keep him rested don’t use him too much, just to keep the chains moving and let Morris take the brunt of the carries between the tackles. Please don’t let this Buchanon issue become an ego thing. If the guy’s healthy then get him on the field, Schwartz made his point to him and the team DON’T BE PUSSIES AND PLAY A LITTLE HURT IF YOU NEED TO…

Keep Levy in the games for another 4 or 5 games see how he perfoms, if he does good in starting those games let’s see what we can get for Sims. Sorry Sims I like you but if we could get a decent draft pick for him, 2nd or even a 3rd rounder might want to pull the trigger, his rookie contract has to be coming up and he doesn’t fit the mold of our new LB…

He didn’t particularly like Sims from the start. I can’t find any links but didn’t he say something about Ernie that was a bit mediocre in tone prior to the season? We know dizon is probably a career backup / special teams, and I think Schwartz drafted Levy for a reason.

It will be interesting to see when Avril is healthy, with him back in the rotation and levy in there, how our defense looks, as I think they are the starters moving forward. Altho Avril hasn’t been too impressive in my mind.

I also think that after this weeks game, and seeing morris and brown try to fill in for K Smooth, we got to see the real value he brings to the team. I’m a little worried about our depth at RB.

First of all it’s good to hear that Smith’s injury isn’t too serious.

As for Sims, no matter what Levy does this year (and he was impressive yesterday) I wouldn’t trade him. We need to remember that Foote is on a year contract and Levy was originally drafted to play MLB. Maybe we resign Foote and the coaching staff feels Levy is best suited for OLB….then I would be open to trading Sims.

unfortunately, the nfl is a “what have you done for me lately” league. i think that we can agree that sims is immensely talented, but something is missing. im not saying dump sims, but if levy plays just as well at OLB in the next couple games, i don’t see how we could afford to keep him off the field. if “the pain train” gets on the field and does well, again, i don’t see how we keep him off the field either.

bring him up please!

  In St. Louis and always a fan, I happen to be in the same hotel with 3-4 bus loads of Green Bay Packer fans. It is after the game were the packers had just beaten the Rams and the hole atrium is filled, as I was notice walking up to the bar to have a cold one, many of the fans started clapping and saying at least you did not pass the Bucks in losses and so on and so. I tell you guys it was a real blast with these Packer Fans and we closed the bar and my tab was only $30.00. On the way back to florida I traveled through charlotte and they the night loss to Dallas it was a hole different story how that the Lions got lucky and if they played panthers they would have been 03 and panthers would now be 1-2. Screw the Panther fans Love my Lions Go Lions!!!!!

Smoove is right that this is a “what have you done for me lately” league.
And I’d like to go on record here and say that in my opinion, what Ernie Sims has done for the Lions is stand out as the only bright spot on a horrendous defense over the past several years.
I’m somewhat surprised to see that so many Lions fans across this fancy new-fangled world wide interweb have been so quick to call a cab for Ernie.

In his 50 starts over the past 3 years, Sims has more tackles in that span than both Foote and Peterson.. (Or Ray lewis, or Urlacher, or Keith Brooking, or many other players that are perceived as tackling machines in the league).
Don’t get me wrong… I believe the best player should play at each position, no matter who it is. Levy did look decent in his first significant playing time, but I’m just not ready to consider waving goodbye to Ernie Sims based on that.

i was just thinking, we’re not getting any pressure from the defensive end position, perhaps we could try sims at defensive end. just a thought.