MEGATRON

We are hopefully about to begin a new era of the Detroit Lions. We have all been just disappointed during the Matt Millen era, but Millen did one thing right during his tenure here. He drafted Calvin Johnson. We hope Calvin is here for many years, but that all depends on how things progress over the next few years. I put a few videos of Megatron up here for all of you. Enjoy!

Here's the best play of the 2008 season for Detroit.


This is Calvin as a freshman at GT


I hate Notre Dame.....Thanks Calvin

That Looked Bad

Dwayne Wade took a hard hit from Josh Smith tonight but still keeps on playing. It looked like he hit his head pretty hard, but apparently not hard enough cause he was back in the game a few minutes later.

The New Lions

BRANDON PETTIGREW


MATT STAFFORD


LOUIS DELMAS

Louis Delmas??

I thought this year was going to be different. I thought this draft was going to be the one to turn it around for Detroit. I was wrong! The worst defensive team in the NFL did not help themselves at all on that side of the ball. For some stupid reason the Lions passed on Rey Malaluga twice and took Brandon Pettigrew at 20 and some safety from Western Michigan named Louis Delmas at 33. I was shocked when they drafted both guys over Rey. The Lions did nothing today to improve their team. It is going to be another long season next year. I would swear Matt Millen is still making picks for this team. This has been one of the saddest days I can remember as a Detroit Lions fan. It almost seems like the Lions organization is just laughing at us fans. I don't think I can take this crap anymore from them. Overall I am giving them a D+ for a draft grade. The only reason its not an F is because Stafford isn't a bust yet.

Stafford's a Lion!!

The Detroit Lions have made their decision on the number 1 pick. Quarterback from Georgia Matt Stafford is now a Detroit Lion. He signed a 6 year 78 million dollars deal with 42 million guaranteed. I want to complain about the choice but the pick is already made and I now have to hope Stafford is in that 40th percentile of Quarterbacks that are drafted early and succeed. Coming from the same high school as Bobby Lane gives me a little hope. I have seen some bright spots in Stafford's game, but he still has a lot of work to do if he is going to become a Pro Bowl caliber quarterback. The Lions still have 2 more picks in the next 32, so I will be rooting for defense from here on out. Well Detroit.....Lets welcome Matt Stafford.

Remember Penny

I don't know about anyone else out there, but for me growing up Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway was one of my favorite players. I was watching the Magic blow the game to the 76ers the other night and I noticed a fan wearing a Penny jersey and it just brought back some great memories. Check out these videos, I'm sure you'll like them.

This is Classic Shaq & Penny


Number 2 and 1 and pretty sweet.


Lil Penny Video for Mr. Cullen

Impressive

I know I have been hard on Matt Stafford, but after seeing this video I was impressed. I Still don't know if he is what Detroit needs, but more stunts like this and I may consider not being that mad when they draft him.

NFL DRAFT TIME

The NFL Draft is now just 10 days away. Here in Detroit there is a lot of debate over who should be the number 1 pick. There are people who want the Lions to take Matt Stafford to try and have the Matt Ryan success of last year. What a lot of people don't understand is the Falcons picked up a lot of help for him in the last off season, and not only that but if you look at the games the Falcons lost last year they were against good defense's and Ryan couldn't handle a better then average defense. Mark my words when I say, "Matt Ryan's rookie year was a fluke." So Lions please don't draft Stafford, I just don't see a winner in him.

There are only 2 other choices for Detroit, and both of them I have no problem with. First is offensive tackle Jason Smith from Baylor. He is a real solid lineman and I would love to see him wear the Detroit Honolulu blue. Now if I was making the pick I would draft Linebacker Aaron Curry out of Wake Forest. Some people say we need a middle linebacker now and Curry plays outside so it wouldn't work. I say our defense was ranked 32nd last year and if Curry is the best defensive player available this year then go get him.



If Detroit decides to go the Stafford route then there will be some good available defensive players at the 20th pick also. But wouldn't it be nice to maybe take Curry at 1 and then Rey Maualuga at 20. If they did that then Detroit would be on their was to having a top tier defense.

Anyway you look at for Detroit this year is going to be tough. The schedule came out this week and win number 1 this year may not come til about week 8. Hopefully the Lions see that quarterback is not what we need now and we need to build from the inside out first. But it is the Lions so I can almost picture it now...... With the number 1 pick in the 2009 Nfl draft, the Detroit Lions select...Michael Crabtree, wide receiver Texas Tech. I'm just kidding, but if it happened I wouldn't be shocked.