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JE · Jan 2, 2009

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/01/01/lions-planning-to-do-the-opposite/

Mayhew pointed out that the team is going to be more secretive about what they do. In the same session, of course, he disclosed that the franchise will devote more time to the psychological testing of players.

Look, Martin, if you want to keep your plans quiet, don’t hold press conferences. And if you must hold a press conference, find a way to say things without saying anything about what you’re actually up to.

For all those folks out there who presume that we simply hate the Lions and that we want to criticize them at every turn, consider this. If the Lions have a reputation in league for not compiling as much information as they can about a player’s psychological makeup, telling the world that they plan to change their ways automatically sacrifices one of the key strategic benefits of truly changing those practices.
Fast forward to late April. Round three of the draft is ending. The team that picks behind the Lions at the top of round four has targeted a specific player. The team in question also has reason to believe that the Lions might draft the player.

But there’s another more physically gifted player, who fits one of the Lions’ (many) needs, but who has some psychological red flags. Since the other team knows that the Lions haven’t spent much time or money on psychological evaluation, the other team takes a calculated risk, and doesn’t try to trade up in order to nab the other player, confident that the Lions will draft the guy with the red flags about which the Lions presumably aren’t aware.

Now that Mayhew has made it known that the Lions are re-committed to psychological testing, the team in our example would be more inclined to move in front of the Lions and get the player without the red flags.
The Tuesday press conference also included some superficially entertaining lines from Lewand, who unwittingly demonstrated that he really isn’t a “football guy.”

While explaining the flexibility that coaches must have when entering an organization where things already are being done a certain way, Lewand said that Steelers coach Mike Tomlin arrived in Pittsburgh not from Minnesota, but from Tampa.

Lewand also remarked at one point that the Steelers allowed “Greg Lloyd” to sign with Miami.
And, most amusingly, Lewand said that the Falcons’ only significant free-agent acquisition this year was “Michael Bennett.”
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BasX · Jan 2, 2009

Big Frame, need a hug

Really Lost One · Jan 2, 2009

WOW...

lol

Big Frame · Jan 2, 2009

Its not as bad as it sounds. Lewand isnt the GM, Mayhew is. Lewand does some dorky cap space contract person.

All I know is that there is a clusterfuck and the Fords better use some of the bailout money on the Lions.

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