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Conversing with the Competition: Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints

Zac Snyder — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:30:38 +0000

It will be just about a month between meetings but Saturday’s game between the Detroit Lions and New Orleans Saints will have a whole different feel this time around. The Saints will be looking to undo the pain caused by a Wild Card loss in Seattle last year while the Lions return to the playoffs for the first time since 1999.

Drew Brees broke Dan Marino‘s single season passing record and Matthew Stafford joined the 5,000 yards club since the first meeting. The Saints have also lost running back Mark Ingram while the Lions are getting healthier and will have Ndamukong Suh back in the lineup after missing the game in New Orleans due to suspension. I caught up with Who Dat Dish‘s Keith Null to answer a few questions I had in anticipation of the game.

Here we go…

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The Best of the 2011 NFL Draft

Zac Snyder — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:00:15 +0000

The NFL draft has become a huge three day event; anyone but the most hardcore fan is sure to miss something. There was a lot to take in, here is a list of five “bests” of the 2011 NFL Draft: 5. The names. I gave a rundown of some of the top names from the [...]

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The Mock Draft: What Went Wrong

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:09:41 +0000

The NFL Draft is fickle in the sense that one unexpected selection by a team (can you say Christian Ponder) renders months of analysis meaningless. Now that Round 1 is in the books, let’s take a look at the mock draft that was done here at sidelionreport.com to see where it got close and where it went off the rails.

In determining what picks I thought each team would make I first had to determine what each team’s needs were. This is a daunting task that is complicated by what the primary need was, what the secondary needs were and further complicated by whether a General Manager would take the best player available and throw need out the window.

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