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Detroit Lions Mock Draft Database Tries to Find a Consensus

Zac Snyder — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:22:24 +0000

It has been a while since I compiled a Detroit Lions mock draft database so I thought it was time to give it another look now that the draft is less than a week away.

Like I mentioned earlier, mock drafts do have some use, especially when the sample size is increased. It is said that an infinite amount of monkeys with typewriters will eventually reproduce a work of Shakespeare if given an infinite amount of time. We’re running short on time and we definitely don’t have an infinite amount of monkeys but I have produced a list of picks from 73 recently updated mock drafts.

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Believe No one

Marty Medvedik — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:30:55 +0000

It must be close to the Draft because the misinformation fairy is spreading her tall tales all over the air waves. Isn’t it a coincidence that the report claiming that Da’Quan Bowers will be needing a walker to get around by the time his first contract expires shows up a month and a half after the combine and a week and a half before the draft? This is no accident. The teams that want him to slide are more than happy to take a player that some other gullible teams passed on. Do you think MAYBE one those teams just might have let those medical reports slip past them and into the hands of their trusty beat man who has the team’s back, some team’s version of Tom (Killer) Kowalski? This is the time of the year that I wouldn’t believe ANYTHING that a team says.

When I was a kid, some of the best stories my dad told me were about the days when the old NFL and the new hotshot league called the AFL competed against each other for the same draft picks. It was in the early 60′s, and the cold war was at its height. The trickery and deception practiced by the Americans and Russians paled in comparison to the lengths that teams went through to secure the talents of their draft picks. The teams would hide the players in different cities so the other team couldn’t get in contact with him until the contract was signed. I could go on about those crazy times, but the old sports adage applies here more than ever. “If you ain’t lying, you ain’t trying”.

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Detroit Lions Draft Prospects: Jimmy Smith

Zac Snyder — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:30:04 +0000

Jimmy Smith
Position: Cornerback
School: Colorado
Height: 6’2″
Weight: 211 lbs.
40 yard dash: 4.38 sec
Bench press: 24 reps
Vertical: 36″
Arms: 32 1/4″

Jimmy Smith is one of the most interesting prospects in this year’s draft. He is certainly worth of the Lions’ first round pick based on talent but other issues could prevent him from hearing his name called where it otherwise might.

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