Doug Hartley

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@GreggRice20 @DetroitOnLion 23 IS this regime but you might be a little new to the team lmal

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@Whiticar People want the deal until they hear it would have cost Hutch and a 1st

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@davebirkett Good rage bate, safe to ignore anything from a source who ranks Sewell that low lmao

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@PrideOfDetroit One request don't spend half the podcast talking about someone who we know won't be working for the team this season....dude has a retirement date, it's been beaten to death and he's already going to be gone...

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@AdamSchefter Try harder with the april fools, no one will ever believe the NFLPA cares about player safety🤣

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@DetroitOnLion I like how they ignore the part where Rod Wood already announced his retirement and will not be with the team for the 2026 season. But one of Rod Wood's last acts as president being to alienate another retired all world player is very on brand.

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@DetroitOnLion Looks like 26 teams have GMs with nothing better to do, meanwhile Bard Holmes and a handful of other GMs are busy working lol

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@JourdanRodrigue 26 teams in the NFL now? 😅

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@duquette_j11797 @Lions ERFA basically sign or retire, deal is negligible for salary cap

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@gullett_james @Devoted2DET @Lions ERFA is not a FA, his options are basically sign or retire

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@Lions So you consider it news that Bates would rather not retire, so he is forced to sign his ERFA contract lmao

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@RapSheet ERFA don't have a choice besides sign or retire, it's not really news

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@DetroitOnLion Rather than looking at the Lions cap on top 7 cap hits in a vacuum how does it compare to other successful teams with a starting level QB?

Question to ask fans what free agent at the time of extension would you rather have than who we extended?

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@Justin_Rogers Looking forward to it. I know you're well aware, but the vast majority of fans aren't panicking. Just the vocal minority at follows what 97.1 tells them to, aka SoL fans and media rooting for the team to be bad and make bad splash moves at any cost.

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@KoryEWoods Why don't we compare him to the GMs who were hired the same year or after him?

Here's a game for the podcast.
Pick the GM you'd rather have instead of Brad Holmes: (same year example lol)
Terry Fontenot: Atlanta Falcons
Chris Grier: Miami Dolphins
Andrew Berry: Cleveland Browns

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@MontgomerDavid You didn't have to lie about wanting out dude. You didn't get the touches you need last year and Gibbs was going to be the feature back this year. It's ok to want out, no one would have blamed you. Thanks for running so hard while you were here.

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@DetroitOnLion And yet the 49ers have just as many injuries without tackling in practice over the same time period. Everyone getting riled up about this doesn't have the context needed. SoL fans love to get mad, miss the old days and its been harder to find things to be mad about under DC & BH

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@Justin_Rogers I mean...the Lions roster will be decimated by injuries, where the Lions will get hit is a question mark (besides safety) but a few position groups on the team will be gone. It's good he has experience running an offense missing key pieces

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@Ryan_POD Not that it wasn't the correct decision. We will never know how Ratledge would have performed as a rookie at center...could have been better could have been worse /shrug

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@Ryan_POD I mean it was Glasgow and Goff who pushed for Glasgow center after Ratledge having one week of practice at center. Glasgow got what he asked for, not something forced upon him.