2009 Lions Draft

You have only one pick labeled “1” even though we have two first round picks, and you have a pick labeled “4” even though we traded our 4th rounder away. Also, we should have two sixth-rounders.

I know it’s a hot debate right now to answer the question “should we or shouldn’t we take a QB?”, Personally I’d rather give Orlovsky/Stanton a real chance over a whole season. We already spent draft picks, training, roster spots, and development time on them, but what we haven’t given them yet is much of a starting opportunity over a meaningful number of games. It would be a waste to throw them out at this point before completely evaluating them in many real games. We don’t know whether either of them can be our QB until they have a good O-Line in front of them, but we do know that we need to fix our run defense and get bigger, and fix our O-Line too (obviously). We have a defense that gets pushed around & misses tackles like crazy.

I’d like to spend all our top picks on immediate impact players at (in this order, roughly):

1A – LT (Andre Smith)
1B – MLB: Maualuga or Laurinaitis, if available, otherwise NT (I like BJ Raji)
2 – NT (if we already have a MLB, otherwise a second-tier MLB)
3A – BPA Guard/Center
3B – BPA Center/Guard
5, etc – BPA. We have so many needs so we really can’t pick the wrong position, just get whoever “slides” the farthest. Or bank them for higher picks for next year, since we’re in a multi-year rebuilding process regardless.

I’m not a fan of bringing DeAngelo Hall and his attitude to Detroit, unless he comes with a low price tag.

… love your handle “hate2lovelions”! Isn’t it the truth? I’ve always maintained that the draft boards change so much between February and April, that it’s almost pointless to try and come up with a mock, but it’s fun, isn’t it? I can tell you’ve put some thought into it too. I like the idea of a QB first overall, but not sure that I agree that Brandon is better than Stafford. There’s also some people (not me) that think Tim Tebow might creep up into the battle of the best QB if he declares. I’m not sure if Maualuga or Laurinaitis will be there when we take our second first rounder, but LB or DE would be my first choice in that spot. Beyond the late first or early second round it’s too much of a crapshoot. I won’t even try to guess.

The other comment I’ll make is on DeAngelo Hall. Not a fan of the prima-dona corners or receivers. He hasn’t even been playing well aside from the personality issues. Did you see him get beat in the Giants game two weeks ago? That’s the reason Oakland let him go. I’d rather see the Lions play a rook.

Good post.

I know we agree that we need a QB, but without a good oline, no QB will be save. Our lions gave the most in sack this with 49, now do we want to put a QB in an unsteady line, what we need is a Oline who can protect the blind side of the QB if we a get Right handed QB. Now we know there are few player out there on the draft is most promising stars like Andre Smith of BAMA, or Eugene Monroe of Virginia. Then on our 2nd 1st rounder we should look at QB or Dline, our defensive line are last in yard allow and points. This mean we need to look at Def. Line helps, player like Aaron Maybin of Penn ST or Gerald McCoy of Oklahoma and Brian Orakpo of Texas should be out if we pick in the late 1st round, so it we were going to pick we can look at Tyson Jackson of LSU or Michael Johnson of Georgia Tech. If i were picking I would pick Andre Smith, then I will pick Micheal Johnson. Remember there are few good quarterback in the last of the draft ok. And this way we can save some money in long run.

However our biggest defensive need is at MLB then corner. When Avril and Dwayne white are playing together at end, the QB is on the ground alot. These guys create a lot of havoc back there. Peyton Manning was on the ground alot today. Dan-O played pretty good taoday so I think I would go LT for the 1st pick too.