I have bowling league on Thursday nights and the draft will be right around the time of roll-offs. Nah, doesn’t matter but they’re making too big a deal of it. I’d rather see Friday night and Saturday with shorter rounds and less BS from hair boy.

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…the Lions were a much better team I don’t think the draft would be nearly as…I don’t want to say important…but let’s say….intriguing? I mean for years now the draft has been the Lions Superbowl (that old joke). Seriously though, it is the one time of the year where lazy-boy general managers come out of the wood work to discuss what the team needs, and the direction it should be heading. Each pick means so much to us that dragging this thing out for this long will tip the scales of suspense towards boredom…at least for me. I mean regardless of how any of us felt about this last years draft, how exciting was it when it looked like Rey Ma was gonna slip in the first round, and then fall into our laps in the 2nd round…?! I’m sure I’ll tune in for the draft still, but I can almost guarantee I won’t sit there for four days watching it. Even if I wanted to the Old Lady would put an end to that idea pretty quickly. I’m hoping people tune out so that they put the whole thing back on the weekend.

but would have taken option “C” – wait and see. I like it because of two reasons. One, the top three rounds are all in primetime blocks – which leads to reason number two… no more marathon sessions on both Saturday and Sunday. It just gets a little too long. But again, we’ll have to wait and see.

The wait is killing me!

I will be able to watch round 1 and still have my weekend. I think they will actually see a little drop off in the new schedule. By splitting it up like they did, it is easier to stop watching after 1 day.

Though, it is smart that they mixed rounds 2 and 3. you watch one, you watch them both.

John Clayton is a very resourceful guy who usually knows what he is talking about. While I agree with him that it would take an incredible preseason in order for Stafford to beat out Culpepper for the starting role at QB for the Lions, I do not think that incredible preseason is out of the realm of possibility. If Matt Stafford is as good as all of the media hype has him painted, I think it is entirely possible that he will be the starter from day 1.

That said, most everyone here knows my thoughts on the subject. While I think it is possible that he will have an incredible preseason and beat Culpepper for the starting job, I also see it as improbable, especially considering that Daunte is in great shape, healthy, and in a system that he knows well. His experience and leadership ability alone give him a great advantage from the get go. I am anxious to see what happens, but again we are in a wait and see situation.