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This is the time of year when rumors and conjecture start to run rampant around the NFL, so it’s hard to decipher the ones that have some truth to them from the ones that are complete fantasy.  With that being said, some media outlets are saying that the Eagles have expressed interest in Detroit Lions LB Stephen Tulloch.

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There’s a window of championship opportunity in Detroit unseen in more than 80 years when this was called the City of Champions with the Tigers, Lions and Wings. If after 2015, there isn’t at least one world championship among those three teams over the previous three years, it will remembered as one of the truly great disappointments in Detroit sports history.

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No other team knows draft busts like the Detroit Lions.

From Andre Ware to Charles Rogers, the Lions are as synonymous with bad draft picks as Ryan Leaf is to the worst pick ever.

But when you look at the Lions picks in the last decade, bust isn’t the correct term to use. Instead, the word is disappointment. The players the Lions selected were in no way shape or form busts per say.

A bust is defined as a player who just fizzles and fizzles fast. The players the Lions selected have gone on to other teams at high prices, something busts aren’t associated with. The Lions just really lucked out on a majority of the players they selected that are no longer on the roster.

There are busts, but the overall consensus is disappointment at what could have been.