In the meantime he has assembled the best Lions roster that I can remember, and I will be 65 on Monday
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I wonder would they take Houston and a fifth rounder?
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I think only if another team gets him for cheap would it be fair to question.
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Glad to know there are a couple fellow posters who are above my wisdom level. 
As I creep in on 63, Natty would be jealous as hell of my full head of hair. 
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Im almost bald and not by choice.
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What’s so hard about it?
The defense is, “Brad has forgotten more about football then I’ll ever know” meets “Shucks, I’m really enjoying this awesome, fun team that Brad and Dan have put together. I think I’ll trust their collective judgement.”
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I mean I get that, but trying to put all of those moves together doesn’t make logical sense. There’s no pattern in those moves.
Are they supposed to be cohesive? I get tying together the Decker and Manu aspect but even then I think you are being a tad to “in a perfect world” by wanting to time up the LT transition in this perfect way in which we have Manu ready to go with two years of team control left. I think there is another more positive way to look at it in that the brain trust is not deluded into some false hope regarding Manu. They understand the size of the challenge ahead in building him into a pro starting tackle. But they still thought the upside was worth it.
The Davis trade was IMO just Brad saying “enough is enough.” Our draft haul was no guarantee and we didn’t want our strategy to be so focused/needs based. It was IMO a sage, albeit costly, move.
The DE trade situation is entirely different. Something is likely coming. There is a cat and mouse game afoot. Brad is not looking to overpay so he’s being patient here.
Manu is a 3 year project by the time he is ready they will have to resign him.
They are hiding Bromart on injured reserve. His injury was like Laportas last year the last game, but since he is a 3 year project also they are just keeping him stashed on IR.
Holmes will fart around and next Tuesday DaZarius Smith will be traded to someone else…
He will just keep grinding practice squad tape hoping to find a diamond in the rough.
To tie it all together, I don’t think it makes sense that we would somehow have a problem with something we already did, which is trade picks for a player on another team, and instead choose to use those “valuable picks” on project players that we know won’t see the field for a couple of years.
I do agree with you that I think Brad is being patient, and I’ve been a big fan of Brad’s even when we were 4-19-1, but if he chose not to make a move because he values his picks more, I just don’t think that makes a ton of logical sense.
I have no idea how trade talks work but I’d imagine teams often ask for the moon further out from the deadline🤷♂️
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Wonder if he holds a bag of magic beans while he is watching?
Footage of Brad’s trade offer to Andrew Berry leaked.
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Brak is my spirit alien
Brak Holmes?
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If something is going to happen, I’d be much more interested in Mack.
His contract is much easier to take on and shorter than Smith’s. I think he’s a better player, too.
Frankly, i think Mack is probably the only trade option I’ve seen so far that makes sense contract-wise for the lions.
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