Lions Will Wait to Meet with Pacman Jones Until After Draft

by Sean Yuille on Apr 15, 2010 4:53 PM EDT in Detroit Lions News

We are a week away from the start of the 2010 NFL Draft, and the Lions are going to spend the time from now until next Thursday strictly getting ready for the annual players selection meeting in New York City. Specifically, the Lions will not be worrying about setting up a meeting with Pacman Jones, as Martin Mayhew stated during today's press conference in Allen Park.

"I have not met with him yet and it stands about where it did before," Mayhew said during a pre-draft press conference Thursday. "We haven't made much progress in that direction now."

Mayhew said he doesn't expect to meet with Jones before the draft, which isn't too surprising. The Lions will likely see how the draft shakes out and if a good young corner is available to them before they make a move on Jones.

As the quote alluded to, it really wouldn't make a ton of sense to make any big free agent signings this close to the draft. It's not like there are teams lining up to sign Jones considering the Lions seem to be the only team with any real interest in him. As a result, Detroit has the luxury of being able to wait and see what happens during the draft before making any decisions about Jones. I imagine the Lions would rather just select a talented cornerback next week, but they do have a possible backup plan in Jones if the position isn't properly addressed during the draft.

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I guess that means they are waiting on Lito as well?

I’m guessing not many other teams showed interest in him as well. I like the fact Mayhew understands the ball is in his court and he doesn’t have to jump out there. Come draft time anything is possible

by Aaron Lambert on Apr 15, 2010 4:57 PM EDT reply actions

I would have

Liked to see us sign 1 pred draft, Preferring Lito Sheppard, then if the draft did not go our way( no Wilson, McCourty, Robinson, Jackson, Ghee, or Warren), then sign Pacman afterwards. Either way I would have liked to come away with 2 corners.

by -Scott on Apr 15, 2010 6:40 PM EDT reply actions

One thing about Schwartz and Mayhew they will continue to look for players.

pre-draft after draft when teams make cuts during the season it doesn’t matter they will never feel like the roster is set they will always be looking to improve it.

by Wayne Fontes on Apr 15, 2010 7:18 PM EDT reply actions

We should sign Jones!

I mean its not like our CB situation is like the Cowboys, Eagles, Saints, even the Browns, are way better then us ever since we lost Anthony Henry, Phillip Buchannon, & William James! We really dont have a pair of starters at CB, infact as of now the St Louis Rams, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, and all of the other bottom of the league teams have starting star backs, we have Chris Houston thats 1 CB, the others arent starting material, I really think this is stupid as hell to bring in Lito Sheppard, have all these NFL blogs annouce Sheppard is visiting Lions or Pacman is Visiting Lions and then we dont sign them! It was smart we got rid of washed up Kalvin Pearson and CB Kevin Hobbs & Brian WItherspoon! But like I said why make roster space if we arent going to sign talented backs! We have no depth, heck we dont even have a starting pair of CBs right now! and to rely on the draft is stupid bc we could get a bust and there wont be any good FAs left to sign, A Veteran CB would as be good for teaching a rookie CB the roots, and can also play the starting position until the rookie would understand and feel comfortable , just like when the Lions hired Larry Foote, now Footes gone and DeAndre Levy, who said “it helped me majorly with filling in for Foote, and learning from his teachings” (those werent exact words, but thats the point of it) they should hire Lito Sheppard , Pacman(If hes learned behave) to show the young rookies, and help them make the transition quicker, so they end up like DeAndre Levy & Louis Delmas, Matt Stafford instead of Charles Rodgers, Mike Williams & Joey Harrington!

by IceLion3030 on Apr 17, 2010 2:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Back-up plan?

I expect that Pacman may be an option if we don’t come out as we’d like at CB.

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by Hyperion Ecta on Apr 15, 2010 8:22 PM EDT reply actions