Take some GA. Boys

[socko]

They let men compete as women in the Olympics don’t they?
I rest my case.

[RickOShea]

That typically happens when you hit 40-45

[JDrik09]

Well he’s the odds on favorite to go #1 so it’s not exactly a reach

[BlueWolverine02]

Actually it’s not their job to know details about all the teams. It’s their job to put our fluff pieces and have a general idea of what’s going on in the league. How do I know this? Because that’s all you ever get out of the national media and it never changes and they still have their jobs. A lions beat writer is going to know 10x more about the team than a national writer. And if a beat writer wrote something about the Lions, chances are everybody here read it at some point. Hence why this board knows more than national writers.

[CasanovaJack1]

True story, in college my girlfriend had a friend who got married to a guy who disappeared w/i like 6 months. When they found him he was playing HS football in Utah.

[Mr.Peabody]

@najacks

On a side note, I love how so many of these sporting news websites have offensive lineman listed as positions we’re going to draft. One I’ve just read says we’re going to take a defensive lineman or offensive tackle with #2. Sports illustrated says we need a center. Are these people just lazy or do they assign their dumbest interns to cover the lions?

@BlueWolverine02

I learned a long time ago that the national publications have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to the Lions. Really any team that isn’t local to them. It isn’t worth their time to keep up on a team and guaranteed any regular on this website knows more about the Lions than some national writer.

@najacks

It’s literally their job to know about each nfl team. And honestly it really isn’t that difficult. When I was younger and fully invested in sports I could pretty much give you every teams roster off the top of my head. I’m sorry but you can’t sell me that it isn’t worth their time when it’s what they’re being paid to do. It’s just lazy journalists and low standards.

@BlueWolverine02

Actually it’s not their job to know details about all the teams. It’s their job to put our fluff pieces and have a general idea of what’s going on in the league. How do I know this? Because that’s all you ever get out of the national media and it never changes and they still have their jobs. A lions beat writer is going to know 10x more about the team than a national writer. And if a beat writer wrote something about the Lions, chances are everybody here read it at some point. Hence why this board knows more than national writers.

I think you are both right. I think it is to be expected that the national sources would not know as much as the local sources, even if they tried. But at the same time when they can’t even get basic details right (like najacks example of one source saying we need a Center), that’s pretty bad and they should rightfully get called out. We’ve seen it with broadcast booth’s before, because the Lions get the C level team and they don’t follow the Lions or even try to get to know us. We all have examples of them getting names wrong, or flat out not knowing them. But I also like it when a guy drops a pass for the first time all year, and the commentator says something like “yeah, he’s really been struggling with drops all year.” Wait, what?

[najacks]

I’m not expecting National writers to know as much about a team as the beat writers that cover it. But they should know enough to write an accurate article. 5 minutes of research online would have told them we need neither center nor tackle in this draft. The problem is the standards of journalism are gone. Nobody cares about accuracy anymore, it’s all about generating clicks to the site. That’s why it’s more tabloid journalism than sports. It’s sad to see sometimes.

[LineBusy]

@najacks

It’s sad to see sometimes.

It’s sad to see every time, brother.

[QBHATER90]

@JDrik09

Well he’s the odds on favorite to go #1 so it’s not exactly a reach

No not at all, but simply suggesting you would hope they are basing the pick on alot more then just connections to the state and storyline. He is worthy of two but if another player is more worthy, I would hope connections and storyline done become the deciding factor.