Re: Brandon Pettigrew To IR

Kevin Smith better be careful. Apparently he's next. I have no idea who would be stalking the Lions' best players, but whoever it is is a cruel, cruel person.

Obviously he could skip the defense entirely.

Re: Brandon Pettigrew To IR

I KNEW they should have picked a WR in the first round! What were they thinking!?!?

Re: Brandon Pettigrew To IR

I was thinking the other day about how the lack of depth on bad teams leads to a vicious cycle - they don't have competent backups to rotate, so the starters play more than they would on other teams, which leads to greater exposure to injury, which leads to continued bad-ness and lack of depth.
Of course, the Lions had at least reasonable backups at TE, so this is kind of apropos of nothing.

Re: Brandon Pettigrew To IR

Pettigrew good up and cominger at tighe end poisiton. Come back next season Lions win 4 games book it dano

Re: Brandon Pettigrew To IR

Which is why it isn't a bad idea for a team in a total rebuilding phase to jettison ALL of their good players for draft picks (save the QB). Even a 6th or 7th round pick can be used to establish depth, and they're easy to acquire. Draft picks are king for rebuilding.

Re: Brandon Pettigrew To IR

Perhaps this has something to do with Detroit being such a terrible team that they struggle to attract top level trainers/strength and conditioning coaches? With second tier talent in the support of the players, they might be more likely to get injured/not be in the best physical condition.