya’ll keep drafting positions, Brad drafts players.
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This is why I can’t have twitter or X or whatever anymore. I would literally being @‘ing all these clowns today.
I am all for making people accountable to things they do, say and type. #LionsJusticeWarrior
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So I loved the Gibbs pick and the BB picks. Mostly because I loved those 2 players in college. I am a little bit of a positional value dude but in general I think the smartest teams go get players they love and grade out high.
I did not know LaPorta or Campbell that well and was in more of a wait and see mode.
I truly believe both BB and Gibbs could be HOF dudes if they can stay healthy and play 10+ years.
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I truly believe that for many player it’s where you get drafted, not when that determines their success.
I am not sure even a player like Mahomes is who he is without Andy Reid and the style that he plays…if he had gone to a team that was more strict with his reads and wanted him to just run a system then he probably doesn’t become player he is today.
And I think that goes for Gibbs…he came to a team that values the RB position and uses it as a main fixture. This was contrary to the methodology of the NFL’s pass first mentality. So again, right situation at the right time.
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Glad to see I was wrong about Campbell… But boy I knew Gibbs was gonna be special. Love having this kid on our team.
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I feel like you were spot on.
Campbell so far has shown to be a very solid steady NFL starter. But he is not a difference maker like the other 3 drafted. Just look at the night and day difference when AA played last night.
Now if Campbell can make another jump like he did from last year to this year then maybe he can become a difference maker. But his main weakness I have seen is he still struggles in pass defense. He is not someone who can lock someone down. What AA did last night was the thing of legends in all aspects.
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Gibbs/Campbell were the beginning of “Positional Villain” status.
Oh, by the way, that was the best draft of all 32 teams, too, in case anyone forgot.
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You should still be out there, fighting the good fight!
Honestly it’s pretty certain you won’t get any responses, so yeah, you may as well bang your head against the wall. I just wish people would admit when they were wrong. I’ll even follow a loudmouth if they can admit when they were wrong, like McDonald above.
I was pretty wrong on Gibbs. Actually I liked him as a prospect well enough, but I hated the idea of drafting a RB. I still don’t love it despite the success of Gibbs. You really, really put a lot of pressure on yourself to hit when you do that. Thankfully Brad is a badass and he hit it out of the park. What I learned more than anything from that pick is if he’s good enough for Brad, than he’s almost certainly good enough.
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If there is one thing I have come to learn about the Lions and Brad Holmes. They do their own research. And they 100% rely on their own rankings. And they do NOT try to get cute and overlay their ranking on what the popular votes says and try to get a top 10 ranked dude on their board ay 43 because they think no one sees it. The pick dudes 100% on how they see them.
You can beeaacchh all you want about the Manu pick but BH and MCDC believe 100% in that pick. The absolutely commitment to their process is pretty inspiring.
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We are all wrong at times. You just try and own it and move on. Nothing worse than when people are on losing side of things and double and triple down lol.
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Or start moving the goalposts. That’s the most common tactic.
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