Friday Notes: Lions Place Copeland Bryan on IR, Sign Vinny Ciurciu

by Sean Yuille on Oct 23, 2009 8:54 PM EDT in Notes Comment 27 comments

Defensive end Copeland Bryan was placed on injured reserve yesterday. An MCL sprain he suffered against the Packers is the reason behind his season coming to an end. The Lions replaced Bryan on the roster with free agent linebacker Vinny Ciurciu, who has been on a variety of teams over the years, including the Panthers, Buccaneers, Vikings, and Patriots. Ciurciu actually practiced at fullback on Thursday, showing that he is a very versatile player. His biggest impact will likely be on special teams rather than at linebacker, but the Lions obviously feel that he could also help out with depth at fullback.
The Lions filled the vacancy on their practice squad (Lydon Murtha was signed by the Dolphins, as you probably already know) by signing defensive tackle Joe Cohen.
Matthew Stafford threw some passes on the sideline during Thursday's practice, but he didn't actually get on the field with the rest of the team.
The Lions were still so injured earlier this week that Jim Schwartz had to change a practice to a walkthrough.
Schwartz said that the Lions would be comfortable with DeAndre Levy being a starter.
Anthony Henry could still be moved to safety.
Some Lions players are going back to their colleges for the bye week and others are simply going home. Kevin Smith is actually going to New York City, but he said the Rams will still be on his mind even though the game isn't until next week.
Orien Harris, who was released by the Lions earlier this season, has signed with the Bengals.
The Highlight Reel's Philip Zaroo snapped a couple funny pictures during a Lions practice. The first is of Tom Lewand and Jim Schwartz, who both have a priceless expression on their face. The second is of Dominic Raiola doing what he does best: flipping people off.

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I really like what we're doing..................

…………..in terms of personnel, accountability, benching people who whiff on tackles and the signings we had and continue to have. Hey – at least we’re just not signing TB castaways. I can’t remember a year when injuries were so prevalent to our star players. Maybe when Barry missed some games in 1994???

Anyway, I can’t wait until these moves turn into some WINS!!!

I spray paint my dog Honolulu Blue and Silver

Pic - me and the great Herman Moore

by NYCLionsfan on Oct 23, 2009 8:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The injuries have been horrific this year

I can only hope we have better luck in the second half of this season and stay healthy.

2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).

by Hyperion Ecta on Oct 23, 2009 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Get a Life !!!

Hey NYC Lionsfan, you need to put your priorities into proper perspective. It’s fans like you that keep the team where it is, in last place. I bet as soon as the Lions organization says “wait ’til next year”, you run out and buy season tickets for next year. Lions are about the last thing on my list to do.
Nastradamas knows, he can predict the future.

by nostradamas on Oct 25, 2009 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is it troll week at POD?

Where did you come from at what’s your problem with NYC’s comment?

2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).

by Hyperion Ecta on Oct 26, 2009 2:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nostradumbass

Just popped up…..his only comment is the one above. I wish Sean would be as quick on some of these jackasses as he was on the one guy he did ban recently.

by KDawg on Oct 26, 2009 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There's a difference between being a troll and being an ignorant fan

I suppose someone could be both, but it’s not like he came here and said “LIONS SUCK” like the other guy.

Pride of Detroit, SB Nation's Lions Blog

by Sean Yuille on Oct 26, 2009 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Was it not his implication Sean?

Did he not say exactly the same thing in other words? If not above, then certainly below.

by KDawg on Oct 27, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

KDawg,
I didn’t do any name calling like you just did ! I think what I expressed is very accurate. I have a question that needs to be answered: Do you really see the lions in the super bowl in the next 10 years ? If you do, may I suggest you stop using foreign substances to encourage it ? Really, the most powerful tool to promote lions success is to not patronize them. Another question, Would you buy a new car from a automobile company with as poor of a success rate as the Detroit Lions? I don’t think anybody in their right mind would. Although, unfortunately, I sense you would still consider it.
Nostradamas knows, his predictions are always accurate.

by nostradamas on Oct 26, 2009 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ford actually have a good name over here in Australia

They make some quality cars, don’t know what it’s like for you guys though.

Anyway, that doesn’t explain why you went off on NYCLionsfan, what exactly did he say to make you attack him so?

I don’t know why I’m addressing you anyway, apparantly the Lions are on the bottom of your to do list, so you obviously don’t care for them like we do.

2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).

by Hyperion Ecta on Oct 26, 2009 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So are you even a fan?

If so, will you root for them to succeed or is that going to have to wait until Ford is gone too?

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by Sean Yuille on Oct 27, 2009 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Predict this

What will the Lions final W-L record be this season?

(I predicted 4-12 before the season, and I am sticking to it)

What? He can’t block a dead gopher? Humph, details.

by GRLion on Oct 27, 2009 5:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Prediction:

GR, I predict they will be 3-13. I also think their owner, losing’s common denominator, William “wait til next year” Ford needs to sell to someone who actually cares about something besides money.
I also thought, and still do think, that Stafford should not be starting this year. Why start him when the team has not got an offensive to protect him, a franchise player? Detroit needs success. How long will it take ???
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by nostradamas on Oct 28, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Like I said in another post........

I’d hate to see Staff sit until he has an offensive line to protect him. He’s only on a 6-year contract.

What? He can’t block a dead gopher? Humph, details.

by GRLion on Oct 30, 2009 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Appology

Sorry NFClf for going off on you.
Nos

by nostradamas on Oct 26, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no use for "fans" like you

And I do not see the point in having a pointless argument with you about my opinions and the validity of them versus yours. What I will say is that you are in the wrong place if you are going to come here and start posting negative comments about the Lions or start bashing real fans who have optimism and a positive attitude towards our team. If the Lions are the last thing on your “to do” list, then what are you doing here besides being ignorant? If you don’t like being called a dumbass or an ignorant troll, then do yourself a favor and stop acting like one.

by KDawg on Oct 27, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fighting and biting

You guys are becoming entertaining again! I wish you’d all stop it! You’re cutting into my porn time.

by dylan415 on Oct 27, 2009 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I take it back

KDug, I take back my apology, you aren’t as smart as I thought you were. I still believe you are very “overly optimistic” according the the lion’s success record. I guess you don’t have anything else to do? Actually, you are more then welcome to call me names, it just shows your immaturity.
Just ask me, I know, my name is Nostradamas

by nostradamas on Oct 28, 2009 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is that the best you can do?

Call me immature and knock my intelligence? Please…..

You think I am overly optimistic huh? Well, I think you are overly pessimistic and I think your negativity towards one man, who can’t be blamed for all of the failures and who does not even take an active role in the daily operations of the Lion’s franchise, is down right ridiculous and amazingly short sighted. Does it make you feel better to place the blame somewhere? Does it make a difference what you or I think? Not a damn bit. You are the furthest thing from Michel de Nostredame, the great prophetic philosopher and healer, that I have ever seen. Not only that, but it is spelled Nostradamus. If you are going to portray someone, you could at least spell his Latin name correctly. That or change it to Nostradumas to better reflect your own level of intelligence.

Here are my “predictions”:
1) You will come back and say something incredibly stupid
2) There will be others like you to come out of nowhere and bash a team that they claim to be a fan of, as there were before and will be after you leave
3) You will never beat me in a battle of wits
4) The Lions will win this week
5) The Lions will be a playoff team in 3 years or less, WITH WCF as the owner
6) The Lions will WIN the Super Bowl within the next 10 years, unless the world ends on or shortly after December 21, 2012….as predicted by the REAL Nostradamus

by KDawg on Oct 29, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I am the “great nephew” of the late Nostradamus. My name is spelled Nastradamas to distinguish each of us from the other, as we are often mistaken for each other due to our close intelligence make up. I am sorry to hear that you are jealous of that. Oh well.
I don’t like to blame anybody who doesn’t have it coming, but WCF (as you call him, brown-noser) has been very stubborn to new ideas. I am an optimistic individual, except when it comes to the likes of the Lions. I think you need to take off your rose colored glasses to see the world as it is. I also presume you think Obama is the greatest president in the history of the USA. Yea right!

To answer some of your input:
4) The Lions will win this week (BFD ! so what if they beat the St. Louis High School Team??? Does that impress you “hot dawg” ? Not me!)
5) The Lions will be a playoff team in 3 years or less, WITH WCF as the owner. …..and the cow jumped over the moon.
6) The Lions will WIN the Super Bowl within the next 10 years, unless the world ends on or shortly after December 21, 2012….as predicted by the REAL Nostradamus (I am to believe your brain is lacking a normal supply of progenitor cells, you seem to be senile)
What I gather from your input:

Call me immature and knock my intelligence? Please…..
3) You will never beat me in a battle of wits
The narcissist is described as turning inward for gratification rather than depending on others and as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, and prestige.2 Narcissistic personality disorder is closely linked to self-centeredness. It is also colloquially referred to as “the God complex.”
NOW DOESN’T THAT DESCRIBE YOU PERFECTLY ???

My prediction: I predict my intelligence level is tooo high for this discussion.

by nostradamas on Oct 29, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

Like I said……

1) You will come back and say something incredibly stupid

Simply hilarious…..

My prediction: I predict my intelligence level is tooo high for this discussion

Yet you misspell even your own name on this site in rebuttal:

My name is spelled Nastradamas to distinguish each of us from the other

Even better…..

I am the "great nephew" of the late Nostradamus

Yeah, and I am really Barry Sanders.

Still, more comedy ensues as you define what a narcissist is, followed by implying that I have narcissistic personality disorder. I said you will not beat me in a battle of wits, I did not proclaim to be related to Nostradamus or to be smarter than anyone……unlike your own self proclamations of blood line and intelligence (which I do not believe for a New York second). Your definitions do not describe me in the least, but they certainly do a good job at describing you.

I love that you put quotation marks around the words “great nephew”…..now just put a little sarcasm behind the inflection and you have it perfectly. Newsflash…..Nostradamus died in 1566. Oh wait, you probably already knew that being that you are so closely related. 443 years ago! Even if every generation lived for 70 years after his death (which was a very long time to live back in the late 16th and 17th century), that would mean that at least 6 generations would have passed (with the possibility of your parents still being alive as part of the 6th generation) before you were born. That would make you (if you truly were a descendant of one of Nostradamus’s siblings) the great nephew of Nostradamus 6 times removed (at a minimum). Your blood is likely so diluted that you would be lucky to share 1/64 of Nostradamus’s blood.

You are in no danger of ANYONE mistaking you for Nostradamus. Nice try on the cover up though. I think I will start calling you Judas Priest. Peyton Manning once said he was Nostradamus too…..not like he has an ego or anything. Hot dawg? How original. Grow up and try again. Just one question…..how is calling William Clay Ford “WCF” brown nosing? It is his initials……quicker and easier to type.

Conclusions (I’m not predicting anymore):
1) This is a colossal waste of my time
2) You are more likely a direct descendant of RalphGoBlue, if you are not him in disguise, than a descendant of Nostradamus
3) I am a little dumber from having interacted with you
4) This thread will be off the front page tomorrow, and I will never return to it
5) I am all done with you and the crap that you spew….predict away oh great soothsayer of knowledge

by KDawg on Oct 29, 2009 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I win !!!

I must have won the battle of wits over you K-Dumb, look how much you defended yourself with 19 paragraphs, and 5 conclusions. LMAO !!! I know my great uncle would be proud of me, I predicted you were an idiot right from the start.
Listen to Nostradamas(spelled correctly), he can predict the future (and idiots)

by nostradamas on Oct 30, 2009 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs