Now You Know And Knowing Is Half The Battle

A very good awesome day to the best fans in the world! That is you the Lions fans.

Almost everyone has seen a PSA and most are pretty bad. Remember the one from the 80s with the guy saying ‘This is your brain (holding up an egg) and he would crack it into a frying pan and say ‘this is your brain on drugs’ ‘Any questions?’ People often here me say ‘and knowing is half the battle’. That particular catch phrase was from G.I. Joe the most awesomest show during the 80s. There was a safety PSA after the end of each episode and usually it was some kid about to do something really, really dumb and the Joe member would give them this safety lecture and the kids would say ‘and now we know’ and the Joe would say ‘and knowing is half the battle’.

So what does this trip down memory lane have to do with the Lions? Well my ever faithful Lionettes why have the Lions been sort of low key during this free-agency period? Why haven’t we made a bigger splash during free-agency and sign some big names? Most teams will put a franchise tag on their best UFAs so that thins the heard and the other UFAs want to sign with a team that is a player or two away from winning their division or making the playoffs. So the front office philosophy has been to build this team through the draft and sign affordable mid-level players to meet critical needs. So now you know and knowing is half the battle!

Our free agents that we have signed to date are CB Eric King, RB Maurice Morris, CB Anthony Henry through a trade for QB Jon Kitna, DT Grady Jackson, CB Phillip Buchanon, T Daniel Loper and we re-signed two of our UFAs RB Aveion Cason and LB Cody Spencer. I would venture a guess that we are good to go with our CBs and our secondary will not be a sitcom joke and God willing we won’t burn a draft pick on a CB and instead spend it on an extra LB or DE.

I really like the Cody Spencer pick up he had played under Schwartz in Tennessee and played the last three years with the Jets and is a big fella. One thing that must change is our linemen both DL and OL have to be bigger and meaner. Make other teams fear us. When other teams come to play us they must feel that they just ate their last meal, the Governor denied their last appeal and they are about to be executed.

Some of you might have heard that the Lions logo is going to change and or possibly team colors. Nothing official has come down as of today from the Lions front office but on the Lions home website for their online fan merchandise there is a fire sale going on and everything must go! Everything is marked 80% off. So you can connect the dots on that one. If they were to change colors I wouldn’t mind seeing a brown in there for one of the colors since a Lion is brown in color. For a logo something a bit more animated like what the NHL Nashville Predators have on their helmets. Here is a short article from MLive about the speculation.

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/03/new_lions_uniforms_and_logo_co.html


OT Jason Smith who I would love to see in a Lions uniform and QB Matthew Stafford who I am starting to think will not be the end of us if we draft him have visited Allen Park recently since they are both leading candidates for the number one selection. and I expect other players will be coming for visits as well such as LB Aaron Curry and OT Andre Smith. Here are the links for those two stories also.

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/03/jason_smith_visits_lions_facil.html

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/03/matt_stafford_drops_by_for_a_v.html

Last blog I mentioned the Jon Kitna trade and the impact on the Lions. I do wish him luck but I do need to share this little story about him with all of you. Oh by the way here is an interview he gave to Bill Simonson on the Huge Show.

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/03/jon_kitna_on_the_huge_show_no.html

Anyways the Lions started this fan appreciation kick-off luncheon that benefits Detroit area charities through the luncheon ticket sales. Anyways one of the bestest, awesomest fans, Darin gave me an extra ticket to go and it was for the 2007 season kick-off luncheon. So as the luncheon was wrapping up the players and coaches were getting ready to leave for their last pre-season game and I wanted to snag a picture with Jon Kitna. So I ran up to him and no I was not tackled and asked him if I could get a quick picture which I did get. But here’s the thing he was VERY rude about it, he did not say thank you for being a fan and coming out to support the team, no I hope to see you coming out to support us at the games. He seemed very annoyed and like he was too good to be bothered. Well Jon you are no Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. So I am glad he is gone and the only reason I thought he might be back was to play that final year of his contract and then let him go as an UFA. He was not friendly or appreciative much like Matt Millen. That front office is guilty of murdering its fan base.

Moving on, RB Rudi Johnson was talking smack about the Lions being years away. He is just being a pris because he was not re-signed and he was demoted from the starting RB position because Kevin Smith is a far superior RB.

Here is that article

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/03/rudi_johnson_lions_are_years_a.html

Tom Killer Kowalski posted a rather dismal story on the Lions draft classes.

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/03/good_news_bad_news_lions_are_c.html

When I think about all of our recent draft classes, it demoralizes me more than a kid who has dropped his ice cream cone or seen his favorite toy broken. Wow how can one person Matt Millen be such an incompetent in picking and evaluating players. Our draft classes have been tragically bad with a few exceptions. Hopefully that will change as the Lewand and Mayhew era grows from its infancy stage.

Last thing I want to mention is a prayer to go out to DE Corey Smith’s family for this tragic loss of such a hard-working player who loved this game more than anything. The Lions have been accustomed to loss and from this tragedy we need to sew the seeds of rage and revenge. We need to stand up as a team and fight these other teams hard because we are better than them and we just need to get it done! Here is that story and yes as you can gather MLive’s Lions section is one of my favorite places.

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/03/add_loss_of_corey_smith_to_lis.html

Well my fellow Lions fans it is late, I am tired and I think I have rambled on enough! Until next time God bless and GO LIONS!