coldarmy20

Round
1. LB Ernie Sims
2. S Daniel Bullocks
3. RB Brian Calhoun
5. OT Jonathon Scott
6. CB Dee McCann
7. OG Fred Matua
7. LB A.Cannon

MY GRADE: C

Not the best draft.. but hell they've had really good draft grades some recent years.. and it didnt work out. Except Roy Williams and maybe Teddy Lehman if he gets and stays healthy.

I liked going LB with the first pick.. and thought he was the second best LB behind Hawk in the draft. As long as he doesnt get a concussion in week 2.

We basically did a good job for once at FILLING SOME NEEDS, as opposed to taking what i like to call the "sexy pick". The sexy pick at number nine this year would have been Matt Leinart because he was a much hyped player going into the draft.. and alot of people projected him going 3rd or 4rd.

I liked the rb we picked.. but feel that we should have picked up a OT with the 4rd round pick instead of another RB. They have Kevin Jones, and just recently re-signed Shawn Bryson. I think Martz wanted Calhoun.. but thats okay because I loved that they went defense with the first two picks for once. I believe they went offense with the first pick for seven straight years, if Im remembering correctly.

Anywho.. how would you grade this draft?

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Professor

I love the draft and would give it a B, you guys addressed some key areas and I remember from the chat you were disappointed, don't be you will be very happywith this class in a couple of years.

stormdriver

I would also give it a B. At least be happy you didn't take another 1st round WR...

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bigboy

I'll say a B+...The top 2 picks were great IMO for what you guys are trying to do, moving to a cover 2 you need speed and guys that can tackle and you have that in Bullocks and Simms. Calhoun will be a nice addition to a Martz O and a very solid 3rd down and change of pace RB and when you add Scott in the 5th a guy who I read they wanted in the 2nd they mad their draft right there IMO.

Professor

I know that you guys wanted to address the QB position and with lienert there it was tempting, but marinelli is a Defensive guy and he is starting to institute his style. In a couple of years with what GB did in the draft and what the lions did along with marinelli and what chicago has, that division is going to be a strong defensive division to say the least.

coldarmy20

The more i think about it.. Im not sure i was disappointed in getting Sims. But probably still disappointed we didnt score Huff this year.

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now that I have had time to think about it, I like sims for you guys better than huff, huffs is a stud DB and would have done well, but sims is a perfect fit for what marinelli wants, so you made out and didn't have to decide bewtween the two. the raiders made it easy for you.

bigboy

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...338/1089/COL08

The Lions blew it.

It's officially the 1,435th time we've reached that diagnosis in the last 45 years, a reflexive response as consistent as a sunrise.

Rod Marinelli concluded his first draft as the Lions' head coach Sunday hopeful that he attained the objectives on his shopping list -- improved physicality on both sides of the ball with a more aggressive mind-set.

But it's unfortunate that the front office lacked the guts that they're demanding from their new acquisitions.

The issue isn't that they used the ninth pick for someone with a history of head trauma that might make Eric Lindros weak in the knees, or that they didn't use it on a potentially game-changing quarterback who conveniently fell into their laps.

The issue is that they didn't get maximum value out of that selection.

Marinelli and Matt Millen committed draft day's worst sin. You never fall so deeply in love with one prospect that it blinds you from common sense. You have to react to a draft's shifting dynamics. And now, like it or not, Marinelli's tenure as Lions head coach will be largely defined by the fate of a spirited yet undersized linebacker with a history of five concussions.

You hope Ernie Sims proves the doubters wrong, if for nothing else than you never wish a young man's career dreams are prematurely extinguished due to medical issues. But the concerns are legitimate in a sport that attracts violent collisions and a team notorious for instinctively taking the wrong road.

There's more pressure on Sims than any other first-round draft choice during the Millen era, even more so than Joey Harrington. There must be immediate impact. He's already penciled in as the starting weak-side linebacker.

But the Lions froze on this one.

The opportunities were there to move down, gain an additional mid-level draft pick and quite possibly still get the player the Lions' initially targeted. But that required the Lions taking USC quarterback Matt Leinart at No. 9 to move him elsewhere.

And the most receptive suitor just might have been Arizona at No. 10.

Amid their euphoria over getting Leinart, the Cardinals suggested that they would have taken Sims at No. 10 if Leinart weren't available. Maybe they're blowing smoke. But if they had, wouldn't that have created the opportunity for the Lions to deal down and get their guy while also adding some much-needed positional depth with an extra draft pick?

If this were a poker game, Millen was playing at the penny table.

He didn't dismiss the possibilities of taking a quarterback ninth overall at the pre-draft media briefing. It was classic disinformation straight out of the Iraqi foreign ministry handbook. It was intended to send a message to prospective suitors that if they wanted Leinart badly enough to move up to No. 9, they had better bring it -- sorry, Wings' fans, that just slipped out -- with the trade offers.

But nobody bought it.

The phones rang off the hook with the Lions on the clock, but there were no takers.

Why give in to the Lions' requests if you don't think they have the guts to take Leinart at No. 9?

Why give them anything? Just let them hang themselves from their own rope.

That's apparently Miami's strategy in Harrington's long good-bye out of Detroit.

Unable to sell the Dolphins on sweetening their trade offer (a 2007 sixth-round draft choice) for their former designated savior, the Lions threatened to move Harrington to Cleveland this weekend for a possible fifth-rounder this year. But the Browns understandably balked after Harrington's reticence about going to Cleveland. And now, there's a possibility that the Dolphins will remove the offer from the table and wait for the Lions to release Harrington in June just before he's due a $4-million roster bonus.

So the Lions will probably get nothing for Harrington.

It figures. But that's usually the safest approach with the Lions. Just wait them out and they'll inevitably back down.

Although I don't agree...I don't think you want to know this guys grade , you guys have to get rid of Millen

MickeyG

i'll give them a B

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Professor

if sims plays - B, if he fails - not so good, I heard that the concussions were not serious, certainly not as bad a lindros, but a writer from a football city so filled with negativity, can you blame him?