Things I agree with … cutting Northcutt and B Johnson. Just hasnt worked as well as we had hoped and having Burleson should take plenty of pressure of Calvin. Pettigrew and Brown (out of the backfield) and Williams (if he can step up) should also all benefit in the passing game.

Now to call Gosder Cherilus a bust may be kind of accurate. Maybe he shouldnt have been drafted so high but I would keep him around anyway. No sense in cutting him losing out completely and starting over. He is young and has a lot of good tools. We can use him well into the future.

Am I the only one that isnt concerned about our running game? We have far biggger things to address on this team with our first 3 picks of this coming draft. Protect Stafford and get more than 3 guys in coverage and that will open up the running game for a lot of guys.

Fire Meyhew? Are you serious? Not only do we have to give the man enough time to put his fingerprint on the organization but what he has done so far is nothing short of impressive. We got at least 3 steals so far since he took the reins. As matter of fact when you made this statement your arguement immediately went out the window with me.

Why cut these guys?…..Im not following?…..They both have small contracts as far as NFL players go……Who you going to replace them with….TO?…….They both had down yrs but but them?….C’mon man.

And you know when you dont need them, if you have better players to take their spots.
At this time we do not have anything better. Are they starting material?…probably not. But there are few players available who are better. Do we have enough depth at that position? No. Better keep them.
I kinda wish we would have at least brought Anquan Boldin in for a visit, however unlikely it would have been that he would have signed here. That’s the next thing – many elite players wont come here until we establish that we are going to compete to make the playoffs, and / or pay them really big time.
I like the new front office’s approach of trying to get as much value as they can while addressing the many needs this team has. Eventually, in a year or two, or three, those needs will become less a matter of just finding capable players, and switch to acquiring elite talent, or very valuable role players. It does take some time.

As for the draft, I agree take Suh unless someone makes us a killer offer to trade down.
The second round I’d really like to see us take an elite cornerback. I no longer think Wilson will be available, but McCourty may be and he’s looking almost as good.

Third round is BPA with an empasis on finding an offensive weapon. Either a RB or WR.
Personally I’d go WR over RB here, as I think our team is going to tend to be a more pass happy offense than running.

Fourth round – best OG or OL available. We’ve got to shore up the line…

If we have any picks after that, take BPA, maybe Blount RB who will fall to late rounds. And another LB wouldn’t surprise me…

That most of the guys that got brought in here were stop gaps first off. B Johnson had a descent year for us, If staff would have had some time back there to actually go threw his progressions maybe he would have had better stats,You take that into account Staff was a rookie and had to go threw the growing pains of learning what he can/and can’t do in the NFL according to College, how many times did we see staff get baited into throws for pick 6’s last year???? We are going to go threw some of those same growing pains again this year with Staff so are you going to want to cut him as well? I do think that Northcut can go and no one would even notice. Was I sad that we didn’t get a chance to get T.Jones. . .Hell yeah but like someone else just said until we can prove that we are for real here we are going to have to over pay players to come here and play. I think you are WAYYYYYY off on our FO bro. There is no way you can’t think that this is the best FO that we have had in over 20 years, I say 20 becausse at one point we had a FO that brought in guys like Barry, and Herman, Speilman, Porchette, Crockette, Glover,Simms, AL Bubba Baker, English, etc. etc. This is/was a 3 to 4 year rebuild at best and I actually think we are ahead of schedule, we could possibly be contenders by the end of next off season. I think we are going to trade down a couple of spots in this draft get us a stellar player in the top 7 in the second round I see another Defencive player being taken weather it’s CB/S and then we are going to address the Oline and get us a bad ass Guard to help on that left side. My only concern is that we are all going to expect too much from all of our young players and some are going to want to chop more heads. Just be patient and enjoy the handful of wins that we are going to get this year. Pending draft and who we get we could be 500. this year or possibly even better pending if we get a few more quality starters in FA.And if Staff can control his eagerness to try and force his rocket arm passes into tight coverage. As much as I think he would be a cancer I would like to see T.O. come in and give us 3 speedy rec to help staff out imagine Megatron with T.O. on the opposite side and Burelson in the slot where he actually belongs. You have B.Johnson coming off the bench to give 1 of these 3 a breather and we don’t loose any real speed or hands for that matter. On the D-side I hope we get Sharper in here(stop gap) for 1 or 2 years and let him mentor Delmas in that time, he alone would give our secondery immidiate credibility. For your Rb WestBrook,Vargas would both be excellent additions for a stop gap just so we could fix the rest of the holes on our team and next year get their replacements. I don’t see any CB’s left out there that are better than what we already have, pending more cuts.

There are so many points that you made without backing up with any legitimate facts…

1) Why release B Johnson or Northcutt. Northcutt is a decent return man, veteran wideout, and good enough to be a 4th receiver. BJ has played slot in offenses that featured Fitzgeralnd and Boldin, so he is one of those guys that knows how to take advantage of the lack of coverage, and has put up solid numbers as a 3rd wideout.

2) Please don’t call players busts too early. Cherilus had a decent rookie season, and is a very talented tackle, and lets face it the alternative to him is Jon Jansen…not exactly an upgrade, so there is no real point in releasing him. Give him a season or two more, and if he keeps struggling, then we should have this discussion.

3) Are you truly serious about firing Mayhew???We brought in guys like Jackson and Buchanon to be stop-gap options, not to be long term solutions. When we got Corey Williams that ended the need for Grady, and I guess the Lions FO knew that they were getting another CB, so they released Buchanon, who didnt put up a strong season anyways. Larry Foote: we know when we signed him that he probably wasn’t coming back or else both sides would’ve agreed to a longer contract last year.

that is all.

I am not so fast to get rid of Bryant just yet. I say we hold onto him this year just to be on the safe side.

Are you serious? In a year and a half this guy has assembled more talent then we’ve had since Barry left, and you want to fire him? WOW. I hate coming off like an asshole, but c’mon guy, you have to know that’s stupid right?

And as for the receivers, I would say maybe cut Northcutt, but even with Burleson we are seriously lacking in depth at the WR postiion, so we can’t lose both of them. Even though Bryant Johnson caused more Lions fans to throw remotes at the TV then anyone else last year, we need WR’s and he should hopefully be serviceable as our no. 3.

Somebody confiscate this guys keys.

Hey, if you can’t turn an 0-16 team into superbowl winners in one season, then you should be fired. In fact, the whole team should be cut and then we start from scratch with whatever we can find on the streets.

I say this guy should be our new GM.

I just looked through the comment and whatnot…even tho his opinion is pretty stupid, we did give him a pretty bad welcome to POD, esp with the talking ass up there

As HE usually says, Welcome to the Pride

Holden, nice try, but try to back it up with facts a little more and less on…well…maybe Jim Beam (bring back Kevin Jones????).
But come on, go easy on him ya’ll, let’s not tear the dude up too bad. Welcome to POD, better luck next time.

But the FIRE MAYHEW sentiment isn’t gonna get you too far around here. I think everyone agrees that he IS the answer. As for the Williams trade, that’s the thing that’s bugging me. So we trade a cancer, in his final year with the team anyways, for a 1st, 3rd, and a 6th. That is a great deal, we honestly shouldn’t have even gotten a 1st for him the way he was performing. And now everybody see’s just how bad the Cowgirls got ripped off.

Anyways welcome to the Pride.

too a unit that has to have trust in one an other. I got an Idea let’s play BOGGLE you know shake up the game and let the blocks fall where they will and see what we can make out of it. I’m just messin with ya KW, We can’t afford to shake up the hole line just to draft 1 guy, I’d say cut Backus if we draft Okung would be the smarter play, or have him restructure his contract would be the cat’s MEOW. Here Jeff I know you’ve been with us a long time oh that’s right your entire career, And you’ve never had a serious injury, and you’ve seen the worst record ever in a ten year period but you have to take a pay cut if you want to stay with the team. How would you like it if your boss did that to you after an entire career with the job you love for a team that you love?

Without a doubt, this was the most fun to read fan post and comments ever. We may be a little too excited.

Looking at our Wide Recievers, I see Calvin and Burelson starting with Bryant switching in and out and being a third reciever. Usually you try to keep 5 recievers on your team each week so I would take either Williams or Northcutt and then try to get a solid reciever out of Clark, Fowler, Gavin, Heckendorf, Jennings, or a draft pick. I am not a big fan of Northcutt but Bryant played well enough. Clearly we do not have the depth to go cutting recievers before we have some one to replace them.

Looking at the Offensive Line. I see something out of Linehan and Schwartz. Either you produce or watch from the side line. I like that. Our line was shifted a lot this past year. Players were moved in and out and tried at different positions. The one constant you could count on was that Backus was at left tackle and Raiola was at center. I’d bet the other three position have some room for a new guy to step in and take a spot. I like Cherilis for run blocking. He is strong and mean. That is very good. I am not as happy with his foot work on pass plays. If we keep a guy and move him, because we got a better player in the draft, I’d move Cherlis before I’d move Backus. Peterman is a good guard, but injured. I saw Jansen playing guard some and liked that. With the age and injury bug on these two, I’d try and use them for the other guard spot. Now this all ass-u-me-s that we get a nice draft day trade getting Otung somewhere around #5 or #6. The line would be, Backus, Cheriles, Raiola, Peterman/Jensen, Otung.

Running back. Morris is still good. I am hoping Smith comes back, but a second round running back draft choice might not be too bad. Maybe the second round pick we get for trading down for Otung could be used here.

Martin Mayhew. Before last years draft, and some of the changes he brought to the team, I would have said, dump him, he’s a Millen man. Last year durring the draft, I could only guess at what he was doing. But honestly, 3 guys the caliber of Stafford, Delmas and Pettigrew in one draft is excellent. Hill and Levy are strong picks. Morris, Hunter, Heller, and Simpson were all good pick ups. There is a lot of frustration being a Lions fan and wanting to have a winning team, and wanting it now. But in my opinion, Mayhew has done a great job in improving the teams personel, and adding the coaching staff of Schwarts, Linehan and Cunningham. If we have a draft that produces 3 high caliber players and Vanden Bosch and Burelson pan out I would say Mayhew has done the best job as a Lions front office guy I can remember.