Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, I Want, I Want, I Want!

Hidy Ho to all of my Lionettes,

Well it’s that time of the year again. No I am not talking about filing your taxes or thinking about plans for spring break. I am talking about Free Agency. Free Agency is set to start at the stroke of midnight Friday and will closely resemble the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, instead of Wall Street traders selling and buying shares of stock there will be agents burning up the phone lines getting better deals for their clients. Now the old saying goes a ‘team builds through the draft and not through free agency’. I completely agree with that statement. However, if you have cap room and the Lions do have A LOT of cap room roughly $35 million, you can burn a few bucks on bringing in a few free agents.

I am going to give you all a little story. A little boy gets $50.00 from his dear grandma for his birthday. This little boy is so ecstatic that he asks his mommy and daddy to take him to Toys R Us so he can spend his money. Sounds simple and easy right? Upon entering the store the little boy his overwhelmed by the wide variety of toys and games! Decisions, decisions, decisions! He goes through each of the aisles finally stopping at the action figure aisle thee best aisle at Toys R Us I might add. He has finally made his decision on Batman toys. But here is the little boys’ dilemma. Should he spend his $50.00 on the Batman Cave Action Playset for $50.00 or should he spend the $50.00 on five Batman action figures that cost $10.00 each?

So that is where the Lions are at. Should they dump pretty much all of that cap money on DT Albert Haynesworth from Tennessee? Or spend it on 3 or 4 mid-level players and fill a few critical holes so you can really target the players you truly want in the draft?

Now I wish I could give you all tidbits on which free agents the Lions are considering but this is a poker game and the Lions are playing with their hand close to their chests. Here is a ranking of the top 50 free agents by Pete Prisco

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11425323

Here is a quick story from Tom Killer Kowalski about the Lions on free agency.

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/02/expect_the_lions_to_strike_fas.html

A free agent QB I can see the Lions bringing in could be Jeff Garcia from the Buccaneers coming back or signing Byron Leftwich from the Steelers both possibilities are viable options. The Lions could snag a CB through free agency instead of drafting one like I have been advocating they do with one of the draft picks. Some notable free agent CBs are Bryant McFadden from the Steelers, DeAngelo Hall from the Redskins, or Jabari Greer from the Bills. A few LBs the Lions could target could be Jonathan Vilma from the Saints, Channing Crowder from the Dolphins, Marcus Washington from the Redskins or Andra Davis from the Browns. If they sign a few of these free agents this will free up the draft board a bit so they can look at some long term goals for the team not just plug holes. Well all of you fine outstanding human beings that are the Lions faithful that is my thoughts for this post. I will have another post by the end of the weekend or Monday at the latest when there is news on the Lions free agent signings. Until next time, GO LIONS!