Reggie gone

Clears up cap space and he was pretty useless last year anyways. Bell/Riddick is gonna provide enough for us in the backfield.

Doubt it. Think they take Gurley or Gordon in the 1st

Need to draft a rb in rounds 1-4 for sure.

Lions Wont Franchise Suh

How is his cap hit like $27M if they franchise him? doesn't make sense to me.

They have to give him a 20% raise over last year, and his contract was already back heavy.

I want to keep Suh and would be fine paying top dollar, but not at the expense of other needs. I agree with the move not to tag him.

Suh is the difference-maker. Pay him top dollar and let him play both sides of the ball

27MM is lol

Suh is going to Miami

See ya

Remember when they drafted Ebron over Donald?

Ouch

Sigh.

Defense looking pretty, pretty, pretty mediocre next year.

Switch to 3-4?

How'd the LB do we took in the 2nd round then got hurt, as I recall he came back late in the season, did he show anything?

Sigh.

Per ESPN blog, the Lions tackles under contract are Caraun Reid, Jermelle Cudjo and Xavier Proctor. I have no words.

they're tanking for Cardale Jones, and i like it.

Ngata time

Well, that was unexpected.

Ndamukong Who, am I right?

the good - Suh and him are only two years apart in age, he's NEVER graded out negative in any of the advanced metrics for d-line, he gives us added flex-ability for our multi-front packages, and he comes in at less than 1/3rd the price of what it cost to franchise Suh. I'm cool with it!

the meh - there was talk that if the deal with us fell through he was going to be released and we could have went at him like that, but there were going to be other suitors which would've driven up the price. as it is now we have him for 1 year at 8.5 milly.

Then we trade Stafford to Miami for Suh & draft Cardale Jones for 2016

Van Noy - Tulloch - Whitehead - Levy
Jones- Ngata- Ansah

looks pretty nice

I'm really happy about this trade. Instead of a huge negative at DT. We got a solid piece for this year.

we're still gonna be a 4-3 base team. we'll play some with 3 down lineman and 2 down lineman like we did last year but it will be situational.

also hearing

- they're still talking with both Mosley and Fairley and expect one of them back. Fairley wants more years and money than they want to give em. they think he's over valued his market, said go ahead and see Cincy's pitch. they only want to give Mosley a one year deal.
- Fluellen will be back, they're just waiting to see what guys slotted around him end up getting. he played pretty good last year and is a low end 3rd, solid 4th DT who also plays a tad bit of D-end. Austin really moves guys in and out along the line so depth is crucial.

Not sure why detroit media is bashing the ngata move. He is badass and 1/3 the cap hit. We get a couple starters in the draft and we are right back where we were with more cap room and depth.